Dr. Carole Helfter is an environmental physicist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in Edinburgh, UK. She conducts research into the exchange of greenhouse gases between land, water and the atmosphere in natural and urban environments using micrometeorological techniques in the UK and abroad. She has a special interest in the role played by plants in modulating the exchange of methane in tropical wetlands, and has led research in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, under a succession of projects since 2017.
Dr. Matthew R. Jones is a principal scientist at UKCEH with expertise in atmospheric chemistry, air quality, plant ecology and nitrogen impacts on ecosystems. He has a BSc in Environmental Science from Bangor University (2002), and a PhD on nitrogen pollution impacts on vegetation from Dundee University and UKCEH (2006). His post-doctoral work included working for the US-EPA, Bangor University and UKCEH. Dr. Matthew R. Jones also worked as a CIEEM Ecological Consultant for four years, conducting plant/protected species surveys and environmental impact reports including managing field teams on large and small construction projects. Dr. Matthew now manages large scale research field stations including Auchencorth Moss (UK EMEP Supersite, ICOS, eLTER, ACTRIS and WMO-GAW station), Bush Cabins (AURN/UKEAP site), Whim Moss and Glencorse (automated nitrogen field manipulation system), Easter Bush and Bush Central (field research stations).
Prof. Dr. Caroline J. Nichol received the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K., in 2000, She subsequently worked for the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and Columbia University before taking a position with the University of Edinburgh in 2002. She is currently (tenured) Senior Faculty with the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include field, aircraft, and satellite optical sensing as well as LiDAR, in vegetation canopies.
