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.
Land & Soil
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 &…
Lindsay Banin
Theme Leader UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I am a scientist at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh. My research focuses on plant and ecosystem ecology, how plants interact with…
Alex Bush
Theme Leader LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Alex is lecturer of environmental remote sensing at Lancaster University, specialising in ecological modelling for monitoring, managing and…
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…
Rob Dunford-Brown
Theme Leader UKCEH - Biodiversity
Rob Dunford is a Geographer with over 15 years experience working as an interdisciplinary research scientist. He specialises in approaches that…
Pete Henrys
Theme Leader UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Peter Henrys is a chartered statistician at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology specialising in long term large scale spatial-temporal modelling…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hattie Barber
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
Research Associate looking at adaptation in trees
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…
Chris Bell
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
General interest in CEEDS topic areas - just observing.
Laura Bentley
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am trained as a forest ecologist with experience in catchment hydrology and using remote sensing data. Most of my experience comes from…
Nick Beresford
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
Radioecologist specialising in the study of the impacts of ionising radiation on wildlife, radionuclide transfer to human foodstuffs and remediation…
Keith Beven
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Prof of Hydrology (retired!)
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…
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 /…
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…
Christine Braban
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I am Atmospheric Composition Change Group leader in the Atmopsheric Chemistry and Effects Science Area (pre November 2017: Biosphere-Atmospheric…
Mike Brown
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I am an IT infrastructure and software engineer. I now mainly manage software and infrastructure development for UKCEH and the NERC Environmental…
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,…
Ed Carnell
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
Spatial Data Anaylst - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects group
Jeremy Carter
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
Environmental data scientist interested in topic areas including Biodiversity, Rewilding, Mycology, Bayesian Modelling, Gaussian Processes, Causal…
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.,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Elizabeth Cooper
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I'm interested in measurements and models of soil moisture, soil hydraulic processes and data assimilation.
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…
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…
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…
Graham Dean
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I am an experienced computer scientist and technical manager who has worked within research & development activities in academia, industry and…
Ajinkya Deshpande
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
PhD (Ecosystem Science and Management), Texas A&M University, USA-2020
I am an ecologist/biogeochemist with a background in…
Els Dhiedt
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am interested in modelling plant-soil feedbacks, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, tree diversity, and spatial data.
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…
Alejandro DUSSAILLANT
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I am a hydrologist driven to understand river and catchment processes, with experience in floods (including GLOFs), soil hydrology, water resources…
Michael Eastman
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a hydrological analyst who is involved in hydrological simulation, forecasting and extreme value theory.
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.
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.
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…
Andrew Folkard
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I work primarily in aquatic environments where my main interest is in bio-physical interactions between hydrodynamics and ecosystem functioning,…
Charles George
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I am an Earth Observation Scientist using optical remote sensing technologies to extract biogeochemical properties of land surface vegetation.
France Gerard
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I am a senior research scientist at UKCEH Wallingford. I develop the Earth Observation research carried out at UKCEH Wallingford. The main focus of…
Marika Glasby
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I graduated with a BSc (Hons) Geological Hazard from the University of Portsmouth. I have experience working in GIS, and am interested in learning…
Cecily Goodwin
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am a spatial ecologist using data-driven approaches to assess landscape characteristics and change. My research involves integrating spatial data…
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…
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…
Sam Harrison
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
Environmental modeller specialising in the fate of contaminants in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Susan Jarvis
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am a quantitative ecologist interested in combining data from citizen science and professional surveys to understand species distributions and…
Richard Jiang
Member (Staff) LU - School of Computing and Communications
My research interests reside in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Satellite Imaging, and related environment applications.
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…
David Johnson
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Expertise in measuring the functional diversity of soil foodwebs, fluxes of trace gases, and the ecology of plant-root symbioses
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…
Ben Kenward
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
Originally trained as a biologist, I now work as an environmental psychologist, with current lectureships at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Oxford…
Doran Khamis
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My interests lie in combining mathematical and statistical modelling with machine learning approaches to develop new frameworks with which to…
Rebecca Killick
Member (Staff) LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics
I see my research as a feedback loop, being inspired by problems in real-world applications, creating solutions to those problems and then feeding…
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.
Caroline King-Okumu
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
CEH International Development Opportunities Manager
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.
