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25 Oct 2023: The Wildlife Trust's Chief Executive, Craig Bennett will be giving a talk at the DAB on November 1st as part of our CCI Conservation Seminar Series. He will be talking about The Wildlife Trusts Strategy for addressing the nature and climate crisis.

29 Nov 2023: ‘My name is Miao Li, a fourth-year visiting PhD student from the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University. I am delighted to join the CCI group and collaborate with Dr Thomas Worthington over the next year. My PhD study aims to

23 Oct 2023: Matthew's work is currently focused on temperate Australia, investigating the impact of Indigenous people and past climatic changes on vegetation, wetlands, and fire regimes to inform land management in the

31 Oct 2023: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Rupert Way. Dr Rupert Way is a Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, working with Prof Laura Diaz Anadon and Dr Sergey Kolesnikov on probabilistic technology cost

29 Nov 2023: Researchers hoping to rebrand a marine pest as a nutritious food have developed the world’s first system of farming shipworms, which they have renamed ‘Naked Clams’. Naked Clams, the world’s fastest-growing bivalve, which reach 30cm in just

31 Oct 2023: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Yanying Wang. Visitor. The David Attenborough Building. Pembroke Street. Cambridge. CB2 3QZ. 2024 University of Cambridge.

9 Nov 2023: Breaking bread: what’s wrong with wheat? Bread has been consumed by humans for thousands of years. This event will consider the history and environmental impact of this staple food.

17 Nov 2023: Sarayu Manoj is a research assistant situated within the Department of Plant Sciences. Having completed an MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2023, her expertise

6 Nov 2023: Cambridge Centre for Earth Observation (CEO) Seminar Phil Wilkes, RBG Kew Next week we are hosting a seminar with Phil Wilkes from Kew. Please find attached the poster for Phil’s talk and feel free to extend the invite.

31 Oct 2023: Jiashu is a PhD student in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG). His doctoral research focuses on energy policy, technological

30 Oct 2023: The payments encourage local people to protect forests: the carbon finance they receive can help provide alternative livelihoods that don’t involve cutting down trees. ... Protection of tropical forests, a nature-based solution to climate change, comes

31 Oct 2023: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Nina de Jong. PhD Student. The David Attenborough Building. Pembroke Street. Cambridge. CB2 3QZ. 2024 University of Cambridge.

1 Nov 2023: A new study by member of the Insect Ecology Group and published in Ecology & Evolution has found that butterflies may be most vulnerable to climate change as larvae.Insects are vulnerable to climate change, as they rely on their environment to

29 Nov 2023: I’m originally from Colombia. I got a degree on Biology and a masters in Ecology. Currently, I’m doing my second year as a PhD Student at The University of Sheffield and starting as a Visiting Student at the Department of Plant Sciences in

31 Oct 2023: I obtained a Bachelor's degree with Honors (Ecology and Environmental Sciences) at the Australian National University. My Honors research is a meta-analysis to explore the biodiversity and ecosystem services provided by native forests restored by

31 Oct 2023: Nadia Rehman is a PhD student in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on innovation in financial instruments for climate responsive investment and diplomacy in emerging markets. As a current Member Climate

31 Oct 2023: Murray Fallk is a PhD student in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. His research covers themes spanning economics, public policy, demography, the environment, and energy. He is also interested in econometric methods and

31 Oct 2023: Giving away other people’s money to those who really need and appreciate it is the best job in the world.".

13 Nov 2023: Rachel Georgiou coordinates field research activities within the Centre for Landscape Regeneration, and is also based in the Giorio group at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry, currently supporting the REGEN project. She has

31 Oct 2023: In her research, Simone Markoff is analyzing different pathways to enhance food security while simultaneously preserving biodiversity. With Tanzania as a case study, she is exploring how biodiversity would be impacted by an increase in crop

6 Nov 2023: Sarah is a Royal Society-Newton International Fellow joining Dr. Lynn Dicks Agroecology group. She is a pollinator ecologist and toxicologist broadly interested in how pollinators respond to different chemical stressors. Her current research focuses

8 Nov 2023: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Dr Oscar Morton. Dr. Oscar Morton's research broadly centers around the trade and use of species, exploring the reasons behind the selection of specific species for particular purposes, evaluating the

31 Oct 2023: My research focuses on the policies and economics of implementing low-carbon hydrogen energy in the GCC countries in the Middle East. The PhD is under the supervision of Professor Laura Diaz Anadon and Professor Shailaja Fennell. Previously, I

31 Oct 2023: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Dr Katy Faulkner. I am interested in how ecosystems respond to global change, specifically the impacts on soil carbon cycling and microbial community structure and function. Previously, I have worked

8 Nov 2023: Dr André Butler is a Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy, working in the Centre for Landscape Regeneration with Professor Shailaja Fennell. Using quasi-experimental methods, his research has broadly focused on investigating the

31 Oct 2023: Chris Bousfield is a Postdoc who works on utilising satellite data to detect illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. His focus is also on modeling the future impacts of wildfires on global timber production under climate change. Chris completed

8 Nov 2023: Dr. Jakub Kronenberg, an ecological economist, specializes in the investigation of environmental values and the institutional context of nature conservation, with a specific focus on urban green spaces and avian species. His work delves into

8 Nov 2023: Dr. Courtney Currier has recently become a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Sciences, collaborating with Dr. Adam Pellegrini and his Disturbance and Ecosystem Function group. This partnership, supported by a European Research Council grant

8 Nov 2023: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Jessa Belle Garubay-Yayen. MPhil Student. The David Attenborough Building. Pembroke Street. Cambridge. CB2 3QZ. 2024 University of Cambridge.

21 Dec 2023: Throughout the summer of 2023, Lillian took on the role of website manager for CRI & CLR through TES, initiating an extensive revamp of both websites. This engagement transitioned into a part-time position as Communications Coordinator for both

31 Oct 2023: Joss Lyons-White is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Conservation and Development Group at the University of Cambridge. His research is primarily centered around the issue of tropical deforestation, which is primarily driven by the expanding

13 Nov 2023: Felipe Nincao Bedliomini is a PhD student with a keen interest in enabling and scaling the restoration of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, considered one of the most biodiverse biomes globally. His academic background predominantly lies in

6 Nov 2023: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Dr Phil Wilkes. Landscape Ecology; Remote Sensing; Forest Structure. Phil is a Research Leader of the Nature Unlocked: Landscape Ecology Programme at RBG Kew and is based at Wakehurst. His interests are

6 Nov 2023: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Professor Shailaja Fennell. Rural-urban transitions, rural and urban sustainability challenges, youth skills and job creation, adoption of smart technology solutions, human development and community

6 Nov 2023: Jacqui James' research interests are centered on understanding the interactions between plants and pollinators, examining how these interactions are affected by land use and climate change, and assessing the consequences of these changes for the

31 Oct 2023: Will is using remote sensing methods to measure forest carbon in Cairngorms National Park. Using a range of sensors from ground to the air – terrestrial laser scanning, aerial laser scanning and unmanned aerial vehicle laser scanning – he will