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Hydro-JULES Core Project Team

UK CEH - Victoria Barlow, Dr Doug Clark, Prof Simon Dadson, Ellie Pinches, Marcia Spencer
British Geological Survey - Dr Andrew Hughes
National Centre for Atmospheric Science - Prof Bryan Lawrence
National Centre for Earth Observation - Prof. Sarah Dance

Project Team

Hydro-JULES Programme Leader

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. Douglas Clark

Land surface modeller

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Doug is currently managing the science in several major projects for NERC and the EU

Dr. Nick Reynard

Environmental impact modelling

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

Principal Groundwater Modeller

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. Richard Ellis

Model integration scientist

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Rich is a model integration scientist. Creating a modular modelling framework for hydrological science.

Prof. Bryan Lawrence

Professor of Weather and Climate Computing

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

Project Manager

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 Martines-de la Torre

Land surface modeller

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.

Dr. Steven Wells

Mathematical modeller

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Steven is a mathematical modeller in the Hydrological Modelling and Forecasting group at UK CEH.

Dr. Ponnambalam Rameshwaran

Research Scientist

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Ramesh's research work focuses on river hydraulics, hydraulic and hydrological modelling and agro-hydrology.

Dr. Toby Marthews

Land Surface Science Researcher

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Toby Marthews is a terrestrial ecologist and hydrologist at UKCEH Wallingford.

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.

Dr. Chris Jackson

Principal Groundwater Modeller

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.

Dr. Katie Facer-Childs

Hydrologist

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Katie is a hydrologist who joined UKCEH in 2016. Her research focusses on seasonal streamflow forecasting using catchment models.

Ewan Pinnington

Developing data assimilation techniques

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

Groundwater modeller

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

Environmental Informatics Manager

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.

Steering Committee

The project is overseen by a Steering Committee comprising of individuals from:

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
The British Geological Survey
The National Centre for Earth Observation

Hydro-JULES Steering Committee

Prof. Simon Dadson

Hydro-JULES Programme Leader

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Simon Dadson is Hydro-JULES Programme Leader at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Professor of Hydrology at the University of Oxford

Victoria Barlow

Project Manager

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. As Project Manager, 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. Douglas Clark

Land surface modeller

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Dr Douglas Clark (Lead WP1 Hydro-JULES Community Modelling Framework).