Roxane brings expertise around peatland ecology and monitoring, as well as on-the-ground datasets, knowledge and history of the Cross Lochs Golden site and the wider Flow Country area in northern Scotland. In the MOTHERSHIP project, she mainly contributes to WP1, 2 and 3 but also provides a platform for knowledge sharing with wider stakeholders through the Flow Country Research Conferences that she organises every 18 months, for which the Mothership has already contributed twice (2022, 2024).

Rebekka Artz is Research Lead for Restoration and Adaptive Management at the James Hutton Institute. Her role in MOTHERSHIP is overall co-ordination of the project and she is the Hutton lead PI, contributing primarily to WPs 1,2 and 5.

Andy Baird is Professor of Wetland Science at the University of Leeds. He works on Work Package 3 and oversees using the DigiBog ecosystem model to simulate past and future peatland development across a range of northwest European sites. DigiBog is also being used to help set up JULES_Peat so that it can represent lateral exchanges of water between peatlands and their surrounding landscapes.

Mhairi Coyle is an environmental physicist working on measuring the land-atmosphere exchange of trace-gases and aerosols. They work at The James Hutton Institute managing the SCO2FLUX network of greenhouse gas exchange monitoring sites (including the MOTHERSHIP sites) and investigating greenhouse gas dynamic on peat while studying ozone deposition and other gases with The UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. 

Gillian Donaldson-Selby is a peatland hydrologist in the Peatlands Team at The James Hutton institute, Aberdeen. Her role in MOTHERSHIP is that of science communicator, including web site development, press releases and social media.

Angela Gallego-Sala. Professor of Biogeochemistry at the University of Exeter, working on peatlands across different biomes, from the Arctic to the tropics, and in MOTHERSHIP, I lead WP6.

Dr Alessandro Gimona is a Spatial ecologist and senior scientist at the James Hutton Institute. He leads WP2 work on relating and integrating  Earth Observation results with ground measurements.

Dr Garry Hayman (UKCEH) is a JULES land surface modeller, with research interests in the representation and evaluation of processes that link the land surface to the composition of the atmosphere, such as the emissions of trace gases from the land surface or their removal from the atmosphere. Garry is the UKCEH lead for the MotherShip project, contributing to work packages 4, 5 and 6.

David Large is the Abbott Professor of Geoscience at the University of Nottingham.  He is responsible for the InSAR component in workpackage 3 and integration of this component with other remote sensing in workpackage 2.

Ross Morrison’s science goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land use, particularly from carbon dense peatlands. He leads WP1 of MOTHERSHIP, with accountability for flux tower datasets and analysis.

Jackie Potts is a senior statistician with Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS), which is formally part of the James Hutton Institute. She provides statistical support across MOTHERSHIP but mainly focussed on work packages 1 and 2.

Mike Rivington is an integration scientist at the James Hutton Institute, researching climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in the context of land use, particularly agriculture, and Natural Capital. His role in MOTHERSHIP is to assess future climate change impacts on Peatlands and use scenarios to consider management options for Peatland resilience.

Ciaran Robb is geospatial researcher at The James Hutton institute. His role in the project is to integrate remotely sensed and field data to predict water table depth at scale for peatland condition monitoring.

Catherine Smart is a research assistant in the Peatlands group at James Hutton institute, Aberdeen. Her role in MOTHERSHIP is helping with arrangements for meetings and travel for UK partners/colleagues to attend the project meetings and workshops. She provides field technical support for Cairngorms sites EC equipment maintenance, calibration and data management and perform preliminary data analysis on the WTD data from MOTHERSHIP sites.  

Noah Smith is a Land surface modeller at the University of Exeter. Previously during his PhD he has worked on modelling thermokarst in permafrost peatlands in the land surface model JULES. As part of MOTHERSHIP he will be developing JULES-Peat to better represent peatlands, as well as jointly coordinating the ISIMIP peat sector and organising workshops for cross-model knowledge sharing.

Dr Brenda D’Acunha (UKCEH) is a peatland biometeorologist interested in quantifying the exchange of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O), water and energy between the land and the atmosphere, and in studying how these fluxes and their drivers change with different landscapes and management practices.

Dr Linda Toča works in PeatMothership WP2. She analyses remotely sensed SAR and optical data, as well as ground collected water table depth measurements for peatland condition monitoring and modelling purposes.

Dylan Young is an Ecosystem modeller, developing and using DigiBog to simulate past peat accumulation and the future impact of land use and climate on the carbon stores of a range of northwest European peatland types.