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Brighid Ó Dochartaigh
Brighid is a Chartered Geologist with an MSc in Hydrogeology and 14 years postgraduate experience in groundwater resources, protection and management in the UK and internationally. She is a senior hydrogeologist with the British Geological Survey, based in Edinburgh, and has worked throughout the UK, and internationally on development projects in Africa, central Asia, China and the Middle East. Brighid’s hydrogeological experience includes groundwater in difficult (e.g. low permeability) environments; urban groundwater; groundwater monitoring; vulnerability assessment; groundwater chemistry of Scottish aquifers; groundwater management in Africa and Asia; and climate change and groundwater. My BGS website is here.
Martin Boland
Dr Martin Boland is a hydrogeologist with 19 years postgraduate experience. He is currently UK Operations Manager for Schlumberger Water Services (formerly Water Management Consultants), having previously worked for Entec and the BGS. Martin has extensive experience in groundwater characterisation and monitoring as part of both water resource development and impact assessment projects. Martin’s technical focus is in the development of aquifer testing and monitoring programmes relating to both water resource and water quality studies, determination of minewater dewatering requirements, and groundwater risk assessment, in particular related to Acid Rock Drainage. Martin has worked on projects in many countries including the UK, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Israel, Qatar and Botswana, and has lived in both Chile and Ecuador.
Harriet Carlyle
Dr Harriet Carlyle is a chartered geologist with 18 years postgraduate experience in hydrogeology, primarily in water resources but also in contaminated land and waste management. She is currently a technical manager with Grontmij, managing the groundwater resources team. Previously she held positions with Earth Tech, Golder Associates and KBR, the latter including long-term secondments to Yorkshire Water. Harriet’s experience covers all aspects of groundwater development, management and protection in both the public and private sectors. Her technical expertise includes yield and quality studies, economic evaluation, borehole construction, rehabilitation and abandonment, EIA (to support planning applications as well as abstraction licensing) SEA, mitigation of water treatment issues and quantitative risk assessment.
Secretary: Clive Carpenter
Clive is a chartered geologist with over 18 years' post-graduate experience in hydrogeology, water resources and water sector policy. He joined GWP Consultants in 2004 as the Head of Water Resources, having previously managed the Pacific Water and Sanitation Programme and held consultancy positions at Halcrow, Southern Water Global, and Travers Morgan. He has particular expertise in groundwater investigations and environmental assessment, groundwater control and de-watering, water resources planning, national and international water policy development and integrated water governance. He has extensive international experience, with a particular focus on Small Island Developing States and the Middle East. Clive is a former Governor Alternate of the World Water Council, an EFG Hydrogeology Expert Panel member and a GEF STAP Roster Expert.
Ian Davey
Ian is a Chartered Geologist and EuroGeologist with more than twenty years' experience of protecting water quality and resources. He has worked for the Environment Agency and before this, the National Rivers Authority and Water Authorities, handling the regulation of contaminated land, waste management (landfills), agricultural activities (nitrate, pesticides), infrastructure development (e.g. roads, airports), R&D, and groundwater quality monitoring. More recently he has been on attachment to the Polish and Bulgarian Governments, managing European Commission projects on environmental directives, in preparation for joining the European Union. Currently Ian is managing river basin management projects under the Water Framework Directive for the Environment Agency
Chair: Jane Dottridge
Jane has over 30 years' experience in hydrogeology, with a good track record in water resources, groundwater and contaminated land. She is currently Contaminated Land Manager at Mott MacDonald in Cambridge, rejoining the company in 2007. She has previously been a director of WorleyParsons Komex and lecturer in hydrogeology at University College London. Jane's technical focus is contaminated land and its impact on groundwater, as well as water resources assessment and management. Her specialist expertise is modelling of groundwater flow and contaminant fate and transport. Internationally, Jane has worked in the Middle East, North and West Africa, Spain and the US. She is a Chartered Geologist and a registered Specialist in Land Condition.
Professor Robert Kalin
Bob Kalin is Head of Department, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of Research, David Livingstone Center for Sustainability at the University of Strathclyde. He has a PhD in Hydrogeochemistry and Palaeohydrology from the University of Arizona, USA. Bob's research interests focus on Environment Science and Engineering to underpin the global environmental sustainability agendas and to reclaim environmental capital. His work ranges from site specific biogeochemistry of contaminated land and groundwater (from environmental forensics to engineering design of sustainable remediation methods), development of new enhanced in-situ remediation methods that manage sustainable risk, to hydrogeology and palaeohydrology of local to regional scale groundwater systems for water resource management, and study of global biogeochemical cycles and climate change.
Chris Leake
Chris gained a first degree in Earth Science prior to working in oil exploration in South East Asia for 5 years. Returned to the UK to study MSc in hydrogeology followed by 1½ years in Kwara State, Nigeria working on a groundwater development project. Consultant in the UK for 3 years then Pakistan on a regional groundwater assessment and development study. 7 years with quarrying company Tarmac as group hydrogeologist working on a wide range of projects throughout the UK. Acted as voluntary hydrogeological adviser to WaterAid for the last 7 years. A member of RedR with short input in Goma, Zaire in 1994. Worked as freelance hydrogeological consultant, then founded Hafren Water consultancy in 2000. Input to a wide range of groundwater investigations in the UK and overseas including undertaking work for WaterAid, most recently running a workshop on integrated water resource management in Ethiopia.
Phil Merrin
Phil has worked for environmental consultancies, the British Geological Survey and a leading UK water company since completing his MSc at the University of East Anglia in 1996. Phil has extensive experience of UK hydrogeology and has worked in Ghana, Ethiopia as part of Department for International Development/WaterAid collaborative projects and more recently with Partners for Water & Sanitation / WaterAid in Nigeria. At United Utilities, Phil is employed as the company’s Groundwater Manager and is responsible for implementation of the capital maintenance investment programme for the 200 groundwater source assets. Phil has particular experience in groundwater resource assessment, borehole optimisation and rehabilitation techniques, borehole construction and testing, groundwater quality problems, catchment management and pollution prevention, UK water resources legislation and he is the main point of contact for the whole of the company for groundwater-related issues. He works closely with colleagues from around the UK water industry and currently sits on the committee for the UK Groundwater Forum as well as the British Chapter of IAH.
Richard Taylor
Dr Richard Taylor has 16 years of professional experience investigating and developing groundwater resources as well as providing technical assistance to water-supply projects primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. It is in Africa where Richard developed an abiding interest in the hydrogeology of weathered crystalline rock aquifer systems that occur throughout the tropics. His research interests and expertise also extend to the impact of climate and development on groundwater resources, and the mobility of faecal pathogens in groundwater. Apart from providing technical assistance to a range of international and non-governmental organisations, Richard has since 2000 held a faculty position at University College London and is adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Geology of Makerere University (Uganda). My academic website can be found here.
