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Dr Miriam Glendell appointed as Director of the Centre of Expertise for Waters
Experienced environmental scientist to lead Scotland’s Centre of Expertise for Waters, guiding research and policy on the nation’s water future.
The James Hutton Institute is delighted to announce that Dr Miriam Glendell has been appointed as the new Director of the Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW).
An environmental scientist with more than a decade of experience working with water, Dr Glendell will take over from Dr Rachel Helliwell as CREW leader at the beginning of December.
Dr Glendell is currently part of the Hutton’s Environmental and Biochemical Sciences Department, where she has worked as a researcher since 2016. Prior to joining the Hutton, she worked at the University of Exeter, where she earned her PhD and spent three years as an associate research fellow.
Dr Glendell’s work focuses on understanding how land management impacts multiple benefits provided by rivers and their basins, including provision of clean water, freshwater biodiversity, healthy soils and carbon storage. She answers these question using a variety of mathematical models to understand availability of clean water at present and in future, based on different land management and climate change scenarios.
Established in 2011, CREW is a Scottish Government-funded partnership which plays a pivotal role in shaping water policy and regulation in Scotland. The partnership focuses on how human activities and climate affect water systems and works to tackle issues such as flooding and water scarcity.
As Director, Dr Glendell will oversee crucial work to deliver expert opinion and objective, robust research which will guide the nation’s water policy. She will also lead on CREW’s strategic direction and aid collaboration with stakeholders, helping to create win–win solutions that benefit both the water environment and wider society.
Dr Glendell said,
“I’m honoured to be appointed to this role, continuing to develop the internationally recognised work of CREW that is seen an exemplar of effective science-policy interaction in the UK and beyond. I’m very much looking forward to working with the inspiring colleagues within the CREW team, in The James Hutton Institute and beyond, building on the outstanding work of my predecessors.”
Scotland’s Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW) delivers the research needed to help protect and improve the water environment and engage with a wide range stakeholder and communities to maximise the impact of its research to society. Funded by the Scottish Government, CREW is a partnership between The James Hutton Institute and Scottish higher education and research institutes, based at the Hutton’s Aberdeen campus.
The James Hutton Institute is Scotland’s pre-eminent interdisciplinary scientific research institute at the forefront of transformative science for the sustainable management of land, crop and nature resources that support thriving rural communities in Scotland and across the globe. It has just under 500 employees, 80 PhD students, and has its main campuses at Aberdeen and Invergowrie, near Dundee. It takes its name from the eminent 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment scientist, James Hutton, innovator and polymath, who transformed our understanding of the Earth with revolutionary ideas of deep time and the endless natural cycles of the earth. www.hutton.ac.uk
