Professional summary
Research Interests
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.
Brief CV
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.
Qualifications
MSc Birkbeck College, University of London
BSc University of Lancaster
MSc Birkbeck College, University of London
BSc University of Lancaster