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…
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).…
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…
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…
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…
Eva Loerke
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am a geoscientist with strong qualitative and quantitative research skills, specialising in environmental monitoring, climate resilience, and…
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…
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…
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
Stephen Maberly
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a lake ecologist with a particular interest in understanding how external stressors and internal interactions affect the structure and function…
Ellie Mackay
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a freshwater ecologist with an interest in the collection and use of long term and high frequency data to answer critical questions about how…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Anthea Milnes
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I am the Head of Communications and Engagement at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
Anthea Milnes
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I am head of communications and engagement at UKCEH
Nathan Missault
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
Research Associate at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology working on hydrological modelling.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Henry Moss
Member (Staff) LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics
My research sits at the intersection of AI and mathematical sciences, where I develop algorithms to model, optimise, and design complex real-world…
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,…
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…
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…
Robert Nicoll
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
RA Instrument engineer at CEH Edinburgh
David Norris
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am a member of the UKCEH Informatics Liaison Network
Aneurin O'Neil
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am an Ecological GIS/ Remote Sensing scientist in the Land Use Group at UKCEH. My work focuses on using aerial photography and satellite imagery to…
Simon Oakley
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I investigate the effects of climate and land use change on plant-soil biogeochemical processes in terrestrial ecosystems, delivering research to…
Mike Perring
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Mike has expertise in environmental change effects on ecosystems gained using observational, experimental and simulation modelling approaches. His…
Oliver L. Pescott
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I'm a plant ecologist and botanist with a strong interest in statistics, meta-science, and communicating uncertainty. A lot of my work at UKCEH…
Michael Pocock
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I undertake research on ecological networks (food webs) and citizen science. I take a whole system approach to citizen science, including developing…
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,…
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…
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…
Susannah Rennie
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I have over 20 years of experience in environmental data management - the main focus of my work has been on developing information management systems…
Eftathios Reppas Chrysovitsinos
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am an environmental engineer with a PhD in Applied Environmental Science. At the moment, I am working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at…
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…
Helena Ripley
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Interest in researching sustainable agriculture, with a focus on plant soil interactions.
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-…
Samuel Robinson
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
My research focuses on impacts of land use and climate change on plant-soil interactions, soil biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling across diverse…
Ed Rowe
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I'm a user and designer of ecosystem models, with particular interests in soil / vegetation biogeochemistry, and dynamic niche occupancy models…
Clare Rowland
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I am an Earth Observation Scientist. I use satellite data to produce maps of land cover, land cover change and plant biophysical variables. My work…
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…
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),…
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.
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…
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;…
Reto Schmucki
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
Community ecologist, working on the impact of global changes on species distribution, plant-insect interactions and the mechanisms that structure…
Paul Scholefield
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Currently at Lancaster Environment Centre, Paul focuses on the intersection of environmental change and terrestrial ecosystems. His approach employs…
Barry Simons
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
LEC Business Partnerships Manager
I have over 20 years experience working in environmental and sustainability policy and strategy including…
Andrew Singer
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I'm an environmental microbiologist with an interest in pollution, it's impact on the environment, AMR selection, and human health
Simon Smart
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Ecologist interested in understanding human impacts on soils, vegetation and plant biodiversity via modelling and retrospective analysis of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sam Tomlinson
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
Spatial Data Analyst, primarily in the field of emissions and atmospheric transport.
Michael Tso
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I am a hydrologist and geophysicist by background with specific interests in the impacts of soil moisture and contaminant transport. I also have an…
Wlodek Tych
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My main interest and background is in developing methods and tools for time series analysis and, in general, analysis of uncertain dynamic and non-…
Emily Upcott
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Biodiversity
Emily is a spatial ecology research associate who uses analytical and modelling approaches to address ecological questions. She is involved in a…
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…
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…
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
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.
Alexandra Wilkinson
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Project Support Officer - Eco-I NW
Megan Williams
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I work as a Research Associate / Spatial Data Analyst within the Emissions Sources, Sinks and Solutions group at the UK Centre for Ecology and…
Claire Wood
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
I currently work in the Land Use Group at Lancaster, working as a (spatial) data manager and analyst. Additionally, I work as a member of the…
Yi Wu
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research is interdisciplinary, bringing together environmental science, economics, geography, and data science. These studies focus on…
Gabriel Yesuf
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am an interdisciplinary environmental scientist and modeler. My research interest aims to provide evidence-based assessment of environmental change…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
Member (Student) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I am a postdoc looking for work while collaborating with Dr France Gerard at CEH Wallingford on remote sensing and phenology.
Merry Crowson
Member (Student) UKCEH - Biodiversity
I am a PhD student at ZSL Institute of Zoology and UKCEH. I have a background in remote sensing, but my PhD is on big data and its role in the…
Carol Diffenthal
Member (Student) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
Science Area Coordinator for Hydro-Climate Risks
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
dave mansfield
Member (Student) LU - Engineering
I am PhD student researching autonomous systems for monitoring environmental phenomena.
Eva Mitchell
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
TPG Environmental Management, Food security pathway MSc
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…