Triangle

The project is led by Professor Sarah Metcalfe at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with colleagues within Nottingham, the University of Liverpool and the University of Stirling.

El proyecto está dirigido por la Prof. Sarah Metcalfe de la Universidad de Nottingham, en colaboración con otros colegas de Nottingham, de la Universidad de Liverpool y de la Universidad de Stirling.


Principal Investigator: Professor Sarah E Metcalfe

Sarah Metcalfe is Professor of Earth and Environmental Dynamics at the University of Nottingham. Her work explores the interactions between climate, environment and people using interdisciplinary approaches and over a range of timescales. She has current projects in Belize funded by both the Leverhulme Trust and the AHRC. Sarah is a member of the NERC National Environmental Isotope Facility Strategy Group and of the Science Advisory Committee for the British Geological Survey.

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Co-Investigator: Professor Franziska Schrodt

Franziska Schrodt is a Professor in Earth System Science, University of Nottingham. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, bridging bioscience, geoscience and machine learning/modelling. She has contributed to ground-breaking work, including quantification of biodiversity and ecosystem services from remote sensing and developing global in situ biodiversity databases, as well a novel machine learning approaches to deal with gaps in ecological data. She is also working at the science – policy interface, for example, collaborating with UNESCO on developing a global framework to quantify abiotic diversity.

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Co-Investigator: Professor Georgina Endfield

Georgina Endfield is Professor of Environmental History at the University of Liverpool where she is also institutional APVC for the Research Environment and Postgraduate Research. Her research focuses on environmental history, and specifically on climatic history and historical climatology, on human responses to unusual or extreme weather events, conceptualisations of climate variability in historical perspective and the links between climate and the healthiness of place. Her work covers colonial Mexico and nineteenth century Africa as well as British climate history and extreme weather events.

She has been sift and panel chair for the Future Leaders Fellowship scheme and is part of the FLF mentoring network. She regularly participates in panels for AHRC, ESRC, NERC and she has been the arts and humanities academic representative on the Steering Committee for the UK’s Strategic Priorities Funded Climate Resilience theme. She is lead on the new Research England ‘Thrive’ project in partnership with AHRC and Advance HE.

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Co-Investigator: Professor Elizabeth Rushton

Elizabeth Rushton is Professor of Education and Head of the Education Division, University of Stirling. Her research expertise is interdisciplinary, drawing on the disciplines of education and geography. This includes the education and professional development of teachers, student participation in research and decision making and, human and environment interactions over time. These areas of expertise intersect with a range of fields including geography and science education, climate change and environmental education, and decolonisation and anti-racism in education.

Her PhD (University of Nottingham, 2014) explored the Environmental History of Northern Belize through palaeoecological and historical records and was funded by the AHRC.

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Research Fellow: Dr Betsabé de la Barreda-Bautista

Betsabe de la Barreda is a biologist and holds PhD in Geography (Remote Sensing). Her research tackles impact of climate change on vulnerable ecosystems and uses novel methodologies, combining datasets across multiple temporal and spatial scales, to understand future changes. These skills and knowledge are applicable to many terrestrial systems.

She is currently researching the impacts of extreme weather events in Belize integrating weather records, satellite Earth Observation and ground data to understand how the natural environment and agricultural systems respond to extreme climate events.

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Research Fellow: Dr Sofia Mardero Jimenez

Sofia Mardero is a Geographer and holds a PhD in Ecology and Sustainable Development. She has 12 years’ experience working in rural development, with an emphasis on climate change and its effects on peasant agriculture, responses and adaptations, traditional knowledge and a more recent exploration of the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing mainly on Mexico and the Guatemalan Peten.

Her research has always focused on the human-environment interface, analysing the impacts and responses of rural communities to adverse environmental and socioeconomic conditions (double exposure), all from a local and public policy perspective. She is currently working on climate change impacts and adaptations in communities and agricultural systems in Belize.

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Research Fellow: Dr Oriol Ambrogio Gali

Oriol Ambrogio Gali is an historian of Colonial Latin America and holds a PhD in Early-Modern History from the King’s College London. His upcoming monograph focuses on the indigenous peoples’ responses to Christian sacraments in the context of the Jesuit missions in colonial Mexico, Chile and the Chaco. He is currently researching the impact of extreme climate events in Spanish and British Colonial Belize through the study of archival and published documentation. 

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Research Fellow: Dr Alec McLellan

Alec McLellan is an archaeologist who has a PhD in Archaeology from University College London (2020). His research interests are in colonial interactions, Indigenous perspectives on archaeology, settlement patterns, landscape archaeology, human/environment interactions, spatial analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Ancient Maya archaeology. Within ICARUS his role is to investigate the response of the Maya to environmental changes, with a particular focus on adaptations. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Cincinnati, USA, and an Adjunct Faculty member at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. He is currently working on several studies based on LiDAR and Maya settlement dynamics in Belize.

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Get in touch (Contacto)

sarah.metcalfe@nottingham.ac.uk

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