麻豆传媒高清版

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Officer in Environmental Science, supervised by Prof Davey Jones and Prof Dave Chadwick. My research interests include soil biogeochemistry, extreme weather events (e.g., heat stress, wildfires), grassland and livestock productivity, and greenhouse gas emissions. I am open to collaborations and establishing new projects.聽

My PhD research was based on the exploring the agronomic and environmental benefits of grazing multispecies 'herbal' leys on lowland sheep production.聽

Supervisors:

Prof Davey Jones & Prof Dave Chadwick

Position: Postdoctoral Research Officer in Environmental Science.

Office:

Environment Centre Wales (2nd Floor) (Ecosystems and Environment Group)

School of Environment and Natural Sciences

麻豆传媒高清版

Deiniol Road

Bangor

Gwynedd

LL57 2UW

Email: e.cooledge@bangor.ac.uk

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• PhD: Exploring the agronomic and environmental effects of herbal leys on lowland sheep production
  2019鈥�2024
• BSc: BSc (Hons) Geography
  2015鈥�2018

Research Interests:

• Soil quality.
• Soil biogeochemistry.
• Extreme weather events (e.g., heat stress).
• Wildfires.
• Herb- and legume-rich multispecies 'herbal' leys.
• Livestock GHG emissions.
• Livestock productivity and health.
• Sustainable agricultural intensification.

Current Research:

I have recently completed my PhD and am currently establishing new projects on soil biogeochemical cycling for my post-doctoral role. Our current focus is exploring how stress events (e.g., extreme temperature, wildfire, salt stress) and bioamendments (e.g., biosolid dervived biochar) affects soil biogeochemistry and microbial activity in a wide range of global soils.聽

I was previously (April 2019-2023) working as a Research Support Technician on the BBSRC-SARIC funded project Restoring soil quality through reintegration of sheep and leys in arable rotations led by the PI Prof Jonathan Leake at Sheffield University.聽

This formed the basis of my PhD project, which aims to investigate livestock greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, soil quality and livestock productivity from lambs grazing multispecies 'herbal' leys in comparison to conventional grass-clover leys. Multispecies leys often contain herbs and legumes, such as chicory (Cichorium intybus), lucerne (Medicago sativa) and ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata), with high concentrations of plant secondary metabolites (PSMs). These PSMs may reduce parasite burden in grazing livestock, bind to proteins in the rumen, alter the rumen microbiome, reduce N excretion and subsequently reduce livestock GHG emissions.

In July 2020, we established a 2-ha split-field experiment at 麻豆传媒高清版's Henfaes Research Centre, North Wales, investigating the agronomic and environmental benefits of a herbal ley vs. a conventional grass-clover ley. So far we have investigated the impact of sward type on soil structure (e.g., soil porosity using X-ray CT, aggregate stability using wet-seiving), sward quality (e.g., macro- and micronutrient content), greenhouse gas emissions (e.g., from urine-patch N₂O emissions), changes in lamb excreta composition (e.g. urine nitrogen content), lamb productivity (e.g. liveweight gain) and lamb health (e.g. gastrointestinal parasite burden, blood urea content).聽

Previous Research:

I have previously worked with Prof Daniel Murphy at the University of Western Australia on the Soils Quality project, funded by the GRDC (Grains Research and Development Corporation) on an Australian national soil quality project. Using radioisotopes (¹⁴C), we investigated microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) of 970 agricultural soils taken from across Western Australia to determine the relationship between soil pH, cations (e.g. Al³⁺), and CUE.

BSc dissertation:

Title: Upland-N₂O emissions: Investigating spatial differences in urine-patch N₂O emissions.

Achieved the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography (SENRGy - now School of Natural Sciences) award for 'Best Undergraduate Project' for the 2018 cohort.

For my undergraduate thesis, I produced an incubation study based on the NERC funded Uplands-N₂O project, led by PI Prof Dave Chadwick. I investigated urine-patch N₂O emissions from artificial sheep urine applied to acid grassland 鈥渋sland鈥� and peat cores taken from the uplands of North Wales to generate a 41-day IPCC upland specific emission factor.聽聽

2024

• Published
  Cooledge, E., Sturrock, C., Atkinson, B., Mooney, S., Brailsford, F., Murphy, D., Leake, J., Chadwick, D. & Jones, D. L., 1 May 2024, In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 365, 108928.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  Cooledge, E., Kendall, N., Leake, J., Chadwick, D. & Jones, D. L., 15 Jun 2024, In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 367, 108991.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  George, P., Hillary, L., Leclerc, S., Cooledge, E., Lemieux, J., Duchaine, C. & Jones, D. L., 1 Aug 2024, In: Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 70, 8, p. 348-357 10 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  Wang, Q., Bauke, S., D枚ring, T., Yin, J., Cooledge, E., Jones, D. L., Chadwick, D., Tietema, A. & Bol, R., 1 Jul 2024, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 109436.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2023

• Published
  Buckingham, S., Topp, C. F. E., Smith, P., Eory, V., Chadwick, D., Baxter, C., Cloy, J. M., Connolly, S., Cooledge, E., Cowan, N. J., Drewer, J., Duffy, C., Fox, N. J., Jebari, A., Jenkins, B., Krol, D. J., Marsden, K., McAuliffe, G. A., Morrison, S. J., O'Flaherty, V., Ramsey, R., Richards, K. G., Roehe, R., Smith, J., Smith, K., Takahashi, T., Thorman, R. E., Williams, J., Wiltshire, J. & Rees, R. M., 1 Jun 2023, In: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. 10, 2, p. 268-280 13 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2022

• Published
  Cooledge, E. C., Chadwick, D. R., Smith, L. M. J., Leake, J. R. & Jones, D. L., Jun 2022, In: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. 9, 2, p. 245-271
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Review article 鈥� peer-review

2021

• Published
  Horn, E. L., Cooledge, E., Jones, D. L., Hoyle, F. C., Brailsford, F. L. & Murphy, D. V., Oct 2021, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 161, 108392.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  Schut, A. G. T., Cooledge, E., Moraine, M., van de Ven, G. W. J., Jones, D. L. & Chadwick, D., Mar 2021, In: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. 8, 1, p. 111-129 18 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2019

• Published
  Jones, D. L., Cooledge, E., Hoyle, F., Griffiths, R. & Murphy, D., Nov 2019, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 138, 107584.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2020

• Peer reviewer

  Mar 2020 鈫�

  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)

2018

• Peer reviewer for Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

  Oct 2018 鈫�

  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)