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…
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…
Victoria Janes-Bassett
Theme Leader 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…
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…
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
Fabrice Andrieux
Member (Staff) LU - Engineering
My research expertise is in the development and modelling of gravimetric and electrochemical sensors for the in situ determination of analytes of…
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…
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…
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…
Casey Benkwitt
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am a postdoctoral researcher broadly interested in the behavioural, population, and community ecology of reef fishes, with a focus on how human…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Michael Eastman
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a hydrological analyst who is involved in hydrological simulation, forecasting and extreme value theory.
Francois Edwards
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
I am a freshwater ecologist with over 20 years of experience in the government, consultancy and academic sectors. My specialism is the monitoring and…
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.
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…
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,…
Josie Foster
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Soils & Land Use
Geo-spatial analyst within the Ozone team at UKCEH. Currently completing my PhD at the University of Southampton investigating drought risk in sub-…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Rachel Gunn
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research focusses on the behavioural responses on reef fish to climate change, specifically focussing on individual level differences in behaviour…
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…
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…
Qi Huang
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
My research is focused on developing novel satellite radar altimetry processing chains and deriving state-of-the-art measurements of ice sheet…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rosanna Lane
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks
I am a Hydrological Modeller based in the Hydro-Climate Risks group at UKCEH, Wallingford. My main research interests are the development and…
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…
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…
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…
Jennifer Maddalena
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I'm a postdoctoral researcher based in the Lancaster Environment Centre. Using satellite remote sensing techniques, I monitor changes to the ice…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Stuart Sharp
Member (Staff) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
Stuart is an animal ecologist working principally with wild populations of birds and mammals to address questions at the interface between animal…
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
Katie Smith
Member (Staff) UKCEH - Water Resources
Katie is a hydrologist at UKCEH specialising in drought and seasonal streamflow forecasting. She has expertise in hydrological modelling and the…
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…
Adam Sykulski
Member (Staff) LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics
I am a statistician focussing on spatiotemporal data, in other words data collected over space and time (for example an of array of sensors…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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-…
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…
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.
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…
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
Archita Bhattacharyya
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
I am an Envision DTP student, based at BGS, UKCEH and affiliated to LEC. My project is studying the microbiology of pristine groundwater in the UK.…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Laura Melling
Member (Student) LU - Lancaster Environment Centre
MSci Natural Sciences (Physical Geography and Environmental Science) student with particular interests in glaciology and remote sensing.
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…
Cristine Rauber Oliveira
Member (Student) LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics
I am currently a Stats PhD student working on statistical modelling of space weather extremes.
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…
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…
Lauren Thornton
Member (Student) LU - School of Computing and Communications
I am a PhD student exploring trust in environmental data science, specifically looking at ways we can design trustworthy technological systems. I am…
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.