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Our focus is on understanding emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases, their transmission and chemical transformation in the atmosphere, and their contribution to local air quality and global change. We integrate data from measurements and model simulations, utilising advanced data science methods to improve our understanding and estimates of past, present and future atmospheric composition change at a range of spatial scales and environments. Our research aims to find better ways to evaluate and utilise models, extract meaningful information from a range of measurements, and situate the best atmospheric science in complex decision-making processes.

Associated Members

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 &…

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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…

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Denes Csala

Theme Leader
LU - Engineering

Dénes is a researcher and thinker interested in exploring the language of data: visualisation. He holds a lectureship at Lancaster University in the…

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Carolina Euan

Theme Leader
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I am a Lecturer in Statistics at the Mathematics and Statistics Department, University of Lancaster. My research interests include the development of…

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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…

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Ryan Hossaini

Theme Leader
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Ryan is a Reader in Atmospheric Chemistry in LEC. He has over a decade of experience developing and applying process-based models to understand…

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Bran Knowles

Theme Leader
LU - School of Computing and Communications

My research interest is the phenomenon of trust - how people come to trust (or not), and what the character or quality of that phenomenon is in…

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Barry Porter

Theme Leader
LU - School of Computing and Communications

I work on autonomous and self-adaptive software systems, which learn in real-time how best to compose themselves from a pool of potential behaviours…

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Lauren Thornton

Theme Leader
LU - School of Computing and Communications

I am a PhD student & CEEDS ECR Representative. In my research I study trust in environmental data science, specifically looking at ways we can…

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Kelly Widdicks

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Pollution

Kelly is a Software Systems Architect in the Environmental Data Science group at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and a Theme Lead…

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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…

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Rafael Barbedo

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

Rafael is part of the Water Resources team as a Spatial Data Scientist, providing spatial data expertise for analysis, data managing and mapping…

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Hattie Barber

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Research Associate looking at adaptation in trees

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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…

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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…

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Mike Brown

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am an IT infrastructure and software engineer. I now mainly manage software and infrastructure development for UKCEH and the NERC Environmental…

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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…

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Dylan Carbone

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I come from a marine biology undergraduate background at Swansea University and decided to pursue a Masters in Quantitative Methods in Biodiversity,…

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Ed Carnell

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

Spatial Data Anaylst - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects group

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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…

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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…

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Amulya Chevuturi

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

Amulya is a Hydrological Data Scientist in the Water Resources Systems Group at UKCEH. Current interests include use of flood and drought forecasting…

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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…

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Ajinkya Deshpande

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

PhD (Ecosystem Science and Management), Texas A&M University, USA-2020

I am an ecologist/biogeochemist with a background in…

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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…

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Michael Eastman

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I am a hydrological analyst who is involved in hydrological simulation, forecasting and extreme value theory.

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Shona Ferguson

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

I'm an Environmental Data Scientist Research Associate at UKCEH Edinburgh, I'm also a data steward and member of the EIDC. I did a BSc…

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Alice Fitch

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

The main focus of my work consists of modelling the impacts and trade-offs of land use scenarios on a variety of ecosystem services. However, I work…

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Josie Foster

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Geo-spatial analyst within the Ozone team at UKCEH. Currently completing my PhD at the University of Southampton investigating drought risk in sub-…

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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.

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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…

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David Green

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am a Design Researcher with a background in documentary making, digital arts, and experience-centered design. I am interested in applying this…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Sohaib Imran

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

Research Associate at School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, studying AI safety and alignment. Currently focused on evaluating…

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Victoria Janes-Bassett

Member (Staff)
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…

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Guillermo Jiménez Arranz

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

Acoustic engineer and researcher with 8-year's experience in assessing the impact of anthropogenic noise on marine species. Interested in…

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Doran Khamis

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

My interests lie in combining mathematical and statistical modelling with machine learning approaches to develop new frameworks with which to…

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Rebecca Killick

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I see my research as a feedback loop, being inspired by problems in real-world applications, creating solutions to those problems and then feeding…

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Caroline King-Okumu

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

CEH International Development Opportunities Manager

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Ezra Kitson

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I've recently joined the Freshwater Resources and Sustainability (FRS) team at UKCEH Edinburgh in the role of Environmental Data Scientist.

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Rosanna Lane

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I am a Hydrological Modeller based in the Hydro-Climate Risks group at UKCEH, Wallingford. My main research interests are the development and…

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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…

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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…

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Carolynne Lord

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am a social scientist with a background in understanding the role of technologies in changing practices for more sustainable lives. I have been…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Mario Martinez

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am interested in statistics and computing methods for improving the understanding of our interaction with the natural environment and the…

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Israel Martinez Hernandez

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

My primary research interests lie in (nonstationary) functional time series, and (nonstationary) spatio- temporal datasets. I have developed novel…

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Andrea Mazzeo

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I'm a senior research associate working at the Lancaster Environment Centre. My area of interest is regional modelling of meteorology and…

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Sergiy Medinets

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

My research interests lie within different aspects of nutrient (nitrogen and carbon) biogeochemistry, soil-plant-atmosphere interactions,…

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Anthea Milnes

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

I am the Head of Communications and Engagement at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

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Anthea Milnes

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am head of communications and engagement at UKCEH

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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…

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Allahyar Montazeri

Member (Staff)
LU - Engineering

Dr Montazeri (>120 publications, h-index 21), is one of the experts on signal and information processing and control system technologies in the UK…

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Vasilis Myrgiotis

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

I am a researcher at the University of Edinburgh and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. I am interested in the interface between agriculture,…

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Christopher Nemeth

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

Chris Nemeth is a Lecturer in Statistical Learning in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University. His research is in the…

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Matthew Nichols

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am a Research Associate based in the Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC). My work includes facilitating ingestion of research data of long…

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Robert Nicoll

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

RA Instrument engineer at CEH Edinburgh

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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…

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Clare Pearson

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

Spatial Data Analyst Research Associate within the Emissions Sources, Sinks and Solutions group.

