Biological and Environmental Sciences staff directory
| Name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| Head | ||
| Prof Kirsty Park | Conservation Ecology | k.j.park@stir.ac.uk |
| Professors | ||
| Prof Katharine Abernethy | Tropical Ecology | k.a.abernethy@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Nils Bunnefeld | Conservation Science | nils.bunnefeld@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof David Copplestone | Environmental Radioactivity | david.copplestone@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Peter Hunter | Earth Observation | p.d.hunter@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Alistair Jump | Plant Ecology / Dean of Faculty of Natural Sciences | a.s.jump@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof David Oliver | Catchment Science | david.oliver@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Richard Quilliam | Environmental Biology | richard.quilliam@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Evangelos Spyrakos | Earth Observation | evangelos.spyrakos@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Jens-Arne Subke | Terrestrial Ecosystems and Environment Change | jens-arne.subke@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Matthew Tinsley | Evolutionary Ecology | matthew.tinsley@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Andrew Tyler | Environmental Science | a.n.tyler@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Nigel Willby | Aquatic Ecology | n.j.willby@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Phil Wookey | Ecosystem Science | philip.wookey1@stir.ac.uk |
| Professorial Fellow | ||
| Prof Tim Whalley | Cell Biology | t.d.whalley@stir.ac.uk |
| Professors Emeritus | ||
| Prof Donald Davidson | Soil Science | d.a.davidson@stir.ac.uk |
| Prof Michael Thomas | Tropical and Applied Geomorphology | m.f.thomas@stir.ac.uk |
| Associate Professors | ||
| Dr Kathryn Jeffery | Researcher | kathryn.jeffery@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Armando Marino | Earth Observation | armando.marino@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget | Applied Biological Sciences | sabine.matallanasurget@stir.ac.uk |
| Senior Lecturers | ||
| Dr Clare Bird | Molecular Cell Biology | clare.bird2@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Tom Bradwell | Quaternary Geologist | tom.bradwell@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Daniel Chapman | Ecology Modelling | daniel.chapman@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Jennifer Dickie | Energy Geography | j.a.dickie@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Brad Duthie | Environmental Modelling | alexander.duthie@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor | Conservation Ecology | elisa.fuentes-montemayor@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Andre Gilburn | Ecology | andre.gilburn@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Zarah Pattison | Plant Sciences | zarah.pattison2@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Heather Price | Environmental Science & Geography | heather.price@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Thiago Silva | Environmental Informatics | thiago.sf.silva@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Eileen Tisdall | Environmental Science | e.w.tisdall@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Clare Wilson | Soil Science | c.a.wilson@stir.ac.uk |
| Lecturers | ||
| Dr Joanna Clarke | Conservation & Environmental Management | joanna.clarke@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Anna Crawford | Physical Geography | anna.crawford@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Verity Flower | Remote Sensing | verity.flower@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Sarah Greenwood | Global Change Biology | sarah.greenwood1@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Charlotte Hall | Environmental Geography | charlotte.hall@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Ian Jones | Environmental Sensing | ian.jones@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Alan Law | Nature-Based Solutions | alan.law1@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Jenson Lim | Applied Biological Sciences | jenson.lim@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Neil McDonald | Environmental Geography | neil.mcdonald@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Reuben Nowell | Animal Evolutionary Biology | reuben.nowell@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Martina Quaggiotto | Environmental Management | martina.quaggiotto@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Tony Robertson | Geographies of Public Health | tony.robertson@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Carmen Rosa Medina-Carmona | Soil Science | carmen.rosa.medina-carmona@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Alastair Skeffington | Environmental Genomics | alastair.skeffington@stir.ac.uk |
| Research Staff | ||
| Dr Ayorinde Akinbobola | Post Doctoral Research Fellow | ayorinde.akinbobola@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Rebecca Boulton | Research Fellow | rebeccaboulton87@googlemail.com |
| Dr Edward Bower | Research Fellow | edward.bower@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Laura Braunholtz | UKRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow | laura.braunholtz@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Craig Engelbrecht | Research Assistant | craig.engelbrecht@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Adam Fell | Post Doctoral Research Fellow | adam.fell@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Garima Gupta | Post Doctoral Research Fellow | garima.gupta@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Lisa Harrison | Forth-ERA Hydrodynamic Modeller | lisa.harrison@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Emily Hickinbotham | Research Fellow | emily.hickinbotham@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Isla Hodgson | Research Fellow | isla.hodgson@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Deryck Irving | Senior Innovation Fellow (Hydro Nation) | deryck.irving@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Dalin Jiang | Research Fellow | dalin.jiang@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Isabel Jones | Senior Research Fellow | i.l.jones@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Rosie Mangan | Post-doctoral Research Assistant | rosie.mangan@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Louis Mielke | Research Fellow | louis.mielke@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Morgan Simpson | Radar Remote Sensing Scientist | m.d.simpson@stir.ac.uk |
| Ms Maiken Skov | Research Assistant | maiken.skov@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Rachel Steenson | Research Fellow | rachel.steenson1@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Peter Stewart | Research Fellow | peter.stewart@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Emily Waddell | Research Fellow | emily.waddell@stir.ac.uk |
| Administration | ||
| Ms Jenny Abercrombie | Student Experience Administrator | jenny.abercrombie@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Fiona Millar | Programme Manager (Hydro Nation Chair) | fiona.millar1@stir.ac.uk |
| Mrs Joan Turner | Undergraduate Studies Officer | joan.colston@stir.ac.uk |
| Miss Lynn MacGregor | Student Experience Manager | lynn.macgregor@stir.ac.uk |
| Technical Support | ||
| Dr Allan Audsley | GIS Technical Specialist | allan.audsley1@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Ronald Balfour | Senior Technical Specialist (Stores/Procurement) | r.e.balfour@stir.ac.uk |
| Dr Trevor Blackall | Lead Technical Specialist (Biogeo) | trevor.blackall@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Matthew Blake | Senior Technical Specialist (Earth Observation) | matthew.blake@stir.ac.uk |
| Mrs Lorna English | Senior Technical Specialist (Biogeo) | l.c.english@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Ian Fitzpatrick | Assistant Technical Specialist (Stores) | ian.fitzpatrick1@stir.ac.uk |
| Mrs Sylvia Hodgson | Senior Technical Specialist | s.d.hodgson@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Scott Jackson | Senior Technical Specialist (IT) | Scott Jackson |
