Developing appropriate systems for acquiring, managing and delivering diverse environmental data is essential for tackling global environmental challenges. We seek new technologies from diverse disciplines and domains to address the technical challenges of acquiring and integrating diverse sources of data from high resolution sensors, Earth Observation, ground and drone surveys, and citizen science. This includes harnessing machine learning techniques for automated quality control, delivering data streams with in-built provenance to underpin scientific reproducibility, and designing collaborative research environments to support the storage and processing of this complex, heterogeneous data
Data acquisition and infrastructure
Associated Members
Gordon Blair
Director LU - School of Computing and Communications
Gordon is a Distinguished Professor of Distributed Systems in the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, and is Co-Director of…
Paula Harrison
Director UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Paula is a Co-Director of CEEDS, Professor of Land and Water Modelling and Principal Natural Capital Scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology &…
Mal McMillan
Director LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Mal is a Co-Director of CEEDS, Reader in Environmental Sensing at the Lancaster Environment Centre, and a Principle Investigator for the UK Centre…
Tom August
Theme Leader UKCEH - Biodiversity
Tom is a computational ecologist who works at the interface of digital innovation, ecological research, and citizen science. Tom explores how new…
Lindsay Banin
Theme Leader UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I am a scientist at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh. My research focuses on plant and ecosystem ecology, how plants interact with…
Eleanor Blyth
Theme Leader UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I work with the JULES model, ensuring that it correctly represents what we know about the water cycle. This involves studying processes such as soil…
Yehia Elkhatib
Theme Leader LU - School of Computing and Communications
Dr Yehia Elkhatib is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Computing and Communications of Lancaster University, UK, where he…
Matthew Fry
Theme Leader UKCEH - Water Resources
Matt is an Environmental Informatics Manager in the Water Resources Systems Group at UKCEH, He leads a team of data managers, analysts and software…
Pete Henrys
Theme Leader UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Peter Henrys is a chartered statistician at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology specialising in long term large scale spatial-temporal modelling…
Victoria Janes-Bassett
Theme Leader LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Lancaster based in both the Environment Centre and the School of Computing and Communications. As an…
Amber Leeson
Theme Leader LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Amber Leeson is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Data Science at Lancaster University, where she is Theme Lead for Environment in the Data Science…
Amy Thomas
Theme Leader UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Amy is a soils, land use and public goods modeller specialising in development of modelling frameworks for local to national scale applications.…
Paul Young
Theme Leader LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am an atmospheric and climate scientist, using environmental data science to conduct transdisciplinary research on global change. I collaborate…
Jamie Alison
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
My research quantifies the impact of human activities, e.g. farming and habitat restoration, on natural resources and wild species (especially…
Vasileios Antoniou
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I work as a spatial data scientist in Water Resourses SA. I am an expert in spatial analysis, earth processes, active tectonics. Programming…
Alona Armstrong
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research and innovation activities focus on developing understanding of the interactions between energy infrastructure and the environment. I use…
kirsti ashworth
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research interests lie in the interactions between terrestrial vegetation, atmospheric composition and society over a range of time and distances…
Richard Bassett
Member (Staff) LU - School of Computing and Communications
Richard an atmospheric scientist working in the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University. I have expertise in urban climate and…
Chris Bell
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
General interest in CEEDS topic areas - just observing.
Casey Benkwitt
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am a postdoctoral researcher broadly interested in the behavioural, population, and community ecology of reef fishes, with a focus on how human…
Nick Beresford
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
Radioecologist specialising in the study of the impacts of ionising radiation on wildlife, radionuclide transfer to human foodstuffs and remediation…
Andrew Binley
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research focuses on improved understanding of the transport of fluids within the shallow (top 100m) subsurface environment. Much of this work…
Alan Blackburn
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I have research interests in the development and applications of geospatial science, in particular in the use of data derived from remote sensing /…
Christine Braban
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I am Atmospheric Composition Change Group leader in the Atmopsheric Chemistry and Effects Science Area (pre November 2017: Biosphere-Atmospheric…
Matt Brown
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I am a numerical modeller interested in doing the modelling and programming behind any project involving the physics of the natural world, especially…
Ed Carnell
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
Spatial Data Anaylst - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects group
Fabio Carvalho
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My main research focuses on plant-soil interactions and the impact of land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem processes and services (e.g.,…
Erick Chacón Montalván
Member (Staff) LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics
I am a senior research associate in environmental data science at DSNE with a PhD degree in Statistics and Epidemiology. My research focus is to…
Rhian Chapman
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I started at CEH in June 2018 with a background in modelling planetary climates, atmospheres, and surface-atmosphere interactions. I have experience…
Hongmei Chen
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am a research associate in the Natural Environment Research Council ‘highlights’ Award project ‘Locked up: The role of biotic and abiotic…
Thomas Chitson
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am an early career researcher at UKCEH in the Hydrological Status and Outlooks group. Currently I am working on developing an interactive Shiny App…
Jess Davies
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research focuses on sustainable soils, land and food systems across natural, agricultural and urban landscapes. Drawing on my background in…
Graham Dean
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I am an experienced computer scientist and technical manager who has worked within research & development activities in academia, industry and…
Philip Donkersley
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Philip is an entomologist with a major focus on evolutionary and microbial ecology. He has worked on a range of ecosystems including pollinators and…
Ulli Dragosits
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
Spatial modelling of atmospheric emissions, concentrations, deposition and effects at national and landscape scales; atmospheric pollution; nitrogen…
Michael Eastman
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a hydrological analyst who is involved in hydrological simulation, forecasting and extreme value theory.
