
Dr Pete Falloon
BSc, MSc, PhD
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Current positions
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
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Research interests
Pete Falloon (FRMetS, FRSA) is an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences. His research interests are in climate-resilient food systems. He is co-lead of the Cabot Institute theme on Food Security.
Pete has over 25 years of experience in modelling environmental systems, particularly the impacts of climate and land use change on agriculture, water, and soils. He is a contributing author to the UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) and a member of the Global Food Security Programme’s Programme Coordination Group board and supported the UK government in the IPCC Working Group 2 approval phase as part of the UK delegation.
He has a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science of the Earth and Atmosphere from the University of Reading, and worked on modelling pesticide fate in riverine systems during an MSc (Research) and part-time lectureship the University of Greenwich. Pete moved to Rothamsted Research in 1996, where he worked on modelling soil, climate and vegetation interactions for 8 years and was awarded a PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2001.
He has written numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on soil carbon dynamics, land use change and the impacts of climate change, and given many invited and offered presentations both in the UK and internationally, and worked for, and led science teams delivering to a wide range of government, industry and research customers.
Pete has also been working at the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services since 2004, is currently the Met Office Science Lead - Food Seciruty, and leads the Met Office's Climate Service for Defra on Food, Farming and Natural Environment for Defra. He is also Sustainability Director at Food Drink Devon, which exists to promote quality, provenance and sustainability in Devon produce. He is also an Honorary Associate at the Walker Institute.
The list of publication outputs only provides those with Bristol affiliation and a few others at present - for a full list see the ResearchGate link below.
Publications
Selected publications
09/08/2024Results of a Survey of UK Farmers on Food System Vulnerability over the Short and Long Term
Sustainability
Bringing it all together: Science and modelling priorities to support international climate policy
Editorial
Frontiers in Environmental Science
Substantial Differences in Crop Yield Sensitivities Between Models Call for Functionality‐Based Model Evaluation
Earth's Future
2022 UK heatwave impacts on agrifood
Frontiers in Environmental Science
Recent publications
20/01/2025A data-driven model for quantifying how maize yields in North-East China respond to summer climate
Environmental Research Communications
Bringing it all together: Science and modelling priorities to support international climate policy
Results of a Survey of UK Farmers on Food System Vulnerability over the Short and Long Term
Sustainability
Substantial Differences in Crop Yield Sensitivities Between Models Call for Functionality‐Based Model Evaluation
Earth's Future
Editorial
Frontiers in Environmental Science