Dr. Hannah Clilverd

Hannah is an environmental scientist with a background in wetland hydrology and soil/sediment biogeochemistry. Her work focuses on a landscape approach to understand condition and ecosystem services of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and the organisms they support.

Hannah uses land use maps, hydrological models, and global climate model projections to assess climate change impacts on biota, and provide a quantitative framework to guide land restoration and management. At UKCEH, she leads the reporting of GHG emissions and removals from wetlands for the UK’s annual GHG inventory. This inventory is required for setting and tracking progress towards national and international emission reduction targets, and projection scenarios that underpin climate mitigation. Hannah is currently working on assessing the sources and sinks of GHGs from peatlands and blue carbon habitats (e.g. saltmarshes) for reporting in the GHG inventory.