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CV FOR DR DEBORAH SNOOK

Dr. Deborah Snook, CBiol, MIBiol

Year of birth: 1966

Nationality: British

Profession: Chartered Biologist and Ecologist

Background

20 years experience as an ecologist within research, regional planning, government and voluntary bodies, in temperate, alpine and tropical habitats. Experience has focused on the hydro-ecology of freshwater environments, investigating and resolving water quality problems, habitat restoration and amelioration, and ecosystem community dynamics.

Career Summary

2002 Associate, Aquatic Environmental Consultants (now Aquatonics Ltd)

2002 Associate, Water Resource Associates

2000 to 2002 Research Fellow: Aquatic Environments Research Centre, The University of Reading.

1996 to 2000 Research Studentship: The University of Birmingham.

1990 to 1993 Assistant Biologist: National Rivers Authority, Wessex Region.

1990 Ecologist: Environment Department, South Glamorgan County Council.

1988 to 1989 Research Associate: School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

1987 to 1988 Volunteer Field Officer: British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.

1987 Expedition Biologist: UEA Expedition to Belize.

Education

PhD (2000) Macroinvertebrate communities in alpine glacier-fed streams: The Taillon catchment in the French Pyrénées. The University of Birmingham. EU Arctic and Alpine Stream Ecosystem Research.

BSc (1987) Environmental Sciences (2.1). University of East Anglia.

Professional Affiliations Chartered Biologist, Member of the Institute of Biology

British Ecological Society

Freshwater Biological Association

Principal Experience

Statistical analysis and interpretation of environmental data sets.

Alpine zoobenthic community ecology; altitudinal and longitudinal taxonomic zonation; the role of stream hydraulics, geomorphology and water quality in determining zoobenthic communities; patch-scale habitat utilisation; adaptive life history strategies to habitat templates; resistance and resilience of taxa to physical disturbance; population dynamics of the chironomid genera Diamesa.

The taxonomy of European alpine and British lotic invertebrates, and British riparian and in-channel macrophytes. The assessment of biological water quality as defined by macroinvertebrate, riparian and in-channel macrophyte communities.

The role of nutrient enrichment in chalk stream macrophyte-epiphyte dynamics. The transport of phosphorus within a eutrophic catchment.

Trophic relationships in a eutrophic brackish lentic waterbody. Population dynamics of the mysid shrimp Neomysis integer and the calanoid copepod Eurytemora affinis.

Competent in the use of analytical, statistical, graphical, database, word-processing and bibliography tools (e.g., S-Plus, ADE-4, SPSS, Canoco, Twinspan and ArcView).

Field survey techniques for benthic, pelagic and emergent macroinvertebrate communities in lotic and lentic habitats. Design of in situ chironomid rearing apparatus; field experimentation and biomanipulation techniques. Laboratory invertebrate feeding experimentation and life-cycle analysis. Reclaimed waste vegetation and timber survey techniques. Tree core analysis. Physic-chemical monitoring methodology. Soil profile description.

Well-developed written and oral communication skills for a variety of audiences.

Recent Publications

Snook, D.L. and Milner, A.M. (2002) Biological traits of macroinvertebrates and hydraulic conditions in a glacier-fed catchment (French Pyrénées). Archiv für Hydrobiology, 153(2): 245-271.

Snook, D.L. and Milner, A.M. (2001) The influence of glacial runoff on stream macroinvertebrates in the Taillon catchment, French Pyrénées. Freshwater Biology, 46: 1609-1623.

Snook, D.L. and Milner, A.M. (2000) Macroinvertebrates in glacier-fed streams in the French Pyrénées. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 27: 731-734 (presented at the XXVII SIL Congress, 8-14 August 1998, Dublin, Ireland).

Flynn, N.J., Snook, D.L., Wade, A.J. and Jarvie, H.P. (2002) Macrophyte and periphyton dynamics in a UK Cretaceous chalk stream: the River Kennet, a tributary of the Thames. The Science of the Total Environment, 282-283: 143-157.

Wade, A.J., Whitehead, P.G., Hornberger, G.M. and Snook, D.L. (2002) On modelling the flow controls on macrophyte and epiphyte dynamics in a lowland catchment: River Kennet, southern England. The Science of the Total Environment, 282-283: 375-393.

Castella, E., Adalsteinsson, H., Brittain, J.E., Gislason, G.M., Lehmann, A., Lencioni, V., Lods-Crozet, B., Maiolini, B., Milner, A.M., Saltveit, S.V. and Snook D.L. (2001) Macrobenthic invertebrate richness and composition along a latitudinal gradient of European glacier-fed streams. Freshwater Biology, 46: 1811-1831.

Lods-Crozet. B., Lencioni, V., Ólafsson, J.S., Snook, D.L., Velle, G., Brittain, J.E., Castella, E., Rossaro, B. (2001) Chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) communities in six European glacier-fed streams. Freshwater Biology, 46: 1791-1809.

Smith, B.P.G., Gurnell, A.M., Hannah, D.M., Snook, D.L. and Tranter, M. Variations in the contribution of different hydrological sources to streamflow from a small alpine catchment. Water Resources Research, (in press).