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Department of Geography and Environmental Science, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 227, Reading, RG6 6AB, UK.
Geography and Environmental Science Staff
Academic Staff
Name |
Position |
Telephone |
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| Dr Stuart Black | Associate Professor in Environmental Radioactivity | +44 (0)118 378 8946 | s.black@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Nick Branch | Head of School / Associate Professor in Palaeoecology | + 44 (0)118 378 6102 | n.p.branch@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Joanna Clark | Associate Professor in Soil Carbon | + 44 (0)118 378 6581 | j.m.clark@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Hannah Cloke | Professor in Hydrology | + 44 (0)118 378 6974 | h.l.cloke@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Chris Collins | Professor of Environmental Chemistry | + 44 (0)118 378 8910 | c.d.collins@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Sylvie Dubuc | Lecturer in Human Geography & Population Studies | + 44 (0)118 378 8657 | s.dubuc@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Ruth Evans | Associate Professor in Human Geography | + 44 (0)118 378 7755 | r.evans@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Hilary Geoghegan | Associate Professor in Human Geography | h.geoghegan@reading.ac.uk | |
| Professor Mike Goodman | Chair in Geography (Environment and Development) | + 44 (0)118 378 7686 | m.k.goodman@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Geoffrey Griffiths | Associate Professor in Physical Geography | + 44 (0)118 378 8737 | g.h.griffiths@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Sandy Harrison | Professor in Global Palaeoclimates and Biogeochemical Cycles | + 44 (0)118 378 5258 | s.p.harrison@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Alan Howard | School Director of Teaching & Learning / Associate Professor in Computational Geography | + 44 (0)118 378 8763 | a.howard@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Sally Lloyd-Evans | Associate Professor in Human Geography | + 44 (0)118 378 7293 | s.lloyd-evans@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Alison MacLeod | Lecturer in Physical Geography | + 44 (0)118 378 7909 | alison.macleod@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Avril Maddrell | Associate Professor in Human Geography | + 44 (0)118 378 7756 | avril.maddrell@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Frank Mayle | Professor in Ecosystems Ecology | + 44 (0)118 378 6260 | f.mayle@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Hazel McGoff | Environmental Science Programme Director | + 44 (0)118 378 6743 | h.j.mcgoff@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Filippo Menga | Lecturer in Human Geography | +44 (0)118 378 7766 | f.menga@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Steven Musson | Head of the Department of Geography & Environmental Science / Associate Professor in Economic Geography | + 44 (0)118 378 7753 | s.musson@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Chukwumerije Okereke | Professor in Environment & Development | + 44 (0)118 378 6230 | c.okereke@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Steve Robinson | Associate Professor in Soil and Water Biogeochemistry | + 44 (0)118 378 6075 | j.s.robinson@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Shovonlal Roy | Lecturer in Remote Sensing in Ecosystems Sciences | + 44 (0)118 378 8944 | shovonlal.roy@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Maria Shahgedanova | Associate Professor in Climate Science | + 44 (0)118 378 7745 | m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Liz Shaw | Associate Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry | + 44 (0)118 378 6971 | e.j.shaw@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Tom Sizmur | Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry | + 44 (0) 118 378 8913 | t.sizmur@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Richard Skeffington | Principal Research Fellow / Lecturer | + 44 (0)118 378 7323 | r.a.skeffington@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Anne Verhoef | Professor of Soil Physics and Micrometeorology | + 44 (0)118 378 6074 | a.verhoef@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Andrew Wade | Professor of Hydrology | + 44 (0)118 378 7315 | a.j.wade@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Kevin White | Director of Postgraduate Studies (SAGES), Associate Professor in Environmental Remote Sensing | + 44 (0)118 378 7752 | k.h.white@reading.ac.u |
| Dr Hong Yang | Lecturer in Environmental Science | +44 (0)118 378 7750 | h.yang4@reading.ac.uk |
Research Staff
Name |
Position |
Telephone |
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| Dr Mohammed Afzal | Postdoctoral Researcher | + 44 (0)118 378 7285 | m.afzal@reading.ac.uk |
| Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt | Scientific Programmer and Data Manager | +44 (0)118 378 7146 | k.atsawawaranunt@reading.ac.uk |
| Sharon Burton | Project Support Officer | + 44 (0)118 378 7323 | s.e.burton@reading.ac.uk |
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Postdoctoral Research Associate |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7762 |
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| Dr Ning Dong | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | n.dong@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Claudia Di Napoli | Postdoctoral Research Associate | c.dinapoli@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Arnaud Duranel | Research Co-ordinator - Loddon Observatory | + 44 (0)118 378 8137 | a.duranel@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Andrea Ficchi | Post-Doctoral Research Assistant- Extended-range Flood Forecast Researcher | +44 (0)118 378 7586 | a.ficchi@reading.ac.uk |
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Research Assistant |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6805 |
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| Dr Chloe Largeron | Post Doctoral Research Assistant - Land Surface Modeller | c.largeron@reading.ac.uk | |
| Jeremy LeLean | Soil Security Programme – Web and Communication Officer | + 44 (0)118 378 7323 | j.lelean@reading.ac.uk |
