Biography
Dr Mark Mulligan completed his undergraduate degree in geography at the University of Bristol from 1988-1991. After a brief period in the rainforests of Brunei with the then Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Brunei Rainforest Expedition, he moved to King’s for his PhD on 'Modelling hydrology and vegetation change in a degraded semi-arid area', supervised by Professor John Thornes.
Mark took up the post of Lecturer in Geography at King’s in September 1994 at the age of 24 and has been teaching and researching in the Department since, with a year (2003-2004) research secondment to Istituto di Botanica, Universita' di Napoli, Italy.
In 2003, Mark was appointed Reader in Geography and in 2004 was awarded the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers Gill Memorial Award for ‘innovative monitoring and modelling’ of environmental systems.
Mark is an honorary fellow at the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), adjunct Doctoral Graduate Faculty at Texas State University 2007-2012, and trustee of PROAVES UK.
Research
- Development and application of spatial policy support systems
- Agriculture, land use change and climate change impacts on water and ecosystems
- Ecosystem services mapping and modelling
- Tropical forests and tropical montane cloud forests
- Environmental modelling, environmental Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and environmental monitoring with open source hardware
Mark's research interests include climate, hydrology and vegetation processes and dynamics, and their interactions with each other, and with human activity, in the Mediterranean and tropical humid environments. His research applies high-tech field monitoring based on his open-source designs at www.freestation.org and distributed process-based computer modelling.
He is committed to science in the service of society and has thus focused (collaboratively with industrial partners) on making his research results available to industrial and policy-oriented users through decision support tools at www.policysupport.org and web-based modelling tools and data distribution systems and geodata.policysupport.org.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Personal tutor (Years 1, 2 and 3)
- Academic tutor (Year 1)
- Deputy chair (Undergraduate exam board)
- Geography BSc (Dissertation supervisor)
- 6SSG3030 Tropical Forests in a Changing Environment
Postgraduate
- Academic tutor
- Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Management MSc (Convenor)
- Geography MA/MSc (Convenor)
- 7SSG5031 Modelling Environmental Change At The Land Surface
- 7SSG5109 Environmental Geographical Information Systems
- 7SSG5035 Monitoring Environmental Change
- 7SSG5111 Environmental Research Design and Applications
- Dissertation in MA/MSc Geography
- Contributor: Seminars in Environmental Management
PhD supervision
Mark welcomes PhD students looking to research a variety of topics regarding policy support, ecosystem service evaluation and environmental change, at scales from local to global and with particular emphasis on tropical forests and semi-arid drylands.
He works with a large body of (mainly overseas) PhD students, having been the principal supervisor for the successful completion of 32 PhD candidates since 2000. For the full list current and existing PhD students, see here.
Further details
See Mark's research profile
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Harris, T., Ottaviani, G., Mulligan, M. & Brummitt, N., 17 Oct 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14005
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Matthews, N., Dalton, J., Matthews, J., Barclay, H., Barron, J., Garrick, D., Gordon, L., Huq, S., Isman, T., McCornick, P., Meghji, A., Mirumachi, N., Moose, S., Mulligan, M., Noble, A., Petryniak, O., Pittock, J., Queiroz, C., Ringler, C., Smith, M., & 3 othersTurner, C., Vora, S. & Whiting, L., Dec 2022, In: Water Security. 17, 100126. Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100126
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Douglas, C., Mulligan, M., Van Soesbergen, A. & Burke, S., 7 Sep 2022, GoodIT 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 231-235 5 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1145/3524458.3547225
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Mulligan, M., 17 Sep 2002, (Accepted/In press) In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mulligan, M., 23 Nov 2021, In: Environmental Research. 1, 033003 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mulligan, M., Van Soesbergen, A. & Everitt, L., 2022, London: King's College London. Research output: Book/Report › Report. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.18742/pub01-088
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Van Soesbergen, A., Chu, Z., Shi, M. & Mulligan, M., 25 Jun 2022, In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING. 60, 4207414. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3172883
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Mulligan, M., Douglas, C., Van Soesbergen, A., Shi, M., Burke, S., Van Delden, H., Giordano, R., Lopez-Gunn, E. & Scrieciu, A., 9 Sep 2021, GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 225-229 5 p. (GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1145/3462203.3475916
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Jung, M., Arnell, A., de Lamo, X., García-Rangel, S., Lewis, M., Mark, J., Merow, C., Miles, L., Ondo, I., Pironon, S., Ravilious, C., Rivers, M., Schepashenko, D., Tallowin, O., van Soesbergen, A., Govaerts, R., Boyle, B. L., Enquist, B. J., Feng, X., Gallagher, R., & 33 othersMaitner, B., Meiri, S., Mulligan, M., Ofer, G., Roll, U., Hanson, J. O., Jetz, W., Di Marco, M., McGowan, J., Rinnan, D. S., Sachs, J. D., Lesiv, M., Adams, V. M., Andrew, S. C., Burger, J. R., Hannah, L., Marquet, P. A., McCarthy, J. K., Morueta-Holme, N., Newman, E. A., Park, D. S., Roehrdanz, P. R., Svenning, J. C., Violle, C., Wieringa, J. J., Wynne, G., Fritz, S., Strassburg, B. B. N., Obersteiner, M., Kapos, V., Burgess, N., Schmidt-Traub, G. & Visconti, P., Nov 2021, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 5, 11, p. 1499-1509 11 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7
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Mulligan, M., 5 Aug 2021, In: Global Sustainability. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review