Andy Young BSc (Jt Hons), MSc PhD

Andy Young is a director of Wallingford HydroSolutions and was also head of the River Regimes research group within the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology to December 2006. He joined the (then) Institute of Hydrology in 1990 having worked previously for the Ministry of Defence for a number of years. Since 1990 he has worked within the UK and European water industry in both a research and consultancy capacity and is a recognised national and international expert in the hydrology of low flows, and in particular the estimation of river flows within ungauged catchments. He has wide expertise in water resources, rainfall-runoff modelling, drought assessment, assessment of development on the aquatic environment, groundwater-surface water interactions (with an emphasis on the impact of groundwater abstractions on stream flow), assessment of the impacts of environmental change on water resources and the use of fate models for risk assessment for chemicals.

Andy Young has authored over 25 scientific papers, 100 significant client reports and has been responsible for the development of four major hydrological software packages, the most significant of which is the LowFlows system and the underpinning science. The Enterprise version of the LowFlows software has been adopted by both the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency as the national standard software system for estimating flow duration statistics within ungauged catchments and is currently being implemented within Northern Ireland.

He has wide experience of resource estimation in support of hydropower scheme proposals and how to make best use of local measured flow data in the estimation process. He has also developed specialist hydrology EIA chapters for renewable energy developments (hydropower and wind farms) within rural environments.

His recent project experience on behalf of the Environment Agency includes the use of the LowFlows software to both assess surface water pressures and provided underpinning flow estimates in support of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive within England and Wales. He has also recently developed national scale maps of potential changes in river flows corresponding to the UKCIP02 scenarios for changes in precipitation and temperature.

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