Geoforensics and Information Management for crime Investigation (GIMI)

Project Staff - Crawford Jordan

Crawford Jordan BSc, PhD.

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Agriculture, Food and Environmental Science Division
Newforge Lane
Belfast BT9 5PX

E-mail*: crawford.jordan@dardni.gov.uk
http://www.dardni.gov.uk
http://www.afsni.ac.uk/divisions/AgriEnv.htm
http://www.qub.ac.uk/afs/aes/out.htm

Tel: 02890-255508 or 255355
Fax: 02890-255005

Note: * From 1 April 2006, DARD Science Service and the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland will combine to form a new DARD Non-Departmental Public Body, the "Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute" (AFBI).

My e-mail address will therefore change on 1st April 2006 to Crawford.Jordan@afbini.gov.uk

Current research activities

Current work includes the use of remotely-sensed imagery, GIS, GPS and spatial statistics to map rainfall chemistry in Ireland, to map soil chemistry in Northern Ireland (including the creation of a Soil Geochemical Atlas and an inventory of Soil Carbon), to identify the extent of spatial variability in cut grassland (nutrients and yields), to assist in the designation of NVZ’s and to the monitoring of the impact of the NVZ Action Plan on soil chemistry. These maps and data feed into a number of UK programmes including the critical loads of heavy metals in forest and upland soils and the creation of a ‘UK Soil Carbon Database’ for climate change research. My team have extensive knowledge of Northern Ireland soils acquired through recent and on-going soil monitoring programmes. http://www.qub.ac.uk/afs/aes/soils.htm

I have been a Project Leader in the Agriculture, Food and Environmental Science Division (AFESD) of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland (DARD), since 1981. My research interests revolve around the impact of agriculture on the environment and how GIS techniques can be used to aid the quantification and mapping of nutrient losses from land to water and the identification of areas at risk from pollution including heavy metals, nitrate and phosphorus. Areas of expertise include GIS, Environmental Chemistry, Spatial Statistics, Soil Survey and Water Quality. http://www.afsni.ac.uk/divisions/AgriEnv.htm

Publications

Jordan, C. and Smith, R.V. (2005). Methods to predict the agricultural contribution to catchment nitrate loads : Designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones in Northern Ireland. Journal of Hydrology, 304, 316-329.

Bradley, R.I., Bell, J., Lilly, A., Jordan, C., Higgins, A.J. and Milne, R. (2005). The derivation and use of a UK database for modelling soil carbon fluxes and land use for the national carbon dioxide inventory. Soil Use and Management, (Accepted).  http://www.edinburgh.ceh.ac.uk/ukcarbon/ 

Hall, J.R., Ashmore, M.R., Fawehinimi, J., Jordan, C., Lofts, S., Shotbolt, L., Spurgeon, D., Svendsen, C. and Tipping, E. (2005). Developing a critical load approach for national risk assessments of atmospheric metal deposition. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, (Accepted).

http://critloads.ceh.ac.uk/links.htm and http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/envsci/hmcritloads

Jordan, C., Shi, Z., Bailey, J.S. and Higgins, A.J. (2003). Sampling strategies for mapping 'within-field' variability in the dry matter yield and mineral nutrient status of forage grass crops in cool temperate climes. Precision Agriculture, 4(1):69-86.

Jordan, C., Smith, R.V., Hamill, K.P. and Higgins, A.J. (2002). The influence of parent material and livestock intensification on plant-available phosphorus measurements by the Olsen method in Northern Ireland. Soil Use and Management, 18(3):208-215.

Jordan, C., McGuckin, S.O. and Smith, R.V. (2000). Increased predicted losses of phosphorus to surface waters from soils with high Olsen-P concentrations. Soil Use and Management, 16:27-35.