Author Archives: Marion

Agroforestry adoption UK

Posted on 31st October 2022 by Marion

Policy recommendations have a look at the most recent outputs from our agroforestry UK project. We have synthesized key findings into a policy brief (thank you @Eleanor Moore for the amazing leadership on this) .

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Highlighting our recent work on agroforestry adoption in the north of England.

Posted on 17th September 2022 by Marion

Agroforestry – Press Office – Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)

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Teaching & Training

Posted on 24th June 2020 by Marion

As a group, we are leading on and contributing to several courses teaching at UG and PG level at Newcastle University. We supervise and offer projects on topics we research on and are happy to help you organise an international … Continue reading →

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Updates from the team

Posted on 4th December 2019 by Marion

(1) Visitors to the team: Daniel Da Silva is visiting from the Regional University of Blumenau in Brazil. He will work with us and colleagues from the wider research group (Modelling, Evidence and Policy) to do some complex system modelling … Continue reading →

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Four UG students in Peru

Posted on 6th September 2019 by Marion

Four group members (UG students at NU) recently ventured into the untouched forests of Peru Manu NP to look for jaguars with camera traps, analyse vegetation indicators of disturbance and measure spatial point patterns in fig tree species. Thank you … Continue reading →

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Visiting Geography at University of Zurich, Switzerland

Posted on 8th May 2018 by Marion

Early mornings are dreadful, no matter how often one practices the ‘set alarm at 3:50 am, get up, fall into clothes, fall into cab, try to hold a polite conversation with lovely taxi driver, join the queues at the security … Continue reading →

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Laura won prestigious award

Posted on 27th April 2018 by Marion

Our PhD student Laura won the prestigious National Geographic Early Career Grant to support her research on road impacts on amphibians and mammals in rainforests. Congratulations!

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From the field #South_Africa

Posted on 27th April 2018 by Marion

Funded by the Royal Society, I was travelling to Southern Africa to do measure & map quality of crop and non-crop habitats. Yes, that’s right. I have started to venture beyond the forest/woodland/shrub/savannah edge and into that thing called matrix … Continue reading →

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Alexander is still in Costa Rica

Posted on 2nd August 2017 by Marion

Alexander’s work on fungal infection prevalence among amphibians and how it varies (or not) with habitat type and condition is well under way. He has been tracking through remote forests and wetlands in Costa Rica taking skin swabs from tiny … Continue reading →

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Royal Society funds pilot project in Mozambique

Posted on 2nd August 2017 by Marion

We have received brilliant news. The Royal Society awarded us a grant of 11,805 GBP, which allowed us to buy essential equipment (including a thermal imaging camera, a full-frame digital camera with fish-eye lens and a NDVI camera) and to run a … Continue reading →

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