| Ms Pauline Monteith | Senior Technical Specialist | p.m.monteith@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Peter Smith | Technical Specialist (Field Work) | peter.smith@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr Ian Washbourne | Senior Technical Specialist (Biogeo) | ian.washbourne@stir.ac.uk |
| Mr James Weir | Lead Technical Specialist (ITMEStores) | j.n.weir@stir.ac.uk |
| Research Students | ||
| Rory Abernethy | tbc | rory.abernethy@stir.ac.uk |
| Alexander Adams | Ecosystem impacts of habitat engineering by reintroduced beavers, using ecoacoustics as a tool for biodiversity assessment | alexander.adams@stir.ac.uk |
| Ximena Aguilar Vega | Unravelling carbon properties and fluxes in glaciomarine systems | x.a.aguilar.vega@stir.ac.uk |
| Heather Anderson | Reconciling scientific and non-scientific safe water realities: Case studies from the global North and global South | h.k.anderson@stir.ac.uk |
| Daniel Atton Beckmann | Using satellite remote sensing and automated in-situ sensors to monitor and predict cyanobacterial blooms in multiple lakes | daniel.atton.beckmann@stir.ac.uk |
| Olivia Azevedo | Above and belowground ecological linkages in temperate forest soils | olivia.azevedo@stir.ac.uk |
| Johnson Bailey | Quad polarimetric analysis of icebergs | johnson.bailey@stir.ac.uk |
| Ross Barnett | tbc | r.j.barnett@stir.ac.uk |
| Hannah Black | tbc | hannah.black@stir.ac.uk |
| Hazel Blake | Conserving World Heritage in climate change(d) futures: Mediating precipitation impacts through innovative soils-based solutions | h.j.ramage@stir.ac.uk |
| Emily Bonsall | Preservation of organic matter by reactive iron species on Mars relevant to Mars Sample Return | emily.bonsall@stir.ac.uk |
| Ponsarut Boonchuay | Agricultural management and the conservation of insectivorous bat biodiversity in Southern Thailand: a comparison of land-sparing and land-sharing strategies | ponsarut.boonchuay@stir.ac.uk |
| Natalie Boyd Williams | The role of toilet-linked anaerobic digestion in creating sustainable rural futures | n.a.boydwilliams@stir.ac.uk |
| David Bryan | Integrated management of Scotland’s agricultural wetlands to deliver multiple benefits and minimise pollution swapping | david.bryan@stir.ac.uk |
| Sydney Byrns | The application of systems thinking approaches to governance of the water sector in sub-Saharan Africa | s.c.byrns@stir.ac.uk |
| Kerry Campbell | tbc | k.l.campbell@stir.ac.uk |
| Chisha Chongo Mzyece | Monitoring and modelling for early warning of microbial pollution events | c.c.mzyece@stir.ac.uk |
| Arianna Chiti | tbc | arianna.chiti2@stir.ac.uk |
| Patrick Cook | From farmland to wildland: an ecological journey | patrick.cook@stir.ac.uk |
| Chloe Corcoran | tbc | c.m.corcoran@stir.ac.uk |
| Anna Costley-Wood | Raptor movement ecology and the influence of wind turbines: red kite, Milvus milvus, as a case study | a.g.costley-wood@stir.ac.uk |
| Emilie Courtecuisse | Fluorometry for Rapid Eutrophication Status and Cyanobacteria Assessment | emilie.courtecuisse@stir.ac.uk |
| Andre Dhungana | Delivering food from forests: integrating understanding across trees, fungi and soils to raise speciality crops in forest plantations | a.g.dhungana@stir.ac.uk |
| Gavin Douglas | Conservation Strategies for Archaeologically Excavated Structures in the North of Scotland in a Climate Change Future | g.b.douglas1@stir.ac.uk |
| Callum Dunleavy | Can rewilding reverse freshwater biodiversity loss? | callum.dunleavy@stir.ac.uk |
| Alex Elsy | How do liana and tree communities vary over secondary succession? | a.d.elsy@stir.ac.uk |
| Ebenezer Essien | Understanding the physiological wear- and- tear using and intersectionality lens | ebenezer.essien1@stir.ac.uk |
| Francesc Ferrando Molina | Development and optimisation of novel inoculants for grain legumes | francesc.ferrandomolina1@stir.ac.uk |
| Esther Folorunso | tbc | e.e.folorunso@stir.ac.uk |
| Jodie Geldard | Surge Forth: Understanding glacier dynamics where the Scottish Highlands meet the Lowlands | jodie.geldard@stir.ac.uk |
| Neil Gow | tbc | neil.gow1@stir.ac.uk |
| Megan Grace | Exposure potential of rural versus urban inland waters for equitably improving population health and wellbeing | m.j.grace@stir.ac.uk |
