Paul Munday
Visualisation of wetland landscapes
- School of Environmental Sciences
- University of East Anglia
- Norwich
- NR4 7TJ
- UK
- +44 (0)
Email: paul.munday‘at’uea.ac.uk
Paul is in the final year of a PhD supervised by Dr. Andy Jones, Prof. Andrew Lovett and Dr. Paul Dolman. His PhD is funded by both NERC and the ESRC.
The research utilises a multi-disciplinary approach to downscale global scenario datasets to local landscapes. As part of his studies he is investigating the impacts of climatic and socio-economic change upon the Norfolk Broads (Broadland).
Socio-economic and climate change scenarios are adopted as a tool to explore the types, and diversity, of changes that may occur to the year 2100. The study utilises a GIS-based methodology to investigate the likely reaction of the Broadland landscape to future drivers of change (e.g. agricultural policy and climate change).
The output of his research is a series of future land use maps describing the reaction of the area to these types of drivers of change. These types of spatially detailed maps help to drive three-dimensional computer visualisations of future landscape which may provide input into future policy and decision making.
The final stage of the study will determine the manner by which the downscaling of such coarse-scale datasets can aid decision makers regarding landscape/land use management of environmentally sensitive areas.
Paul has a BSc in Geography and Physical Geography from Oxford Brookes University and an MSc in Climate Change from the University of East Anglia.
PhD Title
Downscaling global scenarios to local landscapes
Research interests
GIS
Climate change
Landscape visualisation and animation
Research Affiliation
Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental
Research