PhD Students
Current students sole or first supervised (by start date)
2011
Elina Aletrari (PhD in progress) funded: Cyprus Gov [EU]. Updating the redlist for plants for post 2010 biodiversity targeting using remote sensing. Joint with Natural History Museum.
2011
Andrew Ogilvie (PhD in progress) [EU] funded: EC Wassermed Project. Water harvesting in a semi arid basin: water balance, water use and impact on downstream catchment hydrology. Joint with University Montpellier II and Move.
2009
Leo Zurita (PhD in progress) Oil and biodiversity in the Western Amazon : minimising impact while sustaining production
Caitlin Douglas (PhD in progress)Environmental change and animal populations in the Swakop basin of Namibia : application of an individual based model
Bhopal Pandey (PhD in progress) The provision of environmental services to dams in the Himalaya : options for PES schemes in the face of climate change
2008
Arnout van Soesbergen (PhD in progress) The impact of climate change on the world's dams
2007
Kate Parks (PhD in progress) Climate change stable conservation strategies for the world's tropical montane cloud forests
Jorge Peña Arancibia (PhD in progress)
Pantropical modelling of the impact of land use change on water quantity provision and low flows
2006
Shawn McCracken (PhD in progress, Texas State University)
Environmental Quality Effects And The Ecological Context Of Vertically Stratified Rainforest Canopy Fauna (adjunct faculty supervisor)
Jan Francke (PhD in progress)
Development and Application Testing of Ultra-Deep Ground Penetrating Radar (F/T)
Juan Carlos Verhelst (PhD in progress)
Quantifying national scale biodiversity-geodiversity relationships (F/T)
Completed students sole or first supervised (by completion date)
2011
Leonardo Saenz Cruz
Pantropical modelling of the impact of land use change on water quality provision to dams
2010
Juan Carlos Verhelst
Quantifying national scale biodiversity-geodiversity relationships
2009
Elena Tarnavsky
(PhD in progress). Scaling remote sensing data for policy relevant desertification modelling in North Africa(F/T)
2008
Jose Mauricio Larrea
(PhD completed). Modelling the hydrological vulnerability of environments to petroleum-related contamination in the Ecuadorian Oriente.(P/T)
2007
Carlos Gonzalez-Orozco
(PhD completed). Identifying tree species from high-resolution airborne imagery: a tool for inventory and conservation (F/T)
Pablo Vimos-Calle
(PhD completed). Understanding forest heterogeneity in the lowlands of the Ecuadorian Amazon. (P/T)
2006
Teo di Tommasso
(PhD completed). Soil quality and root dynamics in Mediterranean Desertification (occasional student, University of Potenza)(F/T)
2005
Juliana Gonzalez
(PhD completed) The role of cloud interception in the hydrology of Colombian tropical montane cloud forests.
Zhang Zhong
(PhD completed)
Modelling plant community response to climatic change at the global scale. (click for PDF)
email: khpa1993@gmail.com
2004
Andrew Jarvis
(PhD completed) Understanding biophysical and landscape controls on spatial patterns of tree diversity (click for PDF). email: a.jarvis@cgiar.org
Ines Lopes de Fonseca
(PhD completed) Modelling variation in soil properties for SE Spain using GIS techniques. (click for PDF) email:ilfonseca@yahoo.com
Pam Vass
(PhD completed) Plant diversity and spatial discontinuities of the Albany Centre in the south-eastern Cape, South Africa.(click for PDF) (co-supervised with George Perry and Philip Stott) email: p.a.vass@ntlworld.com
2003
Gemma Dunjo Denti
(PhD completed) Indicators of desertification in a semi arid Mediterranean catchment. (click for PDF) (co-supervised with J. Wainwright) email gemma.dunjo(all kcl email addresses end with @kcl.ac.uk)
Dolors Armenteras
(PhD completed) Modelling Colombian biodiversity at the national scale using GIS.(click for PDF) email: dolors.armenteras@gmail.com
2002
Matthew Letts
(PhD completed) Structure and productivity of tropical montane cloud forests in western Colombia. (click for PDF) email: matthew.letts@uleth.ca
Peter Walpole
(PhD completed) Effects of land conversion on water and nutrient retention in tropical montane environment, Mindanao, Philippines (inherited from John Pitman, on retirement in 2001)
2001
Mauricio Rincon-Romero
(PhD completed) Modelling the sensitivity of Colombian hillsides to land use change.(click for PDF) email: gismodelling@uniweb.net.co
Waleed Alsabhan
(PhD completed) Developing a real time online GIS-based catchment hydrological model. (click for PDF) email: waleed@waleed.org
Matthew Charlton
(PhD completed) Efficient location of mains water leaks using ground penetrating radar.email:
matt@mbcharlton.com
2000
Andrew Howe
(PhD completed) The estimation of soil total pore volume using ground penetrating radar. (click for PDF) email: andy.howe@environment-agency.gov.uk