Professional summary
Hollie manages diverse observational data, ensuring the successful delivery of datasets from historic and long-term environmental monitoring systems.
Recent research and data management activity includes collection, collation, management, and analysis of historical and current data as part of the FDRI programme, Peat-Cam project, UK-SCAPE project (UK-Flux national network of eddy covariance stations and the COSMOS-UK soil moisture network), and the Hydro-JULES, ASSIST and Net Zero programmes.
Hollie joined UKCEH in 2015 as a Field Technician and worked with some of UKCEH's growing monitoring networks, including COSMOS-UK and what would become UK-Flux. In 2017, Hollie started a new role as a Research Associate: Field Data Technician, ensuring the long-term operation of these networks whilst planning, managing, and implementing new monitoring projects (e.g. a COSMOS network in China).
Whilst coordinating the networks, analysing data, and designing and building new data pipelines, Hollie's role became Researcher: Field Data Technician in 2019. In the Land Surface Science team, Hollie's research interests focussed on the observations of water and carbon fluxes and biometeorology across different ecosystems. Alongside coordination of a Net Zero Capacity Building project to bring technical experts and scientists together from a range of disciplines, Hollie delivered many long-term coordination and management activities for the growing eddy covariance network and managed the large, long-term datasets (Cooper et al., 2024).
From 2023 Hollie built on her research role to start a new position as Hydrological Data Manager in the Water Resources science area, managing and processing a variety of datasets from historical and ongoing monitoring systems and networks. Hollie's expertise in observational data and remote monitoring networks ensures new projects are designed for optimum data management and coordination, to provide crucial scientific knowledge and policy-relevant information. With greater focus on the diverse data in the FDRI programme and UKCEH's integrated infrastructure goals, Hollie became Lead Hydrological Data Manager in 2025.
Key areas of expertise:
- Environmental monitoring networks - sensor expertise, coordination, data management, quality control
- Long-term observational data - collation, processing pipelines, management, accessibility
Cooper Hollie et al. , Meteorology, soil physics, and eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, energy, and water exchange from a distributed network of sites across England and Wales, 2018-2023.