The big picture: using wildflower strips for pest control
They may be beautiful, but these strips prove pretty deadly for every farmer's mortal enemy: aphids
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Prof. Paul Harris
Farming Footprints and Adaptations Team Leader
Farming Footprints and Adaptations
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Email
paul.harris@rothamsted.ac.uk
Location
North Wyke, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2SB
Tel
+44 (0) 1837 512 335
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Biography
Harry has research interests in the development and application of data-driven, process-based and hybrid models for spatio-temporal agroecological processes in terms of sustainable and resilience agriculture - with specialism in varying parameter algorithms, together with associated R packages (GWModel; stgam). He has been the project lead for the North Wyke Farm Platform NBRI since 2017. To date (March 2025), the farm platform has openly released over 100M measurements and deployed over 400 environmental sensors. More recently, the platform has been used to demonstrate farm-scale Digital Twins for decision support, where this work is on-going with plenty of scope for future projects. He connects with numerous universities using the platform’s rich and complex datasets for student training (BSc, MSc, PhD) in AI applied to agriculture.
Awards
- 2009 - PhD Geography (Non-stationary Geostatistics), University of Newcastle, UK
- 1996 - MSc Environmental Geostatistics, University of Leeds, UK
- 1989 - BSc (Joint Hons.) Mathematics & Statistics, University of London (Goldsmiths), UK