Contact Dr Stephen Hallett
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 750111 x2750
- Email: s.hallett@cranfield.ac.uk
- Twitter: @dreamcdt
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallettstephen/
- Blog: http://www.geothread.net/
Areas of expertise
- Applied Informatics
- Carbon, Climate and Risk
- Digital Agriculture
- Energy and the Environment
- Environmental Impacts
- Monitoring & Environmental Informatics
- Natural capital
- Soil
- Soil Resources
- Soil Systems & Land Management
Background
Doctoral thesis:
Hallett, S.H. (1998). The Development and Application Of Spatial Information Systems For Environmental Science. PhD Thesis. Cranfield University, School of Agriculture Food and Environment.
Master's Thesis:
Hallett, S.H. (1988). Mapping the Distribution of Accumulated Temperature for Land Evaluation. MSc. Thesis. Cranfield University, School of Agriculture Food and Environment.
Undergraduate thesis:
Hallett, S.H. (1987). A Study of the Environmental Impact of the Dartington Institute Project Silvanus on the Management of Small Ancient Woodlands. BSc. (Hons) Thesis. Dept. Environmental Science. Plymouth Polytechnic.
Prior to working at Cranfield, Stephen worked in the University of Stirling, Scotland, between the Departments of Environmental Science and Economics.
Current activities
Stephen Hallett has a long-standing expertise conducting research in environmental informatics, Big Data and the application of spatial decision-support systems and GIS to the environmental sciences and risk mitigation, with particular reference to soil resource systems and the natural environment. He has worked on a wide range of public and private-sector projects both in the UK and internationally.
Stephen is Director and Centre Champion of the DREAM Centre for Doctoral Training in big data and environmental risk (http://www.dream-cdt.ac.uk).
Stephen has a responsibility for Cranfield's national Land Information System (LandIS) [Defra SP1608], containing comprehensive soil and related near-earth environmental information for England and Wales (http://www.landis.org.uk).
Stephen is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and is the Course Director for Cranfield's 'Environmental Data Science' MSc, also teaching on Cranfield's MSc in Geographical Information Management. He is the author of a wide range of academic papers and reports and supervises several doctoral studies ranging from infrastructure geohazard modelling to geo-biophysical land systems degradation.
Selected research projects across UK and EU funding agencies include: Satellites for Food Precision Soil Mapping [NERC NE/P008860/1]; FOWARIM (Fostering Water-Agriculture Research and Innovation in Malta) [H2020-TWINN-2 (692162)]; Optimising Big Data to Drive Sustainable Agricultural Intensification - Soil-for-Life [BBSRC BB/M011860/1]; Enhancing nutrient use efficiency from biosolids for a resilient crop production system [NERC NE/M012794/1]; Community Response to Extreme Weather Events (CREW) [EPSRC EP/F036795/1]; Development of a Horticultural Soil Management Information System (SMIS) [AHDB CP107d/3110107425]; Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium [EPSRC EP/I01344X/1]; Irish Soil Information System [European Environmental Protection Agency STRIVE 2007-S-CD-S1]; Ecosystem Services Databank and Visualisation for Terrestrial Informatics [NERC NE/L012774/1]; Farming Truth [European Space Agency ESTEC A0/1- 6124/09/NL/US]; .
Stephen also runs Soil-Net (http://www.soil-net.com) - an environmental educational resource for school students and teachers. He also leads Cranfield's 'World Soil Survey Archive and Catalogue' project (WOSSAC) (http://www.wossac.com) - a unique global environmental archive pertaining to soils and soil resources.
Clients
Over many years, Stephen Hallett has worked with a wide range of clients and research sponsors, including:
- AHDB
- Alexander Forbes Ltd.
- Anglian Water Ltd.
- Atkins Ltd.
- BBSRC
- British Society of Soil Science (BSSS)
- Coastal Partnership East
- Defra
- Environment Agency (EA)
- EPSRC
- ESRC
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Hampshire County Council (HCC)
- Heath Lambert Ltd.
- HTSPE Ltd.
- Innovate UK
- Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission
- Legal and General Ltd.
- NERC
- Network Rail
- Opportunity Peterborough, Peterborough City Council
- Severn Trent Water Ltd.
