Dr Emily Lines

University Lecturer in Physical Geography, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Turing Fellow

Biography

Career

• 2020- University Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
• 2014-2020: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London
• 2012-2014: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geography, University College London

Qualifications

• PhD, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
• MRes, Mathematics in the Living Environment, University of York
• MSci, Mathematics, Imperial College London

Research

Current research projects

• Next generation forest dynamics modelling using remote sensing data (UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship UKRI, 2020), PI. With PDRAs Harry Owen and Milto Miltiadou.
• Environmental monitoring: blending satellite and surface data (Alan Turing Institute, 2020), co-I.
• Voices of the Future (NERC Treescapes, 2020), co-I.
• 3DForEcoTech Three-dimensional forest ecosystem monitoring and better understanding by terrestrial-based technologies (COST action CA20118), WP5 Leader.
• Forgotten forests: exploring wet woodlands as carbon-dense ecosystems (Woodland Trust, 2022), co-I.

Current PhD students

• Will Flynn (QMUL) NERC London DTP. Quantify the Impacts of Forest Disturbance Using Novel High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Data.
• Matt Allen (UKRI AI4ER CDT). Machine Learning and Remote Sensing for Enhanced Environmental Monitoring.
• Amandine Debus (NERC C-CLEAR DTP). Deforestation dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: combining Earth Observation and socio-economic data to understand unregulated land use change.
• Adam Noach (NERC C-CLEAR DPTP). The forgotten forests: remote sensing and predictive modelling to understand the structure, function and future of wet woodlands.

Completed PhD students

• Harry Owen (QMUL) NERC London DTP. Climate Change and Biomass Dynamics: Novel Methods in Extracting Forest Biophysical Properties. (2021)

Prospective PhD students

I’m interested in supervising projects in the areas of forest ecology and remote sensing. Some projects I am currently advertising may be found on my NERC C-CLEAR DTP page, and I offer supervision through the AI4ER programme.

External activities

• Associate Editor, Journal of Ecology
• Co-founder, Wet Woodlands Research Network https://www.wetwoodlands.com/

Publications

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Teaching

• Geographical Tripos Part 1A, Paper 2
• MPhil in Holocene Climates