Lab Members
Dr. Richard Grenyer
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M.Sc. / M. Phil. students
Adam Formica
Adam is an M.Phil. student in Geography at Oxford. He's interested in quantifying and mapping biodiversity and the distribution of goods and services we derive from ecosystems to guide conservation planning. His past work includes examining shifts in alpine vegetation in response to climate change and how increasing canopy height and complexity influences carbon cycling in the arctic tundra. [email protected] |
D. Phil / Ph.D. Students
Laila Al Harthy
Laila is an looking at biogeography of plants in remote mountains of Oman. [email protected] |
Claudia Comberti
Claudia is a doctoral student at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on adaptation to climate change in Amazonian Indigenous communities, and the role of ecosystem services and bio-cultural diversity in supporting resilience. This research will explore the impacts of environmental change across Amazonian social-ecological systems, highlighting how the positive adaptation of the communities living within and dependent on the Amazon ecosystem can be best supported. Additionally, the research aims to develop an understanding of the factors involved in supporting the emergence of transformational adaptation amongst indigenous communities. Previously, Claudia has worked with Global Canopy Programme on their Community Forest Monitoring and Amazonia Security Agenda projects, and with Climate Strategies as a researcher; and completed an M.Sc. in Environmental Change & Management at the University of Oxford. [email protected] |
Emma McIntosh
Emma is undertaking a DPhil at the University of Oxford as a recipient of a General Sir John Monash Foundation Scholarship, Australia. While at Oxford she will explore strategic approaches to biodiversity conservation. Systematic conservation planning (SCP) refers to a set of computational techniques used to determine quantifiable biodiversity conservation targets in a cost-efficient manner. To date, it has primarily been used to optimise the allocation of protected areas and has gained popularity with policy makers worldwide. After two decades of application, Emma will review the use of SCP globally and conduct evidence-based evaluations, focusing on the factors which have hampered or aided the success of existing conservation plans. Emma has previously worked as Science Convenor with the Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership, and with the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, Australia. [email protected] |
John Mittermeier
John’s research focuses on the influence of cultural variables in biodiversity conservation. Specifically, he is exploring methods to quantify human preferences and attitudes towards species through the use of big data analytics, culturomics, and natural language processing, and considering how these quantifications can be applied to conservation planning and practice. Prior to joining the lab, John completed an MSc in Systematics, Ecology and Evolution in Robb Brumfield’s lab at Louisiana State University, where he studied avian conservation and biogeography in eastern Indonesia, and an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management here in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford. [email protected] |
Boipelo Tshwene
Boi is a Ph.D. student at the Dept. of Geography and the environment, University of Oxford. Her Research is on the assessment of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and conservation implications focusing on protected areas: case study Chobe National Park, Botswana. Her previous work experience as an environmental management consultant gave her the opportunity to work in diverse research projects across multi disciplines, among others, natural resources management, environmental valuation, environmental impact assessment ,environmental management plans and overall sustainable development considerations and practices in organisations’ operational systems. Most of the consultancy projects undertaken were for UNDP (Botswana). She holds an M.Sc. in Environment and Development from London School of Economics and Political Science. [email protected] |
Post-Docs
Uri Roll
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Past members
M.Sc. / M. Phil. students
M.Sc. / M. Phil. students
Laura Bramley
Laura Bramley is an M.Phil student in Geography and Environment. Her research uses infrasonic acoustic monitoring to examine forest elephant population size and habitat use within protected areas in Ghana. She has previously worked monitoring North Island brown kiwi, with a particular focus on chick dispersal and mortality. Her other interests include climate change and divestment policy, as well as science communication, and she has also contributed freelance writing for the BioFresh blog, covering stories on freshwater biodiversity. [email protected] |
Erin Crockett
Erin is an M.Sc. student in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management keenly interested in spatial conservation planning. His current research explores how much missing data (about species and their distributions) matters for setting priority locations for conservation action. Previously, He worked to develop a mechanistic framework to assess the effects of multiple human activities on ecosystem services. He thoroughly enjoys hiking in the mountains, tennis, and playing jazzy piano._ [email protected] |
Genevieve Hayes
Genevieve is a post-graduate student at Oxford reading for an M.Sc. in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. Her previous work has included assessments of different land management regimes on floral communities, as well as ethnobotanical work in Kenya and research into the diets and foraging patterns of elephants and human elephant conflict in Zambia. Genevieve is currently working on her M.Sc. thesis looking at NGO corporate partnerships and the feasibility of achieving Net Positive Impact in regard to the recent BirdLife-CEMEX partnership. [email protected] |
Guillaume Demare
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Jake Williams
Jake is an M.Sc. student who studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics before coming to ecology. His work has ranged from rewilding and species reintroductions to biodiversity offsetting and conservation finance. His current research is on the use of a General Ecosystem Model (GEM) - 'The Madingley Model' - to help understand both the ecological impacts of megafaunal extinction, and the potential to mitigate these impacts through reintroductions. [email protected] |
Post-Docs
Meredith Root Bernstein
Meredith researches conservation and restoration in anthropogenic habitats in Chile and Italy. She is also broadly interested in questions at the junction of evolution, behaviour and ecology. Meredith will move to Aarhus University in August 2014. [email protected] |