I am now retired from university work, but continue to work part-time as the Editor of the academic journal Survey Review and as an associate editor on the History of Cartography project based in the University of Wisconsin.

My main Fellowship topic was on the use of remote sensing to detect and monitor soil salinity in irrigated fields. I subsequently applied the same methods on a study of a large irrigation scheme near Ha'il in Saudi Arabia. This was followed by work developing a geographic information system (GIS) to manage grounds maintenance for a county council. This in turn led on to work with the Environment Agency using remote sensing and GIS to monitor the eutrophic state of inter-tidal areas in the Solent and Thames Estuary, and some related work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). I have been involved in the History of Cartography project at the University of Wisconsin in Madison since 2001. This project, which started in 1981, is producing a multi-volume history of the subject.

The Fellowship gave me the time to think about the role of my discipline and how it could be applied to improve the quality of the environment.