Dr Timothy Farewell

LandIS Information Services Manager
Location: Bullock Building, Cranfield campus
E: t.s.farewell@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2978
Environmental Science and Terchnology

Current activities

Dr Timothy Farewell is a market focussed environmental scientist who is involved in a diverse range of activities. These include scientific research with a focus on soils, geology and the environment, specific consultancy projects, knowledge transfer to business and the management and development of the national soil and land information system for England and Wales (LandIS).

Dr Farewell provides guidance to an extensive range of clients from the private, public and charitable sectors on the optimum use of spatial soils data to address specific environmental issues. To enable effective decision making by non-soil scientists, he has been leading the development of a number of task-optimised datasets and environmental web applications.

Clients

Government and Public Sector

Defra
Environment Agency
Natural England
East of England Regional Assembly
Local Government
Ministry of Defence
Defence Geographic
Central Science Laboratories
Health and Safety Executive
Various Areas of Natural Beauty (AONB)

Utilities

South West Water
United Utilities
Thames Water
Northumbrian Water
Dee Valley Water
Severn Trent Water
Anglian Water

Consultancies

Faber Maunsell
Entec UK
ADAS
RPS Consulting
ESRI UK

Land, Habitats, Archaeology and Environment

Archaeological Research Services Ltd
Crop Protection Association
Royal Veterinary College
The National Trust
RSPB
UK Climate Impacts Programme
UK and international universities

Financial sector

Numerous insurance and reinsurance companies

Background

Dr Timothy Farewell has a keen desire to employ high level environmental science and geographic information systems (GIS) to answer real questions and meet genuine needs. Dr Farewell graduated from Durham University with first class honours in Geology. He subsequently gained a Master’s degree in Geographical Information Management from Cranfield University. His PhD, also from Cranfield University, focussed on the predictive mapping of soil parent material using models incorporating both qualitative expert knowledge and quantitative data sampling.

Dr Farewell manages the LandIS Information Services Team, providing meaningful and interpreted soil maps and information to an increasingly diverse group of end users through a growing number of channels. The LandIS team is responsible for the much acclaimed Soilscapes Viewer and its more detailed successor The Soils Site Reporter.

Dr Farewell's current research interests include the relationship between the buried infrastructure, archaeological artefacts and soil, ecologically sensitive approaches to development, food security and the enhancement of geohazard and natural perils mapping in relation to a changing climate.

Selected publications

Clark , J. M., Gallego-Sala, A., Allott T.E.H., Chapman S., Farewell T.S., Freeman C., House J., Orr H.G., Prentice I.C., Smith P. (2010) “Assessing the vulnerability of blanket peat to climate change using an ensemble of statistical bioclimatic envelope models”, Climate Research, 45:131-150

Gallego-Sala, A., Clark , J. M., House J., Orr H.G., Prentice I.C., Smith P., Farewell T.S., Chapman S. (2010) “Application of a global bioclimatic envelope model to assess the impact of climate change on the distribution of blanket peatlands in Great Britain”, Climate Research 45:151-162

Jo House, Joanna Clark, Angela Gallego-Sala, Harriet Orr, Jonathan Aylen, Richard Bardgett, Mike Billett, Aletta Bonn Simon Caporn, Steve Chapman, Ben Clutterbuck, Chris Evans, Martin Evans, Tim Farewell, Chris Freeman, Richard Grayson, Jane Hall, Joseph Holden, Julia McMorrow, David Milledge, Dali Nayak, Nick Ostle, Lauren Parry, Colin Prentice, Carly Stevens, Jo Smith, Pete Smith, Elena Vanguelova, Sue Ward, Susan Waldron, Sue White, Fred Worrall, Adrian Yallop (2010) Vulnerability of upland peatland services to climate change. Environment Agency Science Report SC070036/SR in press.

Farewell, T.S. & Farewell, D.M. (2010) "Knowledge-based soil attribute mapping in GIS: corrections and extensions to the Expector method", Transactions In GIS. Volume 14, Issue 2, pages 183–192

Keay, C.A. & Hallett, S.H. & Farewell, T.S. & Rayner, A.P. & Jones, R.J.A. (2009) "Moving the National Soil Database for England and Wales (LandIS) towards INSPIRE Compliance", International Journal Of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 134-155.

Palmer, R.C., Bellamy, P.H., Truckell, I.G., Farewell, T.S. and Cooke, H.J. (2006). Review of accuracy, relevance and value of the BGS Soil Parent Material map and its associated data fields. SSLRC research report No. YE20041E for BGS

Farewell, T.S. (2006) Soils and Sewers – South West Water (Unpublished NSRI research report YE20046V for Faber Maunsell and South West Water)