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Summary of Curriculum Vitae of Ian Strangeways

Environmental, hydrological and meteorological instrumentation

Full name Dr I Strangeways
Year of birth  
Nationality British
Profession Instrumentation in hydrology and meteorology
Position in firm Associate
Range of experience I Strangeways has over 40 years experience in hydrological and meteorological instrumentation, the first 25 years at the Institute of Hydrology and since then as a free-lance consultant. Work includes the design and development of new instruments and advisory roles on the setting up of instrument networks world-wide for water resources and agricultural projects, including telemetry systems. Much of the work has been for WMO, UNDP, FAO, UNESCO and consultancy companies in the UK and Europe, frequently in remote locations. I Strangeways has written many technical papers on instrumentation, including 13 for Weather in the Back to Basics series. The second edition of his book Measuring the Natural environment was published in 2003. A new book with the title Precipitation: Theory, Measurement and Distribution was published in 2007.

While at the Institute of hydrology much of the work involved the development of new instruments in particular Automatic Weather Stations, satellite telemetry systems, raingauges, river level recording instruments, soil moisture/tension sensors, and packages for monitoring crop conditions as well as advisory work in Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba, Indonesia, Libya and experimental work in Antarctica. Since becoming freelance, advisory work has been undertaken in India, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Oman, the West Bank, Brazil, Honduras and Greece, some involving multiple missions, all concerning data logging and telemetry networks for water resources, agricultural and groundwater projects. Also undertaken has been the development of new raingauge designs and lectures on Instrumentation at Newcastle University, Civil Engineering Dept.

I Strangeways has his own web site at www.ianstrangeways.org.uk
Career summary 1989 - date Freelance instrument consultant and writer.
1964-1989 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (formerly Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford): Head of Instrumentation and Applied Physics Departments
1960-1964 Electronics development engineer at Ferranti Ltd
1959-1960 BBC TV studio engineer.
1957-1958 Research Assistant at the University of Wales into space based rocket measurements
Education 1957 B.Sc. Electronic Engineering, Physics, Maths, University of Wales
1986 PhD. Meteorological Instruments, University of Reading
Professional affiliation Royal Meteorological Society.
  British Hydrological Society.
Recent work
  • Telemetry systems in India (two separate projects).
  • Instrument project in Brazil (monitoring the Rio Iguaçu).
  • Water resources project in Honduras, telemetering via the GOES satellite.
  • Raingauge developments.
  • Chairman RMS Special Interest Group on Met Observing Systems, including the organisation of meetings and the presentation of talks.
  • Lecturing at the University of Newcastle.
  • Writing of three books on how the natural environment is measured, published by Cambridge University press, with a fourth now in preparation.
  • Convenor of a Working Group, via the BSI, developing European Standards for raingauges.
  • Worked on telemetry flood warning network in Poland.
  • Development of new snow gauge.
  • Received the Gordon Manley award from the Royal Meteorological Society for articles written for Weather.
Countries of work UK, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, Libya, Oman, West Bank, Greece, Denmark, India, Antarctica, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, USA
Languages English , knowledge of French
   

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