Kate Jones is Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity at University College London, honorary fellow of Zoological Society of London, and Director of the Biome Health Project. Her research investigates the interface of ecological and human health, using statistical and mathematical modelling to understand the impact of global land use and climate change on ecological and human systems. Kate’s research has also developed multidisciplinary tools for monitoring ecological health, particularly for monitoring ecosystems acoustically. Kate has written over 100 articles and book chapters in prestigious journals such as Nature and Science and is a scientific advisor for a number of international biodiversity charities. In 2008, Kate won the Leverhulme Prize for outstanding contributions to Zoology.

Principal Investigator, UCL

Kate Jones

Georgina Mace DBE FRS is Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystems at the UCL Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research (CBER). Her research interests are in measuring the trends and consequences of biodiversity loss and ecosystem change. Her work has contributed to methods for identifying species at rick of extinction and assessing biodiversity in relation to ecosystem services. Her recent work focuses on the links between environmental condition and poverty alleviation, and debates concerning natural capital accounting. She was elected an FRS in 2002, was the winner of the 2007 International Cosmos Prize and the 2016 Heineken Prize for Environmental Science

Professor, UCL

Georgina Mace

Rob works on spatial patterns of forest and the biodiversity contained within those forests.  His work involves investigating and trying to predict patterns of forest cover from local through to global scales, sampling of taxa within selected landscapes located in both temperate and tropical parts of the world, and manipulative experiments in both the field and lab.  Most of his work uses invertebrates as a model system, with a focus on beetles. A large recent initiative is the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Project.  This is one of the world's largest ecological experiments, taking advantage of a planned conversion of forest to oil palm in Borneo to experimentally design a landscape.

Professor, ICL

Rob Ewers

Gee joined the Biome Health Project in 2019 and will be overseeing the data collection and analysis from the four field sites. He completed his PhD in 2019 using data he collected from the Brazilian Cerrado.

Guilherme Ferreira

Postdoctoral Researcher, UCL

David is leading the field-work for our coral reef monitoring project in Fiji. At the Zoological Society of London, his research seeks to understand the spatial and temporal behaviour patterns of sharks and tuna, and how they interact with both marine reserves and fisheries. Other than the BHP in Fiji, David's work is based around the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Marine Protected Area. David is a committee member of Reef Conservation UK and has previously worked on coral reef projects in the Red Sea, Caribbean and Indo-Pacific region.

Postdoctoral Researcher, ZSL

David Curnick

Sarab is a PhD student working on developing hardware and automated analysis methods for soundscape monitoring at our Borneo field site. He is interested in investigating how large scale ecosystem dynamics can be detected through fully automated, unsupervised methods. Previously, Sarab studied Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, specialising in computing and signal processing.

PhD Student, ICL

Sarab Sethi

Liam is working on the Nepal component of the project, where he conducts field work in and around Bardia National Park. Previously, Liam completed an MRes in Bioscience from Cardiff University, where he studied sex biased gene flow in brown bears using genetics markers as well as developing a pipeline for the identification of sex chromosomes in brown and polar bears.

Graduate Research Assistant, UCL

Liam Thomas

Santosh works in the Institute of Forestry and is partnering with us on the Nepal component of the project.

Professor, Tribhuvan University

Santosh Rayamahji

Emily is working on the Kenya component of the project. Based in the Maasai Mara, Emily uses camera traps and acoustic monitors to monitor how wildlife responds to different levels of grazing across five different sites. Emily is also interested in multi-species interactions and carnivore distributions in sub-saharan Africa. Previously, Emily completed her MSc in Wild Animal Biology from the Royal Veterinary College and Zoological Society of London, where she assessed the distribution of wildlife outside of the protected areas in the Maasai Mara working with the Mara Cheetah Project. 

Graduate Research Assistant, UCL

Emily Madsen

Paul is a National Geographic Explorer and a senior lecturer a MMU. He is a regional expert on small mammals, especially bats, with extensive fieldwork experience. Paul uses bats as a focal group to understand and interrogate processes that drive rarity and abundance of mammals in natural, and human-dominated, environments. He is primarily a community ecologist, although his research addresses a variety of important questions for improving bat conservation in Africa. His research also spans several sub-fields of biology including behavioural, ecological and systematic/ taxonomic questions. He is a member of the Bat Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and co-chair of Bat Conservation Africa. He is also a research associate with National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Service, Bat Conservation International and the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH, Chicago, IL., USA).

Senior Lecturer, Maasai Mara University

Dr. Paul Webala

Mohamed is a Computer Science PhD student at UCL supervised by Prof. Gabriel Brostow and funded by Microsoft Research Cambridge. His main research area is focused on bringing the state of the art in Machine Vision to edge devices. Mohamed works on pooling different non-homogeneous datasets and using different models to classify camera trap images.

PhD Student, UCL

Mohamed Sayed

Sarah worked on theoretical aspects during the conception of the Biome Health Project. She is a conservation biologist and macroecologist interested in understanding the drivers of species decline and the efficacy of biodiversity conservation measures. Previously, Sarah worked on the BIOPAMA project investigating protected area effectiveness. Her PhD was on the dispersal and distribution of mammals at Imperial College London.

Postdoctoral Researcher, UCL

Sarah Whitmee

Daniel was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCL for 2018/2019, where he oversaw the research at the four field sites. Dan's research investigates the relationship between people and wildlife, and he is particularly interested in quantifying human influences on biodiversity. Previously, Dan investigated the harvest of wild animals for subsistence, livelihoods, and traditional medicines in Africa for his PhD. Dan is also an active member of the IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, where he investigates the illegal trade in pangolins and works towards their conservation.

Postdoctoral Researcher, UCL

Daniel Ingram

Liam Pattullo