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Sue Benham, BSc
Project Leader, Environmental and Human Sciences DivisionSue joined Forest Research in 1984 working in the chemical analysis laboratory. In 1986 she commenced work on the Open-Top Chamber project investigating the effects of air pollution on trees, followed by the ECOCRAFT project investigating the effects of elevated CO2 on UK forests. In 1988 she obtained a HND in Applied Environmental Analysis and Monitoring, followed by a BSc (Hon’s) Applied Environmental Science in 1994 and a PGC in Biological recording in 2006. In 1997 she took over the Environmental Change Network project based at Alice Holt. The following year she also took on responsibility for Deposition Monitoring as part of the ICP Intensive monitoring of Forests, Level II programme and is a member of the expert panel on deposition. In 2006 she completed the ICP intercalibration courses on visible ozone damage assessment, visible symptom identification, quantification of foliar injury symptoms and sampling. Current roleProject Leader, Environmental and Human Sciences Division - Responsibility for Deposition monitoring within the ICP Level II Program and UK representative ICP
- Divisional Quality Assurance representative
- Joint Divisional Health and Safety officer.
Current programmesEnvironmental Change Network
Project Leader and site manager (Alice Holt): - ICP Level II
- ICP Level I Monitoring ozone on commercial nurseries pilot project.
Affiliations and achievements- Member of the British Ecological Society
- Member of the expert panel on deposition. ICP program for the assessment and monitoring of the effects of air pollution on trees
- Member of the expert panel on ozone ICP program.
Research areas- Climate change
- Biodiversity
- Air pollution
- Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and archaeology
Main recent publicationsMosello, R., Amoriello, T., Benham, S., Clarke, N., Derome, J., Derome, K., Genouw, G., Koenig, N., Orru, A., Tartari, G., Thimonier, A., Ulrich, E. and Lindross, A. (2008). Validation of chemical analyses of atmospheric deposition on forested sites in Europe : 2. DOC concentration as an estimator of organic ion charge. J. Limnol. 67(1): 1-14. Pitman, R., Benham, S. and Poole, J. (In press). A comparison of Ellenberg values from the ground flora in a chronosequence of lowland oak and Corsican pine stands with forest soil properties. Benham. S. (2008). The Environmental Change Network at Alice Holt Research Forest (PDF-517K). Forestry Commission Research Note. Vangulova, E., Barsoum, N., Benham, S., Broadmeadow, M., Nisbet, T., and Pitman, R. (2007). Ten years of intensive environmental monitoring in British forests (PDF-1295K). Forestry Commission Information Note. Crow, P. Benham, S. et al. (2007). Woodland vegetation and its implications for archaeological survey using LiDAR. Forestry. 80 (3) pp 241-252. Pitts, A., Benham, S., Straw, N.A. and Moffat, A.J. (2005). Evaluation of moth-trap data from Alice Holt Forest, Hampshire 1966-2001: possible effects of changing climate on Macrolepidoptera. Entomologist's Gazette 56 237-247. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 2007. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 2006. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 2005. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 2004. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 2003. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 2002.
Houston, T.J, Durrant, D.W, and S.E. Benham, S.E. (2002). Sampling in a variable environment: selection of representative positions of throughfall collectors for volume and chemistry under three tree species in the UK., Forest Ecology and Management. 158, 1-8.
The Science at the heart of Alice Holt Forest. Forestry Commission publication, 2001. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 2001. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Progress report 2000,C.E.H. September 2000. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 2000. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Progress report 1998/99,C.E.H. September 1999. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 1999. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Progress report 1997,C.E.H. October 1998. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 1998. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 1997. The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network Annual Data Digest C.E.H, 1996.
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