Luiz focuses on studying tropical forest disturbances, such as deforestation, drought, and fires, using remote sensing and field data, with a particular emphasis on Amazonia. His work explores carbon stocks, fluxes, and the effects of human pressures and climate change. A former NERC Research Fellow, he has conducted extensive field campaigns and integrated ecological data, remote sensing, and modeling to analyse carbon and nutrient dynamics in Amazonia and Atlantic forests. His specialisms include Amazonia, remote sensing, forest ecology, land-use change, and carbon dynamics.
Edward leads pioneering studies using satellite radar data to map tropical forest biomass change; he holds an ERC Starting Grant to improve maps of tropical forest degradation.
Thais is a geographer and environmental scientist with a particular interest in remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and the carbon cycle in tropical ecosystems. Her research is focused on elucidating the impact of human activities, including land use change, landscape fragmentation, and fire, on the carbon cycle and broader ecological processes in tropical ecosystems. Thais will guide work on the application of Earth Observation data in Amazon-SOS (e.g. use of European Space Agency data).