| Mia Graham | The evolution of pathogen defence in insect hosts: whitefly resistance to biocontrol agents in horticulture | mia.graham@stir.ac.uk |
| Nicola Horsburgh | Future proofing Scotland’s remote coastal areas: evaluation of the potential for nature-based coastal adaptation | nicola.horsburgh@stir.ac.uk |
| Elliot Hurst | Constructed Wetlands and Waterscapes in Rural India and Scotland | e.j.hurst@stir.ac.uk |
| Felix Kasti Isundwa | Detecting and monitoring floods using satellite radar and drone data | f.k.isundwa@stir.ac.uk |
| Celeste Kellock | Source to Sea: Soil organic carbon transport from forested environments to coastal waters and sediments | celeste.kellock@stir.ac.uk |
| Rochelle Kennedy | Sustaining biodiversity through mixed farming systems | rochelle.kennedy@stir.ac.uk |
| Charlie Kenny | Seeing the wood for the trees: Is reforesting the Scottish Highlands a good way to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide? | c.e.kenny@stir.ac.uk |
| Eleri Kent | Does woodland use by bats depend on landscape context? Implications for woodland creation schemes | eleri.kent@stir.ac.uk |
| Anna Kurop | Rapid deglaciation and sea-level change on the Outer Hebrides, Scotland | anna.kurop@stir.ac.uk |
| Charlotte Lee | Invisible Threats to Oceans (InTO): assessing the combined toxicity effects of emerging anthropogenic pollutants on microbial communities | charlotte.lee2@stir.ac.uk |
| Abi MacDonald | tbc | abi.macdonald@stir.ac.uk |
| Benjamin Marshall | Assessing researcher degree of freedom to inform robustness of findings from movement ecology studies | b.m.marshall@stir.ac.uk |
| Neil McDonald | Getting to the Bottom of Ice Shelves | neil.mcdonald@stir.ac.uk |
| Michael McGlade | The Effects of Flooding and Physicochemical Parameter Changes Inducing Contaminant Remobilisation | m.a.mcglade@stir.ac.uk |
| Conor McGlinchey | Single and advanced ensemble algorithms for monitoring coastal waters from satellite data | c.r.mcglinchey@stir.ac.uk |
| Rose McKeon | How does fluctuating selection affect pesticide effectiveness? | c.r.mckeon@stir.ac.uk |
| Catherine Mercer | Taking the escalator to extinction: Understanding the role of rapid forest expansion in driving hotspots of extinction risk for endemic species in Taiwan | catherine.mercer@stir.ac.uk |
| Clinton Nkolokosa | Understanding the complex mechanisms driving schistosomiasis under climate change | clinton.nkolokosa@stir.ac.uk |
| Kathryn North | tbc | k.e.north@stir.ac.uk |
| Georgina Page | Assisting peatland restoration using satellite radar data | g.r.page@stir.ac.uk |
| Sam Paplauskas | Predicting epidemic size and disease evolution in natural systems | sam.paplauskas@stir.ac.uk |
| Pablo Paredes Berríos | tbc | pablo.paredesberrios@stir.ac.uk |
| Shubham Pawar | tbc | s.m.pawar@stir.ac.uk |
| Toby Pepperrell | tbc | toby.pepperrell@stir.ac.uk |
| Chloe Pow | The persistence and transfer of human pathogens associated with plastic pollution in agriculture and food production systems | c.j.pow@stir.ac.uk |
| Helen Pruzina | tbc | h.m.pruzina@stir.ac.uk |
| Flora Rendell-Bhatti | Plastics and the Hidden Majority: Conservation Implications of a Threatened UK Freshwater Fish | f.a.rendell-bhatti@stir.ac.uk |
| Jazz Rhoades | Climate change and species range margins: predicting forest resilience in the Mediterranean region | j.c.rhoades@stir.ac.uk |
| Madeline Richards | The ecological function of trees outside woodland on the colonisation of woodland creation sites | madeline.richards@stir.ac.uk |
| Sam Rogerson | The impacts of long-term woodland creation on invertebrate communities | sam.rogerson@stir.ac.uk |
| Bridget Rusk | Using sensors, satellites and artificial intelligence to improve catchment-scale modelling and nowcasting of microbial risks to water quality | bridget.rusk@stir.ac.uk |
| Nagendra Jaiganesh Sankara Narayanan | A tale of two lagoons: Determining the drivers and trajectories of change for the Venice (Italy) and Razelm-Sinoe (Danube-Delta, Romania) lagoons through Earth observation and modelling | nagendra.jaiganesh.sankara.narayanan@stir.ac.uk |
| Maud Siebers | Improving forecasts of phytoplankton blooms using high frequency satellite observations | maud.siebers@stir.ac.uk |
