Professor Rory Walsh

Professor Emeritus (Science), Science and Engineering - Faculty

+44 (0) 1792 295231

r.p.d.walsh@swansea.ac.uk

About

Professor Rory Walsh is a member of the Geography Department at Swansea University.

Publications

Research Highlights

Nainar, A., Tanaka, N., Bidin, K., Annammala, K., Ewers, R., Reynolds, G., Walsh, R., & Walsh, R. (2018). Hydrological dynamics of tropical streams on a gradient of land-use disturbance and recovery: A multi-catchment experiment. Journal of Hydrology, 566, 581-594.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.09.022, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa44935
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., & Ferreira, A. (2018). Degradation in urban areas. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 5, 19-25.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2018.04.001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39557
Kalantari, Z., Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., Ferreira, A., & Destouni, G. (2017). Urbanization Development under Climate Change: Hydrological Responses in a Peri-Urban Mediterranean Catchment. Land Degradation & Development, 28(7), 2207-2221.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2747, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34684
Luke, S., Barclay, H., Bidin, K., Chey, V., Ewers, R., Foster, W., Nainar, A., Pfeifer, M., Reynolds, G., Turner, E., Walsh, R., & Aldridge, D. (2017). The effects of catchment and riparian forest quality on stream environmental conditions across a tropical rainforest and oil palm landscape in Malaysian Borneo. Ecohydrology, 10(4), e1827
https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1827, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34683
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., Nunes, J., Steenhuis, T., Nunes, M., de Lima, J., Coelho, C., & Ferreira, A. (2016). Impact of urban development on streamflow regime of a Portuguese peri-urban Mediterranean catchment. Journal of Soils and Sediments
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1386-5, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa29387
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., de Lourdes Costa, M., Coelho, C., & Ferreira, A. (2016). Dynamics of surface water quality driven by distinct urbanization patterns and storms in a Portuguese peri-urban catchment. Journal of Soils and Sediments
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1423-4, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28305
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., Steenhuis, T., Shakesby, R., Nunes, J., Coelho, C., Ferreira, A., & Walsh, R. (2015). Spatiotemporal variability of hydrologic soil properties and the implications for overland flow and land management in a peri-urban Mediterranean catchment. Journal of Hydrology, 525, 249-263.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.03.039, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21676
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., Shakesby, R., Keizer, J., Soares, D., Gonzalez-Paloyo, O., Coelho, C., & Ferreira, A. (2016). Differences in overland flow, hydrophobicity and soil moisture dynamics between Mediterranean woodland types in a peri-urban catchment in Portugal. Journal of Hydrology, 533, 473-485.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.12.040, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27007
Walsh, R., Ellison, S., Los, S., Bidin, K., Sayer, A., Tussin, A., Walsh, R., & Los, S. (2013). Changes in large rainstorm magnitude-frequency over the last century in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo and their geomorphological implications. The Holocene, 23(12), 1824-1840.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613507791, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16335
Walsh, R., Bidin, K., Blake, W., Chappell, N., Clarke, M., Douglas, I., Ghazali, R., Sayer, A., Suhaimi, J., Tych, W., Annammala, K., & Walsh, R. (2011). Long-term responses of rainforest erosional systems at different spatial scales to selective logging and climatic change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1582), 3340-3353.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0054, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1043

