Land & Soil
Land & Soil

Land and healthy soils are some of our most precious and pressured natural resources. With multiple functions, multiple drivers of change and multiple beneficiaries, managing this resource is a complex task. We seek to address this complexity by combining the state-of-the-art in data and modelling approaches. By advancing our capacity to understand and predict land use and soil system change and ecosystem services, we can support better management of this vital resource. Our research involves a diverse range of approaches: from Earth Observation and data fusion to mechanistic modelling and machine learning.

Associated Members

Paula Harrison

Director
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Paula is a Co-Director of CEEDS, Professor of Land and Water Modelling and Principal Natural Capital Scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology &…

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Lindsay Banin

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

I am a scientist at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh. My research focuses on plant and ecosystem ecology, how plants interact with…

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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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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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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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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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Rafael Barbedo

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

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

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Hattie Barber

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Research Associate looking at adaptation in trees

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Richard Bassett

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

Richard an atmospheric scientist working in the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University. I have expertise in urban climate and…

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Chris Bell

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

General interest in CEEDS topic areas - just observing.

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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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Hollie Blaydes

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Working to better understand the impacts of ground mounted solar farms on biodiversity, my research has focused on insect pollinators and how they…

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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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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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Rhian Chapman

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I started at CEH in June 2018 with a background in modelling planetary climates, atmospheres, and surface-atmosphere interactions. I have experience…

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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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Matthew Coole

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

Matt is a Senior Research Software Engineer in the Environmental Data Science group at UKCEH. He is currently working on ways to integrate…

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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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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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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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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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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 UKCEH Wallingford. I develop the Earth Observation research carried out at UKCEH Wallingford. The main focus of…

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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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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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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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Michael Hollaway

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am a meteorologist and atmospheric chemist by background with specific interests in the impacts of air pollution on human health and plants. I also…

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Sohaib Imran

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

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

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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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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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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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Adam Kimberley

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Vegetation scientist primarily studying drivers of plant community change over time and how this is affected by landscape and environmental context.

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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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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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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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Robin Long

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

Robin is a Senior Research Software Engineer with a background in experimental particle physics. Robin joined UKCEH in 2024 helping establish a new…

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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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Chris Lowe

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

I am Science Area Coordinator for the Soils and Land Use Science Area, based at UKCEH, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster

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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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Kit Macleod

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I have a passion for enabling people to utilise innovations and best practices in data and digital technologies to improve their understanding and…

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Joe Marsh Rossney

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am a Research Software Engineer at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

I recently completed a PhD in physics, where I applied…

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Zeke Marshall

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

I'm an Ecological Data Scientist working at UKCEH in Lancaster. I'm interested in conducting analyses and producing decision support tools…

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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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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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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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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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Nathan Missault

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

Research Associate at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology working on hydrological modelling.

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Thomas Mondain-Monval

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am an ecologist interested in changes in the behaviours, movements and distributions of species due to climate change. I am particularly interested…

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Allahyar Montazeri

Member (Staff)
LU - Engineering

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

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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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Diego Moral Pombo

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a research associate on the Greenland Subglacial Lake Observatory (GLOBE) project focusing on detecting and tracking lakes beneath the Greenland…

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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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David Norris

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

I am a member of the UKCEH Informatics Liaison Network

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ali Rudd

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

Ali is a Hydrological Modeller at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. She has experience in the application and evaluation of national-scale…

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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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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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Paul Scholefield

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Currently at Lancaster Environment Centre, Paul focuses on the intersection of environmental change and terrestrial ecosystems. His approach employs…

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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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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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Richard Smith

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

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

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Marcia Smith

Member (Staff)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

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

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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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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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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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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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Sam Tomlinson

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

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

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Michael Tso

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am a hydrologist and geophysicist by background with specific interests in the impacts of soil moisture and contaminant transport. I also have an…

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Wlodek Tych

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

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

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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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Jo Walsh

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

Jo is a research software engineer with a background in geographic data, semantic web, and deep learning, in a mostly public sector career

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dulcie Brewer

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am a PhD student within LEC, studying the transport and eruption of xenolith bearing magmas. I also completed my undergraduate degree in Earth and…

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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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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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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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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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dave mansfield

Member (Student)
LU - Engineering

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

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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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Katy Ross

Member (Student)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

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

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Andrew Slater

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

1st year PhD student - Sequencing to Satellites: integrating biodiversity surveys across scales.
I will be learning Occupancy and Joint…

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Prabha Thirthahalli Venkatesh

Member (Student)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

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

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Galina Toteva

Member (Student)
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

Galina is a PhD researcher at the Edinburgh site of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Her focus is on the relationship between increased nitrogen…

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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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Kate Wright

Member (Student)
LU - School of Computing and Communications

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

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Associated Projects

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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