Gwyn Rees

Director, Environmental Information Data Centre

Background

I left Swansea University in 1986 with a degree in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Computational Modelling and Finite Element Analysis. From 1986-1991, I worked at Wessex Water developing databases/software for the core engineering business. I joined CEH in 1993 after travelling the world. I am presently working on a part-time PhD, "Potential Impacts of Climatic Warming on Glacier-Fed River Flows in the Himalaya", at Salford University.

In September 2006, I was appointed Head of the National River Flow Archive (NRFA) at CEH in Wallingford, having previously worked in the River Regimes Group, where I specialised in regional-scale hydrology and low flows. I now lead a small team of hydrologists, hydrometry specialists, and IT experts that maintains and develops the NRFA -the UK's focal point for hydrometric data. I continue to participate in several international projects, including UNESCO-IHP FRIEND. I am active in the International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology and the International Commission on Surface Water of IAHS. I am Secretary of the UK-IHP Committee.

I am now Director of CEH's Environmental Information Data Centre.

Selected publications

See the NERC Open Research Archive.