Meet our Hydro-JULES Core Development Team Members:
Prof Simon Dadson
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Simon is the Hydro-JULES Programme Leader at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Professor of Hydrology at the University of Oxford
Dr Doug Clark
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Doug is currently managing the science in several major projects for NERC and the EU
Dr Nick Reynard
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Environmental impact modelling, with a focus on the development of continuous flow simulation approaches for river flow modelling
Dr Andrew Hughes
British Geological Survey
Andrew is Principal Groundwater Modeller at the British Geological Survey
Jamie Hannaford
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Jamie leads the Hydrological Status and Reporting Group at UK CEH
Dr Rich Ellis
Rich is a model integration scientist. Creating a modular modelling framework for hydrological science.
Prof Bryan Lawrence
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
Bryan is the Director of Models and Data at the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Professor of Weather and Climate Computing at the University of Reading and the Director of the STFC Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Victoria Barlow
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Victoria works alongside Simon to ensure that the organisation, management and delivery of Hydro-JULES is executed in the best possible way for the Hydro-JULES community and stakeholders.
Dr Alberto Martinez-de la Torre
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Alberto is a land surface modeller at UK CEH, focussing on the JULES LSM development and its use as a research tool for several national and international projects. Specifically under Hydro-JULES, he is working on the evaluation framework and...
Dr Steven Wells
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Steven is a mathematical modeller in the Hydrological Modelling and Forecasting group at UK CEH. His work on Hydro-JULES is in collaboration with NCAS, developing new algorithms to estimate hydrometeor properties using dual-polarisation radar data...
Dr Ponnambalam Rameshwaran
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Ramesh's research work focuses on river hydraulics, hydraulic and hydrological modelling and agro-hydrology. His specialistm includes developing and applying more practical and refined 2D and 3D numerical models based on...
Dr Toby Marthews
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Toby Marthews is a terrestrial ecologist and hydrologist at UKCEH Wallingford. He is a task leader for the Hydro-JULES training task and heavily involved in improving the river hydrology of the JULES and other Hydro-JULES models.
Dr Ali Rudd
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Ali's main research interest is hydrological modelling and analysis using continuous simulation rainfall-runoff models. Within Hydro-JULES she is part of the team investigating the role of the spatial pattern of precipitation forcing on...
Dr Jonathan Evans
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Jonathan Evans leads work on validating and improving soil moisture spatial products against in situ observations, with particular specialist knowledge of observations such as the COSMOS-UK network. He is very interested in applying...
Dr Chris Jackson
The British Geological Survey
Dr Chris Jackson is a Principal Groundwater Modeller, and leads the Groundwater, Environmental Change & Impact Team at BGS Keyworth.
Dr John Wallbank
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
John comes from a theoretical physics background and is currently in UK CEH's Hydrological Forecasting group which includes work on the Grid-to-Grid (G2G) hydrological model. Under the Hydro-JULES project he has been developing a...
Dr Katie Facer-Childs
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Katie is a hydrologist who joined UKCEH in 2016. Her research focusses on seasonal streamflow forecasting using catchment models, and her work on the Hydro-JULES project has been exploring methods of improving streamflow forecasting using atmospheric...
Ewan Pinnington
University of Reading
Ewan is based at the University of Reading and is developing data assimilation techniques to combine satellite and in-situ observations with the JULES land surface model in order to optimise parameter values and improve model predictions.
Dr Majdi Mansour
The British Geological Survey
Majdi is a groundwater modeller based at BGS Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. His expertise focuses on the development and application of numerical models in the saturated and unsaturated medium for water resources management and protection.
Matthew Fry
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Matt produces, manages and delivers hydrological datasets, including rainfall, river flow and soil moisture and leads data elements of the NERC Drought and Water Scarcity Programme. Within Hydro-JULES he leads tasks to collate...