Group members

Name	Title	Areas of interest
Matthew Amesbury	Research Development Manager	Bioenvironment
Jamie Atkins	PhD student	Ocean heat waves or frozen seas
Dr Ian Bailey	Lecturer in Geology – Penryn	Paleo-oceanography Geology Marine sediment cores
Dr Fernanda Barros	Postdoctoral Fellow	Plant ecology and eco-physiology
Professor Claire Belcher	Professor of Earth Systems Scientists (Fire and the Earth System)	Study of natural fires in the Earth system
Professor Richard Betts	Chair in Climate Impacts (HELIX)	Large-scale modelling of ecosystem-hydrology-climate interactions. Land use change and deforestation. Integrated impacts modelling.
Dr Chris Boulton	Associate Research Fellow	Statistics Climate Modelling Time Series Analysis Dynamical Systems
Dr Jo Browse	Lecturer in Physical Geography – Penryn	Arctic climate systems
Joshua Buxton	PhD student	Ecosystem resilience
Rosie Clegg	PhD student	Biodiversity Biogeography Conservation
Katherine Crichton	Postdoctoral Fellow	Increased Accumulation in Arctic Peatlands
Dr Stuart Daines	Research Fellow	Co-evolution of life and the physical environment
Jhon Del Aguila	PhD student	Tropical Peatlands and the Carbon Cycle
Dr James Dyke	Senior Lecturer – GSI	Model systems, behaviour and dynamics
Andrew Elliot	PhD student
Dr Ted Feldpausch	Associate Professor – Physical Geography	Plant biogeography Plant taxonomy and floristic inventory Phylogenetics Conservation
Dr Felipe Franco Gaviria	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Ecological baselines and ecosystem resilience
Professor Pierre Friedlingstein	Chair in Mathematical Modelling of Climate Change	Global Carbon Cycle Climate change
Dr Angela Gallego Sala	Professor in Environment and Biogeochemical Cycles	Climate regulation of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
Dr Paul Halloran	Senior Lecturer	Climate Modelling Oceans
Professor Stephen Hesselbo	Professor of Geology	Earth history The interplay of long-term environmental changes
Genevieve Hinde	PhD student	Physical oceanography Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
Teuntje Hollaar	PhD student	Changes in paleo-wildfire
Sarah Holmes	PhD student	Shelf sea environments Ecosystem models and the proxy records of long-lived bivalve molluscs
Jack Hughes	Graduate Research Assistant	Observation of transient tracers
Dr Elena Kozlova	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Atmospheric observations
Dr Kirsten Lees	Postdoctoral Research Associate	Ecosystem resilience Peatlands
Professor Tim Lenton	Director: Global Systems Institute	Tipping elements in the climate system
Dr Felix Leung	Researcher	Impacts of tropospheric ozone on crop production Climate Change Modelling
Kennedy Lewis	PhD Student	Remote sensing and eddy covariance
Spencer Liddicoat	PhD Student	Assessing the impact of Earth System processes on the carbon cycle and Climate
Dr Kate Littler	Lecturer (Education and Research) in Geology	Carbon-cycling Ocean circulation Orbital pacing in the Paleogene and Cretaceous greenhouse world's
Dr Ania Losiak	Associate Research Fellow	Wildland Fires
Dr Elisa Lovecchio	Research Fellow
Dr Neill Mackay	Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Climate Science	Ocean circulation Diapycmal mixing Inverse modelling
George Manville	PhD student	Oceanic concentration of dimethylsulfide (DMS), its sea-to-air transfer, and impacts upon aerosols, clouds and the global radiation balance
Dr Lina Mercado	Associate Professor in Ecosystems and Environmental Change	Landscape and ecosystem dynamics
Dr Jean-Francois Mercure	Senior Lecturer in Global Systems	Climate policy and environmental governance Modelling innovation Modelling the global energy-economy-environment system
Dr Marie-Jose Messias	Senior Lecturer	Climate, marine, transient tracers, greenhouse gases
Eric Mirindi Duseengue	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Plant ecophysiology, global change biology
Dr Andre Nakhavali	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Terrestrial carbon and nutrients dynamics Land surface modelling
Anne Nicholls	Global Systems Institute Senior Administrator	Recruitment, facilitating events and communications
Dr Mike O’Sullivan	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Global carbon cycle
Jack Oughton	Postgraduate researcher	Millennial-scale climate variability in the American tropics
Rob Owen	MbyRes Student
Maria Pearce	Adminstrator (HELIX project)	Climate impact
Professor Toby Pennington	Professor in Tropical Plant Diversity and Biogeography	Tropical plants Biodiversity Biology
Felix Pym	Masters by Research Student – GSI	Megafauna extinctions Ecosystem change Palaeoecology Microfossils
Dr Paul Ritchie	Associate Research Fellow	Connections between emergent constraints and early-warning signals of tipping points
Terhi Riutta	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	Tropical Peatlands and the Carbon Cycle
Andrea Rochner	PhD student	Marine, climate, carbon, atmosphere, greenhouse gases
Dr Lucy Rowland	Associate Professor	Landscape and Ecosystem Dynamics
Arne Scheire	PhD student	Scaling tropical giants
Dr Ute Schuster	Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography	Variability in marine carbon cycle through observations and numerical techniques
Professor James Scourse	Professor of Physical Geography	Quarternary paleoenvironments, marine geology
Ed Sears ‌‌	Honorary Associate Research Fellow (Evidence base for permaculture)	Permaculture
Dr Katy Sheen	Lecturer in Physical Geography	Physics of oceans and atmosphere
Dr Jamie Shutler	Senior Lecturer in Ocean Science	Satellite Earth observation, Remote sensing and mathematical modelling, Physical, biological and biogeochemical oceanography, Bacterial, biological and chemical water quality
Caroline Signori-Muller	Research Technician	Tropical Peatlands and the Carbon Cycle
Mateus Silva	PhD Student	Biodiversity loss Ecosystem resilience
Dr Yeliz Simsek	Postdoctoral Research Fellow – GSI	Macroeconomic, energy and environmental modelling
Professor Stephen Sitch	Chair in Climate Change	Climate Change
Witek Tatkiewicz	Research Technician	Climate, marine, technology, electronics, sensors, atmosphere
Jessica Thomas	PhD Student	Ecological and environmental drivers of carbon storage and resilience in degraded areas of the Amazon
Jessica Thorn	Project Administrator/Coordinator: Ocean and Atmospheric Science	Oceans, climate, atmosphere, carbon greenhouse gases
Dr Dunia Urrego	Lecturer in Physical Geography	Environmental change and human-landscape interactions in tropical and subtropical ecosystems
Dr Kees Jan Van Groenigen	Senior Lecturer in Climate and Environmental Science	Elevated atmosphere CO₂ Soil microbiology Rice agriculture Plant-soil interactions Meta-analysis and data synthesis
Rayanne Vitali	PhD student	Earth system feedbacks and the history of Oxygen
Yuwan Wang	PhD student	Forests, peat, and past fires: understanding the drivers of past fires in Amazonian forests
Professor Andrew Watson	Royal Society Research Professor	Physical and chemical Oceanography Ocean and atmosphere Observations of biogeochemical cycles
Dr Mark Williamson	Associate Research Fellow	Earth system modelling Quantum information and foundations Tipping points
Justin Worsey	Experimental Officer	Ocean Atmosphere Modelling
Lirong You	PhD Student	The effect of climate change and climate extremes on the production of rice, wheat and maize in China

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