| Cristian Silva Perez | Monitoring agricultural fields in South America with Synthetic Aperture Radar | c.j.silva.perez@stir.ac.uk |
| Emily Simpson | tbc | emily.simpson@stir.ac.uk |
| Nonglak Sopakayoung | Does integrating global expertise and local tradition give sustainable forest management? An assessment of international agency project implementation in community forests in South-east Asia | nonglak.sopakayoung@stir.ac.uk |
| Helen Taylor-Boyd | Investigating Species Assemblages, Activity Levels and Feeding Ecology of Chiroptera Species in Anthropogenic Landscapes in Zambia | h.l.taylorboyd1@stir.ac.uk |
| Alexandra Turner | tbc | alexandra.turner@stir.ac.uk |
| Alice Turner | Anthropogenic effects on beaver physiology and behaviour | alice.turner@stir.ac.uk |
| Sarah Watts | Improving outcomes in montane woodland restoration | s.h.watts@stir.ac.uk |
| Ben Wilson | Social and cultural impacts of forest management | ben.wilson@stir.ac.uk |
| Kelsey Wilson | Predicting cascading ecosystem effects of beavers on riparian vegetation and deer | k.a.wilson@stir.ac.uk |
| Simeon Wilton | Effects of Invasive Non-Native Species within ecological networks and consequences for ecosystem function | s.j.wilton@stir.ac.uk |
| Ruth Wright | Public awareness and perceptions of invasive non-native species | r.k.wright@stir.ac.uk |
| Mahtab Yaghouti | Adaptation strategies against progressing anoxia in lakes | mahtab.yaghouti@stir.ac.uk |
Honorary Staff
| Name | Role | Organisation | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Prof Sallie Bailey |
Honorary Professor | Scottish Government | sallie.bailey@gov.scot |
|
Dr David Beaumont |
Honorary Senior Lecturer | RSPB | dave.beaumont@rspb.org.uk |
|
Prof Laurence Carvalho |
Honorary Professor | Norwegian Institute for Water Research | Laurence.Carvalho@niva.no |
|
Prof Geoffrey Codd |
Honorary Professor | University of Stirling | g.a.codd@stir.ac.uk |
|
Dr Rachael Cooper-Bohannon |
Honorary Research Fellow | Bats without Borders | rachael@batswithoutborders.org |
|
Prof Kate Darling |
Honorary Professor | kate.darling@ed.ac.uk | |
|
Prof Colin Galbraith |
Honorary Professor | NatureScot | |
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Dr Laura Hamlet |
Honorary Research Fellow | Coigach Community Development Company | |
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Dr David Lehmann |
Honorary Lecturer | Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux du Gabon | |
|
Dr Fiona Maisels |
Honorary Professor | Wildlife Conservation Society | fmaisels@wcs.org |
|
Dr Geoffrey Phillips |
Honorary Professor | Environment Agency | Geoff.L.Phillips@btinternet.com |
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Prof Chris Quine |
Honorary Professor | Forest Research | chris.quine@forestresearch.gov.uk |
|
Dr Stefan Simis |
Honorary Ass. Professor | Plymouth Marine Laboratory | stsi@pml.ac.uk |
|
Prof Adrian Stanica |
Honorary Professor | National Institute for Marine Geology and Geo-ecology, Romania | astanica@geoecomar.ro |
|
Prof Paul Thomas |
Honorary Professor | Mychorrhizal Systems | Paul@PlantationSystems.com |
|
Dr Richard Tipping |
Honorary Research Fellow | ||
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Prof Kevin Watts |
Honorary Professor | Forest Research | kevin.watts@forestresearch.gov.uk |
|
Dr Mortimer Werther |
Honorary Research Fellow | Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology | |
|
Prof Lee White |
Honorary Professor | ||
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Dr Robbie Whytock |
Honorary Lecturer | Okala | robin@okala.io |
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Prof Jeremy Wilson |
Honorary Professor | RSPB | jeremy.wilson@rspb.org.uk |
|
Prof Ewan Hyslop |
Honorary Professor | Historic Environment Scotland | ewan.hyslop@hes.scot |
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Dr Claire Neil |
Honorary Senior Lecturer | SEPA | |
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Prof Steve Groom |
Honorary Professor | Plymouth Marine Lab | SBG@pml.ac.uk |
|
Dr Albert Vilà-Cabrera |
Honorary Lecturer | Centro de Investigación Ecológica y Aplicaciones Forestales | a.vila@creaf.uab.cat |
|
Dr Guangqi Li |
Honorary Research Fellow |