Dr Pia Benaud

My research contributes to our understanding of how nature-based solutions, through restoring natural habitat structure and function, can mitigate land degradation issues and improve the provision of ecosystem services. I take an interdisciplinary approach to monitoring structural and functional change, combining in-situ field instrumentation and laboratory analysis with proximal and remote sensing technologies, and geospatial analysis, delivering both a spatial and temporal understanding of environmental change.

I am currently conducting research in support of the South West Peatland Partnership's Nature for Climate Project. We will be combining high temporal resolution field measurements of hydrology and carbon fluxes with remote and proximally sensing data, to build an understanding of trajectories of change following peatland restoration. For more information on this and my previous research, please see my 'Research' tab.

Broad research specialisms:

ecosystem structure:function; peatlands; environmental change detection; understanding the environmental effects of landscape restoration; remote sensing; soil erosion; drones; LiDAR