Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering

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Dr. Barnaby Dobson

Dr. Barnaby Dobson

Assistant Professor, Civil Struct & Env. Eng.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Dobson, Barnaby A and Miles-Wilson, Jolyon J and Gilchrist, Iain D and Leslie, David S and Wagener, Thorsten, Effects of flood hazard visualization format on house purchasing decisions, Urban Water Journal, 15, (7), 2018, p671--681Journal Article, 2018
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Wagener, Thorsten and Pianosi, Francesca, How important are model structural and contextual uncertainties when estimating the optimized performance of water resource systems?, Water Resources Research, 55, (3), 2019, p2170--2193Journal Article, 2019
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Wagener, Thorsten and Pianosi, Francesca, An argument-driven classification and comparison of reservoir operation optimization methods, Advances in Water Resources, 128, 2019, p74--86Journal Article, 2019
  • Christopher, Peter J and Dobson, Barnaby and Alexander, Nicholas A, Exploring the Dynamics of Base-Excited Structures Impacting a Rigid Stop, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2020, (1), 2020, p6721025Journal Article, 2020
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Mijic, Ana, Protecting rivers by integrating supply-wastewater infrastructure planning and coordinating operational decisions, Environmental Research Letters, 15, (11), 2020, p114025Journal Article, 2020
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Coxon, Gemma and Freer, Jim and Gavin, Helen and Mortazavi-Naeini, Mohammad and Hall, Jim W, The spatial dynamics of droughts and water scarcity in England and Wales, Water Resources Research, 56, (9), 2020, pe2020WR027187Journal Article, 2020
  • Pianosi, Francesca and Dobson, Barnaby and Wagener, Thorsten, Use of reservoir operation optimization methods in practice: Insights from a survey of water resource managers, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 146, (12), 2020, p02520005Journal Article, 2020
  • Ascott, MJ and Bloomfield, JP and Karapanos, I and Jackson, CR and Ward, RS and McBride, AB and Dobson, B and Kieboom, N and Holman, Ian P and Van Loon, AF and others, Managing groundwater supplies subject to drought: perspectives on current status and future priorities from England (UK), Hydrogeology Journal, 29, (3), 2021, p921--924Journal Article, 2021
  • Muhandes, Samer and Dobson, Barnaby and Mijic, Ana, A method for adjusting design storm peakedness to reduce bias in hydraulic simulations, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Water Management, 176, (1), 2023, pp1--13Conference Paper, 2023
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Jovanovic, Tijana and Chen, Yuting and Paschalis, Athanasios and Butler, Adrian and Mijic, Ana, Integrated modelling to support analysis of COVID-19 impacts on London's water system and in-river water quality, Frontiers in Water, 3, 2021, p641462Journal Article, 2021
  • Taylor, C and Brodbelt, DC and Dobson, B and Catchpole, B and O†neill, DG and Stevens, KB, Spatio-temporal distribution and agroecological factors associated with canine leptospirosis in Great Britain, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 193, 2021, p105407Journal Article, 2021
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Watson-Hill, Hannah and Muhandes, Samer and Borup, Morten and Mijic, Ana, A reduced complexity model with graph partitioning for rapid hydraulic assessment of sewer networks, Water Resources Research, 58, (1), 2022, pe2021WR030778Journal Article, 2022
  • Jenkins, Katie and Dobson, Barnaby and Decker, Christopher and Hall, Jim W, An Integrated Framework for Risk-Based Analysis of Economic Impacts of Drought and Water Scarcity in England and Wales, Water Resources Research, 57, (8), 2021, pe2020WR027715Journal Article, 2021
  • Liu, Leyang and Dobson, Barnaby and Mijic, Ana, Hierarchical systems integration for coordinated urban-rural water quality management at a catchment scale, Science of The Total Environment, 806, 2022, p150642Journal Article, 2022
  • Puchol-Salort, Pepe and Boskovic, Stanislava and Dobson, Barnaby and van Reeuwijk, Maarten and Mijic, Ana, Water neutrality framework for systemic design of new urban developments, Water Research, 219, 2022, p118583Journal Article, 2022
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Barry, Saoirse and Maes-Prior, Robin and Mijic, Ana and Woodward, Guy and Pearse, William D, Predicting catchment suitability for biodiversity at national scales, Water Research, 221, 2022, p118764Journal Article, 2022
  • Muhandes, Samer and Dobson, Barnaby and Mijic, Ana, The value of aggregated city scale models to rapidly assess SuDS in combined sewer systems, Frontiers in Water, 3, 2022, p773974Journal Article, 2022
  • Liu, Leyang and Dobson, Barnaby and Mijic, Ana, Optimisation of urban-rural nature-based solutions for integrated catchment water management, Journal of Environmental Management, 329, 2023, p117045Journal Article, 2023