Christopher Feeney
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Environmental Data Analyst (Research Associate) working in the Catchment to Coast team and Soils and Land Use Research Area at UKCEH, Bangor.
Gemma Fenwick
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am working as a research associate, currently assessing the declines in coral reef fish biomass in remote wilderness reserves and coral reef fish…
Heidrun Feuchtmayr
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My overarching research theme within 20 years as a freshwater ecologist involves environmental and anthropogenic impacts on aquatic biotic and…
William Fincham
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
Will is a spatial ecological modeller with an interest in a variety of quantitative ecological questions. He is currently working on quantifying the…
Andrew Folkard
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I work primarily in aquatic environments where my main interest is in bio-physical interactions between hydrodynamics and ecosystem functioning,…
Prateek Gantayat
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I work as a postdoc under Dr. Amber Leeson.
Charles George
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I am an Earth Observation Scientist using optical remote sensing technologies to extract biogeochemical properties of land surface vegetation.
France Gerard
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I am a senior research scientist at CEH Wallingford. I develop the Earth Observation research carried out at CEH Wallingford. The main focus of the…
Marika Glasby
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I graduated with a BSc (Hons) Geological Hazard from the University of Portsmouth. I have experience working in GIS, and am interested in learning…
Cecily Goodwin
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am a spatial ecologist using data-driven approaches to assess landscape characteristics and change. My research involves integrating spatial data…
Adam Griffin
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
Hydrological statistician working on the Flood Estimation Handbook, researching quantification of changes in flooding over time and space due to land…
Sam Harrison
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
Environmental modeller specialising in the fate of contaminants in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Martin Harvey
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
Research Associate Scientific Data Support with the Biodiversity Monitoring and Analysis/Biological Records Centre teams at UKCEH. Focus on liaison…
Vera He
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
My research interests lie primarly in urban-scale air pollution modelling. I currently work as an atmophseric model data analyst at Centre for…
Michael Hollaway
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I am a meteorologist and atmospheric chemist by background with specific interests in the impacts of air pollution on human health and plants. I also…
Ryan Hossaini
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Ryan is a NERC Independent Research Fellow and atmospheric chemist in LEC. He has over a decade of experience developing and applying process-based…
Nich Isaac
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am a biodiversity scientist working with citizen science data. I develop statistical methods to understand patterns in nature over space and time
Mike James
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research involves understanding Earth surface change processes, with emphasis on volcanic flows such as lavas and domes. I use field measurements…
Susan Jarvis
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am a quantitative ecologist interested in combining data from citizen science and professional surveys to understand species distributions and…
Aidan Keith
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am an ecologist who likes measuring soils and want to better understand their inner workings and unpack the black box, in an effort to shape more…
Caroline King-Okumu
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
CEH International Development Opportunities Manager
Ann Kretzschmar
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
BSc Environmental Science (1977), Masters - Engineering Hydrology (1978) and Environmental Informatics (2011), PhD (2017) - "Utilising Reverse…
Peter Levy
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
My work focusses on greenhouse gas fluxes from ecosystems and the effects of land use change. I have experience in plant physiology, micrometeorology…
Juan Pablo Lobo-Guerrero Villegas
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I work as a Research Associate Environmental Data Scientist in the Emissions, Sources, Sinks and Solutions group at Edinburgh, working on…
Stephen Maberly
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a lake ecologist with a particular interest in understanding how external stressors and internal interactions affect the structure and function…
Ellie Mackay
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a freshwater ecologist with an interest in the collection and use of long term and high frequency data to answer critical questions about how…
Cristina Martin Hernandez
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
Research Associate in information systems and a data analyst. Manage, develop and maintain websites such as APIS, SCAIL and UK Critical Loads and…
Linda May
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I have more than 40 years’ of experience as a freshwater ecologist. Initially, my main research focus was the population dynamics of zooplankton and…
Cristina McBride-Serrano
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am a soil science research technician at the Lancaster Environment Centre. I am interested in soil and water conservation in a world with a…
Anthea Milnes
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I am the Head of Communications and Engagement at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
Deena Mobbs
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am a member of the Ecological and Socio-Ecological Interactions Group at Edinburgh, working as a modeller and data specialist. I am also a member…
Thomas Mondain-Monval
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am an ecologist interested in changes in the behaviours, movements and distributions of species due to climate change. I am particularly interested…
