Water Resource Associates

Prof. Paul Geoffrey Whitehead

1948

British

Hydrologist and Water Quality Modeller

Professor Whiteheads’ expertise lies in surface water quality, hydrochemistry and water quality modelling. Paul; was Head of Environmental Hydrology at the Institute of Hydrology (now CEH) and then moved to the University of Reading as Professor and Director of the Aquatic Environments Research Centre. He is currently a Director of WRA, a Professor at the University of Oxford and managing the NERC Macronutrient Cycles Programme. His research interests have focused on dynamic behaviour of river, lakes, wetlands and catchments and the interactions between hydrology, water quality and ecology. He has developed the INCA suite of dynamic models which have been applied widely across the world in many countries and in all continents. Model applications include simulation of catchments, rivers and reservoirs with environmental impact assessment of effluent discharges, land use change, acid deposition and non-point source pollution. Paul has extensive experience of a range of climatic and environmental regimes having worked in many countries in Europe, the Far East, Australia, Africa and North and South America. He was an Executive Director of the EU Eurolimpacs Project, assessing impacts of climate change on Ecosystems across Europe. His research has been funded by the UK Government (DEFRA, DTI, DFID), The UK Environment Agency, English Nature, NERC, EPSRC, ESRC, BBSRC, the EU in 5 framework research programmes from 1982 to the present, Water companies and other industrial partners. He has published widely with over 200 papers in the refereed literature as well as being guest speaker at a wide range of conferences and meetings.

China, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Norway, Thailand, India, Bahrain, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, Austria, Nepal, Taiwan, Turkey, Russia, USA, Brazil, Romania, Spain, Finland, India, Bangladesh, Ghana.

Fluent in English and a good knowledge of French