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
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2022 - present: Author of UK Hydrological Outlook; UK-SCAPE, NERC National Capability.
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2021 - present: Work package lead (Data) & Researcher, Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN); NERC.
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2021 - present: Data Acquisition Coordinator, National River Flow Archive (NRFA); UK-SCAPE, NERC National Capability.
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2020 - present: Data Advisory Group Secretariat Lead, UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF).
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2020 - 2022: Data Manager, Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (eFLaG); UK Climate Resilience programme, Strategic Priorities Fund.
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2019 - present: Manager, Wallingford Meterological Station.
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2019 - 2021: Regional Representative for Scotland North, National River Flow Archive (NRFA), UK-SCAPE, NERC National Capability.
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2018 - 2020: Data Acquisition, Strengthening Thailand’s Agricultural Drought Resilience (STAR); Newton Fund/NERC.
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2017 - 2019: Project Administration, Engaging diverse stakeholders and publics with outputs from the Drought and Water Scarcity Programme (ENDOWS); NERC.
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2017 - 2019: Project Administration, Drought & Water Scarcity Programme (DWS); NERC.
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2018 - present: Author of Hydrological Summary for the UK, National Hydrological Monitoring Programme (NHMP); UK-SCAPE, NERC National Capability.
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2014 - 2019: Web Administration, Analysis of Historic Droughts and Water Scarcity; NERC
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2015 - 2017: Website and User Guidance Administration, End-to-end Demonstrator for improved decision making in the water sector in Europe (EDgE); ECMWF/Copernicus C3S.
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2016 - present: Researcher, National Monitoring Programme (NHMP); UK-SCAPE, NERC National Capability.
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2016 - 2021: Researcher and Outreach Coordinator, National River Flow Archive (NRFA); UK-SCAPE, NERC National Capability.
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2016 - present: Regional Representative for Northern Ireland, National River Flow Archive (NRFA), UK-SCAPE, NERC National Capability.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Geography, University of Plymouth, 2010 - 2013
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
Committee Member, Newsletter Editor, Royal Meteorological Society Special Interest Group - Observing Systems
Member, British Hydrological Society
Member, Royal Meteorological Society
Selected publications
- The 2018/2019 drought in the UK: a hydrological appraisal
- The 2019/2020 floods in the UK: a hydrological appraisal
- An updated national-scale assessment of trends in UK peak river flow data: how robust are observed increases in flooding?
- The winter 2015/2016 floods in the UK: a hydrological appraisal
Web tools and apps
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
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