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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…

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Jasmine Pullen

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

Environmental Contaminant Scientist/Research Associate at UKCEH, with a background in Earth Sciences. Involved in research relating to the sources,…

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Beth Raine

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

I am an ecological modeller at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh. My PhD explored tropical forest ecology and my research now spans a…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Maria Salama

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

Maria Salama is a senior research associate at Data Science of the Natural Environment (DSNE) research project.

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Kasia Sawicka

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

My research interests and current focus are spatial modelling of biogeochemistry and ecosystem change in response to climate change and pollution;…

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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…

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Rod Scott

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am a software engineer developing data systems and data visualisations

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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…

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Barry Simons

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

LEC Business Partnerships Manager
I have over 20 years experience working in environmental and sustainability policy and strategy including…

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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

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Richard Smith

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

Lead Data Scientist at UKCEH, Wallingford, helping lead development and use of hydrological data products both internally and externally. Experienced…

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Marcia Smith

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

I am a design researcher and practitioner and work as a senior research associate in the PARIS-DE project at School of Computing and Communications…

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Amy Stephens

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

Network Manager for NAMN and AGANET and Project Lead for Ammonia air quality projects generating datasets

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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…

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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…

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Philip James Taylor

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

Philip is an Environmental Data Scientist in the Freshwater Restoration & Sustainability Group at UKCEH. He is a specialist in lake catchment…

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Samuel Taylor

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a plant physiological ecologist, now working primarily on crop science applications for understanding of photosynthetic performance. I have a…

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Sam Tomlinson

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

Spatial Data Analyst, primarily in the field of emissions and atmospheric transport.

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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…

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Wlodek Tych

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

My main interest and background is in developing methods and tools for time series analysis and, in general, analysis of uncertain dynamic and non-…

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Audric Vigier

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

I am developing and maintaining tools for several scientific projects around air pollution, nitrogen management and soils. I mostly work in R on…

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Yuanlin Wang

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

I am Yuanlin Wang, an air pollution modeller from UKCEH, Edinburgh. I focus on air quality across EU and UK based on EMEP model, and also interested…

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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…

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Alexandra Wilkinson

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Project Support Officer - Eco-I NW

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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…

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Yi Wu

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

My research is interdisciplinary, bringing together environmental science, economics, geography, and data science. These studies focus on…

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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…

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Peter Young

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Retired Professor Emeritus but continuing with research and development, mainly on data-based mechanistic (DBM) modelling , forecasting and control…

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Matt Amos

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I use new techniques to make better use of climate model ensembles, particularly focussing on atmospheric composition. Currently I'm working on…

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Imogen Bailes

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I'm a PhD student in Environmental Chemistry and my research is investigating Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in biota from the UK and…

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Bethany Beck

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Masters by research student, researching biodiversity management in Greek solar parks. Skills include Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), coding…

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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…

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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…

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Carol Diffenthal

Member (Student)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

Science Area Coordinator for Hydro-Climate Risks

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Catrin Eden

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I'm a PhD student researching the decline of the Spotted Flycatcher - a rapidly declining migrant bird. I study the local drivers of breeding…

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Aiden Farrell

Member (Student)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I am a PhD student at Lancaster University where my research focuses on exploring links between extreme values methods and networks.

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Lily Gouldsbrough

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I'm a PhD student at Lancaster and my research interests lie in applying statistical and machine learning methods to model air pollution. I use…

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dave mansfield

Member (Student)
LU - Engineering

I am PhD student researching autonomous systems for monitoring environmental phenomena.

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Thomas Pinder

Member (Student)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I am PhD student in Statistics working on Gaussian process modelling for air quality problems.

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Cristine Rauber Oliveira

Member (Student)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I am currently a Stats PhD student working on statistical modelling of space weather extremes.

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Katy Ross

Member (Student)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

A PhD student working to understand carbon dynamics in the Falkland Island peatlands and the influence of land-use on the ecosystem exchange, organic…

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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…

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Prabha Thirthahalli Venkatesh

Member (Student)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

Postgraduate student studying Master's in Data Science. Previous experience includes full stack web development and mobile development.

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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…

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Prabha Venkatesh

Member (Student)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

Former Masters of Data Science student at Lancaster university.

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Kate Wright

Member (Student)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

I am a PhD student looking at understanding how stakeholders derive valid and actionable decisions from data science in the face of uncertainty.

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Isla Young

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a PhD student studying the effect of elevated tropospheric ozone levels on leafy salad crops.

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Associated Projects

InHALE (Investigating HALocarbon impacts on the global Environment)

With the Kigali Amendment coming into force in 2019, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has entered a major new phase in which the production and use of…

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Why is lower stratospheric ozone not recovering?

Depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer remains a persistent environmental issue. In the upper stratosphere and polar lower stratosphere (LS) ozone is showing signs of recovery and is expected to…

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4D Antarctica

Ice sheets are a key component of the Earth system, with the water generated by ice melting impacting upon global sea level rise, ocean and ice dynamics, and biogeochemical processes. Significant…

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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.…

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