Timothy Farewell

Biography

Dr Timothy Farewell is a geospatial soil and environmental scientist specialising in the dynamic interactions between geohazards and critical infrastructure. He holds a first class Geology degree from the University of Durham, a Masters in Geographic Information Management from Cranfield University from where he also was also awarded a PhD in ""Innovative Methods of Soil Parent Material Mapping"". Dr Farewell has worked at Cranfield University since 2003, and his academic career has developed as a result of his wide-ranging knowledge transfer work with the utilities industry and financial services, as well as government agencies. He has helped these organisations to understand and make use of (previously opaque) soil maps and complex spatiotemporal environmental data to enhance their decision making processes. The advancements that Dr Farewell has contributed to the geospatial environmental models for pipe fracture potential and corrosivity to iron are being actively used by most water companies in England and Wales. The developments he has led in Cranfield University's Natural Perils Directory (NPD) climate adjusted clay related subsidence models has resulted in a dramatic growth in the use of these model in the insurance and reinsurance industry both in the UK and internationally. This successful transfer of research into practice is characteristic of much of Dr Farewell's work. On the basis of his work with these organisations, he is convinced of the need to better the understanding of the often complex environmental-infrastructure interactions.

Research Interest

Dr Farewell has an interest in modelling the unmapped layer between geology and soil. Other research areas: environmental costs and benefits of land management options, peatland sustainability, diffuse heavy metal pollution, archaeological artefact preservation potentials, health and the environment.