AGZEROPLUS - Key Persons
Alice is a mathematician at Rothamsted Research and leads the epidemiological modelling group. For AgZero+, she is leading a team modelling the impacts of net zero+ farming systems on productivity and the wider environment.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator PML
Andrew is a research scientist at the British Geological Survey with 27 years' experience in soil science and geochemistry. He will manage BGS's contribution to AgZero+ and directly contribute to fieldwork, collating soil and groundwater sensor data.
Claire is an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. She has 22 years' research and project management experience on sustainable agriculture with a focus on insect pollinators, involving landscape-scale experiments, molecular genetics, citizen science and long-term monitoring. Claire leads the operational management of AgZero+.
Job Titles:
- Research Scientist at Rothamsted Research
Gonzalo is a research scientist at Rothamsted Research. His research focuses on rangeland ecology and grazing using remote sensing. He is undertaking measures of grass productivity from the Rowden Experiment to validate the models of grass yield.
John is a spatial ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology with 15 years' research experience. He is co-leading a team of remote sensors, spatial modellers, statisticians, ecotoxicologists and data scientists to deliver the national digital farmland observatory for AgZero+.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator Rothamsted
Jon is a plant ecologist at Rothamsted Research, working in the field of sustainable weed management and the design of cropping systems and landscapes to reconcile crop production with biodiversity and ecosystem services. He is managing Rothamsted Research's contribution to AgZero+.
Sam is a behavioural ecologist at Rothamsted Research. She is leading a team of technicians and researchers to implement the farm-scale sampling protocols on AgZero+. The team will also support the development of image recognition monitoring tools, including field testing apps.
Tom develops and trials new technologies to support the monitoring of the environment on farmland, by farmers.
Vicky leads the Hydrological Processes and Extremes group at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. She is a modeller with a background in applied mathematics and is synthesising the data collected to define pathways for achieving net zero+ farming systems.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Principal Investigator UKCEH
James is an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology with more than 30 years' research experience on spatial population ecology and dispersal, and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in natural and agricultural landscapes. He is deputy PI on the UKCEH team for AgZero+.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator NCEO at UCL
- Professor of Remote Sensing at UCL Geography
Mat is Professor of Remote Sensing at UCL Geography and will be coordinating the NCEO contribution to AgZero+, by developing new satellite-derived tools for crop monitoring and yield forecasting at national scales.
Niall leads the Plant-Soil Interactions Group at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. He is overseeing the Living Farm Laboratories comprising a network of net zero+ farming systems. On these commercial farms AgZero+ is undertaking integrated monitoring of GHGs in combination with observations of multiple agronomic and environmental outcomes.
Nicola leads the Sea and Society team at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and is an internationally established expert in the assessment and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. For AgZero+ she is leading research to understand the social and economic challenges to the uptake of net zero+ farming systems.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator UKCEH
Richard is the science lead for biodiversity research at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. He is an agroecologist with 30 years' experience of working with the farming industry to develop sustainable farming systems. Richard is the lead Principal Investigator for AgZero+ and leads the UKCEH team.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Sustainability at Rothamsted Research
Simon is Professor of Sustainability at Rothamsted Research. His main focus is on the interaction between people and nature. He will co-ordinate a team undertaking the citizen science component of the UK digital farmland observatory and landscape metrics for AgZero+.
Rod is a Software Engineer in the UKCEH Environmental Data Science Group. For AgZero+ he is managing the development of pipelines and workflows for sensor data capture and quality control, and the specification of a digital twin.