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The most pressing societal challenges of the first half of the 21st century, including climate change, the biodiversity crisis and building a restorative economy, are systems challenges. To solve them requires understanding and quantification of how key systems respond to both global change and local responses. We are therefore developing tools for efficient computation at scale, estimation of large scale and systems model parameters, and the analysis of multiple models to test understanding and enable proper quantification of uncertainty.
đ A Central Hub for Water Innovation Launched under the theme âWater for Change: Connecting Scotlandâs Water Community for Science-Policy Dialogue,â the WWD digital hub served as a central platform to showcase Scotlandâs leadership in sustainable water governance, emphasising waterâs critical role as a catalyst for environmental, social, and policy transformation. Over the past seven years, with strong support from the Scottish Government, the HNICâs World Water Day events have built a strong tradition of fostering evidence-based decision-making. However, 2025 marks a pivotal shift, moving
The aim was to produce an updated Scottish genetic diversity scorecard for ongoing monitoring of biodiversity within terrestrial species and to expand its relevance to marine species to support strategies to prevent and reverse biodiversity decline.
Potato is the second most important food crop in the UK, and the underpinning seed potato industry contributes >ÂŁ1 billion to Scotlandâs economy. Aphid-vectored viruses threaten potato harvests because infected crops are downgraded or destroyed. Historically, Scotland has maintained low virus levels in potato crops, but this is changing due to the warming climate, new virus variants, loss of crop protection products, and aphid resistance to insecticides. New practices and efficient dissemination are needed urgently to protect the potato sector and prevent virus infections becoming more severe
Peter is a Research Leader in the Information and Computational Sciences department at the James Hutton Institute. He is a plant disease epidemiologist with 15 yearsâ research experience in epidemiological modelling, with a focus on developing decision support tools for agriculture. Area of Strategic Research Programme: Lead of Topic Line A1 (Plant Disease), institute Lead of Theme A (Plant & Animal Disease), Lead PI for project JHI-A1-1 âEpidemiology of key pests and diseases.â
Eugene is a research leader in virology in the Molecular plant pathology group within the Cell and Molecular Sciences department of JHI. His research focuses on virus-host interactions in plants and invertebrates and includes the discovery of novel viruses, analysis of virus population structure and diversity, host antiviral defenses and viral counter-defenses, the impact of viruses on the host physiology, and the wider effect of microbes on agricultural and natural ecosystems. Areas of Strategic Research Programme Theme A: plant and animal health Topic line: plant disease. RESAS project JHI
Poster by Eugene Ryabov, Graham Cowan and Ingo Hein about 'Understanding the genetic mechanisms of resistance to Potato leafroll virus in potato'