Dr Dylan Young
- Position: Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: peatlands; ecosystem modelling; carbon accumulation in peatlands
- Email: D.M.Young@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: Room 10.37 Irene Manton Building
- Website: Googlescholar | ORCID
Profile
My research aims to understand how autogenic processes and external drivers such as climate and land use affect peatland carbon accumulation. I develop and work with ecosystem models to explore the response of peatlands to these forcings in the past, present and future.
Research interests
- Simulating the impact of climate and land use on peatlands
- Developing approaches for reconstructing and validating past carbon accumulation in peatlands
- Understanding which ecological, hydrological and mechanical processes should be included in peatland models and how they should be parameterised.
- Programming in Modern Fortran, R, and Python
Qualifications
- PhD Managing complex systems: an interdisciplinary approach to modelling peatland land use
- MSc in Land Management (ecological restoration)
- MBA
Research groups and institutes
- Sustainability Research Institute