Lucy is a conservation scientist with Natural State, where she works on developing methods to quantify change in biodiversity in response to restoration initiatives. Her work is mainly focused on collecting, processing and analysing data from passive sensors such as acoustic monitors and camera traps. Currently, the projects she is involved in are focused on data from the Kenyan rangelands and the Namibian drylands. Together, Natural State and the LCNR are working on developing robust and scalable solutions for monitoring change in these systems and interpreting these changes in the context of nature recovery. This will help to generate actionable insights on ecological restoration.
Department/Institute: Natural State
Matt leads Natural State’s efforts to develop robust and scalable ecosystem monitoring protocols that can quantify gains in biodiversity conservation and contributions to human wellbeing. Matt designs monitoring programmes in the rangelands around Mount Kenya using remote sensors and is developing automated community and population modeling workstreams to translate data into actionable information. In collaboration with other LCNR researchers, Matt and his colleagues at Natural State aim are developing generalizable systems for classifying transitional states of large-scale restoration projects in African savannas and trialing cutting edge innovations for measuring biodiversity.