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Caitlin Ruth Lewis

Science Communication Leader, WG2 co-leader
School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
United Kingdom
Caitlin Lewis (Forest Research, UK) is an early-career researcher working with ICP Forest Level II sites in the UK. She is responsible for the management of seven long-term monitoring sites and processing and analysis of data generated, including wet deposition, soil solution, litterfall, and foliar chemistry. She also manages one of the sites in the UK’s Ecological Change Network, which monitors forest vegetation and invertebrate biodiversity. Alongside her role at Forest Research, she is writing up her PhD thesis, which was funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council through the Scenario Doctoral Training Partnership at the University of Reading, UK. Her PhD research quantified nitrate leaching fluxes from forests in the UK and explored former land use effects on nitrate leaching fluxes, utilizing data collected from a systematic review, the ICP Forests database, and a chronosequence field study of changes in nitrate leaching fluxes following conifer-to-broadleaf forest restoration. Broadly, establishing connections between deposition, management and above and below-ground processes in temperate forest ecosystems is her main area of interest.