All Research

Journal Articles

Nainar, A., Walsh, R., Bidin, K., Tanaka, N., Annammala, K., Letchumanan, U., Ewers, R., & Reynolds, G. (2022). Baseflow Persistence and Magnitude in Oil Palm, Logged and Primary Tropical Rainforest Catchments in Malaysian Borneo: Implications for Water Management under Climate Change. Water, 14(22), 3791
https://doi.org/10.3390/w14223791, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62088
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., Kalantari, Z., & Ferreira, A. (2020). Impact of Land-Use Changes on Spatiotemporal Suspended Sediment Dynamics within a Peri-Urban Catchment. Water, 12(3), 665
https://doi.org/10.3390/w12030665, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53941
Nainar, A., Tanaka, N., Bidin, K., Annammala, K., Ewers, R., Reynolds, G., Walsh, R., & Walsh, R. (2018). Hydrological dynamics of tropical streams on a gradient of land-use disturbance and recovery: A multi-catchment experiment. Journal of Hydrology, 566, 581-594.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.09.022, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa44935
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., & Ferreira, A. (2018). Degradation in urban areas. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 5, 19-25.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2018.04.001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39557
Hudson, E., Kulessa, B., Edwards, P., Williams, T., & Walsh, R. (2018). Integrated Hydrological and Geophysical Characterisation of Surface and Subsurface Water Contamination at Abandoned Metal Mines. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 229(8)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-018-3880-4, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa41145
Kalantari, Z., Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., Ferreira, A., & Destouni, G. (2017). Urbanization Development under Climate Change: Hydrological Responses in a Peri-Urban Mediterranean Catchment. Land Degradation & Development, 28(7), 2207-2221.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2747, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34684
Luke, S., Barclay, H., Bidin, K., Chey, V., Ewers, R., Foster, W., Nainar, A., Pfeifer, M., Reynolds, G., Turner, E., Walsh, R., & Aldridge, D. (2017). The effects of catchment and riparian forest quality on stream environmental conditions across a tropical rainforest and oil palm landscape in Malaysian Borneo. Ecohydrology, 10(4), e1827
https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1827, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34683
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., Nunes, J., Steenhuis, T., Nunes, M., de Lima, J., Coelho, C., & Ferreira, A. (2016). Impact of urban development on streamflow regime of a Portuguese peri-urban Mediterranean catchment. Journal of Soils and Sediments
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1386-5, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa29387
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., de Lourdes Costa, M., Coelho, C., & Ferreira, A. (2016). Dynamics of surface water quality driven by distinct urbanization patterns and storms in a Portuguese peri-urban catchment. Journal of Soils and Sediments
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1423-4, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28305
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., Shakesby, R., Keizer, J., Soares, D., Gonzalez-Paloyo, O., Coelho, C., & Ferreira, A. (2016). Differences in overland flow, hydrophobicity and soil moisture dynamics between Mediterranean woodland types in a peri-urban catchment in Portugal. Journal of Hydrology, 533, 473-485.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.12.040, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27007
Ferreira, C., Walsh, R., Steenhuis, T., Shakesby, R., Nunes, J., Coelho, C., Ferreira, A., & Walsh, R. (2015). Spatiotemporal variability of hydrologic soil properties and the implications for overland flow and land management in a peri-urban Mediterranean catchment. Journal of Hydrology, 525, 249-263.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.03.039, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21676
Urbanek, E., Walsh, R., & Shakesby, R. (2015). Patterns of soil water repellency change with wetting and drying: the influence of cracks, roots and drainage conditions. Hydrological Processes, 29(12), 2799-2813.
https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10404, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21375
Walsh, R., Ellison, S., Los, S., Bidin, K., Sayer, A., Tussin, A., Walsh, R., & Los, S. (2013). Changes in large rainstorm magnitude-frequency over the last century in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo and their geomorphological implications. The Holocene, 23(12), 1824-1840.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613507791, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16335
Shakesby, R., Bento, C., Ferreira, C., Ferreira, A., Stoof, C., Urbanek, E., Walsh, R., & Shakesby, R. (2013). Impacts of prescribed fire on soil loss and soil quality: An assessment based on an experimentally-burned catchment in central Portugal. CATENA, Forthcoming, n/a
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2013.03.012, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa14507
Walsh, R., Bidin, K., Blake, W., Chappell, N., Clarke, M., Douglas, I., Ghazali, R., Sayer, A., Suhaimi, J., Tych, W., Annammala, K., & Walsh, R. (2011). Long-term responses of rainforest erosional systems at different spatial scales to selective logging and climatic change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1582), 3340-3353.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0054, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1043
Loader, N., Walsh, R., Robertson, I., Bidin, K., Ong, R., Reynolds, G., McCarroll, D., Gagen, M., Young, G., Walsh, R., McCarroll, D., Robertson, I., Loader, N., & Young, G. (2011). Recent trends in the intrinsic water-use efficiency of ringless rainforest trees in Borneo. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1582), 3330-3339.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0037, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7143
Reynolds, G., Payne, J., Sinun, W., Mosigil, G., Walsh, R., & Walsh, R. (2011). Changes in forest land use and management in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 1990-2010, with a focus on the Danum Valley region. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1582), 3168
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0154, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7145
Hector, A., Fowler, D., Nussbaum, R., Weilenmann, M., Walsh, R., & Walsh, R. (2011). The future of South East Asian rainforests in a changing landscape and climate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1582), 3165
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0174, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7142
Walsh, R., Nussbaum, R., Fowler, D., Weilenmann, M., Hector, A., & Walsh, R. (2011). Conclusion: applying South East Asia Rainforest Research Programme science to land-use management policy and practice in a changing landscape and climate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1582), 3354
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0179, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7146
Walsh, R., Bidin, K., Blake, W., Chappell, N., Clarke, M., Douglas, I., Ghazali, R., Sayer, A., Suhaimi, J., Tych, W., Annammala, K., & Walsh, R. (2011). Long-term responses of rainforest erosional systems at different spatial scales to selective logging and climatic change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1582), 3340
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0054, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7144
Blake, W., Walsh, R., Reed, J., Barnsley, M., & Smith, J. (2007). Impacts of landscape remediation on the heavy metal pollution dynamics of a lake surrounded by non-ferrous smelter waste. Environmental Pollution, 148(1), 268
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2006.10.019, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2043
Sayer, A., Walsh, R., & Bidin, K. (2006). Pipeflow suspended sediment dynamics and their contribution to stream sediment budgets in small rainforest catchments, Sabah, Malaysia. Forest Ecology and Management, 224(1-2), 119
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2005.12.012, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2041
Clarke, M., Walsh, R., & Walsh, R. (2006). Long-term erosion and surface roughness change of rain-forest terrain following selective logging, Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia. CATENA, 68(2-3), 109
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2006.04.002, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2042
Blake, W., Walsh, R., Barnsley, M., Palmer, G., Dyrynda, P., James, J., & Walsh, R. (2003). Heavy metal concentrations during storm events in a rehabilitated industrialized catchment. Hydrological Processes, 17(10), 1923
https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.1218, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2040

