Professional summary

Chris is an environmental data analyst working in the Catchment to Coast group of the Soils and Land Use Science area at Bangor. He specialises in applied statistical and spatial analysis of soils data including large-scale monitoring datasets and digital maps of soil health related properties such as organic carbon content. Chris obtained a PhD in environmental sciences from the University of Liverpool in 2020, where he applied numerical modelling to quantify the long-term storage of floodplain sediments under various environmental conditions. He therefore also has interests in processes germane to the soil-freshwater interface, particularly soil erosion, soil compaction and river channel change.

In August 2023, Chris founded the UKCEH Soils Network - a group dedicated to connecting collectors and users of soils data from across UKCEH with regular seminars to showcase and discuss new research. He is also an early career member of the British Society of Soil Science.

Chris is currently working on the following projects: The Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP); AI4SoilHealth [WP3: Novel soil health indicators for Europe]; AgZero+ [WP1: A national digital farmland observatory]; The International science for Net Zero Plus programme [Project 2C: Net Zero Plus trade-offs in sub-Saharan Africa].