Dr Wright is an international expert on acid deposition, land use, climate change and their effects on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. He has conducted several large-scale whole ecosystem experiments with acid deposition, nitrogen manipulations, and climate change. He is one of the developers of the MAGIC model for soil and water acidification. MAGIC has been applied at hundreds of catchments and lakes and river basins around the world. He has played a central role in several large EU research projects, and managed multi-national, multi-disciplinary research projects. His research has been extensively published, in the peer-reviewed literature, books and research reports (ISI citation h index = 37). He is one of four Norwegian scientists in ISI/Highly Cited in the field of ecology/environment.