Professional summary
Alice is a field ecologist working in the Catchment to Coast group based at UKCEH Bangor, with a focus on delivering high quality botanical surveys across a wide range of UK habitats for vascular and non-vascular plants. She works primarily on quality assurance for the vegetation recording of long-term national monitoring programmes, including the Welsh Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP), UK Countryside Survey (CS) and Northern Ireland Countryside Survey (NICS). Using their skills in field survey and project management, Alice coordinates and trains field surveyors to record vegetation communities and structure so that any change is accurately captured for the development of effective sustainable land management policies.
They are also involved in designing and conducting botanical surveys for various projects on the impact of air pollution, assessing habitat restoration success and ground-truthing for Earth Observation.
2023-present: Research Associate Field Ecologist, UKCEH Bangor
2021-2023: River Conservation Project Officer, Ribble Rivers Trust
2019-2022: MSc Conservation Management, Edge Hill University
2018-2021: Project Management Assistant, Network Rail
2013-2017: BSc Zoology with Industrial Placement Year, University of Leeds