Ms Karen White CGeog (Geomorph)
Employer Name
Melbourne Water
Biography
Karen is a Principal Environmental Consultant with Royal Haskoning and has focused her 15 year career on the applied nature of physical geography. Karen has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Geography from the University of Melbourne and her expertise is broad, ranging from providing geomorphological advice on flood alleviation, bank stability, sedimentation and water abstraction issues to developing Water Framework Directive (WFD) hydromorphology guidance and creating bioengineering designs for river banks. Her strength is in integrating environmental science into engineering design based on her technical background in freshwater science, geomorphology, hydrology and river restoration. She has designed and advised on over 60 river restoration and enhancement schemes throughout the UK and Australia and has also worked on a number of overseas EIA projects in Europe, Australia, Liberia and Kenya. Karen is an associate member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), a member of the River Restoration Centre and a member of the British Society for Geomorphology and the International Association of Geomorphologists.