Tag: living planet fellowship
Mateus Dantas de Paula
Mateus is an ecological modeler specializing in dynamic vegetation models and working as a part of the biodiversity and climate center of the Senckenberg society for nature research. His background is environmental sciences, having completed a bachelor’s and Master’s in plant ecology at the Federal University of Pernambuco, with studies which focused on the use …
Daniel Coxon
Daniel is a postdoctoral research associate working at the University of Leicester, and part of the UK National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO). For the past three years, he has worked at Space Park Leicester, where he helped set up the SPENSER laboratory for the study of atmospheric gases through infrared spectroscopy. He has experience …
Dust sparked biggest phytoplankton bloom in decades
A new paper has been recently published on PNAS Nexus as a result of the work of two Living Planet Fellows, John Gittings with his POSEIDON project and Joan Llort with the PYROPLANKTON activity. The research explores the linkages between global warming, desertification, dust emissions and ocean fertilisation. In particular, the study shows that dust …
The Shape of Auroral Plasma Turbulence (SAPT)
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (CA)The ionosphere forms a comparatively dense layer of partially ionized gas around Earth. The ionosphere as a whole works to dissipate the energy provided by the constant connection it has to the solar wind and magnetosphere systems. This energy dissipation, which creates beautiful displays of aurora in Earth’s polar regions, is associated with plasma turbulence …
VEgetation Spatialization of Traits Algorithm (VESTA)
Prime company: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturf (DE)The VESTA (Vegetation Spatialization of Traits Algorithm) project proposes the development of a workflow to map global above and belowground plant traits for the present and future through the integration of a trait-based dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) and vegetation EO (Earth observation) data. Trait-based DGVMs are process-based and provide a direct link between the …
Tobias Braun
Tobias is currently an ESA Living Planet Fellow at the Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing at Leipzig University (Germany). In his research, he employs and further develops methods from complexity science to understand past and present Earth system dynamics with a focus on climate extremes. He graduated with a Master’s degree in …
Edna Dualeh
Edna is currently an ESA Living Planet Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. She completed a PhD in volcano remote sensing at the University of Leeds, UK in 2022 where her research focused on using high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to examine volcanic deposits. During her PhD she worked closely with the Centre …