TroPeaCC
Tropical Peatlands and the Carbon Cycle
TroPeaCC
Tropical Peatlands and the Carbon Cycle
Meet our team at the University of Exeter and around the world.
Angela is the Principal Investigator and the creator of the TroPeaCC project. She is a professor in Ecosystems and Biogeochemical Cycles in the University of Exeter. She is passionate about peat.
Tim is an Associate Professor in Physical Geography in the University of Exeter. He likes all kinds of fluxes: carbon, energy, water and trace gases.
Carol is an ecophysiologist that loves tropical forests and is very excited to broaden her knowledge about GHG emissions from tropical peatlands along with the amazing TroPeaCC team.
Elise is a TroPeaCC PhD student who loves tropical peatlands and aspires to strengthen our understanding of their functioning using the JULES land surface model.
Jorge is a TroPeaCC postdoc modelling methane emissions from tropical peatlands. He enjoys simulating peat accumulation, methane bubbles in peat and landscape evolution.
Holly is a Graduate Research Assistant who joined the TroPeaCC project in Sep 2022. She is mostly lab based and she is looking forward to working with lots of peat.
Fiona is a research administrator who has worked on multiple grants from a variety of funders across Geography and other disciplines. She has experience of everything from the University’s finance processes to website design and event management.
Carolina loves earth system models, and – a rarity amongst peatlanders – is also an astronomer.
Sarah is a land surface modeller who will co-supervise the modelling work in TroPeaCC. Peat is one of her favourite land surface types (along with permafrost). She thinks microbes are cool too.
David is the dedicated scientific software engineer for the Geography Department at the University of Exeter. David’s background is in regional climate modelling, but David loves all computer models, including those which model tropical peatland. David also loves GIS, coding and generally solving any technical challenge which comes his way.
Sue is the leading expert in tropical peatlands and she has worked for a number of years in South East Asia and more recently in peatlands in Congo and South America. She is interested in ecosystem functioning but also in the interaction of humans and peatlands.
Juan is a botanist who specializes in bryophyte ecology. However, lately an interest in peat and peat forming ecosystems has allowed him to explore topics of carbon cycling, paleoecology, restoration and climate mitigation in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Xavier is a Professor in Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University. He enjoys dragging geophysical equipment in peatlands around the world from the tropics to the Arctic.
All the TroPeaCC collaborators love peat.
Beccy is involved in TroPeaCC as CEO of project partner Quanterra Systems Ltd. She loves working on anything to do with the natural environment.
All TroPeaCC collaborators love peat
Gerard has a PhD in Forest and biodiversity. The focus of his research is forest conservation and sustainable management of natural. He is a senior Lecturer at the Université Officielle de Bukavu. He also works as a Freelance consultant in the forests and climate change, wood energy and Ecosystem services sectors.
Graeme has broad research interests in Earth System Science and work on topics concerning both past, present and future environmental and climatic change. He works in a diverse range of environments from Arctic tundra to tropical rainforests and many places in-between.
Carol is a Principal Wetlands Officer in charge of wetland Mapping, Assessment and Management planning in the Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda. She is at the helm of coordinating inventory and research on wetlands including peatlands. She is excited to lead the Ministry team in the collaboration with TroPeaCC project to understand GHG emissions in Uganda’s peatlands.
Charles is PhD Student at Kenyatta University, Nairobi Kenya as well as an Environmental Systems Analyst based at the Department of Environmental Management, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda. His research interests include wetland ecology and responses to biogeochemistry, hydrology and climate through modelling and empirical studies, as well as ecosystem services in wetlands. He is looking at sediment and carbon fluxes in an urban wetland for his PhD.
Paola is master’s student and researcher affiliated with the LECC group at the Universidad Javeriana. Her main objective is to understand the factors that influence greenhouse gas emissions from different vegetation types in the peatlands of the Colombian Amazon.
Alejandro is a researcher at the Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. His main research interest is the carbon cycle and its regulators in tropical peatlands using of the eddy covariance method.
Michel is a PhD student at the University of Kisangani looking at the structure and floristic composition, above and belowground carbon stocks and methane fluxes in central Congolese peatlands. He loves soils and coring peat.
Rich loves all forms of organic matter but especially peat organic matter and especially peat microbial lipids (and their isotopes!).
Juan Carlos is an ecologist interested in the current and past vegetation dynamics, with long-standing expertise in studying long-term impacts of climate change on the vegetation with a particular interest in contemporary events of climate change during the Anthropocene.
Terhi is the former TroPeaCC eddy covariance postdoc, current collaborator. She hearts trees, Sphagnum mosses and carbon.
Changjia is a lecturer in Physical Geography, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. His PhD looks peat erosion processes, patterns and rates in the blanket peatlands of the UK. He likes meta-analysis, eddy covariance, carbon fluxes, and tropical peatland ecosystems.
Rob works independently through Rigare Ltd, and has carried out ecohydrological projects on around 200 wetlands in the UK. He was also a field volunteer working in tropical, coastal peatlands in Panama in 2015. Rob’s current contribution to the project is provision of automatic water level recorders!
Maria is a tropical ecologist interested in carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics. Her PhD looks at the role of natural and anthropogenic pressures on stem respiration in tropical forests. She loves eddy covariance, carbon fluxes, tropical trees and peat.