Publications

Recent publications are included here for reference and/or download

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2026

G.O. Hughes, A. Abu, R. Sur, A.S. Terry, K. Hill, Agricultural drainflow: Landscape risk mapping to facilitate field-level risk assessments of plant protection products in Great Britain, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 2026; vjag137, https://doi.org/10.1093/inteam/vjag137

Hughes, G.O., Cohen, T.A. (2026). Standardising Environmental Monitoring Data Analysis: Dashboard-Driven Approaches for Water Quality Assessment. Conference poster presented at the Symposium in Pesticide Chemistry 2026, Cremona, Italy, September 2026. GeoSpatial Analytics Ltd. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20537.33120.

Hughes, G.O., Liss, D., James, E.T., Scharmüller, A., Cohen, T.A. (2026). Data Availability and Quality Considerations when Collating and Harmonising EU Environmental Monitoring Data for Regulatory Purposes. Conference poster presented at the SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting, Maastricht, Netherlands, 17–21 May 2026. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22215.05289.

Hughes, G.O., James, E.T., Cohen, T.A. (2026). Inventory and Characterisation of Publicly Available Chemical Monitoring Data Across the EU. Conference poster presented at the SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting, Maastricht, Netherlands, 17–21 May 2026. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12725.44001

2025

Brown, D.M., Hughes, G.O., Starp, M., Bitsch, N., Valles-Ebeling, B., Whitworth, E.H. and Terry, A.S. Imidacloprid in UK surface waters: trends, sources, and pathways. Environ Sci Eur 37, 198 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-025-01236-0

2024

Hughes, G.O., Eatherall, A., Bird, M., Blake, J., Branford, P.R., Gebler, S., Lozano, A., Massey, P.A., Reinken, G., Terry, A.S., Whitworth, E.H. (2024). CropLife Europe Crop Development Database: An open-source, pan-European, harmonized crop development database for use in regulatory pesticide exposure modeling and risk assessment. Integr Environ Assess Manag. 2024 Jul;20(4):1060–1074. doi: 10.1002/ieam.4870. PMID: 38054369.

Hughes, G.O., Eatherall, A., Bird, M., Blake, J., Branford, P. R., Gebler, S., Lozano, A., Massey, P. A., Reinken, G., Terry, A. S., & Whitworth, E. H. (2023). C2D2: An Open-Source, Pan-European, Harmonised Crop Development Database for Use in Regulatory Pesticide Exposure Modelling and Risk Assessment. (Version 2.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8393135

Hughes G.O. (2024). The challenges of creating a pan-European database and open-access dashboard of readily available public chemical environmental monitoring data. Conference poster presented at the SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting, Seville, Spain, 5–9 May 2024. GeoSpatial Analytics Ltd. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11257.43364.

2023

G.O. Hughes and S. G. Anthony. A European Dataset of Artificially Drained Agricultural Areas. SETAC EU, Dublin, May 2023.

G.O. Hughes, A. Eatherall, M. Bird, P.R. Branford, S. Gebler, A. Lozano, P.A. Massey, G. Reinken, E. Whitworth and J. Blake. C2D2: An Open-Source, Pan-European, Harmonised Crop Development Database for Use in Pesticide Exposure Modelling and Risk Assessment. SETAC EU, Dublin, May 2023.

S. Mayer, G.O. Hughes, P. Manson, D. Saltmiras and M. Al Ramahi. On the use of science-based thresholds for the interpretation of public environmental monitoring data: Demonstrating glyphosate (GLY) residues in European surface, ground and drinking water pose no risk to biota, ecosystems or human health. SETAC EU, Dublin, May 2023.

M. Al Ramahi, G.O. Hughes, S. Mayer and A. Terry. Pesticides and their metabolites in European surface and groundwater: Evaluating regulations and approaches to environmental monitoring. SETAC EU, Dublin, May 2023.