Mrs Pat Bellamy
Principal Research Fellow in Statistics
Location: Building 53, Cranfield campus
E: p.bellamy@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2749
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
- Defra funded project to investigate the differences in change in soil organic carbon estimated from two different national surveys, the National Soil Inventory and the Countryside Survey
- Defra funded project on Soil Carbon: Studies to explore greenhouse gas emissions
- Defra Agricultural GHG inventory research consortia – giving statistical support
Clients
- Defra
- EA
- Natural England
- NERC
- EU Framework VI
Background
Mrs Pat Bellamy, BSc, MSc, graduated in Mathematics and Statistics at London University and subsequently studied for an MSc in Biometry at Reading University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Pat started her career as a statistician at the West of Scotland Agricultural College in Ayr and then moved to the Transport Research Laboratory in Crowthorne. In 1978 she moved to Hydraulics Research in Wallingford where she worked in the coastal engineering group on wave statistics. Between 1985 and 1989 she did several short term contracts for contracting companies and then joined Warren Springs Laboratory in Stevenage. In 1993 Pat joined the National Soils Resources Institute at Cranfield. Since then she has developed skills in spatial and temporal statistics and continually updated her statistical expertise particularly in robust statistics and multivariate analysis. In October 2005 she was promoted to principal research scientist. Pat has given invited lectures to the European Panel on Climate Change in 2006 and to EU scientists in 2008. She was awarded a Visiting Specialist Award to visit the Western Australia Department of Agriculture in 2008 to design a monitoring network for soil pH. Pat has been invited to participate in G-SCAN a global soil carbon network.
