Dr Amy Bennett
- Position: Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: forest carbon; tropical forests; climate change; El Niño; drought
- Email: A.C.Bennett@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: Bluesky | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
My research investigates how forests endure, adapt, and change in our changing world. Having completed my PhD at the University of Leeds in 2020, my work involves forest monitoring networks, remotely-sensed climate data and spatial statistics to evaluate how carbon sinks respond to extreme climate and disturbance. Grounded by the rigorous effort of ground-based tree measurements, I connect local ecological understanding to macro-scale spatial modelling to evaluate forest resilience.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Co-investigator (Co-I)
Qualifications
- PhD, Impact of the 2015-2016 El Niño on tropical forests, University of Leeds
- MSc, Biology, University of New Mexico
- MA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge
Research groups and institutes
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
- Land-Atmosphere-Biosphere