Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Faculty Member, Biogeochemistry

Senior Scientist

About

I received my B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (1992); PhD in Soil and Water Science from the University of California, Riverside (2000) and began work at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford (2001). I became a permanent staff member after 2 years and recently moved the the headquarters site at Wallingford in 2008.

My research aims to understand and mitigate the hazards posed by human activity to the environment and human health, with a particular focus on pollution (e.g., pharmaceuticals, antibiotic resistance, pandemic drug usage).

I am coordinating two large projects:

1)  ENVIROCHILD aims to determine the “Environmental Aetiology of Diarrhoeagenic Pathogens in Children in a Developing Country Setting.” Funding is provided by the Environmental and Social Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases (ESEI) initiative which is jointly funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the Living With Environmental Change programme. You can learn more about Envirochild at: http://www.envirochild.org.uk/

2) PREPARE is a UK Natural Environment Research Council knowledge exchange initiative with the overall aim to integrate the information and expertise required to assess the implications of pharmaceutical usage during a major disease outbreak for the environment, and the risk posed to current wastewater infrastructure. The PREPARE Initiative aims to inform policy, regulation and emergency planning to ensure that ecotoxicologic and human health risks associated with pharmaceutical usage under pandemic and epidemic conditions are thoroughly assessed utilising all and currently available knowledge. You can learn more about PREPARE at: http://www.prepare.org.uk/

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