Dr Robert Bradburne

Dr Robert Bradburne is the Environment Agency’s Chief Scientist. He leads a talented team in the Chief Scientist’s Group working on science, innovative ways of monitoring the environment, analysing data and reporting on the state of the environment. He provides scientific advice to SAGE during major incidents and has twenty years’ experience working in government. He sits on or chairs on a range of science committees and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

A complex picture, but a clearer path: what the 2025 water classifications tell us about England’s waterways 

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Sampling water for quality check

Each time we publish the latest assessment of England's waters through the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulation classification, a familiar headline emerges: only a minority of rivers, lakes and estuaries achieve "good" overall status. It's a figure that invites a simple reading: that progress is “too slow”, that investment “hasn't delivered”, that the water environment is stagnating or declining. Those concerns are understandable, but they …

Setting out our vision for science in the Environment Agency

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On November 22 our Chief Scientist Robert Bradburne will be formally launching the Environment Agency’s Science Strategy at the Science Profession Conference in London. Science plays such an important role in nearly everything the Environment Agency does, and this strategy …