Served on secondment in NERC as Associate Director, Digital research, Infrastructure and Data.NERC Digital Environment Champion (https://digitalenvironment.org); Director, DREAM Centre for Doctoral Training in Big Data and Risk Mitigation (http://www.dream-cdt.ac.uk); Cranfield point of contact for the Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA2) Doctoral Training Partnership (http://www.centa.org.uk); Lecturer on Cranfield's MSc in Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing (https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/courses/taught/advanced-gis-and-remote-sensing).Research, design and implementation of Environmental Information System application software supporting national level environmental policy-making in Soil Quality and Protection, Pollution Control and Impact Assessment, geohazard risk modelling, Water Resource and Catchment Management, Soil and Land Management and Environmental Risk Assessment, Land Information Systems.Particular interests in:* Research, design and implementation of Soil/Environmental Risk Information Systems, supporting geohazard-focussed policy and industrial applications in Soil Quality and Protection, Pollution Fate and Behaviour, Control and Impact Assessment, Water Resource and Catchment Management, Soil and Land Management and Environmental Risk* Environmental systems risk and Climate-Change impacts modelling and assessment* Computer programming, GIS/remote sensing, 3D data visualisation, virtual/augmented reality, high-level languages and database management systems* Collection and preparation, structure and management, representation, analysis and presentation of environmental Big Data* Environmental education: Founder of Soils Education resource http://www.soil-net.com. Invited member of European Commission, Joint Research Centre Working Group Soils Education and Awareness