Katie Muchan
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My main research interests are in hydrology, with a focus on hydrometric data management, analysis and interpretation. I joined UKCEH in 2012 as a…
David Norris
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am a member of the UKCEH Informatics Liaison Network
Simon Oakley
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I investigate the effects of climate and land use change on plant-soil biogeochemical processes in terrestrial ecosystems, delivering research to…
Luke Parry
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Luke is a social scientist interested in identifying pathways towards socially-just and sustainable futures for tropical forest regions, particularly…
Mike Perring
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Mike has expertise in environmental change effects on ecosystems gained using observational, experimental and simulation modelling approaches. His…
Oliver L. Pescott
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I'm a plant ecologist and botanist with a strong interest in statistics, meta-science, and communicating uncertainty. A lot of my work at UKCEH…
Michael Pocock
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I undertake research on ecological networks (food webs) and citizen science. I take a whole system approach to citizen science, including developing…
John Quinton
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Soil Scientist with interests in the sustainable use of soils, their interaction with water and approaches to monitoring and modelling their…
Biren Rathod
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I'm web developer in BRC but I'm software engineer by profession.
Stefan Reis
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
My work focuses on the integrated modelling and assessment of impacts of air pollution and climate change on human health and ecosystems.
Susannah Rennie
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I have over 20 years of experience in environmental data management - the main focus of my work has been on developing information management systems…
Eftathios Reppas Chrysovitsinos
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am an environmental engineer with a PhD in Applied Environmental Science. At the moment, I am working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at…
Lucy Ridding
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
As a spatial ecologist, I handle, visualise and analyse spatial data through the use of GIS, in order to answer a range of ecological questions. I…
Clarissa Rizzo
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I'm an early career scientist in the Water Resources Group at UKCEH. I’m currently involved in hydrological modelling and data processing.
James Robinson
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research aims to understand how climate changes are impacting tropical ecosystems and fisheries, and to understand how fish can continue to…
Ed Rowe
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I'm a user and designer of ecosystem models, with particular interests in soil / vegetation biogeochemistry, and dynamic niche occupancy models…
Clare Rowland
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am an Earth Observation Scientist. I use satellite data to produce maps of land cover, land cover change and plant biophysical variables. My work…
Ali Rudd
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
Ali is a Hydrological Modeller at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. She has experience in the application and evaluation of national-scale…
Janice Scheffler
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I am a chemistry climate modeller turned air pollution modeller and have experience in meteorology, atmospheric modelling, data processing and…
Paul Scholefield
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
My research interests examine the impact of environmental change and disturbance on terrestrial ecosystems , focusing on the interaction between the…
Rod Scott
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I am a software engineer developing data systems and data visualisations
Kevin Sene
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I’m an Honorary Researcher at LEC where my interest is in using statistical tools to help understand complex hydrological systems to inform the…
Stuart Sharp
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Stuart is an animal ecologist working principally with wild populations of birds and mammals to address questions at the interface between animal…
Andrew Singer
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I'm an environmental microbiologist with an interest in pollution, it's impact on the environment, AMR selection, and human health
Simon Smart
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Ecologist interested in understanding human impacts on soils, vegetation and plant biodiversity via modelling and retrospective analysis of…
Amin Soltangheisi
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I do research in soil chemistry and plant nutrition and fertilization. I am mostly focused on the fate of phosphorus in agroecosystems. My current…
Simon Stanley
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My current role at CEH requires me to manage the processing and storage of data from sensor networks. This includes maintenance of Python and R…
Joshua Talib
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
After completing my PhD titled "what determines the location and intensity of the Intertropical Convergence Zone" at the University of…
Yuk Tang
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I am an atmospheric scientist with expertise in the development and application of low-cost and innovative air sampling methods for the monitoring of…
Maliko Tanguy
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a spatial data analyst in the Hydrological Status and Outlooks group at UKCEH. On the one hand, my job consists in creating, developing and…
Stephen Thackeray
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My research focuses on the impacts of climate change, and other environmental stressors, on freshwater ecosystems. I am especially interested in how…
Sam Tomlinson
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
Spatial Data Analyst, primarily in the field of emissions and atmospheric transport.