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Senior Research Fellow |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8740 |
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| Dr Brenda Mathijssen | Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Human Geography | +44 (0) 118 378 7138 | b.mathijssen@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Jess Neumann | Post-Doctoral Research Assistant | + 44 (0) 118 378 7285 | j.l.neumann@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Suvarna Punalekar | Postdoctoral Researcher | + 44 (0)118 378 6997 | suvarna.punalekar@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Beena Balan Sarojini | Postdoctoral Researcher | + 44 (0)118 378 6238 | b.balansarojini@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Sumit Sinha | Postdoctoral Researcher | + 44 (0)118 378 7896 | sumit.sinha@reading.ac.uk |
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Geography and Environmental Science Research Group ESSRG |
Postgraduate Research Students
Name |
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Project |
| Selam Abebe | s.abebe@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Operationalizing the concept of equitable access to sustainable development |
| Alex Adekanmbi | a.a.adekanmbi@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Impact of climate change on soil respiration and resilience. |
| Zainab Aliyu | z.o.aliyu@pgr.reading.ac.uk | How effective is the Climate Justice Movement (CJM) in sub-Saharan Africa? |
| Betty Amponsah-Doku | b.amponsah-doku@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Investigating the contribution of abiotic stresses to the Ghanaian cocoa yield gap. |
| Dedy Antony | d.antony@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Factors affecting soil carbon storage at depth in agricultural systems in the UK. |
| Prima Anugerahanti | p.anugerahanti@pgr.reading.ac.uk | A marine biogeochemical model with explicit representation of phytoplankton functional types. |
| Louise Arnal | l.l.s.arnal@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Seasonal hydrological forecasting over Europe: prospects and applications. |
| Edward Baker | e.j.baker@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Developing soil health indicators to inform land management decisions and increase crop yield and quality. |
| Alice Barrett | a.barrett@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Developing a global model for leafy phenology and photosynthetic activity. |
| Robin Boyd | r.boyd@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Individual-based Model of North Sea Fish using Satellite Remote Sensing. |
| Michelle Brooks | m.m.s.brooks@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Belonging: perspectives of belonging amongst women for whom Islam is a significant influence. |
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Brian Chirambo |
UN-REDD+ implementation process in Zambia. | |
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Francesca Church |
Preservationism and Development in Rural England 1926-2016: Policy and Practice. | |
| Philip Coventry | p.coventry@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Climate Justice within the Multilateral Governance Regime: An Analysis of Discourse and Policy Output. |
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Mark Dobson |
Localism and the future of participatory planning. | |
| Siobhan Dolan | s.dolan@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Early warning of flash flood and landslide risk in S Asia |
| Vevila Dornelles | v.r.c.dornelles@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Gendered geographies of online gaming. |
| Baktybek Duisebek | b.duisebek@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Climate change, water resource and agriculture in Kazakhstan. |
| Angie Elwin | a.m.elwin@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Enhancing social and ecological mangrove resilience in shrimp farming communities. |
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Rebecca Emerton |
Implications of changes in climate regime for flood characteristics and global flood forecasting. | |
| Eleanor Fletcher | e.fletcher2@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Exploring young refugees' experiences of resettlement and care in the UK. |
| Henny Folorunso | h.folorunso@pgr.reading.ac.uk | How do earthworms and soil microbial communities interact to determine the fate of organic matter amendments to soil? |
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Anna Freeman |
Why is knowledge of environmental factors insufficient to predict river grazing phytoplankton blooms? A study of the role of phytoplankton and predatory grazing. | |
| Jessica Goodenough | j.l.goodenough@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Citizen science in the global South: effects on participation in urban agriculture in Rio de Janeiro's informal settlements. |
| Helen Griffith | h.v.griffith@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Atmospheric rivers and the land surface - drivers of extreme floods. |
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Jo Hamilton |
Emotional Methodologies for Climate Change Action: towards an understanding of emotion in NGO-public engagements. | |
| Charlotte Hawkins | c.e.hawkins@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Developing optical methods for catchment to protect drinking water. |
| James Hill | james.hill@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Millennial-style history of Amazon Forest dynamics. |
| Md. Sazzad Hossain | mdsazzad.hossain@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Extended range hydrometeorological forecasting for improved flood early warning in Bangladesh to supporting earlier flood preparedness in Bangladesh |
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Ben Jones |
Quantifying and understanding uptake of plant protection products from soil into plants. | |
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Noor Jalilah Binti Jumaat |
The Effectiveness of Management Strategies in Reducing Visitor Impacts at National Parks: A Comparative Study on Malaysia and the United Kingdom. | |
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Lee Kyung-Kun |
Global Climate Governance and the Political Economy of CDP. | |
