| Full name |
Paul Geoffrey Whitehead |
| Year of birth |
1948 |
| Nationality |
British |
| Profession |
Hydrologist/Water Quality |
| Position in firm |
Director |
| Range of experience |
Dr Whitehead has over 35 years experience of water quality and pollution issues including the development of dynamic, stochastic and planning models. Model applications include simulation of catchments, rivers and reservoirs with environmental impact assessment of effluent discharges, land use change, acid deposition and non-point source pollution. Dr Whitehead has extensive experience of a range of climatic and environmental regimes having worked in many countries in Europe, the Far East, Australia, Africa and North and South America. |
| Career summary |
1995 - date |
Water Resource Associates Ltd. |
|
1994 - date |
Professor, University of Reading |
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1994 - 2001 |
Professor, Imperial College, London |
|
1978 - 1994 |
Institute of Hydrology, UK |
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1975 - 1978 |
Australian National University |
|
1972 - 1975 |
Cambridge University |
| Education |
1970 |
B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University |
|
1972 |
M.Sc. Modelling and Control Theory, UMIST |
|
1975 |
Ph.D. University of Cambridge |
| Professional affiliation |
British Hydrological Society |
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Institution of Water and Environmental Management (MIWEM) |
| Recent work |
- Dynamic flow and quality modelling of river systems.
- Impacts of Climate change on flow and water quality in rivers across the EU.
- Assessment of the WFD for DEFRA.
- Impacts of Diffuse pollution on UK rivers.
- Acid Mine Drainage studies and modelling in Cornwall and Romania.
- Thames Maidenhead flood relief channel - Environmental Impact Assessment.
- Impacts of Climate change on water resources.
- Modelling algal growth and transport in rivers and reservoirs.
- Distributed models for nitrate and pesticides.
- Nepal land use change study.
- Impacts of acid mine drainage on river quality.
- Modelling acidification in upland catchments.
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| Countries of work |
United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Norway, Thailand, India, Bahrain, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, Austria, Nepal, Taiwan, Turkey, Russia, USA, Brazil |
| Languages |
Fluent in English and good knowledge of Portuguese & French |
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