Students
Our students are recruited to the CDT from a range of academic and professional backgrounds. Scroll through their profiles to find out about them and their Environmental Intelligence research.
Cohort 1 (2019)
Student | PhD Research | Supervisors |
Liam Berrisford | 'The structure and dynamics of future transport infrastructure.' | Ronaldo Menezes, Hugo Barbosa and Ricardo Safra de Campos |
Margaret Bolton | 'Inter-comparability and consistency of ecological fitness proxies across populations.' | Regan Early, Sabina Leonelli and Bram Kuijper |
Ellie Duncan | 'Untangling natural aerosol processes in Polar Regions by implementing novel machine learning techniques.' | Daniel Partridge, Jonathan Fieldsend, Jim Haywood and Alistair Sellar (External) |
Chris Kerry | 'Enforcement, remote sensing, and data science for effective illegal fishing deterrence.' | Kristian Metcalfe, Saptarshi Das, Karyn Morrissey, Sam Weber and Tom Letessier |
Timothy Lam | 'Quantifying teleconnection pathways leading to Droughts and Wildfires in Indonesian Borneo.' | Jennifer Catto, Anna Harper and Rosa Barciela (External) |
Guy Lomax | 'Measuring and managing rangeland resilience with remote sensing.' | Tom Powell, Tim Lenton, Andrew Cunliffe and Theo Economou |
Joshua Redmond | 'Participatory Design for Human Rights Monitoring using Earth Observation Data.' | Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, Hugo Barbosa and Ana Beduschi |
Arthur Vandervoort | 'In the wake of disaster: analysing gendered mobility patterns by leveraging mobile phone data, data feminism, and justice.' | Sabina Leonelli, Karyn Morrissey and Riccardo di Clemente |
Alice Wells | 'Using effusive and explosive volcanic eruptions as natural analogues for solar radiation management strategies and assessing the public opinion of geoengineering.' | Jim Haywood, James Dyke and Daniel Partridge |
Ned Westwood | 'Computer assisted classification of political narratives that impede and promote action on climate change.' | Travis Coan, Hywel Williams and Saffron O'Neill |
Cohort 2 (2020)
Student | PhD Research | Supervisors |
Emma Bailey |
'Tipping Sustainable Change: Social Dynamics and Contagion.' | Tim Lenton, Hywel Williams and Catherine Butler |
Ian Burton | 'The impact of innovation and technology diffusion decarbonisation policy packages on the global economy-energy-environment system.' | Jean Francois Mercure, Femke Nijsse and Sarah Hartley |
Daneen Cowling | 'Enhanced erosion and the land-ocean continuum: Assessing the biogeochemical responses to vulnerable landscapes.' | Tim Lenton, Ute Schuster and Jacqueline Christmas |
Kevin Donkers | 'Can agroforestry be utilised at scale to meet climate adaptation and mitigation needs of UK agriculture?' | Brett Day and Danny Williamson |
Elizabeth Galloway | 'Modelling the impacts of tropical storms in the Philippines using statistical and machine learning approaches.' | Jennifer Catto and Chunbo Luo |
Abhi Navaneethanathan | 'Developing ML and statistical models to study global particulate organic carbon fluxes through the data fusion of sparse, heterogeneous and in-situ oceanographic observations.' | Chunbo Luo, Peter Challenor and Sabina Leonelli |
Trish Nowak | 'Entangling curious reasons for long-range travels of coarse dust particles in lower atmosphere and their impacts on climate, environment and human life.' | Benno Simmons, Stefan Siegert and Andy Augousti (External) |
Frederica Poznansky | 'Soundscapes in Tropical Landscapes.' | Frank van Veen and Saptarshi Das |
Monty Sant | 'Ocean abosorption and storage of anthropogenic carbon.' | Andrew Watson and Peter Challenor |
Sara Sjosten |
'How can drastic changes in the Earth system in deep time help us understand how current ecosystems may respond to further human perturbation? How much more human disturbance can ecosystems tolerate before they collapse?' |
Tim Lenton and Peter Roopnarine (External) |
Nicola Wilson | 'How can digital technologies help upscale and finance blue carbon?' | Chris Laing, Bob Brewin, Rudy Arthur and Sarah Hartley |
Cohort 3 (2021)
Student | PhD Research | Supervisors |
Cesar Angeles Ruiz | 'Incorporating renewable energy in electricity grids.' | James Dyke, James Salter and Sarah Hartley |
Manju Bura | 'The social life of heatwaves: A multimodal study of framing of heatwaves.' | Ernesto Schwartz-Marin and Chico Camargo |
Jake Curry | 'Application of Computer Vision Methods to Camera Trapping for Ecology and Conservation.' | Benno Simmons, Sareh Rowlands and Jacqueline Christmas |
Ben Fitkov-Norris | TBC | TBC |
Ellie Fox | 'Impacts of glacier melt on water availability and quality for downstream communities in the Andes: A socio-cryspheric systems approach.' | Steven Palmer, Ernesto Schwartz-Marin and Sally Rangecroft |
Jonathan Growcott | 'Multimodal monitoring or large African carnivores.' | Benno Simmons, Matthew Mijers (External), Johan Wahlstrom and Richard Everson |
Owain Harris | TBC | Ricardo Safra de Campos and Sarah Hartley |
Tom Hogger Gadsby | 'Modelling past, present and potential futures of mobility in Mexico City.' | Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, Federico Botta and Patricia Murrieta-Flores (External) |
Emily Robinson | 'Tracking the discourse of transboundary injustices of Net Zero decarbonization strategies.' | Sarah Hartley and Chico Camargo |
Nathanael Sheehan | TBC | Sabina Leonelli and Federico Botta |
Cohort 4 (2022)
Student | PhD Research | Supervisors |
Ceren Barlas | TBC | |
Zihao Chen | TBC | |
Alex Edwards | TBC | |
Morgan Sparey | TBC | |
Ashish Sundar | TBC | |
Paul Bell | TBC | |
Rhiannon Grant | TBC |