Group Members
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Will Pearse
I develop methods to understand how species’ evolution affects their ecology to support conservation and policy decision-making.
email: will.pearse@imperial.ac.uk
Post-docs
Olivia Morris
How does ecosystem service delivery vary across the world and in response to human drivers?
email: my@email.com
Josh Tyler
How can probabilistic programming improve biodiversity function predictions?
email: my@email.com
PhD Students
Mahika Dixit
Using machine learning to better conserve and understand butterflies and bees.
email: m.dixit20@imperial.ac.uk
Rahim Dina
How are plants distributed and evolving across islands?
email: rahim.dina20@imperial.ac.uk
Nell Pates
How can we measure biodiversity recovery across landscapes and in rewilded sites?
email: nell.pates20@imperial.ac.uk
Lucy Somekh
How can we use evolutionary history to improve forecasts of ecosystem services?
email: your@email.com
Nathan Clark
How can we use evolutionary history to improve forecasts of biodiversity’s distribution?
email: your@email.com
Alumni
Emma Moffett
Post-doc. I seek to understand how traits, populations, communities and ecosystems will respond to rising and more variable temperatures.
email: moffettemma@gmail.com
Jenna Lawson
Post-doc. A biodiversity scientist who uses bioacoustic and other next-generation kinds of data to understand environmental change.
email: jenlaw@ceh.ac.uk
Tom Smith
Post-doc. I’m a microbial ecologist, broadly interested in how organisms, populations and communities respond and adapt to changing environments.
email: thomas.smith1@imperial.ac.uk
Amanda Gallinat
Post-doc. I study the effects of environmental change on community interactions and phenology.
email: amanda.gallinat@usu.edu
Katie Weglarz
Post-doc. I am an entomologist who is broadly interested in interplay between species interactions, biodiversity, and evolution, and in issues related to broadening participation in STEM and higher education.
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Michael Stemkovski
PhD student. ecology, modeling phenology and population dynamics, and predicting the effects of climate change using computational methods.
email: m.stemkovski@gmail.com
Sylvia Kinosian
PhD student. My research examines different species of water sprite ferns, and I am producing the first monographic revision of their genus based on molecular markers.
email: sylvia.kinosian@aggiemail.usu.edu
Elizabeth Simpson
PhD student. I study the ecological and evolutionary dynamics between and within species across physical gradients, like elevation, and in response to changing climate patterns.
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Joel Gayford
MSc/technician. I’m broadly interested in evolution, ecology, and shark conservation.
email: sharkmeasurements@gmail.com
Austin Koontz
MSc/technician. I study the diversification of species and how populations exchange genes.
email: austinkoontz11@gmail.com
Bodie Weedop
BSc/technician. I try to improve the imputation of conservation prioritisation goals.
email: kbweedop@gmail.com
Mark Sneddon
Undergraduate. I am an electrical engineering major who’s interested in applying his mathematical skills to understand how populations of animals and plants are threatened across the globe.
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Jake Stachewicz
Undergraduate. I study morphology of beetles, and hopes to find a correlation between morphological evolution, clade diversification rate, and spatial distribution.
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