Dr John Phillips CGeog

Biography

Occupation: Flood Incident Management Employer: Environment Agency Memo: Dr John Phillips leads the Flood Incident Management team in the Wessex Area of the Environment Agency and is responsible for ensuring the provision of an effective flood warning service for river and coastal flooding. John holds a BSc (Hons) in Geography from Lancaster University and a PhD in Geography from Exeter University awarded for a thesis investigating the particle size dynamics of fluvial suspended sediment. John has Chartered Member status of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environment Management, is a Chartered Scientist and member of the British Hydrological Society. Since joining the Environment Agency in 1999 John has worked as a hydrologist on water resource, hydroecology, flooding and hydrometric projects. John represented the Agency locally on the national NERC Lowland Catchment Research (LOCAR) Project and also spent a year working in the national science team as a Senior then Principal Scientist with responsibility for water resource hydrology and hydromorphology. After completing his PhD and prior to working for the Environment Agency, John worked for three years in a post doctoral research post at Exeter University as part of the Natural Environment Research Council funded Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS), assessing the magnitude and associated uncertainties of the land-ocean flux of a wide range of river born loads. John has published the findings from both his PhD and post doctoral research work in peer reviewed journals.