Helen Watson

Publications

The following Publications have not yet been migrated to the James Hutton Institute's Pure service and relate to the research outputs from the two legacy organisations: The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and The Scottish Crop Research Institute.

Journals

• Dick, J.; Andrews, C.; Beaumont, D.A.; Benham, S.; Brooks, D.R.; Corbett, S.; Lloyd, D.; McMillan, S.; Monteith, D.T.; Pilgrim, E.S.; Rose, R.; Scott, A.; Scott, T.; Smith, R.I.; Taylor, C.; Taylor, M.; Turner, A.; Watson, H. (2011) A comparison of ecosystem services delivered by 11 long-term monitoring sites in the UK environmental change network., Environmetrics, 22, 639-648.
• Vinten, A.J.A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Thomas, N.; Potts, J.M.; Avery, L.M.; Langan, S.J.; Watson, H.; Cook, Y.; Taylor, C.; Abel, C.; Reid, E.; Singh, B.K. (2011) Comparison of microbial community assays for the assessment of stream biofilm ecology., Journal of Microbiological Methods, 85, 190-198.
• Morecroft, M.D.; Bealey, C.E.; Beaumont, D.A.; Benham, S.; Brooks, D.R.; Burt, T.P.; Critchley, C.N.R.; Dick, J.; Littlewood, N.A.; Monteith, D.T.; Scott, W.A.; Smith, R.I.; Walmesley, C.; Watson, H. (2009) The UK Environmental Change Network: Emerging trends in the composition of plantand animal communities and the physical environment., Biological Conservation, 142, 2814-2832.
• Cooper, R.; Thoss, V.; Watson, H. (2007) Factors influencing the release of dissolved organic carbon and dissolved forms of nitrogen from a small upland headwater during autumn runoff events., Hydrological Processes, 21, 622-633.

Technical / contract reports

• Dawson, J.J.C.; Delbos, E.; Hough, R.L.; Lumsdon, D.; Mayes, R.; Watson, H. (2011) Impacts of volcanic ash originating from the April 2010 eruption in Eyjafjallajokull (Iceland) on the natural resources of Scotland., Macaulay Land Use Research Institute website.
• Vinten, A.J.A.; Abel, C.; Watson, H.; Taylor, A. (2009) Lunan monitored priority catchment project., Annual Report 2008.

Conference papers

• Watson, H.A.; Delbos, E.M.; Dawson, J.J.C.; Monteith, D. (2011) Volcanic ash in the UK: Evidence from Environmental Change Network sites., Presented at the 2nd International Network of Environmental Forensics Conference on Advances in Environmental Forensics at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 25-27 July 2011.
• Vinten, A.J.A.; Stutter, M.I.; Potts, J.; Watson, H.; Abel, C.; Taylor, C.; Cook, Y. (2010) Assessment of catchment scale efficacy of diffuse pollution mitigation using turbidity probes: a cost-effective approach to monitoring in priority catchments?, Joint SAC/SEPA Biennial Conference 2010, Climate, Water and Soil: Science: Policy and Practice, Edinburgh, 31 March – 1 April 2010.
• Stutter, M.I.; Lumsdon, D.G.; Futter, M.N.; Watson, H. (2009) Dissolved organic carbon release from UK organic soils in response to fourteen years of environmental change., In: Predicting the Future for Highly Organic Soils, British Society of Soil Science, Spring Conference, Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 5-7 May 2009.
• Vinten, A.J.A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Singh, B.K.; Langan, S.J.; Watson, H.; Cook, Y.; Taylor, C.; Abel, C.; Thomas, N.; Reid, E. (2007) Assessing the potential of stream microbial biofilm community analysis to identify impacts of agricultural pollution on water quality., 11th International Conference on Diffuse Pollution and the 1st Joint Meeting of the IWA Diffuse Pollution and Urban Drainage Specialist Groups, Belo Horizonte-MG, 26-31 August 2007.
• Stutter, M.; Deeks, L.; Billet, M.F.; Bengough, A.G.; Zhang, X.; Young, I.M.; Crawford, J.W.; Watson, H.; Edwards, A. (2002) Solute transport through natural upland soils., Biogeomon 2002, 4th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behaviour, Reading, August 2002.

Conference posters / abstracts

• Addy, S.; Cooksley, S.L.; Watson, H.; Johnston, L.; Sime, I. (2011) A fluvial audit of a regulated Highland river important for freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) conservation., Advances in River Science Workshop, Swansea, 18-21 April 2011. (Poster)
• Stutter, M.I.; Watson, H.; Cook, Y.; Marshall, K.; Langan, S.J. (2011) The Tarland catchment initiative community website., Catchment Science 2011, Catchment Scale Research and Evaluation for Agriculture and Water Quality, Dublin, Ireland, 14-16 September 2011.
• Vinten, A.J.A.; Blackstock, K.L.; Stutter, M.I.; Watson, A.; Coull, M.C. (2009) Lunan monitored priority catchment., Knowledge Scotland KTE Event, SEPA, Stirling, 29 May 2009.
• Glenk, K.; Black, H.I.J.; Towers, W.; Watson, C. (2008) Ecosystem services or soil functions? A closer look at the interface between natural and social sciences., Eurosoil 2008, Soil-Society-Environment. Session: Society’s Demands for and Perception of Soil Conservation. Conference Proceedings, Vienna, Austria, 25-29 August 2008.
• Langan, S.J.; Vinten, A.; Crooks, B.; Sinclair, A.; Watson, H. (2007) Monitoring of water quality for evidence based policy., Making Scotland’s Rural Environment More Sustainable, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 25 June 2007.
• Stutter, M.I.; Billett, M.F.; Deeks, L.K.; Bengough, A.G.; Zhang, X.; Young, I.M.; Crawford, J.W.; Watson, H.; Edwards, A.C. (2002) Scale dependency and solute transport in soils from temperate upland catchments., Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of Soil Science, Bangkok, Thailand, 14-21 August, 2002. Volume 1, Paper 834, p80.
• Deeks, L.K.; Zhang, X.; Bengough, A.G.; Stutter, M.I.; Watson, H.; Young, I.M.; Crawford, J.W.; Chessell, J.M.; Edwards, A.C.; Billett, M.F. (2002) Measurement and simulation of solute transport in structured soil integrated over pore and core scales., Proceedings of the World Congress of Soil Science, 17th, Bangkok, Thailand, 14-21 August, 2002. Volume 1, Paper 1258, p11.
• Edwards, A.C.; Watson, H. and Cook, Y. (2002) Contrasting the pathways and delivery mechanisms of nitrogen, phosphorus and coliforms to an agriculturally situated first order stream., 9th International Conference on River Basin Management. Abstract. Unpublished.