Nature for health
We study:
- The relationship between smelling plant organic volatiles and human wellbeing
- The role of plants in influencing mosquito dynamics in space and time
- The role of local plants in providing food security in times of drought.
Land use management
We work on:
- Carbon storage and sequestration in rewilded landscapes
- The effectiveness of leaky dams in flood risk reduction
- Quantifying optimal sustainable farming techniques
- Using machine learning to optimise forest ecosystem services
- Determining rare minerals in soils using remote sensing.
- Monitoring the impact of ozone in forests.
- Evidence-informed management of UK forestry.
Nature monitoring
We develop tools for:
- Identifying local environmental risks in terrestrial and marine environments
- Mosquito surveillance using acoustic signatures of different mosquito species.
- Global pollen data collection.
- Mapping and tracking the occurrence of malaria vectors in space and time