Climate change
Desertification and drought
Environmental monitoring and measuring
Medicinal plants
Protected areas and wildlife management
Watershed management

Climate change

Dr Peter Burt
Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Over 20 years experience in: windborne dispersal of organisms and particulate material through the atmosphere; influence of topography on airflow; micrometeorological monitoring; and aspects of remote sensing applied to pest management and forecasting. Teaching aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc and PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision.

Desertification and drought

Prof. John Morton
Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.

Dr Robert Ridgway
Email: R.B.Ridgway@gre.ac.uk
Land-use planner and land-tenure specialist with more than 40 years' experience in consultancy and training on participatory approaches to land development. Skills focus on project management and institutional strengthening of national land-administration agencies. Advice has been given through long-term and short-term assignments in Africa, Caribbean, South-East Asia and CIS countries. Based since 2005 in Namibia on long-term EC programme as land-reform adviser to Ministry of Lands and Resettlement.

Environmental monitoring and measuring

Dr Peter Burt
Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Over 20 years experience in: windborne dispersal of organisms and particulate material through the atmosphere; influence of topography on airflow; micrometeorological monitoring; and aspects of remote sensing applied to pest management and forecasting. Teaching aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc and PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision.

Dr John Holt
Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.

Medicinal plants

 

Dr Philip Stevenson
Email: P.C.Stevenson@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Plant Chemistry. Over twenty years experience isolating, identifying and elucidating structures of plant chemicals and determining their biological activities. Particular interests in plant pesticides in resource-poor farming in Africa, resistance mechanisms to insects and diseases in crops (e.g., sweetpotato, groundnuts, chickpea, rice) and pollination ecology. Current funding sources include BBSRC, Science Foundation of Ireland, European Union (ACP S&T) and McKnight Foundation. Holds parallel position at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Extensive field experience in South Asia and Africa.

 

Protected areas and wildlife management

 

Prof. Robert Cheke
Email: R.A.Cheke@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector control entomologist, and ornithologist. Research experience on locust plagues and on control of Simulium blackflies that transmit river blindness (onchocerciasis). Environmental impact assessment of tsetse fly control operations and control of bird pests. Professor of Tropical Zoology of University of Greenwich, and Deputy Programme Leader of MSc in Natural Resources. Postgraduate qualification in higher education. Widespread country experience in East and West and southern Africa. Fluent French.

Dr John Holt
Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.

 

Watershed management

Dr Robert Ridgway
Email: R.B.Ridgway@gre.ac.uk
Land-use planner and land-tenure specialist with more than 40 years' experience in consultancy and training on participatory approaches to land development. Skills focus on project management and institutional strengthening of national land-administration agencies. Advice has been given through long-term and short-term assignments in Africa, Caribbean, South-East Asia and CIS countries. Based since 2005 in Namibia on long-term EC programme as land-reform adviser to Ministry of Lands and Resettlement.