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UK Global Challenges Research Fund: “Growing Research Capability to Meet the Challenges Faced by Developing Countries

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Justin Sheffield

Head of School

Research interests

  • Large-scale hydrology and its interactions with climate variability and change.
  • Hydrological extremes, climate change, and hydrological processes from catchment to global scale.
  • The application of fundamental research to natural hazards impacts reduction, including monitoring and prediction systems.
Other researchers

Professor Guy Baverstock-Poppy

Professor In Biological Sciences

Professor Jim Wright

Professor in GIS & Int Development

Research interests

  • Safe water access and public health in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Environmental applications of GIS
  • Geospatial analysis for public health, particularly via routine health management information systems

Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Professor Laura Lewis

Professor of Anthropology

Research interests

  • History and ethnography of race and Afro-Mexico/Afro-Latin America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Mexico

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing

Research interests

  • Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
  • Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial carbon uptake
  • Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Ecology and Evolution

The Ecology and Evolution research group covers the interactions of species with their environment.

Environmental Change and Sustainability

We carry out geospatial analysis and experimentation to understand environmental change and potential solutions.

GeoData

We manage, analyse and process environmental data. Our consultancy services and interdisciplinary research projects range from managing river catchments and coastal zones to the wider fields of environment, social and economic development.

Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)

We combine expertise in population, health and wellbeing with the application of technical excellence in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis and qualitative methods.

Research outputs

Global sensitivity analysis of crop yield and transpiration from the FAO-AquaCrop model for dryland environments
Yang Lu,
Tendai Chibarabada,
Matthew McCabe,
Gabrielle De Lannoy,
& Justin Sheffield
, 2021 , Field Crops Research , 269 , 1--15
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108182
Type: article
Assimilation of soil moisture and canopy cover data improves maize simulation using an under-calibrated crop model
Yang Lu,
Tendai Chibarabada,
Matteo G. Ziliani,
Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema,
Matthew F. McCabe,
& Justin Sheffield
, 2021 , Agricultural Water Management , 252
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106884
Type: article
Satellites and crop interventions
Jadunandan Dash
, 2019 , Nature Sustainability , 2 (10) , 903--904
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0402-3
Type: article
Integrated approaches to understanding and reducing drought impact on food security across scales
Xiaogang He,
Lyndon Estes,
Megan Konar,
Di Tian,
Daniela Anghileri,
Kathy Baylis,
Tom P. Evans,
& Justin Sheffield
, 2019 , Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability , 40 , 43--54
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.09.006
Type: review
Satellite remote sensing for water resources management
J. Sheffield,
E.F. Wood,
M. Pan,
H. Beck,
G. Coccia,
A. Serrat-Capdevila,
& K. Verbist
, 2018 , Water Resources Research , 54 (12) , 9724--9758
DOI: 10.1029/2017WR022437
Type: review