DRUID_PROJECT - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor of Biology School of Biology
https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/school-of-biology/staff/79/dr-christopher-hassall
I joined the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in Animal Biology in September 2012.
I completed my undergraduate degree in Zoology at the University of Liverpool in 2005, and stayed on there for my PhD on the impacts of environmental warming on dragonflies which I finished in 2009. I then held two postdoctoral fellowship positions at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, from 2009-2010 on global change ecology (funded by the Canadian Government) and 2010-2012 on urban freshwater ecology (funded by the Ontario Government).
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- Research Associate Ecological Modeller
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- Student Education Service Officer )
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- Head of Rothamsted Insect Survey )
- Project Leader - the Insect Survey Biointeractions and Crop Protection
- Rothamsted Research
James is a quantitative ecologist, Head of the Rothamsted Insect Survey and workpackage leader of Rothamsted's strategic program Smart Crop Protection. He studies distributional and longitudinal trends of insects and show how these are driven by environmental and climate-driven processes. James' work is at the cutting edge of migration detection biology and his research has been published in high impact journals, including Nature, Global Change Biology, Nature Climate Change and Ecology Letters. James has key publications in the study of GM crops, pest regulation and effects of human cooperation on the management of insect pests. He has also studied and published on a range of taxa in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal systems, and has conducted fieldwork in both tropical and temperature systems.
James' key area of expertise is insect ecology, specifically monitoring and surveillance of populations at the landscape scale and beyond. Major themes are climate change, particularly the seasonal timing of biological events, and insect migration, including trends, prediction and biology. He has expertise in modelling time series, particularly from the Rothamsted Insect Survey suction- and light-trap data and radar data. Currently, James is engaged in detecting insect migration responses algorithmically using computer vision and machine learning techniques.
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- Professor of Aquatic Sciences School of Geography
rofessor Lee Brown is a freshwater ecologist with a particular interest in river ecosystems. His work crosses several research fields (population and community ecology, hydrology and geomorphology). He is particularly interested in river ecosystems in cold regions (alpine, arctic), the effects of catchment management (e.g. artificial drainage, vegetation burning) on rivers in the UK uplands, and aquatic food webs.
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- Radar and Weather Data Scientist, Faculty of Earth & Environment
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- Senior Principal Scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Richard leads the delivery of knowledge-based solutions to conserve and restore biodiversity, natural resources and ecosystem functions that are responsible for human well-being and livelihoods in semi-natural and intensively managed habitats.
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- Professor
- Professor, School of Agriculture, Policy & Development
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- Professor
- Professor of Ecology Deputy Head of School School of Biology
https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/school-of-biology/staff/98/professor-william-kunin
I graduated in Biology from Princeton, received a Masters Degree in Public Policy at Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Washington in Seattle. I moved to Britain to take a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, and moved to Leeds to take up a lectureship in ecology in 1996. I was promoted to become Professor of Ecology in 2009. I live in a pink house in the suburbs with my wife, two sets of (large) twins, a Romanian rescue puppy, and quite a few plants.
My research focuses on spatial aspects of the interactions between plants and the pollinators and herbivores that feed upon them, but extends to cover aspects of conservation biology, community ecology and biogeographic issues. I served as director of BIOCONS (the European Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Research) - a Marie Curie Early Stage Training site, and serves as Biosphere leader withoin the interdisciplinary NERC Doctoral Training Partnership (SPHERES). My current research includes several interdisciplinary collaborations, including two Global Challenges Research Fund projects in southern and eastern Africa.