Professional summary
Research Interests
I am interested in understanding how forests respond to long-term environmental change and using interdisciplinary approaches to restoration and management. I am part of the ecological genetics group at Edinburgh, collaborating on projects seeking to understand resilience and rates of adaptation in trees and forests to threats of global climate change and emerging pests and diseases. I currently work in the UKRI Treescapes project, newLEAF, and European Commission project, FORGENIUS. My role involves a combination of work in the molecular labs, including DNA extractions, determining ploidy using flow cytometry and preparing experimental fungal inoculation trials, as well as fieldwork recording growth and phenology trait data, sampling plant tissues and estimating disease infection in trees.
I am also interested in science outreach and public engagement, particularly in improving access to the outdoors and understanding people's knowledge and experience of nature. I currently lead a NERC-funded public engagement project, Forest Bound, using participatory art approaches grounded in environmental science to engage ethnic minority communities in Edinburgh with the future of forests.
Work experience
Plant Ecological Genetics Research Associate
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
November 2021 - Present
Research Associate Environmental Data Scientist
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
July 2020 - December 2021
BSc Ecological and Environmental Sciences
University of Edinburgh
2019
I previously worked as a Research Associate Environmental Data Scientist, based on Atmospheric Chemistry and Effects research projects and as part of the Informatics Liaison Network and Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) operations. My role involved:
- Promoting best practice in data management across CEH to produce reproducible and accessible research, liaising with researchers and guiding data deposits into the EIDC.
- Creating data visualisation tools that facilitate the QA process of atmospheric data as part of the AAGA (Ammonia Acid Gases and Aerosols) network and for the AFBI Hillsborough near-real time ammonia emissions tool
- Automating QA procedures for meteorological data under the DARE-UK project (Detection and Attribution of Regional greenhouse gas Emissions in the UK).
- Working with spatial and tabular data formats, carrying-out model QA/QC procedures as part of the LULUCF Inventory
Plant Ecological Genetics Research Associate
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
November 2021 - Present
Research Associate Environmental Data Scientist
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
July 2020 - December 2021
BSc Ecological and Environmental Sciences
University of Edinburgh
2019
I previously worked as a Research Associate Environmental Data Scientist, based on Atmospheric Chemistry and Effects research projects and as part of the Informatics Liaison Network and Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) operations. My role involved:
- Promoting best practice in data management across CEH to produce reproducible and accessible research, liaising with researchers and guiding data deposits into the EIDC.
- Creating data visualisation tools that facilitate the QA process of atmospheric data as part of the AAGA (Ammonia Acid Gases and Aerosols) network and for the AFBI Hillsborough near-real time ammonia emissions tool
- Automating QA procedures for meteorological data under the DARE-UK project (Detection and Attribution of Regional greenhouse gas Emissions in the UK).
- Working with spatial and tabular data formats, carrying-out model QA/QC procedures as part of the LULUCF Inventory