NSRI
Dr Timothy Farewell
November 2010
Profile – Dr Timothy Farewell
Dr Timothy Farewell is an entrepreneurial 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 government and the management and development of LandIS, the soil
and land information system for England and Wales.
Tim provides guidance to a range of clients from the private, public and charitable sectors
on the optimal 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.
Tim 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, focused on the predictive mapping of soil parent
material using models incorporating both qualitative expert knowledge and quantitative
data sampling.
Tim manages the LandIS Information Services team, providing meaningful and interpreted Dr Timothy Farewell
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.
Tim’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 mapping of geohazards and natural perils in relation to a
changing climate.
For further information, please contact Dr Tim Farewell, t.s.farewell@cranfield.ac.uk
Worksop – Soil Series