Professional summary

Research Interests

  • Biodiversity Monitoring
  • Biological Recording
  • Citizen Science
  • Biological Impacts of climate change

Brief CV

  • 2022 to date: Individual Merit Scientist
  • 2010 to date: Head of the Biological Records Centre
  • 2007 to 2008: Coordinator of the EU FP6 project, Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
  • 2002 to date: Leading the CEH contribution to the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
  • 1999-2004: Research on farm-scale effects of herbicide-tolerant GM crops
  • 1998-2001: Research on ecology of urban ecosystems
  • 1994 to date: Research on the distributions of species

Qualifications

  • PhD (University of Southampton), 2006
  • MSc (University of York), 1994
  • BSc (University of Southampton), 1992

Web tools and apps

iRecord for capturing, reviewing and sharing wildlife sightings

Mobile apps for recording wildlife

Automated Insect Monitoring (AMI) systems for biodiversity monitoring

Publications