Nicole is a practicing environmental artist and soil hydrologist at the British Geological Survey. She combines scientific disciplines of soils, ecology and hydrology with art-based research. She has two PhDs, one in soil, plant, water relations and the and the other in creative practice researching the influence of art on water management and policy.  She presently engages with scientific research relating to human relationship with environment, such as disaster risk reduction and climate change. She uses creative practices with the intention of expressing different ways of thinking to understand patterns, relationships, and processes within nature, focusing on the relationship of water and human activities. She combines aerial photography, clay sculpture, embroidery, and audio techniques to generate connections between people and environment, in ways that are intuitive, phenomenological and experiential.