Dr. Jack Hannam is the current President of the British Society of Soil Science, and a soil scientist specializing in soil data, digital soil mapping, and soil health. Her research focuses on digital soil mapping, applications of conservation agriculture to improve soil health, developing decision support tools for planning soil and landscape decisions and the application of application of national and local scale soil data for policy and business applications. Dr. Hannam leads the LandIS team at Cranfield University, who are responsible for the national soil data for England and Wales. She is also vice chair of the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) Division 1: Soil in Space and Time.