The big picture: using wildflower strips for pest control
They may be beautiful, but these strips prove pretty deadly for every farmer's mortal enemy: aphids
Science
Dr Jane Hawkins
BIOGEOCHEMIST
Net Zero and Resilient Farming
PUBLICATIONS
Email
jane.hawkins@rothamsted.ac.ukLinkedIn
Location
North Wyke, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2SB
Tel
+44 (0) 1837 512 333
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Biography
Jane has a number of key research interests: phosphorus use efficiency; nutrient cycling from soils to water and air, including losses of inorganic and organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus; diffuse pollution mitigation methods, such as buffer strips and reactive materials for pollutant control. She also has a variety of skills: the design and construction of hydrologically isolated experimental sites; the design and construction of a soil incubation system (DENIS system) for measuring gas fluxes; the use of high resolution monitoring techniques (in-situ sensors) for measuring hydrology and water quality; wet chemistry and gas analysis techniques, including segmented flow/flow injection, gas chromatography, HPLC; and processing large environmental data sets using MATLAB and R.
Science Projects
- Impacts of different vegetation in riparian buffer strips on hydrology and water quality
Awards
- 2005 - PhD in Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Devon, UK
- 1996 - Bachelor (Hons) of Cognitive Psychology and Neurobiology, Open University, Buckinghamshire, UK
- 1984 - Diploma in Agriculture, Writtle Agricultural College, Essex, UK
Measures of Esteem
- Guest Editor for European Journal of Soil Science
- Student Supervision Co-Supervisor PhD (1) Mentor PhD (3) Supervisor MSc (5)
- Reviewer of proposals for BBSRC SARIC
- Reviewer of proposals for BARD -The US-Israel Agricultural Research & Development Fund
- External PhD Examiner: University of Galway (Eire) & Teagasc (Eire)
- Project Steering Group for 'Effectiveness of non- fertilized buffer strips in the Netherlands', 2012 ALTERRA, Wageningen-UR, Report 2290)
- Member of North Wyke Farm Platform Management Committee