Michael Tso
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I am a hydrologist and geophysicist by background with specific interests in the impacts of soil moisture and contaminant transport. I also have an…
Stephen Turner
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My main research interests are in hydrology, with a focus on hydrometric data management, analysis and interpretation. I joined UKCEH in 2016 as a…
Emily Upcott
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
Emily is a spatial ecology research associate who uses analytical and modelling approaches to address ecological questions. She is involved in a…
Matthew Wiggins
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
Currently a Research Associate new to the field of Land Surface Modelling with a focus on hydrological aspects.
Oliver Wild
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research interests are in atmospheric composition, chemistry and transport, and in understanding how natural and anthropogenic emissions of trace…
Megan Williams
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I work as a Research Associate / Spatial Data Analyst within the Emissions Sources, Sinks and Solutions group at the UK Centre for Ecology and…
Claire Wood
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I currently work in the Land Use Group at Lancaster, working as a (spatial) data manager and analyst. Additionally, I work as a member of the…
Gabriel Yesuf
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am an interdisciplinary environmental scientist and modeler. My research interest aims to provide evidence-based assessment of environmental change…
Alejandra Zarate-Potes
Member (Staff) LU - Other
In my research I study how interactions between animals and microbes work and evolve, how they influence each other’s health and the conditions that…
Ce Zhang
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Ce is a Lecturer in Geospatial Data Science based in CEEDS. He has extensive expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning…
Thomas Barnes
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
MRes glaciology student
Guillaume Blanchy
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Currently doing a PhD on applying geophysics to monitor soil moisture changes under large variety field trial for high-throughput phenotyping.…
Alexander Bleasdale
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am a PhD student at Lancaster University on a Waitrose CTP funded project researching the use of remote sensing for sustainable intensification of…
James Boon
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
James is an ENVISION DTP NERC funded PhD student based at the University of Nottingham, supervised by Dr Richard Field (University of Nottingham), Dr…
Jade Bowling
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I'm a glaciology PhD student, supervised by Amber Leeson and Mal McMillan. My research focuses on Greenland subglacial lakes; I use radar and…
Jeremy Daniel Carter
Member (Student) LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics
I'm a PhD student at Lancaster, based in the Mathematics and Statistics department within the Data Science for the Natural Environment (DSNE)…
Dan Clarkson
Member (Student) LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics
I'm a PhD student at Lancaster in the Mathematics and Statistics department. My research focuses on developing spatial extreme value methodology…
Diarmuid Corr
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I'm a PhD student in LEC, supervised by Amber Leeson and Mal McMillan. My research focuses on assessing supra-glacial melt in Antarctica. I…
Merry Crowson
Member (Student) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am a PhD student at ZSL Institute of Zoology and UKCEH. I have a background in remote sensing, but my PhD is on big data and its role in the…
Carol Diffenthal
Member (Student) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
Science Area Coordinator for Hydro-Climate Risks
Noelia Dominguez Alvarez
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I'm currently doing a PhD focused on the long-term effect of environmental changes on the behaviour and population ecology of the dipper in the…
George Linney
Member (Student) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am a PhD student at UKCEH and Lancaster University. My research aims to improve the modelling of the uncertain evidence base that underlies…
Laura Melling
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
MSci Natural Sciences (Physical Geography and Environmental Science) student with particular interests in glaciology and remote sensing.
Eva Mitchell
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
TPG Environmental Management, Food security pathway MSc
Andrew Slater
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
1st year PhD student - Sequencing to Satellites: integrating biodiversity surveys across scales.
I will be learning Occupancy and Joint…
Daniel Smith
Member (Student) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I'm a doctoral student at the University of Reading and UKCEH under Dr Beth Purse, studying how a trait-based approach to mosquito distribution…
Galina Toteva
Member (Student) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
Galina is a PhD researcher at the Edinburgh site of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Her focus is on the relationship between increased nitrogen…
Becky Turner
Member (Student) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am a PhD candidate at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford. My main interests lie in the applications of ecological modelling for…
Robert John Wassink
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
PhD student at Lancaster supervised by Mal McMillan, Amber Leeson and Lai Bun Lok. My research focusses on using satellite and ground-based radar to…
Helen Whitehead
Member (Student) UKCEH - Pollution
I am a UKCEH Pollution PhD student looking at the effects of radiation pollution on birds within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Associated Projects
DSNE: Data Science of the Natural Environment
In DSNE, we will develop a data science of the natural environment, deploying modern machine learning and statistical techniques to enable better informed decision-making as our climate changes.…
Explainable AI for UK Agricultural Land Use Decision-making
Agricultural land use dynamics and their associated driving factors represent highly complex systems of flows that are subject to non-linearities, sensitivities, and uncertainties across spatial and…