Environmental Management and Data Services
 WRc is focussed on providing services and products to support monitoring and assessment activities by all the river basin management stakeholders, including Governments, Environmental Regulators, Water Service Providers, Industrial Dischargers and Communities. Specifically, WRc will provide an integrated package of advice, training and tools to allow dischargers and regulators to investigate environmental problems and develop solutions to meet environmental obligations in freshwater (river, lake and groundwater) and marine (estuarine and coastal) waterbodies.
Environmental Management services and products will complement and interact with other WRc Businesses and Service Areas to underpin the entire monitoring cycle and is grouped into four themes:
- Planning;
- Data collection and collation;
- Data analysis;
- Information management and reporting.
Planning
- In-depth knowledge of policy drivers and operational requirements (i/a with Policy).
- Expert scientific advice from multi-disciplinary team: understand and evaluate pressures and impacts on the aquatic environment.
- Development of chemical and biological environmental quality standards.
- Authoritative advice on developing monitoring strategies and objectives for:
- Environmental impact assessments.
- Source apportionment studies.
- Assessing effectiveness of policies, regulatory activities, new technologies and management interventions.
- Climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation.
Data collection and collation
- Statistical design of effective monitoring networks to minimise workload and maximise information.
- Optimisation and cost-benefit analysis of experiments, surveys and monitoring programmes to deliver cost-effective results.
- Development of monitoring guidance and methodologies.
- Tools and techniques
- Literature reviews/desk-based studies.
- Database design and data validation.
Statistical analysis and data services
- Statistical analysis
- Comprehensive advice and support in statistical analysis of experimental, lab, field and questionnaire data.
- Development of statistical models for insight, prediction and forecasting.
- Classification and characterisation of environmental quality.
- Analysis of temporal trends and spatial patterns.
- Design, analysis and interpretation of compliance assessment tests.
- Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis: know the extent of your understanding and understand how to reduce uncertainty.
- Structured and bespoke training courses in statistical analysis of environmental data.
- Software tools providing user-friendly access to cutting-edge techniques.
- Data services
- Data quality auditing.
- Database maintenance and support services
- Website development and maintenance
- Mapping data flows/data streamlining to increase institutional efficiency.
- Data storage and manipulation.
- Data visualisation (GIS, websites).
Information management and reporting
- Reporting
- Expert scientific evaluation of reports.
- Development of environmental indicators.
- Development of electronic reporting mechanisms (web tools and GIS).
- Information utilisation
- Policy evaluation and development.
- Strategic and technical advice to aid management solutions.
- Stakeholder workshops and training.
- Operational performance evaluation.
- Development and interpretation of environmental indicators.
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