Southampton Geospatial

Our people

Meet the geospatial experts working in our interdisciplinary team.

Professor David Sear

Professor
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Professor Dianna Smith

Professor

Research interests

  • Small-area estimation for policy analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Efstathios Margaritis PhD

GIS Analyst / Trainer
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Professor Emma Roe

Professor of More-Than-Human Geographies

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Emma Tompkins PhD

Prof of Geog, Environment & Development

Research interests

  • How households and businesses are adapting to climate and weather hazards
  • Monitoring real-time adaptation to hydro-meteorological/climate hazards,  (including compound and cascading hazards)
  • Methods to assess the effectiveness of climate adaptations

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Gareth Roberts

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Development of methods for monitoring landscape fire activity using optical and thermal Earth Observation data and using these data to estimate fire emissions 
  • Quantifying the environmental and health impacts of landscape fires using burned area and thermal anomalies data
  • Validating active fire and Fire Radiative Power retrievals using measurements and models

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Hachem Kassem PhD, MSc, FHEA

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Nearshore hydrodynamics and coastal sediment dynamics
  • Coastal and ocean engineering and flow-structure-seabed-biota interactions
  • Adaptive, nature-inclusive solutions to climate-mediated geohazards, including flooding, erosion and habitat degradation

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Hugo Putuhena

RF in Offshore Renewable Energy

Research interests

  • Geospatial assessment  
  • Seabed/ocean digitalisation   
  • Offshore renewable energy
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Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing

Research interests

  • Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
  • Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial carbon uptake
  • Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology
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