| Full name |
Adrian Nicholas Mandeville |
| Year of birth |
1941 |
| Nationality |
British |
| Profession |
Hydrologist |
| Position in firm |
Director |
| Range of experience |
Dr Mandeville specialises in strengthening all aspects of the operation of hydrological services for overseas governments, from basic data collection through hydrometeorological analysis to management of the water resource. He has lived abroad for over 15 years, working on this type of long-term project in 5 different countries. He has also undertaken a substantial number of regional hydrological studies using comprehensive data sets, many from overseas, in the fields of rainfall-runoff models, actual evapotranspiration, flow duration curves, flood frequency, low flow frequency, seasonal rainfall and specific runoff. Author of the RIS method of hydrograph analysis of storm events. |
| Career summary |
2002 - date |
Based in UK, undertaking short-term consultancies |
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1998 - 2000 |
Usangu Wetland project, Tanzania |
|
1996 - 1998 |
Water Resources Management Dept, Entebbe, Uganda |
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1994 - date |
Director, Water Resources Associates |
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1993 - 1994 |
Department of Hydrology, Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
|
1988 - date |
Independent consultant |
|
1990 - 1991 |
Department of Power, Thimphu, Bhutan |
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1985 - 1987 |
Department of Hydrology & Meteorology, Nepal |
|
1980 - 1985 |
Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK |
|
1976 - 1980 |
Water Resources Division, Lilongwe, Malawi |
|
1967 - 1976 |
Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK |
|
1964 - 1966 |
Wanganui Collegiate School, Wanganui, New Zealand |
| Education |
1963 |
BA in Mathematics, University of Cambridge |
|
1970 |
M.Sc in Engineering Hydrology, Imperial College |
|
1976 |
Ph.D in Hydrology, University of Lancaster |
| Professional affiliation |
British Hydrological Society |
| Recent work |
- Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project (Bhutan)
- Sustainable management of the Usangu wetland and its catchment (Tanzania)
- Preliminary study for the stabilisation of the course of the Songwe River (Tanzania/Malawi international border)
- Water resources management plan and update of the power system master plan (Bhutan)
- Upper Tama Koshi Hydropower Feasibility Study (Nepal)
- Future water source for Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
- Catchment inflow studies at select sites in Yorkshire, Lancashire, the Midlands, and London (UK)
- Cockhaise Groundwater Study Stage 1 (UK)
- Pembury Springs Investigation Phase 1 (UK
- HYSIM Improvements for Drought Forward Planning (UK)
- Research into the RIS method of non-linear rainfall-runoff modelling of storm events (UK, Spain)
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| Countries of work |
United Kingdom, Nepal, Malawi, New Zealand, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand, China, Lao, Uganda, Ireland, Sweden, Tanzania, Zambia, Mauritius, Netherlands, Norway, Spain |
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