Mrs Shona Frost CGeog (GIS)
Employer Name
Staffordshire County Council
Biography
Shona began her career in geography as a trainee cartographer with the Ministry of Defence. After several years’ experience and gaining her BTeC in Cartography and Surveying, she joined the Ministry of Agriculture where she helped to introduce computers into manual cartographic environment. Her GIS skills were focussed by involvement in the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak and Shona joined Staffordshire County Council as an Information Systems Officer in 2003. Her work involved all things land based including rights of way, landscape analysis and plant disease monitoring. Since 2005, she has managed a small team of GIS specialists and supports colleagues both internal and external to the County Council in using geography and GIS to understand the issues challenging Staffordshire including climate change and nature recovery.