Dr Naomi Gatis (She/Her)

Naomi is interested in the effects of landscape management (peatland restoration, afforestation, natural woodland recolonisation, rewilding, regenerative agriculture) on ecosystem function, with a focus on vegetation change, carbon cycling and climate change adaptation. She uses a range of field-based methods including dynamic greenhouse gas flux measurements (survey, continuous chamber and eddy covariance) and vegetation and soil surveys. As well as proximal (digital cameras, terrestrial laser scanner), distal (drone mounted true-colour and multispectral cameras, aerial photography, LiDAR, airborne radiometric survey) and satellite (Sentinel 1 and 2) remotely sensed data together with geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques to investigate links between land management decisions; vegetation community, structure and distribution; and the resultant effects on carbon stocks and cycles from plot to landscape extents.