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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.
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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.
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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