Don Monteith

Professional summary

Causes and consequences of long-term environmental change in semi-natural aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Main areas of research include:

Biogeochemical and ecological assessments of freshwater acidification and recovery in upland lakes and streams.
Understanding controls on spatial and temporal variation in Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) in surface and soil waters.
Interactive effects of air pollution, climate change and land management on semi-natural ecosystems.

Over 20 years experience in long-term environmental monitoring, survey and assessment of the ecological health of semi-natural ecoystems.

Coordinator of the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN), Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster.
Coordinator of the UK Upland Waters Monitoring Network.
Programme Manager and Secretariat Lead for the UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF).
UCL Senior Research Fellow
UK Representative on UN International Cooperative Programmes on Assessment and Monitoring Effects of Air Pollution on Rivers and Lakes
Prior to 2008 - UK Acid Waters Monitoring Network Science Coordinator, Environmental Change Research Centre, UCL
Contributing author to the Review of Transboundary Air Pollution (RoTAP, 2012) and UK National Ecosystem Assessment (2011)

recent projects:

2019-20. Principal Investigator: UKRI – SPF Climate Change Resilience. FREEDOM-BCCR – Building Climate Change Resilience.

2017-19. Principal Investigator: NERC ERIIP. Forecasting Risk of Environmental Exacerbation of Dissolved Organic Matter Levels (FREEDOM)

2018-19. Principal Investigator: FREEDOM co-funding from Scottish Water.

2008-16. Principal Investigator: Series of four projects supporting Environmental Change Network Central Coordination Unit activities. – Defra.

2011-16. Principal Investigator: Electrical Supply Industry Habitats Monitoring. - E.ON on behalf of Refinery and Power Station Operators.

2009-12 CEH Principal Investigator: ERA-Net: Rising Dissolved Organic Carbon: impacts on human health. – NERC.