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Introduction
My research focuses on modelling water-vegetation interactions to predict variation in ecosystem services such as coastal protection and carbon sequestration, aiming to promote the restoration of coastal ecosystems.
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January 2021 - present
January 2021 - present
January 2020 - December 2020
AECOM
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- Engineer
Education
January 2016 - December 2020
March 2008 - December 2012
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Coastal engineering models frequently represent vegetation as rigid cylinders to simulate the geometry of mangrove trees, including their roots, trunks, and canopies. However, mangrove geometry varies widely across different species, ages, geographic locations, and environmental conditions. Despite numerous studies on mangrove morphology, comprehen...
Coastal wetland restoration projects can receive payments for ecosystem services but often occur in regions with limited data, and additional data collection can be financially prohibitive. Value of Information analysis can quantify the difference between the expected value of an action before and after new information has been collected, aiming to...
Mangroves are implemented as nature‐based solutions (NbS) for coastal protection, climate change mitigation (carbon sequestration) and other services. They play a core role in providing benefits for biodiversity, livelihoods and human well‐being.
Ecological research has informed the use of mangroves as NbS, but failure of NbS projects has often bee...
Mangroves are nature-based solutions for coastal protection however their ability to attenuate waves and stabilise and accrete sediment varies with their species-specific architecture and frontal area. Hydrodynamic models are typically used to predict and assess the protection afforded by mangroves, but without species or genus distribution informa...
Coastal wetlands surrounding urban environments provide many important ecosystem services including protection from coastal erosion, soil carbon sequestration and habitat for marine and terrestrial fauna. Their persistence with sea-level rise depends upon their capacity to increase their soil surface elevation at a rate comparable to the rate of se...
Mangrove forests are degraded by extreme climatic events worldwide, often leaving behind dead standing stems called ‘ghost forests’. Ghost forests may provide opportunities for seagrass colonisation but there is limited research into the conditions found within these ecosystems, or whether they provide a suitable habitat for seagrasses. This study...
Wave attenuation provided by coastal ecosystems, including seagrass, mangroves, and saltmarsh, has been well studied in coastal engineering literature, but results are often not comparable due to differences in experimental methods, reporting units and a lack of complete published datasets. Many coastal ecology and conservation studies aim to quali...
This study is the first ever to gather local mangrove scientists, forest managers and policy-makers world-wide to identify the future scientific curiosity-driven and managerial need-driven questions to which science, management, and/or governance needs an answer.
1) Large scale and coordinated restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems will benefit our natural assets and improve our capability to mitigate and adapt to climate change, while also generating jobs and providing communities with economic and social benefits.
2) Scaling up restoration requires a national scale science-based plan adopted at stat...
Coastal ecosystems, such as seagrass meadows, have been heralded as a nature-based solution for coastal protection. However, the functions of seagrass meadows, including wave attenuation and sediment stabilisation, have typically been measured offshore and do not directly translate to coastal protection at the shoreline. In contrast, the protective...
Mangrove zonation refers to the discrete ordering of mangrove species (and genera) determined by intertidal characteristics including inundation frequency, salinity, soil-type, propagule predation and dispersal, sedimentation and nutrient availability. This ArcGIS Story Map has been developed using published mangrove zonation figures to visually il...
The human response to the COVID-19 pandemic set in motion an unprecedented shift in human activity with unknown long-term effects. The impacts in marine systems are expected to be highly dynamic at local and global scales. However, in comparison to terrestrial ecosystems, we are not well-prepared to document these changes in marine and coastal envi...
Coastal areas are at increasing risk from flooding and erosion due to coastal development and climate change. Seagrass meadows, like other coastal ecosystems, can stabilise sediments, indirectly reducing coastal erosion. There is evidence that seagrass can reduce both the erosion of seabeds and lateral erosion of seagrass cliffs. However, these pre...
Seagrass is a marine flowering plant predominantly existing in inter- or subtidal nearshore areas. Seagrass can affect the rate and direction of sediment transport, contributing to coastal protection by reducing erosion, enhancing accretion or stabilising the position of the shoreline. Three primary mechanisms by which seagrass can affect the shore...
An estimated 100 million people inhabit coastal areas at risk from flooding and erosion due to climate change. Seagrass meadows, like other coastal ecosystems, attenuate waves. Due to inconsistencies in how wave attenuation is measured results cannot be directly compared. We synthesised data from laboratory and field experiments of seagrass-wave at...
Wave attenuation and associated data used to determine the drag coefficient.
