Louise Mair
NUAcT Research Fellow, Newcastle University
Louise is an NUAcT Research Fellow at Newcastle University where her research focuses on reconciling species and ecosystem conservation needs to provide decision makers with the scientific understanding required to halt biodiversity loss.
Together with research partners from the IUCN, she developed the Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric. STAR quantifies the potential contribution of threat abatement and habitat restoration activities to reduce global species extinction risk and can support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework by allowing countries and other non-state actors, such as NGOs and businesses, to set and measure progress towards science-based targets for species conservation.
Louise’s background is in macro-ecological research, with a particular focus on the impacts of climate change and land use on species distributions. She completed her PhD at the University of York and has experience working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala.
