Professional summary

Rebecca is a freshwater field and laboratory technician whose responsibilities include providing field and laboratory support for a range of projects, ensuring equipment is properly maintained. She collects and analyses water and gas samples from lochs/lakes, rivers/burns and streams, processing the resulting data. 

Rebecca ensures compliance with health and safety regulations and assists in the setup and dismantling of equipment, troubleshooting and repairing when necessary. She schedules and incorporates sampling regimes and deadlines and drives to and from sites around the UK.

 

Selected publications

Drewer, J. et al. , (2010), Comparison of greenhouse gas fluxes and nitrogen budgets from an ombotrophic bog in Scotland and a minerotrophic sedge fen in F. European Journal of Soil Science, 61, 640-650, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2389.2010.01267.x/abstract

Kindler, Reimo et al. , (2011), Dissolved carbon leaching from soil is a crucial component of the net ecosystem carbon balance. Global Change Biology, 17, 1167-1185, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02282.x/abstract

Skiba, U. et al. , (2013), Comparison of soil greenhouse gas fluxes from extensive and intensive grazing in a temperate maritime climate. Biogeosciences, 10, 1231-1241, http://www.biogeosciences.net/10/1231/2013/bg-10-1231-2013.pdf

McKenzie R.M. et al. , (2015), The import and export of organic nitrogen species at a Scottish ombrotrophic peatland. 12, 515-554, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-12-515-2015

Holden Joseph et al. , (2018), Water-level dynamics in natural and artificial pools in blanket peatlands. Hydrological Processes, 32, 550-561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.11438

Chapman Pippa J. et al. , (2022), Carbon concentrations in natural and restoration pools in blanket peatlands. Hydrological Processes, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14520

Dean Joshua F. et al. , (2023), Peatland pools are tightly coupled to the contemporary carbon cycle. Global Change Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16999