Data Science Methods
Data Science Methods

We seek novel data science solutions that enable environmental scientists and policy-makers to better understand the highly complex and heterogeneous nature of environmental data. We take a deliberately broad perspective on such methods drawing on contemporary statistics (time series analyses, changepoint detection methods, extreme value theory, spatial statistics, Bayesian methods) through to statistical machine learning and deep learning approaches. This includes investigating methods, and combinations of methods, which allow us to quantify, propagate and bound uncertainties in environmental data and models.

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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Mal McMillan

Director
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Mal is a Co-Director of CEEDS, Reader in Environmental Sensing at the Lancaster Environment Centre, and a Principle Investigator for the UK Centre…

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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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Eleanor Blyth

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I work with the JULES model, ensuring that it correctly represents what we know about the water cycle. This involves studying processes such as soil…

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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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Matthew Fry

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Water Resources

Matt is an Environmental Informatics Manager at UKCEH, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He leads a team of data managers,…

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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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Amber Leeson

Theme Leader
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Amber Leeson is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Data Science at Lancaster University, where she is Theme Lead for Environment in the Data Science…

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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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Amy Thomas

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Amy is a soils, land use and public goods modeller specialising in development of modelling frameworks for local to national scale applications.…

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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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Joshua Alton

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

Recent Msc graduate in Hydrology from Newcastle University, currently working as a research associate/ field engineer in UKCEH

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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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Vasileios Antoniou

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I work as a spatial data scientist in Water Resourses SA. I am an expert in spatial analysis, earth processes, active tectonics. Programming…

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Elisabeth Appleton

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Elisabeth is a greenhouse gas and soil carbon scientist in the Plant Soil Interactions group at UKCEH. She uses a mix of field and lab-based…

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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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Jack Arnett

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Mainly focussing on the automated processing, storing analysing datasets using python as well as maintaining public facing data dashboards to analyse…

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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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Sonny Bailey

Member (Staff)
LU - Physics

I am a Research Associate in iceberg detection, who is using machine learning and computer vision techniques to detect icebergs using SAR satellites…

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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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Helen Baron

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

Helen Baron is a Hydrological Modeller in the Water Resources Systems Group at UKCEH, with a focus on model development and a background is in…

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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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Chris Bell

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

General interest in CEEDS topic areas - just observing.

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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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Andrew Binley

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

My research focuses on improved understanding of the transport of fluids within the shallow (top 100m) subsurface environment. Much of this work…

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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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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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Ed Carnell

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

Spatial Data Anaylst - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects group

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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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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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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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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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Thomas Chitson

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I am an early career researcher at UKCEH in the Hydrological Status and Outlooks group. Currently I am working on developing an interactive Shiny App…

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Elizabeth Cooper

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I'm interested in measurements and models of soil moisture, soil hydraulic processes and data assimilation.

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Bernard Cosby

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

I've enjoyed more than 40 years of research and teaching in the environmental sciences in the US, Canada and Europe. Prior to Joining UKCEH I…

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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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Jess Davies

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

My research focuses on sustainable soils, land and food systems across natural, agricultural and urban landscapes. Drawing on my background in…

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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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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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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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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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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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Prateek Gantayat

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I work as a postdoc under Dr. Amber Leeson.

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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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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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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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Bethan Harris

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

My research investigates land-atmosphere interactions using satellite earth observation datasets. I am particularly interested in evaluating the…

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Sam Harrison

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

Environmental modeller specialising in the fate of contaminants in terrestrial and aquatic environments.

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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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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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Qi Huang

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

My research is focused on developing novel satellite radar altimetry processing chains and deriving state-of-the-art measurements of ice sheet…

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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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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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Mike James

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

My research involves understanding Earth surface change processes, with emphasis on volcanic flows such as lavas and domes. I use field measurements…

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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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Ann Kretzschmar

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

BSc Environmental Science (1977), Masters - Engineering Hydrology (1978) and Environmental Informatics (2011), PhD (2017) - "Utilising Reverse…

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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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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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Stella Linnekogel

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

I am a research associate within the Plant-Soil Interactions group at UKCEH and a PhD student at LEC. My work uses a mix of field and lab-based…

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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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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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Jennifer Maddalena

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I'm a postdoctoral researcher based in the Lancaster Environment Centre. Using satellite remote sensing techniques, I monitor changes to the ice…

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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 Marthews

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I'm very interested in the work of CEEDS. My work area is environmental science, stretching all the way from hydrological prediction to…

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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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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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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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Cristina McBride-Serrano

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a soil science research technician at the Lancaster Environment Centre. I am interested in soil and water conservation in a world with a…

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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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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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Robert Moore

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I work within the Hydrological Forecasting Group at UKCEH with an interest in modelling how landscape properties shape a storm pattern to yield a…

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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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Katie Muchan

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

My main research interests are in hydrology, with a focus on hydrometric data management, analysis and interpretation. I joined UKCEH in 2012 as a…

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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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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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David Parkes

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I am a research associate on the Data Science of the Natural Environment (DSNE) project focusing on spatial statistics and geometric…

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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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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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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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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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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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John Quinton

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Soil Scientist with interests in the sustainable use of soils, their interaction with water and approaches to monitoring and modelling their…

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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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Mark Rhodes-Smith

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I am a hydrological modeller working on seasonal water quantity forecasting and long-term water quality prediction using large gridded models of the…

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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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Helena Ripley

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Interest in researching sustainable agriculture, with a focus on plant soil interactions.

