Principal Investigators

Professor Edward Tipping

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology


Dr Rachel Helliwell

British Geological Survey


Dr Rachel Helliwell

James Hutton Institute


Dr Sami Ullah

Keele University


Professor John Quinton

Lancaster University


Dr John Boyle

University of Liverpool


Professor Neil Rose

University College London


Dr Charlotte Bryant

Environmental Radiocarbon Laboratory at SUERC


Professor Andy Whitmore

Rothamsted Research

Research team

Jessica Adams - UKCEH
I am a research associate working alongside Ed Tipping and will be contributing to the collection and processing of soil samples for the LTLS project. I am also working alongside Gareth Old, contributing to the biweekly river monitoring in the Ribble catchment.    Jessica Adams

Vicky Bell - UKCEH
I am a hydrological modeller at UKCEH. For LTLS I am developing a UK-wide grid-based Integrated Model (IM) which will estimate water quantity and nutrient fluxes on a 5km grid across the UK.

Sarah Beith - UKCEH
I am an analytical chemist and will analyse water samples for Carbon and Nitrogen for the LTLS project.    

John Boyle - University of Liverpool
I am a water, soil and sediment geochemist with particular interest in weathering and Holocene environmental change. I am working with Ed and Hannah Toberman on the lake sediment nutrient record, and historical land use.    

Christine Braban - UKCEH
Christine is an Environmental Physicist    

Charlotte Bryant - NERC Radiocarbon Facility
I run the NERC Radiocarbon Facility in East Kilbride and will be contributing radiocarbon data for soil, DOC & POC samples and advising on aspects of sample collection and storage and radiocarbon data.    

Neil Cape -  UKCEH
Neil is an Environmental chemist.    

Heather Carter - UKCEH
I am an analytical chemist and will carry out analysis on the samples from the LTLS project.    

Jacky Chaplow - UKCEH
I help Ed to manage project data and information and populate the website with information and images.    

Jack Cosby - UKCEH Fellow / University of Virginia
Jack's research focus is on hydrology and biogeochemistry of low-order streams, small lakes, headwater catchments, and coastal and estuarine systems    

Helen Davies - UKCEH
Helen is a GIS / Spatial analyst    

Jessica Davies - Lancaster University
I am an environmental systems modeller and I work with Ed Tipping on the terrestrial semi-natural ecosystem modelling, and John Quinton on soil erosion modelling.    

Gloria Dos Santos Pereira - UKCEH
Gloria is the Head of the Centralised Analytical Chemistry Group at UKCEH.    

Ulrike Dragosits - UKCEH
Ulrike is a spatial modeller.    

Hayley Guyatt - UKCEH
I am an analytical chemist working as part of the metals team in the Centralised Analytical Chemistry Facility at UKCEH. I will conduct laboratory analysis on the samples from the LTLS project.    

Alan Halford - UKCEH Chemistry
I am an analytical chemist in the Centralised Analytical Chemistry Facility at UKCEH. I will conduct laboratory analysis on the samples from the LTLS project.    

Rachel Helliwell - The James Hutton Institute
I am a biogeochemist responsible for delivering a range of existing and new datasets for model parameterisation and validation at a national (Scottish) scale.    

Peter Henrys - UKCEH
I am a statistician and modeller.    

Ben Langford - UKCEH
Ben is an Atmospheric Physicist/Chemist    

Dan Lapworth - BGS
I am a hydrogeochemist, my research is focussed on nutrient processes in groundwater.    

Alan Lawlor - UKCEH    
Alan is the Technical Manager and team leader of the Metals group of the Centralised Analytical Chemistry Facility at UKCEH.     

Linda May - UKCEH
My main research areas are the causes, effects and remediation of lake eutrophication.    

Filip Moldan - IVL Sweden
     
Don Monteith - UKCEH
My research interests are interactive effects of atmospheric pollution and climate change on upland water quality and biodiversity, particularly with respect to recovery from acidification and the causes and implications of rising levels of dissolved organic carbon.    

Shibu Muhammed - Rothamsted Research
I am an agro-ecosystem system modeller and my role in the LTLS project is to quantify the fluxes of carbon and nitrogen from agricultural land use.    

Jan Mulder - Norwegian university of life sciences          

Pam Naden - UKCEH
I am a hydrologist with interests in sediment and river processes. Within LTLS, I am helping with the integrated modelling, coordinating the in-river components and modelling sediment loss to floodplains.    