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Kirsten Lees |
Measuring peatland carbon sequestration and emissions by remote sensing. | |
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David Macdonald |
Groundwater flows in an urbanised floodplain and implications for environmental management. | |
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Abu-Bakar Massaquoi |
Addressing Tenure and Livelihood Matters for REDD+: Exploring the Problems and Prospects of an Adaptive Co-management Approach. | |
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Sabine Mayeux |
Food Justice in the City: Austerity, Citizenship and Creative Urban Space. | |
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Aliki McDonald |
Widening Participation in Higher Education - the Role of Parents. | |
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Phiala Mehring |
Understanding and surmounting the barriers inhibiting the implementation of Natural Flood Risk Management. | |
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Diego Molina Franco |
Floristic miscegenation in the citizen's bodies and the urban landscape in Colombia. | |
| Alice Mpofu-Coles | a.mpofu-coles@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Identity, Transnationalism and Resilience Among the Young Zimbabwean Diaspora in UK. |
| Anastasia Ngenyi | a.ngenyi@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Land-use planning, alternative livelihood and current approach to biodiversity conservation in the Congo Basin, Central Africa. |
| Callum Nolan | callum.nolan@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Multinational Oil Corporations and Climate Justice: a frame analysis of climate change and corporate climate responsibility in Nigeria. |
| Chinonso Ogbuagu | chinonsochukwuma.ogbuagu@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Remediation of contaminated field soils using biochar |
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(Kofoworola) Amudat Olatunde |
Characterization of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination in Soils Using Visible Near Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (Vis-VIR DRS). | |
| Fatima Pillosu | f.m.pillosu@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Statistical analysis of ECMWF Ensemble to improve rainfall inputs in real-time flood forecasting systems. |
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Heather Plumpton |
Amazonia and the 6K drought. | |
| Jessica Ponting | jessica.ponting@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Impact of extreme rainfall events on the mobility of potentially toxic elements in floodplains. |
|
Catharine Pschenyckyj |
Application of microbial fingerprinting techniques to attribute biological controls on recent changes in carbon cycling in organic soils. | |
| Shahrina Rahman | s.rahman@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Enhancing social resilience and adaptation to climate change: a case study of disabled people in Southern Bangladesh. |
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Harriet Robson |
Do competitive plant x plant interactions impact rhizosphere microbial community structure and function? | |
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Nathan Salvidge |
Precarious lifescapes and informality: an urban gender and generational analysis. | |
| Raennon Sinclair | r.m.sinclair@pgr.reading.ac.uk | River Macrophyte Succession Under Multiple Stresses. |
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Richard Smith |
Amazonia under mid-Holocene drought. | |
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Marijke Struijk |
How can we make better use of crop residues? | |
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Victoria Struthers |
Exploring the role of deadwood in the forest carbon cycle. | |
|
Fanen Terdoo |
Vulnerability of rice crop value-chain to the combined pressure of markets and climate change in North-Central Nigeria: a system dynamics modelling approach. | |
| Sofia Theofanidi | sofia.theofanidi@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Improving and evaluating flood forecasting models for improved flood resilience from local to global scales. |
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Sarah Thoma |
Examining the relationship between environmental and societal change during the past 1000 years. | |
|
Patrick Thomson |
Health impacts of intermittent water supply in rural Africa. | |
| Jamie Towner | j.towner@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Climate variability and extended-range flood forecasting for the Peruvian Amazon. |
| Mark Turner | m.g.turner@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Impacts of rapid climate change on vegetation dynamics and biodiversity |
| Daniel Waite | d.b.waite@pgr.reading.ac.uk | A study of the Mechanics, Dynamics, Positions, Roles and Influences of the AGN and AILAC Blocs in the UNFCCC Climate Negotiations. |
| Oliver Wilson | oliver.wilson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Assessing the resilience of Brazil's iconic Araucaria forest to past and future climate change. |
| Azin Wright | a.wright@pgr.reading.ac.uk | The effect of land surface hydrological process representation (paramaterization and parameter uncertainty) on drought prediction, at a range of spatio-temporal scales. |
|
Yoshie Yageta |
Evaluation of farmers' indigenous knowledge about soil to maintain crop productivity under soil diversity. | |
|
Ervin Zsoter |
Understanding global flood hazard climatology for improved early flood warning. |
Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff
Name |
Position |
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Professor Brian Alloway |
Emeritus Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Brian Goodall |
Emeritus Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Alan Wild |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Peter Worsley |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Paul Bardos |
Visiting Professor |
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Professor Andy Moffat |
Visiting Professor |
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Visiting research fellow |
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Dr Margaret Oliver |
Visiting research fellow |