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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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Clarissa Rizzo

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I'm an early career scientist in the Water Resources Group at UKCEH. I’m currently involved in hydrological modelling and data processing.

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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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Mariana Rufino

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I study complex landscapes and how these produce biomass, food, and supply water. I use in my research empirical measurements (soil, plants, water),…

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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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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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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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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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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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Katie Smith

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

Katie is a hydrologist at UKCEH specialising in drought and seasonal streamflow forecasting. She has expertise in hydrological modelling and the…

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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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Simon Stanley

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

My current role at CEH requires me to manage the processing and storage of data from sensor networks. This includes maintenance of Python and R…

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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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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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John Stott

Member (Staff)
LU - Physics

I am an astrophysicist who has been developing a machine learning system to detect icebergs for the purposes of marine safety

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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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Maliko Tanguy

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I am a spatial data analyst in the Hydrological Status and Outlooks group at UKCEH. On the one hand, my job consists in creating, developing and…

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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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Stephen Thackeray

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

My research focuses on the impacts of climate change, and other environmental stressors, on freshwater ecosystems. I am especially interested in how…

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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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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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Stephen Turner

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

My main research interests are in hydrology, with a focus on hydrometric data management, analysis and interpretation. I joined UKCEH in 2016 as a…

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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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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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Supreeta Vijayakumar

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a researcher currently working on modelling C3 crop metabolism towards optimising photosynthetic and water use efficiency in potato (Solanum…

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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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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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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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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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Hannah Young

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

Hannah Young is an environmental data scientist with interests in greenhouse gas emissions modelling, land use, and pathways to Net Zero. Hannah…

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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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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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Thomas Barnes

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

MRes glaciology student

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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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Guillaume Blanchy

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Currently doing a PhD on applying geophysics to monitor soil moisture changes under large variety field trial for high-throughput phenotyping.…

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Alexander Bleasdale

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a PhD student at Lancaster University on a Waitrose CTP funded project researching the use of remote sensing for sustainable intensification of…

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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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Jade Bowling

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I'm a glaciology PhD student, supervised by Amber Leeson and Mal McMillan. My research focuses on Greenland subglacial lakes; I use radar and…

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Jeremy Carter

Member (Student)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I'm a PhD student at Lancaster University and the research fields I'm involved with include Glaciology and Climatology. In particular, I…

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Jeremy Daniel Carter

Member (Student)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I'm a PhD student at Lancaster, based in the Mathematics and Statistics department within the Data Science for the Natural Environment (DSNE)…

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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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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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Romilly Close

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a PhD student studying the contribution of Antarctic Peninsula glaciers to global sea-level rise, using satellite data, A.I. and advanced…

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Diarmuid Corr

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I'm a PhD student in LEC, supervised by Amber Leeson and Mal McMillan. My research focuses on assessing supra-glacial melt in Antarctica. I…

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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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Carol Diffenthal

Member (Student)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

Science Area Coordinator for Hydro-Climate Risks

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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

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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Elizabeth Flint

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a second year Lancaster University PhD student and based at the British Geological Survey. I am researching the impacts of water supply…

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Pablo Gallego Anex

Member (Student)
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

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…

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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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Claire Holden

Member (Student)
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

Member (Student)
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

Member (Student)
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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Sarah Jones

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

A first year PhD student with research interests in sustainable land use and food systems. Part of the Data science of the Natural Environment.

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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…

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Sofia Midauar Gondim Rocha

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a PhD researcher at Lancaster University. We aim to understand the physical, chemical, and biological impacts of floating solar panels on…

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Eva Mitchell

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

TPG Environmental Management, Food security pathway MSc

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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…

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Jacqueline Otto

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a PhD student studying the evolution of supraglacial lakes on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, using optical and radar satellite data.

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Joe Phillips

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Hi, my name is Joe! I am a first year PhD student with the Lancaster Environment Centre. During my time with LEC I will be looking at how deep…

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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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Katie Powell

Member (Student)
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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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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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…

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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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Vincent Verjans

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

PhD student in glaciology. My research focuses on firn densification modelling. I apply physically-based models and use statistical methodologies in…

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Catherine Walker

Member (Student)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

I am a PhD student studying the historical management of British woodland and its impact on understory biodiversity.

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Kes Ward

Member (Student)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I am a PhD student studying ways to cut the energy usage of environmental sensors.

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Robert John Wassink

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

PhD student at Lancaster supervised by Mal McMillan, Amber Leeson and Lai Bun Lok. My research focusses on using satellite and ground-based radar to…

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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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Ziyang Zhang

Member (Student)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

Ziyang Zhang is currently a PhD student in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, supervised by Prof. Plamen Angelov. He…

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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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Explainable AI for UK Agricultural Land Use Decision-making

Agricultural land use dynamics and their associated driving factors represent highly complex systems of flows that are subject to non-linearities, sensitivities, and uncertainties across spatial and…

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