Ms Sarah Widdowfield CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: GIS Analyst Employer: Atkins Memo: Sarah is a GIS Analyst at multi-discipline consultancy Atkins Limited within the Geospatial Mapping and Analysis Team. She has worked on projects for public and private sector clients in the UK and overseas e.g. Highways Agency, Local Authorities, BP and Network Rail. She provides GIS analysis and solutions for a wide variety of disciplines but most significantly for environment, water, highways, rail, planning, nuclear and energy sectors. Some of the most notable projects she has worked on are the UAE Holistic Plan, a spatial planning strategy for the Ministry of Public Works and wind farm layout analysis and Environmental Constraints Assessment for an offshore wind farm on behalf of E.on. She specialises in data management, 2D spatial analysis, 3D modelling and applying cartographic principles to GIS outputs. She is also a fellow of the British Cartographic Society and a member of the BCS GIS SIG. She obtained a BSc Honours degree in Geography at the University of Northumbria. She started her career as a Mapping and Charting Officer at the Ministry of Defence. After a role as an Image Analyst at the Defence Geographic Centre, she transferred to Defence Estates where she was a Geographic Information Officer as part of the Renewable Energy and Statutory Safeguarding Team.