Judith Nutter BSc (Hons)

Jude is a Senior Consultant having joined WHS in 2004. Jude graduated from Lancaster University with an Environmental Sciences degree specialising in hydro-chemistry. Prior to joining WHS she was based at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) at Wallingford. She has a wide range of experience in the environmental impact assessment (focusing on the hydrological, hydro-chemical, hydro-geological and ecological aspects), solute transport and water quality modelling, water use characterisation, flow and chemistry monitoring and habitat mapping.

Jude has written specialist hydrology chapters for numerous EIAs for developments within high ecological value, rural environments within the UK include the EIA for numerous renewable energy parks and wind farms (comprising over 150 turbines in total) and the aquatic aspects of the Appropriate Assessment under the Habitats Directive for the reinstatement of the Waverley Railway. This disused railway runs alongside the Gala Water (part of the River Tweed Special Area of Conservation in the Scottish borders). Her involvement in the Waverley Railway continues as the project moves into the construction phase.

Jude’s water quality modelling experience including developing models of phosphate and nitrate concentrations, on behalf of the Environment Agency, within 10 catchments selected for the DEFRA Catchment Sensitive Farming Initiative. In this project she used the SIMCAT in-stream model together with estimates of diffuse pollutant loads and load data for sewage treatment works to estimate the apportionment of the nutrients between agricultural and point sources. She was also a key member of the joint CEH-WHS project team which has developed national riverine Oestrogen pressures maps for all significant river catchments on behalf of the Environment Agency. This modelling work was undertaken using a spatially referencing water quality modelling extension to the LowFlows Enterprise software. This project required the compiling and integration of data from over 1500 STW discharges with river flow estimates incorporating the impacts of over 46,000 abstractions and 200 impounding reservoirs.

During her time at CEH she primarily worked on a NERC funded project quantifying groundwater- surface water exchange within permeable catchments. This involved a combined flow and chemistry monitoring campaign and the project developed a novel solute transport modelling for dissolved carbon dioxide which quantifies the spatial and temporal variations in groundwater inflows.

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