Professor Susan Page’s research focuses on peatland ecosystems, both in the UK and the tropics, focusing on peatland land use and management, including consequences for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land subsidence. She has been a partner in several multinational research programmes and is currently investigating the environmental impacts of agricultural land uses on peat soils, including the burdens caused by peat fires in Indonesia. She has a strong interest in opportunities for climate change mitigation that ensure beneficial outcomes for people and planet.
Professor Page applies multidisciplinary geographical approaches to developing more responsible management of global peatlands. This requires a more in depth understanding of the trade-offs between environmental impacts and social and economic development. This has involved working with rural communities in several parts of Indonesia and in the UK in an effort to reduce peatland carbon losses and greenhouse gas emissions, whilst also determining pathways for livelihood security under improved peatland management.
Professor Kevin Tansey’s interests are in the analysis and investigation of Earth Observation data. He is particularly interested in the characterising vegetation on the Earth’s surface and identifying the spatial temporal and magnitude of disturbance (specifically fire deforestation degradation and drainage) of vegetation. He undertakes these tasks at a range of spatial scales using existing and new SAR LiDAR and optical remotely sensed data from the ground, aircraft or satellites in space. Recently He has published more than 70 journal papers in a career spanning over 25 years since commencing my PhD in 1995. Kevin has successfully supervised 24 PhD students and currently supervises a further two research students.
Through the ESA-funded WorldPeatland project, it was possible to assess the applicability of Multi-Temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (MT-InSAR) methods for the study of peatlands located in boreal and temperate climate zones, as well as tropical ones.
Connecting with ongoing peatland projects and collaborating on the creation of databases is crucial for the WorldPeatland team to train and validate Earth Observation tools developed within the consortium.
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