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Project overview

Sarg_LEGACY aims to maximise impact, complete research activities disrupted by COVID and ODA cuts, and to create a lasting legacy from the SARTRAC project. Sarg_LEGACY endeavours to ensure that research undertaken within SARTRAC creates lasting benefits for the poorest affected by sargassum influxes.

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Emma Tompkins

Prof of Geog, Environment & Development
Other researchers

Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography and Climate

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

Centre for Democratic Futures

We carry out interdisciplinary research on the conditions of achieving democratic futures, ranging from conceptual debates to challenges of institutional innovation and public policy.

Environmental Change and Sustainability

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

Physical Oceanography

The research group explores patterns of change and variability in satellite and in-situ measurements of surface temperature, sea level and productivity.
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