Climate Change and Environmental Science

Tap into some of the latest expertise on societal adaption and climate impacts for your organisation, as well as environmental science expertise.

No doubt climate change and environmental degradation represent some of the greatest challenges we face today. These changes are happening rapidly and beginning to affect all of us in unexpected ways. UCL has leading experts on understanding how climate and environmental change affects communities in different environments, from urban settings to rural landscapes. We have developed world-leading laboratories and analytical techniques to evaluate these threats and understand ways to address these challenges. We also have developed world-leading expertise on evaluating anthropogenic impacts on different ecological systems and its relationship to organisations.

Case study

UCL measures forest carbon for the European Space Agency

Professor Mathias Disney, UCL Geography, used new technology to gain accurate measurements of forest carbon, in a consultancy project for the European Space Agency (ESA).

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We are keen to hear from you and to work together to use social science to help you solve your unique requirements. Find a relevant expert and send us an email to get started.

Chris Brierley

Professor of Climate Science, UCL Geography

Email: c.brierley@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: Physical geography and environmental geoscience; Oceanography; Atmospheric sciences; Geochemistry; Ecology.

Teaching: Environmental Systems and Processes, Data Acquisition and Interpretation; Ideas in Geography; Hydroclimatology; Climatology

Helene Burningham

Professor of Physical Geography, UCL Geography

Email: h.burningham@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: environmental governance

Teaching: Geomorphology /Coastal Geohazards/ Environmental GIS/Models in Environmental Science/Field Evidence of Environmental Change

Mat Disney

Professor of Remote Sensing, UCL Geography

Email: mathias.disney@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: remote sensing; satellite and aircraft data; lidar and ground-based measurements and modelling; Physical geography and environmental geoscience; radiative transfer modelling

Ecology; Environmental management; remote sensing; forest struture and function; carbon cycle and climate

Forest ecosystems; Forest biodiversity; biomass and carbon; tree stucture and function.

Teaching: Remote sensing, methods, scientific data analysis, tools and modelling

Amy Horton

Lecturer in Economic Geography and Degree Tutor for BSc Geography and Economics, UCL Geography

Email: a.horton@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: examines how care homes for older people in the UK are funded, built and governed, including in times of crisis and pandemic; how local government, property developers and communities seek to shape urban development, especially the ownership and financing of housing and space for local traders; solutions to problem debt and alternative routes to financing our futures.

Teaching: Economic Geography/Thinking Geographically i and II.

Eloise Marais

Associate Professor in Physical Geography, UCL Geography

Email: e.marais@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: local and international expert panels including the UK Air Quality Experts Group, the GEOS-Chem Model Steering Committee, and the US Health Effects Institute Global Health Oversight Committee.

Teaching: Understanding our Planet/Thinking Geographically I and II/Environmental Consequences of Human Activity

Mark Maslin

Professor of Earth System Science, UCL Geography

Email: m.maslin@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: Early human evolution in Africa; Defining the Anthropocene; Past and future of the Amazon rainforest; Continental slope stability and gas hydrates; Quaternary climate transitions, cycles and thresholds; Global green and low carbon economy; Climate change, population, development and global health

Teaching: Environmental change; Dynamic Earth