Professor Sue White
Chair in Integrated Catchment Management
Location: Building 53, Cranfield campus
E: sue.white@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 758289
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Professor Sue White is the hydrology lead for “Valuing the Arc: linking science with stakeholders to sustain natural capital” funded by The Leverhulme Trust, this research study aims to evaluate the ecosystem services delivered by the forests of the Eastern Arc mountains in Tanzania. The project will both deliver fundamental science and inform policy on payment for watershed services. She is also the hydrology advisor to the “Natural Capital Program” with Stanford University and WWF-US , as well as being a Member of the European SedNet steering committee. In 2009 Sue was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award to spend three months in the USA working on “Valuing water in the landscape”.
Clients
- Countryside Council for Wales
- Environment Agency
- EPSRC
- EU
- European Chemicals Industries Council (CEFIC)
- Spanish National Research Council
- The Broads Authority
- The Leverhulme Trust
- The World Bank.
- Water Companies.
Background
Professor Sue White graduated in Civil Engineering at Liverpool University and subsequently studied for an MSc in Water Resources Technology at Birmingham University. She then went on to complete a PhD in Geography at Exeter University. Sue is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Environmentalist, a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.
Sue started her career at Hydraulics Research in Wallingford, working in first the Ports and Harbours division and then the Overseas Development Unit. Her work took her to Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, India, Nepal, the Philippines and the USA working with a range of governmental and inter-governmental organisations on issues related to soil conservation, sediment transport and irrigation. In 1990 she moved to Newcastle University as a Senior Research Fellow spending periods in both the Water Resource Systems Research Unit and the Centre for Land Use and Water Resources Research where she headed the GIS team for the NERC/ESRC land use programme. This was followed by a 3-year EU post-doctoral fellowship based in the Spanish National Research Council’s Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología in Zaragoza, Spain. She was appointed Lecturer in Hydrology and Hydraulics at Durham University in October 1997 and joined Cranfield in January 2002 as Senior Lecturer. She was promoted to Professor in 2004 and became head of the Integrated Environmental Systems Institute in 2006 and Associate Dean for the School of Applied Sciences in 2010.
