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Ben Clutterbuck

Ben Clutterbuck

Senior Lecturer

School of Animal Rural & Environmental Sciences

Staff Group(s)
Environment

Role

Dr Clutterbuck is involved with teaching and research activities.

Teaching commitments include:

  • Teaching GIS and remote sensing as core subjects
  • Contributions to other areas including geology and fluvial geomorphology

Research activities focus on:

  • The application of geomatics in areas including changes in upland land management and erosion, and assessing alternative techniques for deriving information from remotely sensed data
  • Hydrological monitoring and assessment of erosion in blanket peat following blocking of erosion gullies

Career overview

At Cranfield University Dr Clutterbuck was involved in:

  • Teaching fundamental GIS module to MSc students and providing input to other modules
  • Research assessing the viability of mapping BAP priority habitats from SAR data and developing a semi-automated protocol for mapping land management from aerial photography and satellite imagery

Dr Clutterbuck undertook a PhD examining factors that affect dissolved organic carbon release from upland peat soils.

At Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Dr Clutterbuck has been involved in:

  • A project looking at longer-term changes in water quality and hydrology following gully-blocking in blanket peat.

Research areas

Research interests include:

  • The application of geomatics in areas including changes in upland land management and erosion, and assessing alternative techniques for deriving information from remotely sensed data
  • Hydrological monitoring and assessment of erosion in blanket peat following blocking of erosion gullies

Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil / PhD exist in the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences and further information may be obtained from the NTU Doctoral School.

Sponsors and collaborators

Current and recent research is being conducted with the collaboration, funding and / or support of:

Publications

. Yallop AR, Clutterbuck B, Thacker J, Biogeochemistry, 2011, 111 (1-3), 97-103

. Clutterbuck B & Yallop AR, Science of the Total Environment, 2010, 408 (24), 6179-6191

. Yallop AR, Clutterbuck B, Thacker J, Climate Research, CR Special 24 ‘Climate change and the British Uplands’, 2010, 43-56

Vulnerability of upland peatland services to climate change. House J, Clark C, Gallego-Sala A, Orr H, Aylen J, Bardgett R, Billett M, Bonn A, Caporn S, Chapman S, Clutterbuck B, Evans C, Evans M, Farewell T, Freeman C, Grayson R, Hall J, Holden J, McMorrow J, Milledge D, Nayak D, Ostle N, Parry L, Prentice C, Stevens C, Smith J, Smith P, Vanguelova E, Ward S, Waldron S, White S, Worrall F, Yallop A, Environment Agency Science Report SC070036/SR, 2010

. Yallop AR, Clutterbuck B, Science of the Total Environment, 2009, 407 (12), 3803-3813

. Yallop A, Clutterbuck B, Thacker J in: Bonn A, Allott T, Hubacek K, Stewart J. Drivers of Environmental Change in Uplands, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, 171-185

. Yallop AR, White SM, Clutterbuck B, Aspects of Applied Biology, 2008, 85, 127-32

. Yallop AR, Thacker JI, Thomas G, Stephens M, Clutterbuck B, Brewer T, Sannier CAD, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2006, 43, 1138-1148