Professional summary

Research Interests

Steve works as a hydrologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and is the Data Acquisition Coordinator for the UK National River Flow Archive (NRFA) responsible for bringing together hydrometric data from a number of sources, managing the quality control process and disseminating the data to the NRFA's user community.  He also provides analytical commentary for the National Hydrological Monitoring Programme authoring the ‘Hydrological Summary for the UK’ and UK Hydrological Outlook and other publications including peer-reviewed articles and blog posts.  Steve is also working on UK trend analyses for both high and low flows using the UK Reference Hydrometric Network and the wider network of UK gauges.  Within the Reference Observatory of Basins for International hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN) project, Steve leads WP2 Data, working on the network criteria for the ROBIN Network, and acquiring the river flow data from global partners.  Steve also manages the Wallingford Meteorological Station and sits on the Secretariat as Data Advisory Group lead for the UK Environmental Observation Framework.

Brief CV

2016-present: Hydrologist, UKCEH

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Geography, University of Plymouth, 2010 - 2013

Panels, committees and memberships

Committee Member, Newsletter Editor, Royal Meteorological Society Special Interest Group - Observing Systems

Member, British Hydrological Society

Member, Royal Meteorological Society

Work-related training

2016 - Database Fundamentals, Wallingford

2016 - Aberdeen Catchment Science Summer School, Aberdeen

2017 - Hydrometry Course, HydroLogic, Wallingford

2017 - NRFA-EA Hydrology Workshop, Wallingford

2017 - NERC Impact Training, Fast Impact, Newcastle

2018 - Oracle Database Querying, PTR, Wokingham

2018 - Introduction to R for Analytics, Mango Solutions, Wallingford

2018 - Introduction to GIS Training, Wallingford

2019 - Presentation Skills, Impact Factory, London

2020 - Band 7 Development Course, Wallingford

2020 - Highly Cited Paper Writing, Lancaster

2020 - Visual Storytelling Course, infohackit, Online

Publications