Reader Contact details Email: steven.hancock@ed.ac.uk Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer About Steve Steve is the Director of the NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility, a ‘lending library’ of advanced spectroscopic instruments managed by the National Centre for Earth Observation. His research concentrates on developing methods to measure vegetation structure with remote sensing instruments and using those measurements to better understand climate, weather and ecological processes. This article was published on Monday 15 December 2025