- Suffolk District Council
- Teagasc, Ireland
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Utilities Ltd.
- Yorkshire Water Ltd.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Ali AS, Hallett SH & Brewer TR (2018) Using vegetation indices for the estimation and production of vegetation cover maps in the Jeffara Plain, Libya, IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology, 12 (2) 23-28.
- Caird SP & Hallett SH (2018) Towards evaluation design for smart city development, Journal of Urban Design, Early online.
- Rumson AG & Hallett SH (2018) Opening up the coast, Ocean and Coastal Management, 160 (June) 133-145.
- Al-bukhari A, Hallett S & Brewer T (2018) A review of potential methods for monitoring rangeland degradation in Libya, Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 8 (13).
- Baillie IC, Bunyavejchewin S, Kaewfoo M, Baker PJ & Hallett SH (2018) Stoichiometry of cationic nutrients in Phaeozems derived from skarn and Acrisols from other parent materials in lowland forests of Thailand, Geoderma, 12 1-9. Dataset/s: 10.1016/j.geodrs.2017.11.002
- Ponce Romero JM, Hallett SH & Jude S (2017) Leveraging big data tools and technologies: addressing the challenges of the water quality sector, Sustainability, 9 (12) Article No. 2160.
- Cui H, Yasaee M, Kalwak G, Pellegrino A, Partridge IK, Hallett SR, Allegri G & Petrinic N (2017) Bridging mechanisms of through-thickness reinforcement in dynamic mode I&II delamination, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 99 (August) 198-207.
- Hallett SH, Sakrabani R, Thompson AJ, Deeks LK & Knox JW (2017) Improving soil and water management for agriculture: insights and innovation from Malta, MCAST Journal of Applied Research and Practice, 1 40-59.
- Hallett SH, Sakrabani R, Keay CA & Hannam JA (2017) Developments in land information systems: examples demonstrating land resource management capabilities and options, Soil Use and Management, 33 (4) 514-529.
- North M, Farewell T, Hallett S & Bartelle A (2017) Monitoring the response of roads and railways to seasonal soil movement with persistent scatterers interferometry over six UK sites, Remote Sensing, 9 (9) Article No. 922.
- Arrouays D, Leenaars JGB, Richer-de-Forges AC, Adhikari K, Ballabio C, Greve M, Grundy M, Guerrero E, Hempel J, Hengl T, Heuvelink G, Batjes N, Carvalho E, Hartemink A, Hewitt A, Hong S-Y, Krasilnikov P, Lagacherie P, Lelyk G, Libohova Z, Lilly A, McBratney A, McKenzie N, Vasquez GM, Mulder VL, Minasny B, Montanarella L, Odeh I, Padarian J, Poggio L, Roudier P, Saby N, Savin I, Searle R, Solbovoy V, Thompson J, Smith S, Sulaeman Y, Vintila R, Rossel RV, Wilson P, Zhang G-L, Swerts M, Oorts K, Karklins A, Feng L, Ibelles Navarro AR, Levin A, Laktionova T, Dell'Acqua M, Suvannang N, Ruam W, Prasad J, Patil N, Husnjak S, Pásztor L, Okx J, Hallet S, Keay C, Farewell T, Lilja H, Juilleret J, Marx S, Takata Y, Kazuyuki Y, Mansuy N, Panagos P, Van Liedekerke M, Skalsky R, Sobocka J, Kobza J, Eftekhari K, Alavipanah SK, Moussadek R, Badraoui M, Da Silva M, Paterson G, da Conceição Gonçalves M, Theocharopoulos S, Yemefack M, Tedou S, Vrscaj B, Grob U, Kozák J, Boruvka L, Dobos E & Taboada M (2017) Soil legacy data rescue via GlobalSoilMap and other international and national initiatives, GeoResJ, 14 1-19.
- Hallett SH & Caird SP (2017) Soil-Net: development and impact of innovative, open, online soil science educational resources, Soil Science, 182 (5) 188-201.
- Rumson A, Hallett SH & Brewer TR (2017) Coastal risk adaptation: the potential role of accessible geospatial Big Data, Marine Policy, 83 (September) 100-110.
- Hallett SH (2017) Smart cities need smart farms, Environmental Scientist, 26 (1) 10-17.
