Jacky Chaplow

Informatics Liaison Officer

Role

The purpose of  Informatics Liaison Officers (ILOs) is to work alongside scientists to improve daily working practices in informatics provision and data management and therefore CEH's overall science capabilities. The ILO network is tasked with introduction of data management plans to individual science sections.

Upland water monitoring project

I am currently working with Prof. Ed Tipping to collate and update chemistry data (concentrations of major ions) in streams on catchments of the R. Duddon and Windermere and in lakes and tarns of the English Lake District. This work has involved rescue of data collected by the FBA in the 1950s and 1970s and the updating of current data (four sites are still sampled by CEH Lancaster). I am the data manager for this project, collating and updating the data in Excel and producing graphs showing long-term trends in water chemistry.

Brief CV

• 2008-present: Shore Section ILO with David Wilson working on data rescue projects
• 2007-2008: ILO Environmental Informatics Programme. (Acquiring skills in new technologies for internal CEH usage.)
• 2002-2007: Experimental work for FINITE (fate and influence of natural ecotoxins)
• 2000-2003: Data manager for MASQ (Monitoring and assessing soil quality: CS2000 component) (ORACLE, SAS)
• 1999: Promoted to Scientific Officer (Band 7)
• 1999-2003: BSc (Hons) Applied Biology (First class), University of Central Lancashire
• 1995-1999: Assistant Scientific Officer (Band 8) Soil Ecology Section, Merlewood

Publications

See also the NERC Open Research Archive.

Whitaker, J.; Chaplow, J.S.; Potter, E.; Scott, W.A.; Hopkin, S.; Harman, M.; Sims, I.; Sorokin, N.. 2009 The comparative toxicity to soil invertebrates of natural chemicals and their synthetic analogues. Chemosphere, 76 (3). 345-352. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.03.060

Harrison, Anthony F.; Taylor, Kenneth; Scott, Andy; Poskitt, Jan; Benham, Dave; Grace, John; Chaplow, Jacky; Rowland, Philip. 2008 Potential effects of climate change on DOC release from three different soil types on the Northern Pennines UK: examination using field manipulation experiments. Global Change Biology, 14 (3). 687-702. 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01504.x

Chamberlain, Paul; McNamara, Niall; Chaplow, Jacky; Stott, Andrew W.; Black, Helaina I. J.. 2006 Translocation of surface litter carbon into soil by Collembola. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 38 (9). 2655-2664. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.03.021

Black, H. I. J.; Parekh, N. R.; Chaplow, J. S.; Monson, F.; Watkins, J. W.; Creamer, R.; Potter, E. D.; Poskitt, J. M.; Rowland, P.; Ainsworth, G.; Hornung, M.. 2003 Assessing soil biodiversity across Great Britain: national trends in the occurrence of heterotrophic bacteria and invertebrates in soil. Journal of Environmental Management, 67 ((3) special issue). 255-266.