Contributors

Monique Sedgwick

Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Lethbridge

Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Lethbridge Degrees BSc, MN, PhD Expertise Preceptorship, health practices in the rural setting, nursing education Research Areas Clinical judgment in practice settings, ethics in education, nursing practice in rural hospital settings. Previous Research Areas Becoming a parent after infertility

Martin Wilkes

Senior Lecturer of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Senior Lecturer of Life Sciences, University of Essex As an ecologist with an industry background in data science, I am interested in data-driven explanations and predictions of biodiversity change. Utilising large (river basin to global) scale datasets, ecological theory, statistical programming and high performance computing, my mission is to support the environmental science and management communities in finding solutions to the challenges of maintaining biodiversity, food production and water security in a changing world. My research interests include ecology, biodiversity science, fisheries, eDNA metabarcoding, biogeography, metacommunity theory, artificial Intelligence, machine Learning, species distribution modelling, research software development.

Marta Miret

Profesora de Psicología Médica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Profesora de Psicología Médica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Marta es Licenciada en Psicología, Licenciada en Antropología Social y Cultural y Doctora en Psicología Clínica y de la Salud. Se formó en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Boston University (Estados Unidos) y Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). Actualmente es profesora del Departamento de Psiquiatría de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro Colaborador de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, e investigadora adscrita al Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM). Es la secretaria académica del Departamento de Psiquiatría de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, vocal del subcomité de ética de la Facultad de Medicina, presidenta de la comisión de segundo curso del grado en Medicina y coordinadora académica del programa Erasmus. Es investigadora principal de varios proyectos europeos y nacionales. Su campo de investigación es la epidemiología de los trastornos mentales, los trastornos afectivos, la conducta suicida y la relación entre el estado de salud, el bienestar subjetivo y la soledad. He publicado numerosos artículos científicos en revistas internacionales, participado en numeroso congresos nacionales e internacionales y dirigido seis tesis doctorales.

Miguel Montoro Girona

Professeur d'écologie forestière, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)

Professeur d'écologie forestière, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) Mes expertises portent sur l'aménagement forestier durable et la sylviculture face aux changements climatiques. Concrètement, ma recherche vise à développer des traitements de coupes expérimentales (coupes partielles) et à évaluer leurs effets sur la croissance, la régénération, la mortalité (chablis) et la biodiversité. De plus, je m'intéresse à la modélisation de forêts complexes à l'échelle du paysage (Landis-II), ainsi qu'à l'effet des perturbations naturelles (épidémies d'insectes, chablis, broutement, le castor), à la structure et à la dynamique forestière à multiples échelles spatio-temporelles en utilisant des approches dendroécologiques et paleoécologiques. Diplômes : Postdoctorat, UQAC (2018-2019) Postdoctorat, SLU (2017-2019) Postdoctorat, UQAC (2017) Ph. D. en foresterie, UQAC (2017) B. Sc. en génie forestier, Université de Huelva (2011) M. Sc. systèmes d'information géographique, Université de Seville (2009) B. Sc. en sciences de l'environnement, Université de Murcie (2007)

Matthew Patterson

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in in Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in in Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford I am a postdoctoral research assistant in the climate dynamics and predictability groups. My primary interests are in atmospheric dynamics, prediction on seasonal to decadal timescales and climate change. My current work concerns the effects of decadal variability of the sub-polar North Atlantic ocean on the mid-latitude atmosphere. This is part of the NERC-funded WISHBONE project in collaboration with the University of Reading, National Oceanography Centre and National Center for atmospheric research in the US. In relation to this project I also am a visitor at University of Reading. Previously, I studied the role that global warming trends have on skill in seasonal prediction models for Europe, funded through the EUCP project (European Climate Prediction System) with Antje Weisheimer and Dan Befort. I found that warming trends play a strong role in summer temperature variability, hence providing a large amount of predictability. However, even with this skill coming from the external forcing, northern European temperature skill is low, suggesting systematic errors in the forecasts for this region. I have also worked on a project examining the variability of the East Asian jet stream and its relationship to forcing by sea surface temperatures on a decadal timescale. This was a collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Reading, funded through the Met Office's CSSP China project In 2020, I completed my PhD on the dynamics of the South Pacific split jet stream, supervised by Tim Woollings at Oxford and Tom Bracegirdle at the British Antarctic Survey. My research involved understanding the factors that shape the mean state, the variability of the jets and how they may change under climate change. In particular, I found that Antarctic orography makes a strong contribution to the wintertime jet structure, altering the behaviour of transient Rossby waves which reinforce the polar jet. A second key finding from my PhD was that the South Pacific jets are likely to become less split in future as a result of changes to stationary waves which arise because of alterations to wave sources at low latitudes.

Megan Willis

Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University

Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University I completed my PhD at Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (now known as the Department of Cognitive Science) at Macquarie University. My PhD research explored the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in processing emotional expressions and using emotional expressions to guide social judgements. I am now a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the Australian Catholic University (Strathfield). My primary research interests are in social cognition, emotion processing and cognitive neuropsychology. My research has focused on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in processing emotional expressions and making social judgements. My research also aims to uncover the reasons why certain people have difficulties recognising the emotional expressions of others and using emotional expressions to guide their social judgements. My research has primarily employed cognitive neuropsychological, electrophysiological, behavioural techniques and mild brain stimulation techniques.