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Liu, Leyang and Mijic, Ana, Water Systems Integrated Modelling framework, WSIMOD: A Python package for integrated modelling of water quality and quantity across the water cycle, Journal of Open Source Software, 8, (83), 2023, p4996Journal Article, 2023
  • Zhang, Ziyan and Dobson, Barnaby and Moustakis, Yiannis and Meili, Naika and Mijic, Ana and Butler, Adrian and Athanasios, Paschalis, Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities, Environmental Research Letters, 18, (3), 2023, p034036Journal Article, 2023
  • Liu, Leyang and Dobson, Barnaby and Mijic, Ana, Water quality management at a critical checkpoint by coordinated multi-catchment urban-rural load allocation, Journal of Environmental Management, 340, 2023, p117979Journal Article, 2023
  • Mijic, A and Liu, L and O†Keeffe, J and Dobson, B and Chun, KP, A meta-model of socio-hydrological phenomena for sustainable water management, Nature Sustainability, 7, (1), 2024, p7--14Journal Article, 2024
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Liu, Leyang and Mijic, Ana, Modelling water quantity and quality for integrated water cycle management with the Water Systems Integrated Modelling framework (WSIMOD) software, Geoscientific Model Development, 17, (10), 2024, p4495--4513Journal Article, 2024
  • Puchol-Salort, Pepe and Beriro, Darren and Boskovic, Stanislava and Dobson, Barnaby and Krivtsov, Vladimir and Marchant, Andrew and Mijic, Ana, Integration of the CityWat model into the Urban Planning Sustainability Framework: case study for the Enfield Borough of London, Proceedings of the 39th IAHR World Congress, 19, 2022, pp24Conference Paper, 2022
  • Whaley, Matthew E and Benton, Laura and Bromwich, Brendan and Mijic, Ana and Rousseau, Eloise and Whaley, Marie-Pierre and Dobson, Barnaby, Implementing a systemic approach to water management: piloting a novel multi-level collaborative integrated water management framework in east London, AQUAâ€"Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society, 73, (6), 2024, p1113--1134Journal Article, 2024
  • Stojkovi{\'c, Novel perspectives on environmental dynamic resilience: adapting urban water systems to a changing climate, Water Resources Management, 38, (12), 2024, p4455--4472Journal Article, 2024
  • Mijic, Ana and Dobson, Barnaby and Liu, Leyang, Towards adaptive resilience for the future of integrated water systems planning, Cambridge Prisms: Water, 2, 2024, pe11Journal Article, 2024
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Jovanovic, Tijana and Alonso-{\'A, SWMManywhere: A workflow for generation and sensitivity analysis of synthetic urban drainage models, anywhere, Environmental Modelling \& Software, 186, 2025, p106358Journal Article, 2025
  • Peng, Fangjun and Liu, Leyang and Gao, Yuxuan and Krivtsov, Vladimir and Srivastava, Saumya and Dobson, Barnaby and Mijic, Ana, Simulation of the impacts of constructed wetlands on river flow using WSIMOD, Journal of Hydrology, 657, 2025, p133065Journal Article, 2025
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Alonso-{\'A, SWMManywhere: Synthesise Urban Drainage Network Models Anywhere in the World, Journal of Open Source Software, 10, (110), 2025, p7729Journal Article, 2025
  • Dobson, Barnaby and Alonso-{\'A, SWMManywhere: Synthesise Urban Drainage Network Models Anywhere in the World, Journal of Open Source Software, 10, (110), 2025, p7729Journal Article, 2025
  • Maes-Prior, Robin, Dobson, Barnaby, Mijic, Ana, Drivers of wastewater dynamics: a statistical analysis of England's large wastewater treatment works, Water Science & Technology, 93, (12), 2026, p1734-1748Journal Article, 2026, DOI
  • Peng, Fangjun, Liu, Leyang, Srivastava, Saumya, Dobson, Barnaby, Mijic, Ana, A problem-oriented approach to integrated planning of urban constructed wetlands, Water Research, 300, 2026, p125954Journal Article, 2026, DOI
  • Lipp, Alex G, Dobson, Barnaby, Infiltration drives a heavy"tailed distribution of combined sewer overflow spill durations, Environmental Research Communications, 8, (4), 2026, p041017Journal Article, 2026, DOI
  • Mijic, Ana, Buytaert, Wouter, Dobson, Barnaby, Katsou, Evina, Stettler, Marc E. J., Valero, Daniel, Integral modelling for water security beyond the water cycle, Frontiers in Water, 8, 2026Journal Article, 2026, DOI
  • Tang, Jiayi, Liu, Leyang, Dobson, Barnaby, Chun, Kwok Pan, Mijic, Ana, Hybrid process-based and deep learning for river nutrient prediction under limited monitoring data, Journal of Hydrology, 669, 2026, p135098Journal Article, 2026, DOI

Recognition

  • Civil Engineering highest marks in 3rd year Undergraduate 2013
  • University of Oxford Geography Department Recognition award 2020
  • Institute of Civil Engineering award (Undergraduate degree) 2014
  • Member of the International Environmental Modelling & Software Society
  • Independent Assurer for Only Rainwater into Windermere (ORiW), led by Jacobs and Mott MacDonald
  • Technical advisor for SWMManywhere application by ARUP for The Nature Conservancy, Florida
  • Journal reviewer (30+ papers for WRR, HESS, NHESS, Environmental Modelling & Software, JOSS, Geoscientific Model Development) - 7.2 won't let me add entries..