- Pritchard OG, Farewell TS & Hallett SH (2015) Enhanced visualization of the flat landscape of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands, Geology Today, 31 (5) 187-192.
- Pritchard OG, Hallett SH & Farewell TS (2015) Probabilistic soil moisture projections to assess Great Britain's future clay-related subsidence hazard, Climatic Change, 133 (4) 635-650.
- Pritchard OG, Hallett SH & Farewell TS (2015) Soil geohazard mapping for improved asset management of UK local roads, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 15 3151-3180.
- Pritchard OG, Hallett SH & Farewell TS (2014) Soil impacts on UK infrastructure: current and future climate, Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 167 (4) 170-184.
- Pritchard O, Hallett SH & Farewell T (2014) Cracking the problem: Soil impacts on Lincolnshire roads (https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/March-2014/Cracking-up-in-Lincolnshire), Geoscientist, 24 (2) 14-19.
- Caird SP, Hallett SH & Potter S (2013) The Open2-Innova8ion Tool - A Software Tool for Rating Organisational Innovation Performance, Technovation, 33 (10-11) 381-385.
- DeWitte O, Jones A, Spaargaren O, Breuning-Madsen H, Brossard M, Dampha A, Deckers J, Gallali T, Hallett SH, Jones RJA, Kilasara M, Le Roux P, Michéli E, Montanarella L, Thiombiano L, Van Ranst E, Yemefack M & Zougmore R (2013) Harmonisation of the soil map of Africa at the continental scale, Geoderma, 211-212 138-153.
- Pourabdollah A, Leibovici DG, Simms DM, Tempel P, Hallett SH & Jackson MJ (2012) Towards a standard for soil and terrain data exchange: SoTerML, Computers and Geosciences, 45 270-283.
- Keay CA, Hallett SH, Farewell TS, Rayner AP & Jones RJA (2009) Moving the National Soil Database for England and Wales (LandIS) towards INSPIRE Compliance, International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 4 (1) 134-155.
- Hallett SH (2007) Of Earth and Water: Look under your feet, Environmental Education, 86.
- Hallett SH & Bullock P (2007) Why are soils important?, Education in Science -Hatfield-, 221 (Feb 07) 23-23.
- Hallett SH, Bullock P & Baillie I (2006) Towards a World Soil Survey Archive and Catalogue, Soil Use and Management, 22 (2) 227-228.
- Hallett SH, Ozden DM, Keay CA, Koral A, Keskin S & Bradley RI (2003) A land information system for Turkey - a key to the country's sustainable development., Journal of Arid Environments, 54 (3) 513-525.
- Hallett SH, Jones RJA & Keay CA (1996) Environmental Information Systems Developments for Planning Sustainable Land Use, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 10 (1) 47-64.
- Hallett SH & Jones RJA (1993) Compilation of an accumulated temperature database for use in an environmental information system., Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 63 (1-2) 21-34.
Conference Papers
- Hallett JS, Partridge M, James SW, Tiwaria D, Farewell T, Hallett SH & Tatam RP (2017) Soil moisture content measurement using optical fiber long period gratings. In: 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, Jeju, 24-28 April 2017.
- Pritchard OJ, Hallett SH & Farewell SH Soil-related geohazard assessments for maintaining the UK's minor road network. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015 , Vienna, 12 April 2015.
- Azalarib A, Hallett S & Brewer T (2015) Desertification mapping using the MEDALUS methodology in Jeffara Plain**2015 Conference. In: DesertLand II: Conference on Desertification and Land Degradation, 2015, Ghent, 16 June 2015.
- Towers W, Allton K & Hallett S (2014) Education and awareness raising activities of the British Society of Soil Science.. In: 11th European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2014 (EGU), Vienna, 27 April 2014.
- Hallett S (2014) Big Data and Environmental Informatics. In: Science for the Green Economy 2014 (S4GE), Herbert Smith Freehills, London, 14 May 2014.
- Dewitte O, Jones A, Spaargaren O, Breuning-Madsen H, Brossard M, Dampha A, Deckers J, Gallali T, Hallett S, Jones R, Kilasara M, Le Roux P, Michéli E, Montanarella L, Thiombiano L, Van Ranst E, Yemefack M & Zougmore R (2014) A new harmonised soil map of Africa at the continental scale.. In: 11th European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2014 (EGU), Vienna, 27 April 2014.
