Earth Systems and Environmental Change
The environment is continuously changing but human pressures have accelerated these changes, especially in the context of global climate change and sea level rise, By working on a diversity of systems, including coasts, forest and mountain environments, we are developing an understanding of how ecosystems have changed in the past and are applying this knowledge to forecast changes in the future. This provides a framework for society to develop sustainable and effective adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Examples of current research
- Dynamic and thermal responses of Arctic glaciers to climate change
- Sea-level change and coastal geomorphology
- East African Palaeoenvironmental research goes coastal
- Modelling species distribution in East Africa and the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands
- Carbon cycling in UK forests
- Elevated ozone reduces peatland methane emissions
Associated Staff
- Rob Marchant (theme leader)
- Andy Marshall
- Colin McClean
- David Rippin
- Murray Rudd
- Katherine Selby
- Bryan Shorrocks
- Samarthia Thankappan
- Sylvia Toet
- Piran White