Sandy Harrison

Areas of interest

Role of the land-surface, terrestrial biosphere and hydrological processes in modulating regional climates, past, present and future.
Global vegetation modelling, with a specific emphasis on fire disturbance and vegetation emissions; analysis of plant traits with respect to climate, as a tool for developing improved representations of plant-functional types in global vegetation models; benchmarking of vegetation-model simulations.
Reconstruction of past climate and environmental changes at continental to global scales; use of reconstructions in conjunction with climate-model experiments to diagnose the mechanisms of past climate and environmental changes; benchmarking of climate-model simulations.

Sophia Cain – “'A holistic assessment of fire, ecosystem services, and human health to derive mutually beneficial management solutions”
Arlia Dhevnanan – “Reconstructing African Holocene Climate Changes”
Wenyao Gan – “Evaluating plant level eco-evolutionary optimality approaches in the context of land-surface modelling”
Charlie Goulbourne – “Application of an optimality-based crop model to predict future cereal yields.”
Joelyn Han – “Vegetation-fire interactions in Africa during the Holocene”
Isidora Xenaki – “Understanding the interacting drivers of past and present wildfire regimes through data analysis and modelling”
Ning Yan – “Climate acclimation of the carbon allocation patterns in global dominant forest woody trees and potential climate feedback”

SPECIAL (staff below)

Scientific steering Committee, PAGES Working Group “Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis” (SISAL)
High-End Foreign Expert, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China