Professional summary

Kelly has a BSc (Hons) in Honors Specialization Environmental Science from the University of Western Ontario in Canada in 2010.  She worked briefly as a biology research assistant at UWO, where she assisted in research on peat carbon fluxes.  She then did a summer placement as a chemical technologist at the Dorset Environmental Science Centre in Canada, where she determined inorganic nitrogen contents of freshwater samples.  She moved to the UK and in 2012 started her role as a biogeochemist in the Plant-Soil Interactions group at UKCEH Lancaster.  She is also the Lab Coordinator for the Lancaster non-Chemistry labs.

Kelly researches the effects of climate and land use change on plant-soil carbon and nitrogen cycling. She specializes in trace gases analysis(CO2, CH4, N2O), isotope-labelling, and soil physical and functional analysis (e.g. enzyme activity, microbial biomarkers). She is currently exploring fine-scale effects of minerals on soil organic carbon stabilization and persistence and also investigating the effects of various perennial biomass crop establishment methods on N2O fluxes.

Selected publications