Reyes works for Greenpeace's Research Labratories and is normally based in Exeter but she's just begun a year long project working with our office in India. Reyes already wrote for the blog relay last month but we convinced her to write a monthly update about her adventures in India and here's her first update.

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Here at the Greenpeace Research Laboratories, based at the University of Exeter, we provide scientific advice and analytical support to Greenpeace offices worldwide, across a range of disciplines.

I've just returned from a sampling field-trip to agricultural areas in Punjab, India. It has been an amazing and inspiring experience: visiting farms to gather data about farming practices and analysing groundwater wells affected by agrochemical pollution to monitor drinking water quality. Greenpeace India will use this study to highlight the need to shift to ecological farming as our safest solution to the food crisis and climate change.