Natalie Small

Natalie joined Environment Systems as an Environmental Analyst in January 2010 after completing her BSc in Human and Physical Geography at Reading University and an MSc in Environmental Conservation Management. Since joining, Natalie has developed key expertise in GIS analysis for ecosystems goods and services using a range of GIS platforms including ArcGIS, Global Mapper and MapInfo Professional. 

Natalie has been involved with a variety of projects, which include:

Modelling Ecosystem Services & Future Scenarios for Spatial Planning (2010-2011)
Led all three phases of the project which include:
Phase 1 – Ecosystem goods and services (EGS) modelling at a regional scale
Phase 2 – EGS modelling at a national scale.
Phase 3 – EGS and EGS bundle modelling at a local scale.

The projects included research, data collation, rule-base development, GIS analysis and interpretation. The project involved identifying the natural assets supplying the services using readily available information and mapping the areas that (potentially) contribute to the provision of the service being examined.  Natalie has applied significant expertise in vector and raster based GIS analysis using ArcGIS (including Spatial Analyst).

Characterising Potential Water Abstraction License Markets (2010) - Delivered GIS based vector analysis to analyse and characterise potential markets in abstraction licences in England and Wales.  The mapping and GIS analysis included tabulating and analysing abstraction license data against the different catchment types e.g by water availability, dominance by abstractor type for selected catchments in England and Wales

LANDMAP GIS Data Quality Assurance (2010) - Delivered GIS-based quality control of Wales-wide landscape data and included performing checks on topology, data integrity and completeness using MapInfo Professional.

The Quantification of Areas of Vegetated and Bare Peat on Blanket Bog Habitats (2010) – Was a part of the initial image preparation for the project and delivered elements of the georectification of both current and historical (1946 RAF) aerial photography.  This has involved identification of ground control points in ‘featureless’ landscapes, combined with various statistical triangulation registration modules within software such as ERDAS Imagine.

Natalie is responsible for maintaining Environment System’s Environmental Management System (EMS) and actively supports the directors in ensuring the criteria set in the BS8555:2003 standard are met.  Recently, Environment Systems passed its external audit and is certified to BS8555:2003 Phase 2.

Natalie is a member of the Royal Geographical Society, the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), the British Society for Soil Science and the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE UK).