Physical Geography and GIS
Environmental Processes and Change
Professor Heiko Balzter
- Methods for forest monitoring (tree diseases, biomass, deforestation and degradation) from satellites
- Cloud computing methods for processing Earth observation data
- Assessing ecosystem services of landscapes with satellite data
Dr Juan Carlos Berrio
- Palaeoecology of tropical ecosystems
- Environmental changes of the past
- Quaternary Research
Dr Arnoud Boom
- Palaeoclimate Neotropical environments
- Palaeohydrology using Deuterium isotopes
- Palaeoclimate of Southern Africa
Dr Andrew Carr
- Leaf wax lipids as palaeoenvironmental proxies
- African palaeoecology
- Organic matter in desert biomes
- Application of compound-specific stable isotopes
- Luminescence dating
- Landscape change during the Quaternary
Dr Jörg Kaduk
- Impact of climate change on agriculture in Africa
- Interactions between plans growth dynamics and land surface exchange (e.g. water fluxes) and climate
- Response of tropical trees to climate change
- Role of plant resource allocation in the carbon cycle
Dr Mark Powell
- Sediment transport processes in gravel-bed rivers
- In-stream transfer and cycling of sediment-associated nutrients and pollutants
- Dryland river forms and processess
Dr Mick Whelan
- Mathematical modelling of nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in soil and water
- Nitrous oxide emissions from upland pastures
- Long-term effects of land use change and agricultural practices in nutrient transfers from land to water
Forest and Peatlands
Professor Heiko Balzter
- Methods for forest monitoring (tree diseases, biomass, deforestation and degradation) from satellites
- Cloud computing methods for processing Earth observation data
- Assessing ecosystem services of landscapes with satellite data
Dr Kirsten Barrett
- Pan-boreal wildfire recovery dynamics
- Carbon cycle feedbacks from boreal wildfires
- Rapid ecological shifts as a function of wildfire disturbance
Dr Juan Carlos Berrio
- Forest structure and biodiversity
- Phenology and pollination
- Distribution of plant species
Dr Arnoud Boom
- Tropical tree ring stable isotopes
- Peat geochemistry
- Fate of organic matter in tropical forest ecosystems
Dr Jörg Kaduk
- Methane exchange in wetlands - in particular fens
- Impacts of land management on the greenhouse gas exchange of fens
Professor Susan Page
- Impact of fire on tropical peatland ecosystem functions and recovery
- Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands
- Peatland restoration
- Peatland ecosystem services and their valuation
Professor Kevin Tansey
- Mapping vegetation fires at global and regional scales
- Real-time methods to characterise disturbance of tropical peatlands using Earth Observation data
- New methods for the use of Earth Observation data for Agri-tech applications
Dr Mick Whelan
- Dissolved organic carbon
- Tropical peat
GIScience Unit
Dr Stefano De Sabbata
- Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), social media and user-generated content
- Deep learning methods in GIScience
- Digital geographies
- Quantitative urban geography
- Geographic Information Retrieval
- Mobile and location-based services
- Information visualisation
Dr Claire Jarvis
- GIScience
- Storyboards
- The “twitterscape”
- GPS tracking
- Spatial literacy
- Sensory GIS
- Visualisation of networks
- Spatial analysis
- Visualisation (2D & 3D)
- Mediascape
Dr Nicholas Tate
- Surface characterisation and modelling of scale
- Spatial data uncertainty and error
- Pedagogic applications in GIS and data science