Dr Daniella Montali-Ashworth

I am a Civil and Environmental Engineer specialising in hydraulics and hydrology linked to water resilience, nature-based solutions and water quality. My research interest focuses specifically on quantifying the impact of nature-based solutions on riverine processes to address key questions linking water resources and environmental protection, with an emphasis on cross-disciplinarity.

These areas of research are currently being investigated under the following projects:

Water resources investigation work for Upstream Thinking 4 (UST4) determining how much habitat restoration is required to have a meaningful impact on water resilience (2 year project).

Evaluation of suitable catchment management interventions to improve water quality within the south west over six different catchments and quantification of intervention impact (5 year project). 

NERC Pushing the Frontiers project on large wood dynamics (3 year project). In this project I will be pulling together evidence to create a useful framework for practitioners to use when designing river restoration schemes.