Desktop research

Desk data search for potential development sites. For an environmental consultancy, 2023.

Screening planning applications and mapping delivery of priority habitat creation, restoration, management or destruction resulting from the local planning process. For a consultancy, 2021.

Sample design and data collation in preparation for a large-scale survey evaluating of the success of Higher Level Stewardship for Lowland Heathland.  For Natural England, 2015-2016.

Survey of grassland restoration and creation sites in southern England, For Natural England, 2010.

Desktop survey and conservation assessment of the extent and conservation status of Irish Dry Heaths and Juniperus communis Formations using site files, aerial photographs and a wide range of GIS datasets. For Ireland’s Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government/National Parks and Wildlife Service, 2007.

Consultation with all English Local Records Centres; investigating and reporting on financial, technical and non-technical issues facing record centres. For English Nature/National Biodiversity Network, 2007.

Desktop research and case-study site survey of the biodiversity and conservation of traditional orchards in England. For English Nature, 2004.

Evaluation of the Vascular Plant Database and the NBN Gateway operation with the Botanical Society of the British Isles and major stakeholders. For the National Biodiversity Network, 2002–2003.

Local authority consultation and reporting on non-development damage to local wildlife sites, including recommendations for provision of resources and solutions to damage. For Defra, 2001–2002.

Field survey, controlled field and greenhouse experiments, air quality monitoring, data analysis, reporting and conference presentation for PhD studying the effects of management and atmospheric ammonia concentrations on calcareous grasslands in the Cotswolds. At the University of the West of England, 1996–2000.