Hollie Cooper

Hollie manages observational data, ensuring the successful delivery of datasets from historic and long-term environmental monitoring networks.

Recent research and data management activity includes collection, collation, management, and analysis of high-value data as part of the UK-SCAPE project (the UK-Flux Network of eddy covariance stations and the COSMOS-UK soil moisture network), as well as the FDRI, Hydro-JULES, ASSIST and Net Zero programmes.

Hollie joined UKCEH in 2015 as a Field Technician and worked closely with some of UKCEH's growing monitoring networks, including COSMOS-UK and what would become UK-Flux. In 2017, Hollie started a new role as a Research Associate: Field Data Technician, ensuring the long-term operation of these networks whilst planning, managing, and implementing new monitoring projects (e.g. a COSMOS network in China). Hollie continued to help coordinate the COSMOS-UK network and design and build new data pipelines, and her role developed into a Researcher: Field Data Technician position in 2019.

In the "Land Surface Science" team, Hollie's research interests further developed in land-atmosphere processes across a range of ecosystems, with a focus on the observations of water and carbon fluxes and biometeorology. Whilst Hollie coordinated a Net Zero Capacity Building project to bring technical experts and scientists together from a range of disciplines, she also delivered many long-term coordination and management activities for the growing UK-Flux network, as well as managed the network's large, long-term datasets (Cooper et al., 2024).

In 2023 Hollie built on her research role to start a new position as a Data Manager in the "Water Resources Systems" team, managing and processing a greater variety of datasets from a range of both historical and ongoing monitoring systems and networks. Hollie's expertise in observational data and remote monitoring networks ensures new projects are designed for optimum data management and coordination, to provide crucial scientific knowledge and policy-relevant information.

Key areas of expertise:

• Environmental monitoring networks - coordination, data management, quality control
• Long-term observational data - collation, processing pipelines, management, accessibility