Spatial ecologist, #GIS professional, researcher in sustainable land use, interested all things nature and conservation
Wallingford
Joined July 2014
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Looking forward to this! I'll be talking about e-planner on our stand at 1500 on Wednesday , alongside other @UK_CEH colleagues presenting yet more of our free data and tools!
We’re going to #Groundswell2024 this week!
Drop by our stand to discover how our science & tools are helping farmers yield benefits for biodiversity, climate, soil health & crop production 🪲🌽🌱🚜
Visit us on Stand DFB31 @Groundswellaguk
➡️ groundswellag.com/
ALT Sign at the Groundswell event saying Groundswell with tents and flags in the background
Our new Land Cover plus: Hedgerows data are now available to view via e-planner. The Inventory tab will now let you explore estimated hedgerow heights and lengths for your farm! e-planner.ceh.ac.uk/
Want to find out more about our new hedgerows dataset, alongside other @UK_CEH data products in the Land Cover Map family? There's an @EDINA_Digimap webinar coming up, featuring @emily_upcott and @ClareRowland_UK!
We are excited to announce our upcoming webinar, "The Land Cover Map Family", on the 6th February at 13:00 GMT, presented by Dr Clare Rowland (Earth Observation Scientist) and Emily Upcott (Spatial Ecologist). Register: ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/reg… #Webinar #EnvironmentCollection
Great to be involved with this, its been a real team effort across @UK_CEH to build, validate and test!
NEW! We've created the most comprehensive map of England's #hedgerows to date!
💡 390,000km of hedgerow on field boundaries
📏 Depicts hedgerow length & height (for 1st time!)
🔎 Reveals areas with highest & lowest hedgerow densities
Read more: ceh.ac.uk/press/high-tech-ae… 1/🧵
ALT Data sample from Land Cover Plus Hedgerows showing woody boundaries of land parcels/fields colour-coded by height class (blue or green for shorter hedges and red for taller tree lines)
ALT An English hedge in Autumn
ALT A hedge in autumn
ALT Hedgerow map overlaid on Google Earth to show hedge height
Our review comparing 'agroecological' vs 'conventional' faming is now published via @DefraGovUK. Lots of info on what agroecological systems can achieve, how they can develop through farmer-led innovation, and how we can better model and monitor them randd.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDe…
Good #GIS skills? Enthusiastic about #Ecology? Come and join our @UK_CEH spatial ecology team as a spatial data scientist! ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en…
This was a brilliant project to be involved with (even if I was only doing the data wrangling rather than getting out onto farms!)
Landscape-scale species monitoring of agri-environment schemes: LandSpAES baseline report now published, testing agri-env management at local and landscape scales
1358 species of butterflies, moths, pollinators, birds & bats recorded over 4 years at 54 survey squares 🦋🦇🐦⬛🐝
ALT Infographic with snapshot of results from monitoring of agri-environment schemes
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A short video of me explaining how farmers can use our @UK_CEH e-planner tool to help enhance environmental decision making youtube.com/watch?v=-AgrcfMF…
You can now use e-planner (e-planner.ceh.ac.uk) to see a quick summary of the areas of habitat on your farm, estimated from the latest @UK_CEH satellite land cover maps
Off to @Groundswellaguk! Come and talk to @UK_CEH on stand D29 to find out about our sustainable agriculture science and data
Great to see this published. Going to spend a few hours looking through and matching up each SFI code to the E-Planner map that could be used to assess suitability. assets.publishing.service.go…
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After the grasslands episode of #WildIsles, here's brief selection of just some of the research by @UK_CEH colleagues on these amazing habitats...🧵1/6
Species rich grasslands are rare – we’ve lost >95% of them in the last 100 years, and those outside legally protected areas remain at risk 2/6 doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2015…
Great thread, fab to see these papers brought together into a narrative
Land use and species data from the 1930s have allowed us to do a long series of papers on historical ecology
In the 1st we presented the first direct evidence of taxonomic homogenisation in the UK showing this as a cause of woodland biodiversity loss
doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.09…
Great to be involved with this - partnerships like these are really important for making our research data accessible, and helping to build a more #sustainable UK food system
We're excited to partner with @sainsburys to help them become a Nature positive retailer. 🌳
Keen to learn more? Read our announcement below:
thelandapp.com/2023/03/01/su…
@UK_CEH #environment #sustainability
Thanks to @burkmarr and @DanGeerah for their brilliant work on bringing @UK_CEH E-Planner data into @thelandapp to make an efficient environmental planning workflow for Sainsbury's suppliers.
Very interesting. The authors do note that this could be due to "indirect effects... via the decrease of food availability" as well as direct toxicity, it'd be good for further research to pin down the relative contributions of the two.
New study: gardeners who use pesticides tend to have fewer garden birds... 25% fewer sparrows in gardens where glyphosate used, 40% fewer when metaldehyde slug pellets used. Pls RT
doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.…
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E-Planner updates live today! Including:
• New “Inventory” function to explore current habitats
• Maps brought up to date with new data
• Updated links to @FarmWildlifeUK guidance
• Improved user guide
e-planner.ceh.ac.uk/
Inventory maps are based on @UK_CEH Land Cover Map (10m resolution), and show where habitats are and the area of each within your area of interest
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Great to be involved with this #OpenAccess paper exploring interactions between climate change, land use change and carbon storage @UKCEHPapers @LancasterUni
Our work on possible future changes in UK's terrestrial carbon storage under climate and land use pressures has been published in Environmental Research Letters. Check it out! doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac… @ProfJessDavies
Currently overhauling the E-Planner 'Next Steps' page - the @FarmWildlifeUK "How to do it" page is a fantastic resource, so much info and useful links! farmwildlife.info/how-to-do-…
The @UKCEH spatial ecology team are recruiting! We’re looking for a spatial data scientist to help us explore the future of sustainable agriculture #AgZeroPlus 1/4 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en…
