King's College London

Post-Doc, Geography

Leverhulme Research Fellow

About

Leverhulme Research Fellow at King's College London

I am a broadly trained geographer and landscape ecologist with expertise in developing bespoke modelling tools to investigate ecological and socio-economic processes and their interaction. My research, publications and teaching have focused on vegetation succession-disturbance dynamics and human decision-making in multifunctional forest and agricultural landscapes of North America and Europe using statistical, simulation and spatial modelling tools.

Previously, I was based in the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University, USA. While there I initiated the continuing development and use of an ecological-economic model to examine management and policy options for the managed forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This spatially explicit, individual-based simulation model represents the interactions of white-tailed deer, forest vegetation dynamics, neotropical migrant songbirds and forest and wildlife management actions.

I received my PhD from King's College London in May 2007 where I was based in the Department of Geography. My PhD examined the impact of potential human-caused land use/cover change upon ecological patterns and processes (predominantly wildfire) in a Mediterranean landscape. This research initiated the development of a spatially-explicit simulation model and is ongoing in collaboration with colleagues in Spain, the UK and New Zealand. I also continue to work on how to use agent-based modelling with other environmental modelling approaches for the investigation of human-environment interactions.

See my website for more details about my research, and check my blog to find out what I've been doing recently.

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