Biodiversity
Biodiversity

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.

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…

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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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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…

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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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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…

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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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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…

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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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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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Fiona Seaton

Theme Leader
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…

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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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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…

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Sam Amy

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am a botanist and data assistant working within the Biological Records Centre at UKCEH, Wallingford, supporting a range of botanical recording…

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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…

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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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Jon Barry

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I am an honorary lecturer in maths and stats (I was employed at the university from 1987-2002). I now work for Cefas - a bit like CEH but marine…

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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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Keith Beven

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Prof of Hydrology (retired!)

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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 /…

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Diana Bowler

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am an interdisciplinary ecology working on citizen science, biodiversity trends and links between people and nature.

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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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Hannah Burger

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

My research focus on interactions between wild bees and flowering plants.

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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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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.,…

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Stephen Cavers

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Research on genetic diversity, gene flow and adaptation in plants, especially trees. Long term experimental studies of genetic variation and…

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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…

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Thiago Couto

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Aquatic ecologist interested in a wide range of analytical tools applied to environmental conservation

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Leonardo De Sousa Miranda

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Environmental data scientist with 15+ years of experience in Amazon. For the past six years, I've been working on projects aimed at assessing…

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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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Els Dhiedt

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

I am interested in modelling plant-soil feedbacks, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, tree diversity, and spatial data.

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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…

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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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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…

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Paul Evans

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am a spatial ecological modeller, who is currently working mostly on modelling ecosystem services across the UK and EU.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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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,…

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Lisa Gecchele

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am an ecologist with an extensive experience in spatio-temporal modelling ecological datasets in human-dominated landscapes. I have experience…

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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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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…

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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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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…

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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…

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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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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…

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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…

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Richard Hassall

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am an ecological modeller with an interest in population and disease ecology. I use both statistical and mechanistic modelling approaches to…

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Robin Hutchinson

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Entomological Research and Data Support within the Biological Records Centre - I help with data management and cleaning; and biological recording…

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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

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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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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…

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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.

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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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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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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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…

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Cedric Laize

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

Hydro-ecological modeller; researches complex hydro-ecological associations by performing statistically robust and computationally demanding analyses…

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Anita Lazurko

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Anita Lazurko is a Scenario Developer at UKCEH. She holds a PhD in Social & Ecological Sustainability from the University of Waterloo (Canada).…

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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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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…

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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…

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Toby Richard Marthews

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I am an Environmental Scientist with a particular interest in the effects of Climate Change on ecosystems. I have two special focuses:
(1)…

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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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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…

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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…

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Anthea Milnes

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am head of communications and engagement at UKCEH

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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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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…

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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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Heather Moorhouse

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I am a freshwater ecologist with an interest in long-term water quality datasets and citizen science

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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…

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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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Justyna Olszewska

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I am a freshwater ecologist with an interest in the impact of contaminants and macronutrients on the functioning and service provision of freshwater…

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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…

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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…

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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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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…

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Christopher Pollock

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am a quantitative ecologist, largely working on models used to predict the impacts of offshore wind farms on seabird populations.

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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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Biren Rathod

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I'm web developer in BRC but I'm software engineer by profession.

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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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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…

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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-…

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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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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…

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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…

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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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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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Faiza Samreen

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

My area of expertise centres around designing and developing scalable, interoperable and resilient distributed systems that leverage the power of…

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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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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…

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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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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…

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Marta Shocket

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I'm interested in how temperature and other environmental factors (e.g., nutrients and food resources) shape transmission of infectious disease…

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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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Grace Skinner

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Research Associate Data Scientist.

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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…

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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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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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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…

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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…

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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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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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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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Jill Thompson

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Plant ecologist interested in all aspects of interactions among plants and plants in their ecosystems. Particular focus on tropical forest ecology…

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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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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…

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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…

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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.

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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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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…

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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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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…

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Ce Zhang

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Ce is a Fellow in UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. He has extensive expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and…

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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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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.…

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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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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.

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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…

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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…

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Catrin Eden

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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

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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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Pablo Gallego Anex

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LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Pablo is a PhD student at the Lancaster Environment Centre working on measuring biodiversity with LiDAR, insect and acoustic identification. His…

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Javier Gonzalez

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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…

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Claire Holden

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LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Claire's PhD research explores the use of machine learning and ATR-FTIR spectroscopy to mitigate the impacts of the invasive plant species,…

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Jordan Jarod Hood

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LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I am a Postgraduate Research (PhD) student at the STOR-i Centre for Doctorial Training at Lancaster University. The focus of my research is on…

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Laura-Li Jeannot

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LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a PhD student looking at the impacts of invasive rats on coral reef fish communities.

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George Linney

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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…

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Roisin O'Riordan

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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…

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Katie Powell

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UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am a final year postgraduate researcher at UKCEH Wallingford. I study the impacts of insect population decline on ecosystem functioning, using…

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Katy Ross

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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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Catherine Sheppard

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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…

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Andrew Slater

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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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Daniel Smith

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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…

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Prabha Thirthahalli Venkatesh

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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

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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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Becky Turner

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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…

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Prabha Venkatesh

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LU - School of Computing and Communications

Former Masters of Data Science student at Lancaster university.

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Helen Whitehead

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UKCEH - Pollution

I am a UKCEH Pollution PhD student looking at the effects of radiation pollution on birds within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

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Kate Wright

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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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