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Southampton Geospatial

Our people

Meet the geospatial experts working in our interdisciplinary team.

Emeritus Professor David Martin

Email: d.j.martin@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor David Sear

Professor

Dr Dianna Smith

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Social and spatial health inequalities

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Emma Roe

Professor of More-Than-Human Geographies

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Emma Tompkins

Prof of Geog, Environment & Development

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Felix Eigenbrod

Professor of Applied Spatial Ecology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Gareth Roberts

Lecturer in Remote Sensing

Research interests

  • Development of methods for monitoring fire activity and estimating emissions using remotely sensed data
  • Quantifying the environmental and health impacts of landscape fires using remote sensing
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Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Hachem Kassem

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

Dr Hugo Putuhena

RF in Offshore Renewable Energy

Research interests

  • Geospatial assessment  
  • Seabed/ocean digitalisation   
  • Offshore renewable energy

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