Experience - Soil, Water, and Catchment Management
Soil, Water and Catchment Management
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Jon Hillman PhD, MSc, BSc. (Hons)
With a background in agriculture, Jon has training in hydrology, soil science, environmental policy and stakeholder engagement, and his work history has also required significant interaction with planning, water industry and environmental sectors.
With training in project management, Jon has led projects of a wide range in sizes and complexity. He has both managed and acted as technical specialist to projects on measures to reduce agricultural impacts to water, Water Cycle Strategies focussing on phosphorus studies and point vs. diffuse sources, as well as landscape–scale wetland restorations (including water quality impacts). He has also developed and managed catchment investigations into water quality, monitoring and pesticide sources to several WTW intakes.
Jon has considerable experience not only on large-scale catchment based studies, but also on investigations and management plans for individual sites and fields. It is important (though frequently overlooked) that historical water management is carefully examined to assess possible impacts, and also solutions. Throughout his career, Jon has been interested in historical rural research, and of applying desk & archive findings to current projects & field investigations.
In a technical capacity, Jon is experienced in deploying a wide range of techniques & equipment to monitor flow, water quality and soil properties in projects with a wide range in budgets. For example, recent projects includes assisting UEA to commission several on-line hydrological and water quality monitoring stations within the Defra funded Wensum Demonstration Test Catchment, as well as deploying low-cost approaches to measure soil water & temperature, stream flow & water quality for bespoke management plans.
