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Restoring habitats for carbon storage and biodiversity

A ESI-GSI networking event open to all on Penryn campus interested in exploring collaborative opportunities

This is an ESI-GSI networking event open to all University of Exeter researchers on Penryn campus interested in exploring collaborative opportunities and engaging around the theme of ‘Restoring habitats for carbon storage and biodiversity.’ We welcome you all to join us for a day of short talks with plenty of opportunity for discussion and networking.


Event details

Abstract

Please email esidirector@exeter.ac.uk if you would like us to send you a calendar invitation for this event.

Agenda

10.30 Arrival of GSI colleagues by bus at ESI. Tea/ coffee available.
11.00 Morning session 15min talks + discussion:
  Professor Karen Anderson
Professor in Remote Sensing
Multi-scale quantitative sensing of terrestrial systems
  Professor Stephen Sitch
Chair in Climate Change
Earth Observation for improving regional and global carbon budget assessments
  Dr Kees Van Groenigen
Associate Professor, Biogeochemist
Soil management in a changing world
  Professor Tapas Mallick
Chair in Clean Technologies
The Role of Solar Photovoltaics in NET-ZERO Society
12.45 Buffet lunch (you are invited to enjoy it while attending Prof Cox’s state of the art talk)
13.00 Professor Peter Cox
Director of Global Systems Institute and Professor of Climate System Dynamics in Mathematics
State of the Art talk: Adventures in Global Vegetation Modelling
14.00 Coffee and refreshments
14.15 Afternoon session 15 mins talks + discussion:
  Professor Ilya Maclean
Professor of Global Change Biology
Overview of ESI research + predicting biodiversity responses to climate change
  Professor Lina Mercado
Professor in Ecosystems and Environmental Change
Measuring and modelling responses of plant productivity to environmental change in the tropics
  Dr Sarah Crowley
Senior Lecturer in Human & Animal Geography
People and Conservation Translocations
  Dr Ceri Lewis
Associate Professor in Marine Biology
Transdisciplinary approaches for talking environmental issues
15.45 Informal networking
16.30 GSI colleagues leave for Exeter

 

Location:

Environment and Sustainability Institute