Professional summary

Brief CV

 

Isabella is currently the Manager of the National River Flow Archive (NRFA). The NRFA acts as the main focal point for hydrometric data in the UK, providing stewardship of, and access to, daily, monthly and flood peak river flow data from over 1,500 gauging stations across the UK. The NRFA collates, quality controls, and archives hydrometric data from gauging station networks across the UK including the extensive networks operated by the Environment Agency (England), Natural Resources Wales, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Department for Infrastructure - Rivers (Northern Ireland).

For a period before managing the NRFA, Isabella’s role was as Data Co-ordinator for the NERC funded Analysis of Historic Droughts and Water Scarcity project where she liaised with the eight partners to identify the datasets that would form part of the novel Drought Inventory that she helped to design and build as part of the project.

Prior to that, she was the Project Manager for the NERC Water Security Knowledge Exchange Programme. The Programme aimed to increase the uptake of NERC research outputs in the water security area by relevant businesses, policy makers, regulators and Civil Society Organisations. The Programme created a portal containing news and event information, and three useful tools: a research directory, a case study site and a water data portal.

Previously, Isabella was involved in the management of large European research projects facilitating the implementation of integrated water management and the Water Framework Directive. These include the following projects: HarmonIT, HarmoniRiB, AquaStress and OpenMI-LIFE. She was the Project Manager for the OpenMI-LIFE project whose aim was to transform the Open Modelling Interface and Environment (the OpenMI) from research output to operational product.

Earlier in her career, Isabella was the Data Centre Manager for the LOIS, ED, URGENT, CHASM and LOCAR Thematic Programme Data Centres. She was responsible for establishing and implementing Data Policies and Data Management Plans. Data management responsibilities included: identifying user requirements, defining data dictionaries and standards, acquiring data from scientists and third parties, storing the data in the WIS database, developing metadata tools, data dissemination and exploitation and ensuring that all programme researchers received the information they required for their science projects.

 

Qualifications

 

MSc in Environmental Resources University of Salford 1991

BSc Honours Degree (Class 2i) in Environmental Biology & Cartography Oxford Brookes University 1990

Publications

  • Heuser Kay; Leeks Graham; Tindall Isabella; , 2014, The outcomes and results of the Water Security Knowledge Exchange Programme. 7, 132-144

  • Tindall, C. Isabella; Moore, Roger V.; Bosley, John D.; Swetnam, Ruth D.; Bowie, Rod; De Rudder, Anne, 2006, Creating and using the URGENT metadata catalogue and thesaurus. Science of the Total Environment, 360, 223-232

  • Gijsbers, P.J.A.; Moore, R.V; Tindall, C.I., 2002. HarmonIT: towards OMI, an Open Modelling Interface and Environment to harmonise European developments in water related simulati. In: Cluckie, I D; Han, D; Davis, J P; Heslop, S, (eds.) , Hydroinformatics 2002 Volume Two: Software Tools and Management Systems. IWA Publishing, 1268-1275. .

  • Muchan Katie; Tindall Isabella; Dixon Harry; Turner Stephen; Sefton Cath; Hannaford Jamie; , 2018, Evidence of long-term improvements data quality in a national hydrometric dataset through a quantitative, indicator-based quality assurance programme. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2018, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec 2018

  • Heuser, Kay ; Tindall, C Isabella; Runnalls, Neil, WaterR2B website.

  • Runnalls, Neil; Tindall, C Isabella; Heuser, Kay , UK Water Research Directory .

  • Leach David; Henville Paul; Wyatt Roger; Hewitt Ned; Morrissey I; Weller J; Tindall Isabella; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; , Field measurements of alkalinity, chloride-ion, conductivity, pH and nutrients in rainwater (2004-2006) [LOCAR] .

  • Leach David; Pinder A; Wass Paul; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; Tindall Isabella; Moore Roger; , Field measurements of pH, conductivity and temperature data from rivers [LOIS].

  • Leach David; Neal Margaret; Smith Christopher; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; Tindall Isabella; Moore Roger; , Trace element data from rivers [LOIS].

  • Leach David; Henville Paul; Wyatt Roger; Hewitt Ned; Morrissey I; Weller J; Tindall Isabella; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; , Continuous measurements of conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature and water level in rivers (2002-2007) [LOCAR] .

  • Leach David; Meharg Andrew; Wright Julian; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; Tindall Isabella; Moore Roger; , Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), chlorobenzenes (CB) and organochlorine pesticides (OC) data from rivers [LOIS] .

  • Leach David; Neal Margaret; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; Tindall Isabella; Moore Roger; , Major ion and nutrient data from rivers [LOIS] .

  • Leach David; Henville Paul; Wyatt Roger; Hewitt Ned; Morrissey I; Weller J; Tindall Isabella; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; , Field measurements of alkalinity, chloride-ion, conductivity, pH and nutrients in rivers (2003-2006) [LOCAR] .

  • Leach David; Pinder A; Wass Paul; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; Tindall Isabella; Moore Roger; , Continuous measurements of temperature, pH, conductivity and dissolved oxygen in rivers [LOIS] .

  • Leach David; Henville Paul; Wyatt Roger; Hewitt Ned; Morrissey I; Weller J; Tindall Isabella; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; , Continuous measurements of meteorological parameters (2002-2006) [LOCAR].

  • House Alan; Leach David; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; Tindall Isabella; Moore Roger; , Triazine, organophosphate and pyrethroid (TOP) pesticide data from rivers [LOIS] .

  • Leach David; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; Tindall Isabella; Moore Roger; , Total alkalinity data from rivers [LOIS] .

  • Leach David; Henville Paul; Wyatt Roger; Hewitt Ned; Morrissey I; Weller J; Tindall Isabella; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; , Continuous measurements of rainfall (2002-2007) [LOCAR].

  • Bhardwaj C.L.; Dodd J. C.; Bachiller-Jareno Nuria; Tindall Isabella; Moore Roger; , Micro-organic herbicides data from rivers [LOIS] .

  • Tindall Isabella; McKenzie Andrew; Muchan Katie; Fry Matthew; Turner Stephen; Parry Simon; Barker Lucy; Sefton Cath; Dixon Harry; Hannaford Jamie; , 2020, [NRFA/NGLA] 37th annual report to the UK Surface and Groundwater Archives Committee: 2019/2020.