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UK Global Challenges Research Fund: “Growing Research Capability to Meet the Challenges Faced by Developing Countries

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Justin Sheffield

Head of School

Research interests

  • Large-scale hydrology and its interactions with climate variability and change.
  • Hydrological extremes, climate change, and hydrological processes from catchment to global scale.
  • The application of fundamental research to natural hazards impacts reduction, including monitoring and prediction systems.
Connect with Justin

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Jim Wright

Professor in GIS & Int Development

Research interests

  • Safe water access and public health in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Environmental applications of GIS
  • Geospatial analysis for public health, particularly via routine health management information systems
Connect with Jim

Email: [email protected]

Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise
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Email: [email protected]

Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Connect with Gopal

Email: [email protected]

Professor Laura Lewis

Professor of Anthropology

Research interests

  • History and ethnography of race and Afro-Mexico/Afro-Latin America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Mexico
Connect with Laura

Email: [email protected]

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing

Research interests

  • Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
  • Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial carbon uptake
  • Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology
Connect with Jadu

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Satellite remote sensing for water resources management
J. Sheffield, E.F. Wood, M. Pan, H. Beck, G. Coccia, A. Serrat-Capdevila & K. Verbist, 2018, Water Resources Research, 54(12), 9724-9758
DOI: 10.1029/2017WR022437
Type: review