Paul Logan
Chair of British Standards Institute Technical Committee EH 3/5 Water Quality Biological Monitoring
Paul has spent a lot of his time messing about in or on rivers, either as a biologist or as rower.
He graduated in the 1970’s from Gonville and Caius college with an MA in Natural Sciences (Zoology) and from the University of Wales with an MSc in Applied Hydrobiology. He started work as a lab technician with Welsh National Water Development Authority before working as a freshwater biologist with the Craig Goch Research team, Weeds Research Organisation, British Waterways Board, South West Water, Thames Water, the National Rivers Authority and finally the Environment Agency. He retired in 2021.
In his national roles he has promoted the use of biological monitoring as the integrated metric for understanding and managing the water environment. He was the Environment Agency Programme Manager for the technical implementation of River Basin Planning through the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Collaborating with colleagues in: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Eire. He was the UK representative in WFD Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) meetings dealing with the intercalibration of biological status across the European Union. The interaction between freshwater monitoring, metrics, natural capital and policy development continues to be an interest.
He is currently the chair of British Standards Institute Technical Committee EH 3/5 Water Quality Biological Monitoring which covers both ecological monitoring survey methods and toxicity testing; with both European standards (CEN) and the International Standards Organisation (ISO). In this capacity he also represents CEN in the EU CIS meetings.
