We study the diversity and distribution of life on Earth, to reveal the processes that generate and maintain these patterns. From this foundation, we evaluate and predict how biodiversity has and will reorganise under global environmental change, and apply this knowledge to develop effective conservation solutions. We explore a range of model systems, from hyperdiverse coral reefs to back garden butterflies, and obtain our data through satellites, underwater robots, citizen science and good old-fashioned field work. By working with data scientists, mathematicians and other environmental disciplines, we achieve maximum insight and tackle the growing biodiversity crisis.
Biodiversity
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 &…
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…
Alex Bush
Theme Leader LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Alex is lecturer of environmental remote sensing at Lancaster University, specialising in ecological modelling for monitoring, managing and…
Rob Dunford-Brown
Theme Leader UKCEH - Biodiversity
Rob Dunford is a Geographer with over 15 years experience working as an interdisciplinary research scientist. He specialises in approaches that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Laura Bentley
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am trained as a forest ecologist with experience in catchment hydrology and using remote sensing data. Most of my experience comes from…
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…
Keith Beven
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Prof of Hydrology (retired!)
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 /…
Diana Bowler
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am an interdisciplinary ecology working on citizen science, biodiversity trends and links between people and nature.
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…
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…
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.,…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Francois Edwards
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a freshwater ecologist with over 20 years of experience in the government, consultancy and academic sectors. My specialism is the monitoring and…
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,…
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…
Nick Graham
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Nick is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a Chair in Marine Ecology. His research tackles large scale ecosystem science, using both…
Rachel Gunn
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research focusses on the behavioural responses on reef fish to climate change, specifically focussing on individual level differences in behaviour…
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…
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
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…
Richard Jiang
Member (Staff) LU - School of Computing and Communications
My research interests reside in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Satellite Imaging, and related environment applications.
Rucha Karkarey
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am a Royal Society Newton International PostDoc Fellow working with Dr Sally Keith at the Lancaster Environment Centre. I am studying how…
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…
Sally Keith
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am an ecologist seeking to understand the diversity and distribution of life on Earth, primarily using hyperdiverse coral reefs as a model system.…
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…
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…
Caroline King-Okumu
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
CEH International Development Opportunities Manager
Alfonso Jose Lag Brotons
Member (Staff) LU - Engineering
I am interested in soil protection, waste management and bio-energy, being these aspects oriented towards the achievement of sustainable agrosystems…
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…
Eva Maire
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My name is Eva. I am a postdoc at LEC working on coral reef systems using both ecological and social-ecological approaches. I've used R mostly…
Francesca Mancini
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am an ecological modeller researching drivers of biodiversity change. I use statistical models to derive trends in species distribution and…
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…
Kelly Mason
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am interested in carbon and nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems in relation to climate and land-use change. I specialize in trace gases…
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…
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…
Aneurin O'Neil
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am an Ecological GIS/ Remote Sensing scientist in the Land Use Group at UKCEH. My work focuses on using aerial photography and satellite imagery to…
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…
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…
Biren Rathod
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I'm web developer in BRC but I'm software engineer by profession.
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…
Hannah Risser
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am an ecological data scientist based in the Land Use group at UKCEH Lancaster. Recently, my research has focused on integrated modelling of long-…
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…
Simon Rolph
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
Data scientist at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield in animal and plant demography. User of R and…
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…
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.
Reto Schmucki
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
Community ecologist, working on the impact of global changes on species distribution, plant-insect interactions and the mechanisms that structure…
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
Fiona Seaton
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am a quantitative ecologist based in the Land Use group in Lancaster. My main focus is on using various data science and statistical methods to…
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…
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…
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…
Stacia Stetkiewicz
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am an interdisciplinary researcher who works across the boundaries of agroecology, biology, and social science in order to identify win-wins for…
Adam Sykulski
Member (Staff) LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics
I am a statistician focussing on spatiotemporal data, in other words data collected over space and time (for example an of array of sensors…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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…
Alex Wickenden
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am a Spatial Data Scientist with UKCEH at Wallingford. My background is in marine ecology, and my interests lie in spatial ecology and ecological…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Archita Bhattacharyya
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am an Envision DTP student, based at BGS, UKCEH and affiliated to LEC. My project is studying the microbiology of pristine groundwater in the UK.…
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…
Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
Member (Student) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I am a postdoc looking for work while collaborating with Dr France Gerard at CEH Wallingford on remote sensing and phenology.
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…
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…
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.
Javier Gonzalez
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Javier is a PhD student at Lancaster Environment Centre. He is interested in understanding how coral reef ecosystems are changing due to human…
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…
Roisin O'Riordan
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am a PhD student at Lancaster Environment Centre. I work on urban soils and ecosystem services, with a focus on soil carbon. I am interested in how…
Catherine Sheppard
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research aims to understand how the behaviour of reef fish influences the resilience of coral reefs to environmental change. Specifically, I look…
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…
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.
Lauren Thornton
Member (Student) LU - School of Computing and Communications
I am a PhD student exploring trust in environmental data science, specifically looking at ways we can design trustworthy technological systems. I am…
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…
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.
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.
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.