Dr. Toby Richard Marthews

Toby has been a Land Surface Science Researcher at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) in Wallingford, UK, since October 2015. 

He researches river routing and other flows over land and into the Global Ocean. He was responsible for putting overbank inundation into the JULES land surface model in 2015/16nd is currently working to improve our representation of different forms of inundation and river flow. This is critical for predicting floods and droughts and also links to many other aspects of climate change prediction where our current knowledge is insufficient (e.g. land-atmosphere interactions, coastal exchange). For this, he works with NOC on the CHAMFER project and is using the UK's coupled model configurations.

Toby is also interested in wetland environments, particularly in the Tropics, which are hugely important for global water and carbon cycles and, of course, biodiversity. He is working with partners in SE Asia through UKCEH's NC-International project to make better predictions of peatland and oil palm environments.

Through his projects he is involved with the theory and development of land surface models (LSMs) and hydrological models, working collaboratively with groups in the UK, India, Norway, US, Panama and elsewhere. Mostly, he uses the UK model JULES, for which he is a code developer.