Eiko Nemitz - UKCEH    
I am an Environmental Physicist. My work encompasses the measurement of surface / atmosphere exchange fluxes of a wide range of trace gases and aerosols, using micrometeorological flux measurement approaches    

Gareth Old - UKCEH
I am a hydrologist with particular interests in fine sediment. Within LTLS, I am responsible for establishing a network of water quality monitoring stations to enable the estimation of time series of suspended sediment transport.    

Sabera Patel - UKCEH
I’m the UKCEH’s Wiki Administrator responsible for developing the LTLS website, supporting Ed and the team to promote their research and encourage collaboration    

John Quinton - Lancaster University
John Quinton's research focuses on soil erosion and its influence on bio geochemical cycling at scales ranging from fields to global scales. In LTLS he is leading work on erosion and sedimentation at the national scale.    

Neil Rose - University College London
I am the UCL PI. We are using the Environmental Change Research Centre sediment archive to produce C, N and P data for 100 lakes across the UK for the last 150 years and also taking and analysing multiple sediment cores from 4 lakes across the country (photo courtesy of Ewan Shilland).    

Ed Rowe - UKCEH
I am a plant/soil ecologist, and will be helping with vegetation productivity measurement and with modelling terrestrial semi-natural ecosystems.    

Phil Rowland - UKCEH Fellow          

Paul Scholefied - UKCEH
I am an ecosystem modeller at UKCEH Lancaster and I provide input from national UKCEH databases, and from the UKCEH funded Ribble and Wyre integrated catchment science project with Ed Tipping.    

Fotis Sgouridis - Keele University
I am a biogeochemist focusing on nutrient and carbon cycling in terrestrial/aquatic ecosystems. I am working with Sami Ullah to collect new data on soil denitrification in different land use types in the Conwy and Ribble-Wyre River catchments.    

Gavin Simpson - University College London
          
Simon Smart - UKCEH
Simon is a Vegetation scientist working on understanding causes and consequences of large scale biodiversity change.    

Marianne Stuart - BGS
I am a  hydrogeochemists working in the groundwater pollution area. I lead the groundwater component of LTLS and will be contributing to modelling unsaturated zone retardation and quantifying the groundwater pool.    

Mark Sutton - UKCEH
I am contributing to the work on historical reconstruction of nitrogen emissions to the atmosphere, including estimation of ammonia emissions from domestic coal burning.    

Ken Taylor - UKCEH Fellow

Sarah Thacker - UKCEH
I am an analytical Chemist working in the Metals team. I will be analysing samples on the ICP-OES for the major Cations.    

Ed Tipping - UKCEH
I am leading the project, and contributing to terrestrial semi-natural ecosystem modelling, river process modelling, the sampling of soils and rivers, and data collation.    

Hannah Toberman - University of Liverpool
I am an ecosystems scientist focussing on nutrient cycling. I am working with Ed Tipping to collect new data on soil nutrients, soil organic matter turnover times and plant productivity with which to test the LTLS terrestrial model, and John Boyle to collect new data on lake sediment nutrient and organic matter turnover profiles to contribute to the historical interpretation of catchment processes.    

Simon Turner - University College London
I will be analysing archived and new lake sediment cores for carbon and nitrogen to see how their isotopic composition has changed over time in lakes. This will assist in modelling the historical variability of macronutrients in UK catchments.    

Sami Ullah - Keele University
I am broadly interested in the biogeochemistry of nitrogen and carbon in soils for water quality improvement, carbon sequestration and ecosystem restoration. In the LTLS project, I am the project PI at Keele University leading research on the measurement of soil denitrification in different land use types in the Conwy and Ribble-Wyre River catchments. The goal is to quantify annual losses of N2O and N2 gases due to denitrification using the 15N2 flux techniques    

Lei Wang - BGS
I am a groundwater modeller with interests in mathematically describing hydrogeological and diffuse water pollution processes, integrated modelling and online real-time modelling.  I will be contributing to the LTLS project by carrying out modelling soluble pollutant transport in unsaturated zone by working with Marianne Stuart and Dan Lapworth.    

Andy Whitmore - Rothamsted Research
I am an agro-ecosystem modeller, leading the arable component of the LTLS model    

Dick Wright - NIVA Norway
I am a biogeochemist and will contribute with data from Norway    

Lianhai Wu - Rothamsted Research
My role in LTLS is to quantify nutrient dynamics in grassland systems and contribute to the dynamics in arable land.