Bridget Emmett is a British ecologist, Professor and Science Area Head for the

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) is a centre for excellence in environmental science across water, land and air. The organisation has a long history of investigating, monitoring and modelling environmental change, and its science ma ...

. She is the President of British Ecological Society from 2024.

Early life and education

Emmett studied plant sciences at the University of Aberdeen. She moved to the University of Exeter as a doctoral researcher, where she studied the impact of harvesting on soil nitrogen transformation.

Research and career

Emmett believes that soils is one of the “most underrated and little understood wonders on our fragile planet,”. Since 2001 Emmett has led the Solis and Land Use Science Area at the

. Her research considers soils, ecology and biogeochemistry. She worked as an advisor to the Government of the United Kingdom, providing insight on soil health. From 2024 Emmett will serve as President of the British Ecological Society. She is one of the nine experts that will advise the British Ecological Society on the future of ecological research.

Awards and honours

* 2015 Elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales * 2016 Marsh Award for Climate Change Research * 2022 Appointed to the Order of the British Empire

Select publications

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References

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