Professional summary
Research Interests
I am a Principal research scientist and group leader, responsible for a department of 15 research staff and a number of graduate students. I am responsible to the Science Area lead and Directors for the leadership, direction and resourcing of the Catchment to Coast interdisciplinary research group. The group focus is on national monitoring of soil, water, flora and fauna; integrated landscape and hydrological modelling and long-term soil and vegetation experiments.
My personal research program focuses on soil physical function and its interplay with biology, within the wider context of natural capital and ecosystem service delivery in response to climate and land use change drivers. I have a range of international experience in the USA, Caribbean, Mediterranean and Asia.
I have served the community in a number of roles including as a co-lead author for the 2015 United Nations Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, first World Soil Resources Report. I co-lead the UK Soil Observatory and I have published over 100 ISI papers (GS h-Index=51) in a range of interdisciplinary journals.
Brief CV
Recent appointments
10/2009 – Present Soil Scientist - UKCEH
11/2017 – Research Leader - UKCEH
01/2017 – Present Adjunct Professor - Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
Recent research funding and project management
UKCEH Countryside Survey soil and vegetation national research platform
EU Fabulous Farmers
ERAMMP soils national monitoring
NERC STARS Doctoral training program Soil Science, Project Management Board
Professional awards, recognition and development
2019 EU ‘Soil Health and Food’ mission board foresight panel
2018 Soil Science Society of America, Don and Betty Kirkham Award Soil Physics
2015 – Present professional designation, BSSS, F.I. SoilSci
2015 Soil Science Society of America: Fellow
2014 Association for Geographic information: Excellence with impact award for UKSO
2006 Soil Science Society of America: S-6 Soil & Water Management & Conservation Early Career Award
2005 Soil Science Society of America: S-1 Early Career Award in Soil Physics
Qualifications
PhD Soil Physics, 1999: Soil water content estimates based on the measurement of soil relative permittivity: Use of capacitance, time domain reflectometry and impedance sensors, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, and Univ. of Ulster, UK.
BSc Soils and the Environment with Sedimentary Geology, 1994: 2:1 (Honours) Reading University, UK.
PhD Soil Physics, 1999: Soil water content estimates based on the measurement of soil relative permittivity: Use of capacitance, time domain reflectometry and impedance sensors, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, and Univ. of Ulster, UK.
BSc Soils and the Environment with Sedimentary Geology, 1994: 2:1 (Honours) Reading University, UK.
Panels, committees and memberships
Soil Science Society of America (Fellow)
British Soil Science Society (Fellow)
Personal web page: http//sites.google.com/site/davidrobinsonsoils/
mySoil app: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mysoil/id529131863?mt=8
UK Soil Observatory: www.ukso.org/
Soil Science Society of America (Fellow)
British Soil Science Society (Fellow)
Personal web page: http//sites.google.com/site/davidrobinsonsoils/
mySoil app: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mysoil/id529131863?mt=8
UK Soil Observatory: www.ukso.org/