- Hallett SH & Deeks L (2012) A history of Soil Survey in England and Wales. In: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 15-20 April 2012.
- Scott ABJ & Hallett SH (2011) Open Source GIS for small organisations. In: GISRUK 2011, University of Portsmouth, 27 April 2011.
- Simms DM & Hallett S (2011) Development of a web-based portal for supporting community resilience to extreme weather events.. In: 11th International Disaster and Emergency Resilience : IDER 2011, Florence, 13 April 2011.
- García García V, Perotto-Baldivieso HL & Hallett S A prototype design for a web-GIS support system: The Bolivia Amazon case study.. In: The 4C – Challenge: Communication – Coordination – Cooperation – Capacity Development, Bonn, 12 October 2010.
- Simms DM & Hallett SH (2011) WISP- scenario-based dissemination toolkits; Disseminating the outcomes of CREW. In: Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) Final Conference and General Assembly, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), London, 25 November 2011.
- Hallett SH (2011) Community resilience to extreme weather. In: Emergency Planning for Severe Weather, Central London, 15 October 2011.
- Towers W, Creamer R, Broll G, Darboux F, Duewel O, Hallett SH, Houskova B, Jones A, Lobnik F, Micheli E & Zdruli P (2010) Soil Awareness and Education : Developing a pan European Approach. In: 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Brisbane, Australia.
- Hallett SH & Keay CA (2010) Requirements and use for soil data at the EU level. In: European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN) Annual Congress, Brussels, DG Environment, 21 September 2010.
- Blenkinsop S, Hallett SH, Truckell IG, Fowler & HJ (2010) The CREW project: Towards a toolkit for the use of probabilistic climate change projections.. In: BHS Third International Symposium: Role of Hydrology in Managing Consequences of a Changing Global Environment, Newcastle University, UK, 19 July 2010.
- Hallett SH & Simmons T (2007) The Soil-Net project. In: Association of Universities in the East of England, in association with COVER: Higher Education: Engaging with our Communities , Cambridge, 19 November 2007.
- Hallett SH, Boyce D, Laidoudi G, Mcintosh BS, Rinaudo JD, Courtois N, Imeson A & Holden A (2005) SCAPT: A Strategic Catchment Analysis and Planning Tool.. In: Drought and Water Deficiency: From Research to Policy Making, Cyprus, 12 May 2005.
- Hallett SH, Ozden DM, Keay CA, Colombo BJ, Koral A, Keskin S & Bradley RI (2002) A Land Information System for Turkey ? A Resource for Future Sustainable Development.. In: The Future of the Mediterranean Rural Environment: Prospects for Sustainable Land Use and Management, Menemen, Turkey, 8 May 2002.
Books
- Yasaee M, Mohamed G, Pellegrino A, Petrinic N & Hallett SR (2016) Dynamic mode II delamination in through thickness reinforced composites. In: Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution: Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Springer, p. 91-97.
- Simo I, Constanje R, Fealy R, Hallett SH, Hannam J, Holden N, Jahns G, Jones B, Massey P, Mayr T, McDonald E, Reidy B, Schulte R, Sills P, Spaargaren O, Zawadka J & Creamer RE (2014) Mapping Soils in Ireland. In: GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system, CRC Press.
- (2013) Soil Atlas of Africa (http://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/soil-map-soil-atlas-africa).
- Pena J, Bonet A, Bellot J, Rafael Sanchez J, Eisenhuth D, Hallett SH & Aledo A (2006) Driving Forces of Land-Use Change in a Cultural Landscape of Spain - A preliminary assessment of the human-mediated influences.. In: Simulating Land-Use Change., Springer.
- Dufour MJD, Hallett SH, Jones RJA & Gibbons J (1998) Spatial Information Systems for Environmental Impact Assessment in the UK. In: Land Information Systems: Developments for planning the sustainable use of land resources, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg..
- Hanley N, Hallett SH, Moffatt I, Farley D & Taylor Duncan K (1992) Chapter Eight: Economic Instruments.. In: Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Sixteenth Report: Freshwater Quality., HMSO, p. 140-160.
