Prof. Adie Collins

Prof Adie Collins's research interests broadly encompass the sustainability of agriculture. They specifically include a number of themes: 1) characterising pollutant emissions to water and air; 2) the development and application of pollutant source tracing procedures; 3) understanding cross-sector water pollution at different scales and the development of screening tools for contextualising the role of agriculture in water quality problems; 4) the impacts of agricultural pollution on aquatic ecology; 5) measuring and modelling the efficacy of on-farm interventions for managing agricultural sustainability; and 6) scenario-based evaluation of technically feasible mitigation impacts for policy support. His expertise includes hydro-chemical monitoring at multiple scales, integrating empirical and modelling approaches for scaling up, and pollutant source fingerprinting. Between 2009 2020, Adie was a national PI of the Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) programme. He was also assistant director of the landscape scale Sustainable Intensification Platform (SIP). His UK research council projects include DIVERSe, an UKRI-BBSRC programme for testing the impact of different vegetation treatments in riparian buffers on hydrology and water quality; an UKRI-NERC project developing real-time pesticide risk assessment tools; and the UKRI-BBSRC-funded Institute Strategic Programme Grant (ISPG) at Rothamsted Research, Soil to Nutrition.