Complex systems
Complex systems

The natural world is complex, and so it is not surprising that we want to view nature through this lens. But things are also becoming ever more complex because of the increasing influence of human systems on the environment. These effects now reach so far into nature it is becoming difficult to see where one ends and the other begins, creating hybrid systems of systems. And as society becomes ever more complex, so do the tools we have available to us to handle the complexity that we are creating. Data science has become central to this process of understanding and managing complexity. Our research aims to advance approaches for coupling models, capturing interdependencies and feedbacks, and exploring systemic solutions to environmental change.

Associated Members

Gordon Blair

Director
LU - School of Computing and Communications

Gordon is a Distinguished Professor of Distributed Systems in the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, and is Co-Director of…

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Paula Harrison

Director
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kate Briggs

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I'm a postdoctoral researcher based in the Lancaster Environment Centre. I monitor changes to ice masses using remote sensing techniques. My…

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Matt Brown

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I am a numerical modeller interested in doing the modelling and programming behind any project involving the physics of the natural world, especially…

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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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Jeremy Carter

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

Environmental data scientist interested in topic areas including Biodiversity, Rewilding, Mycology, Bayesian Modelling, Gaussian Processes, Causal…

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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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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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RISHMA CHENGOT

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I am Water Resources Hydrologist with a background of hydro-climatology and water resources management.

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Rob Cooke

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Rob is an ecological modeller, applying a range of models to answer pressing biodiversity research questions. Rob's research primarily focuses…

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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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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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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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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…

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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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William Fincham

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Will is a spatial ecological modeller with an interest in a variety of quantitative ecological questions. He is currently working on quantifying the…

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Alice Fitch

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

The main focus of my work consists of modelling the impacts and trade-offs of land use scenarios on a variety of ecosystem services. However, I work…

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Andrew Folkard

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I work primarily in aquatic environments where my main interest is in bio-physical interactions between hydrodynamics and ecosystem functioning,…

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Lisa Gecchele

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

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

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Charles George

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I am an Earth Observation Scientist using optical remote sensing technologies to extract biogeochemical properties of land surface vegetation.

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France Gerard

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

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

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Dominic Ginger

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

Senior Cloud Engineer, building cloud native solutions as part of the envioronmental Data Science Group.

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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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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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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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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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Helen Houghton-Carr

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

I am involved in hydrologically varied projects, both in the UK and overseas, the latter primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. These have…

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Jasmine Hunter

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I am a Data steward with the Environmental Data science group, focussing on how we can improve our data management to reach broad audiences, and…

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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…

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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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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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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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Cedric Laize

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

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

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Anita Lazurko

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

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

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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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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…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nathan Missault

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Water Resources

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

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Deena Mobbs

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am a member of the Ecological and Socio-Ecological Interactions Group at Edinburgh, working as a modeller and data specialist. I am also a member…

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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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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…

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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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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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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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Biren Rathod

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

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

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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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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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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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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…

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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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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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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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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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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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Marta Shocket

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

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

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Barry Simons

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

LEC Business Partnerships Manager
I have over 20 years experience working in environmental and sustainability policy and strategy including…

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Andrew Singer

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Pollution

I'm an environmental microbiologist with an interest in pollution, it's impact on the environment, AMR selection, and human health

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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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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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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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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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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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Steven Wells

Member (Staff)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

Steven is a Mathematical Modeller at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. He has experience in the development and application of national-…

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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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Clare Willis

Member (Staff)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Earth Observation Data Scientist , working as part of the UK Centre of Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM). Prior to this role, I have completed…

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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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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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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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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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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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Carol Diffenthal

Member (Student)
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

Science Area Coordinator for Hydro-Climate Risks

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Kajal Dodhia

Member (Student)
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

PhD student at STOR-i, Lancaster University working on Statistical Modelling of Sea Surface Temperatures and Marine Heatwaves.


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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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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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dave mansfield

Member (Student)
LU - Engineering

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

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Victoria Marchment

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

I am an EPSRC-funded PhD student at the Lancaster Environment Centre, working under the supervision of Dr Sally Keith, Dr Duncan Whyatt, and Prof.…

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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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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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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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Catherine Sheppard

Member (Student)
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

My research aims to understand how the behaviour of reef fish influences the resilience of coral reefs to environmental change. Specifically, I look…

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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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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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Becky Turner

Member (Student)
UKCEH - Biodiversity

I am a PhD candidate at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford. My main interests lie in the applications of ecological modelling for…

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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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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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