Book Chapters

Ferreira, C., Kalantari, Z., Salvati, L., Canfora, L., Zambon, I., & Walsh, R. (2019). Urban Areas. Soil Degradation, Restoration and Management in a Global Change Context (pp. 207-249). Elsevier
https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.apmp.2019.07.004, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.apmp.2019.07.004
Walsh, R., Blake, W., & Walsh, R. (2009). Tropical rainforests. Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change (pp. 214-247). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1042

Conference Contributions

Todd, A., Robertson, I., Walsh, R., Byrne, P., Edwards, P., & Williams, T. (2021). Source Apportionment of Trace Metals at the Abandoned Nantymwyn Lead-Zinc Mine, Wales. In Stanley, P.; Wolkersdorfer, Ch. and Wolkersdorfer, K (Ed.), Mine Water Management for Future Generations (pp. 563-568). Natural Resources Wales, The Coal Authority, Welsh Government and Cardiff University.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59103
https://imwa.info/docs/imwa_2021/IMWA2021_Todd_563.pdf

Supervision

Mapping hydrological pathways and apportioning sources of metals at Nant y Mwyn (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Iain Robertson
Ionic dynamics of stemflow on oak trees during a growing season in South Wales, UK. (current)

MSc

Other supervisor: Dr Emilia Urbanek

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Journal Articles

Book Chapters

Conference Contributions

Supervision

Mapping hydrological pathways and apportioning sources of metals at Nant y Mwyn (current)

Ionic dynamics of stemflow on oak trees during a growing season in South Wales, UK. (current)