Understanding the temporal and spatial dynamics of water and ice across our landscapes is critical not only for the hazards and resources that they provide, but also for understanding the interplay with other Earth system components, notably the biosphere. Currently, data volumes are exploding as satellite technology advances and in-situ sensor networks begin to stream data in real time. Our research aims to find better ways to use these data, in combination with large complex Earth system, ice and hydrological models to monitor changes in this valuable resource, and to improve our predictive ability to determine its future evolution.
Water & Ice
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 &…
Mal McMillan
Director LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Mal is a Co-Director of CEEDS, Reader in Environmental Sensing at the Lancaster Environment Centre, and a Principle Investigator for the UK Centre…
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…
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…
Yehia Elkhatib
Theme Leader LU - School of Computing and Communications
Dr Yehia Elkhatib is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Computing and Communications of Lancaster University, UK, where he…
Matthew Fry
Theme Leader UKCEH - Water Resources
Matt is an Environmental Informatics Manager in the Water Resources Systems Group at UKCEH, He leads a team of data managers, analysts and software…
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…
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…
Christopher Nemeth
Theme Leader 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Michael Eastman
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a hydrological analyst who is involved in hydrological simulation, forecasting and extreme value theory.
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.
Heidrun Feuchtmayr
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My overarching research theme within 20 years as a freshwater ecologist involves environmental and anthropogenic impacts on aquatic biotic and…
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,…
Prateek Gantayat
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I work as a postdoc under Dr. Amber Leeson.
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.
Adam Griffin
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
Hydrological statistician working on the Flood Estimation Handbook, researching quantification of changes in flooding over time and space due to land…
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…
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…
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…
Caroline King-Okumu
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
CEH International Development Opportunities Manager
Ann Kretzschmar
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
BSc Environmental Science (1977), Masters - Engineering Hydrology (1978) and Environmental Informatics (2011), PhD (2017) - "Utilising Reverse…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Anthea Milnes
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects
I am the Head of Communications and Engagement at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
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…
Katie Muchan
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My main research interests are in hydrology, with a focus on hydrometric data management, analysis and interpretation. I joined UKCEH in 2012 as a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Paul Scholefield
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
My research interests examine the impact of environmental change and disturbance on terrestrial ecosystems , focusing on the interaction between the…
Rod Scott
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Pollution
I am a software engineer developing data systems and data visualisations
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…
Maya Suryawanshi
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research interest is application of satellite altimetry on polar region. My Ph.D. work mainly involves estimation of mass balance of the Greenland…
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…
Stephen Thackeray
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My research focuses on the impacts of climate change, and other environmental stressors, on freshwater ecosystems. I am especially interested in how…
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…
Stephen Turner
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
My main research interests are in hydrology, with a focus on hydrometric data management, analysis and interpretation. I joined UKCEH in 2016 as a…
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-…
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…
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) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Ce is a Lecturer in Geospatial Data Science based in CEEDS. He has extensive expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning…
Thomas Barnes
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
MRes glaciology student
Jade Bowling
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I'm a glaciology PhD student, supervised by Amber Leeson and Mal McMillan. My research focuses on Greenland subglacial lakes; I use radar and…
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)…
Dan Clarkson
Member (Student) LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics
I'm a PhD student at Lancaster in the Mathematics and Statistics department. My research focuses on developing spatial extreme value methodology…
Diarmuid Corr
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I'm a PhD student in LEC, supervised by Amber Leeson and Mal McMillan. My research focuses on assessing supra-glacial melt in Antarctica. I…
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…
Robert John Wassink
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
PhD student at Lancaster supervised by Mal McMillan, Amber Leeson and Lai Bun Lok. My research focusses on using satellite and ground-based radar to…
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.