Associate - Robin Herbert

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Summary of Curriculum Vitae: Dr. Robin Herbert
FULL NAME			Robin Herbert
YEAR OF BIRTH			1941
NATIONALITY			British
PROFESSION			Hydrogeologist
POSITION IN FIRM			Associate
RANGE OF EXPERIENCE			Dr. Herbert is a geotechnician and a hydrogeologist with 35 years of experience working overseas and in the UK. He has worked on the provision of groundwater resources for major irrigation schemes and for rural water supply & sanitation schemes. He led a British Geological Survey team in the making of a CDROM-based manual for the development of unconsolidated aquifers. He also helped with a study of crystalline basement aquifers which underlay much of the developing world. Earlier he led an INDO/BRITISH study of the Deccan Trapps, volcanic aquifers, which cover 30% of the Indian continent. Other resource studies were made of the Karkhe & Hari Rud watersheds in Iran & Afghanistan. Recently he led the development of collector & scavenger wells, also the application of hydraulic fracturing to water supply boreholes in Africa. Early in his career he designed and supervised many groundwater control schemes in the UK. He is the author of over 50 international papers.
CAREER SUMMARY			1997 - 2004 Director, Water Resource Associates Ltd. 1977 - 1997 Deputy, then from 1987,Senior Hydrogeology Adviser to ODA 1975 - 1977 Chief hydrogeologist to DRI Iran 1970 - 1975 Senior geotechnician, Soil mechanics Ltd 1964 - 1970 Research fellow University of Birmingham
EDUCATION			B.Sc (Civil Engineering), University of Leeds, 1962 DPhil (Hydrogeological Models), University of Birmingham, 1966
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION			Awarded Telford Premium by Institute of Civil Engineers, 1971 Fellow of Geological Society, 1973 Chartered Geologist of the Geological Society, 1992
RECENT WORK			Introduced Hydraulic Fracturing as a rehabilitation measure for boreholes in Zimbabwe Manuals for the development of unconsolidated aquifers Development of collector & scavenger wells Manual for design of tube wells Managed Water aid/BGS/ODA RWSS scheme for Oju Ala, Nigeria Member of World Bank drought relief team Zimbabwe Sand River development using horizontal drains, Botswana Initiated framework for design of RWSS with WEDC & CSC Advisor to 2^nd International Grants Programme: National Lottery Charities Board.
COUNTRIES OF WORK			W&S Africa, Nigeria; India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka; Thailand, Indonesia, China; Mexico & Perud, China, Lao, Uganda, Ireland, Sweden, Tanzania, Zambia, Mauritius, Netherlands, Norway, Spain
LANGUAGES			English, French & German -some, Farsi -some.
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