Dr Deena C Mobbs

Current work

As Informatics Liaison Officer (ILO) for the Watt Section, I am an information specialist working alongside scientists to improve day-to-day working practices in informatics and data management and thereby promoting CEH’s overall science capabilities.

The UK is committed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the EU Monitoring Mechanism to produce national inventories of emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases. CEH delivers the data for annual inventories and projections into the future for the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Sector. As Data Manager for the project I am responsible for coordinating the scientists’ output, the data management and archiving and for the actual submission of the Inventory in various formats.

Research interests

I am particularly interested in scientific programming and modelling, exploring methods for visualisation of scientific data and communicating the use of new technologies to colleagues. As a photographer I am also interested in the use, and management, of images in science.

Before becoming an ILO, I was an Ecosystem Modeller with the Biosystems Dynamics Section working on the development of process-based models describing plant and soil dynamics. Research interests included the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Sector in Greenhouse Gas Inventories and spatial mapping of carbon sinks and sources related to UK LULUCF. 

Brief CV

• 2006-date Informatics Liaison Officer, Watt Section, CEH at Edinburgh
• 1993-2006 Higher Scientific Officer, Ecosystem Process Modelling Section, CEH at Edinburgh. Development of process-based models describing plant and soil dynamics
• 1992-1993 Higher Scientific Officer, Scottish Agricultural Statistics Services (now BioSS) on a temporary contract to develop a statistical simulation program "Experimental designs to minimise interference between varieties in variety performance trials"
• 1993 PhD Population Genetics, University of Edinburgh. Thesis: "Inference of Genetic Relationship"
• 1988 BSc Biological Sciences (honours, genetics), University of Edinburgh

Selected publications

See also the NERC Open Research Archive.

Choudrie, S. L.; Jackson, J.; Watterson, J. D.; Murrells, T.; Passant, N.; Thomson, A.; Cardenas, L.; Leech, A.; Mobbs, D. C.; Thistlethwaite, G. (2008) UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990 to 2006: Annual Report for submission under the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Didcot, AEA Technology plc.

Thomson, A. M.; Mobbs, D. C.; Milne, R.; Skiba, U.; Clark, A.; Levy, P. E.; Jones, S. K.; Billett, M. F.; Van Oijen, M.; Ostle, N.; Foereid, B.; Fung, W. S.; Smith, P.; Matthews, R. W.; Mackie, E.; Bellamy, P.; Rivas-Casado, M.; Grace, J.; Higgins, A.; Jordan, C.; Tomlinson, R. W. (2008) Inventory and projections of UK emissions by sources and removals by sinks due to land use, land use change and forestry. Annual Report July 2008. Edinburgh, UK, CEH/Defra, 250pp. (CEH Project Number: C03116)

Van Oijen, Marcel; Agren, Goran I.; Chertov, Oleg; Kellomaki, Seppo; Komarov, Alex; Mobbs, Deena; Murray, Maureen. (2008) Evaluation of past and future changes in European forest growth by means of four process-based models. In: Kahle, H.P., (ed.) Causes and Consequences of Forest Growth Trends in Europe. Brill, 183-199. (European Forest Institute Research Reports, 21).

Baggott, S. L.; Cardenas, L.; Garnett, E.; Jackson, J.; Mobbs, D. C.; Murrells, T.; Passant, N.; Thomson, A.; Watterson, J. D.; Adams, M.; Dore, C.; Downes, M. K.; Goodwin, J.; Hobson, M.; Li, Y.; Manning, A.; Milne, R.; Thistlethwaite, G.; Wagner, A.; Walker, C. (2007) UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990 to 2005: Annual Report for submission under the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Didcot, AEA Technology plc, 223pp.

Mobbs, D. C. and Milne, R. (2005). Mapping of carbon emissions and removals in the UK due to changes in stocks of soil carbon driven by land use change other than afforestation. UK Emissions by Sources and Removals by Sinks due to Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Activities., Annual report (2005) for Defra Contract EPG 1/1/160, (eds Milne, R., Mobbs, D.C.).