Project overview

Sarg_LEGACY aims to maximise impact, complete research activities disrupted by COVID and ODA cuts, and to create a lasting legacy from the SARTRAC project. Sarg_LEGACY endeavours to ensure that research undertaken within SARTRAC creates lasting benefits for the poorest affected by sargassum influxes.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Emma Tompkins PhD

Prof of Geog, Environment & Development

Research interests

  • How households and businesses are adapting to climate and weather hazards
  • Monitoring real-time adaptation to hydro-meteorological/climate hazards,  (including compound and cascading hazards)
  • Methods to assess the effectiveness of climate adaptations
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Other researchers

Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography and Climate
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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
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs