Research

The themes running through my work in conservation technology and field ecology.

Acoustics

Passive acoustic monitoring of wildlife, from horseshoe bats to large carnivores, and low-cost networked sensors that bring sound data in from the field.

Earth observation

Satellite, drone and laser-scanning data for mapping habitats and land-use change, and understanding how error in these maps affects conservation decisions.

Microclimate ecology

How vegetation structure shapes the fine-scale climates animals actually live in, measured with sensor networks and 3D forest scans.

Thermal biology

Operative temperature, thermal preference and thermal habitat for tropical reptiles, and how warming changes the habitat available to them.

Movement ecology

GPS tracking and step-selection models to understand how large mammals such as elephants and carnivores use space.

Machine learning in conservation

Machine learning that links remote sensing and sensor data to field measurements, to predict species, habitats and conditions across whole landscapes.

Computer vision

Automated detection, species classification and individual identification from camera-trap images.

Ethics of conservation technology

How conservation data and technology can be misused, and how protected areas can reduce those risks.