Dr Ruth Swetnam CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: Lecturer in Applied Geography Employer: Staffordshire University Memo: Ruth is a GIS specialist interested in the application of spatial modelling to environmental processes at a range of spatial and temporal scales (local, national and regional). She has studies at the Universities of Sheffield (BSc), Edinburgh (MSc) and more recently at the University of Exeter (PhD). Ruth's research interests lie in the fields of landscape ecology, historical geography, land use change and environmental information. After short spells at the National Remote Sensing Centre and the British Antarctic Survey she spent 14 years at the NERC MSc from Edinburgh and a PhD from Exeter. She previously worked at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology where she built a GIS databases to investigate ecological processes relevant to both fauna and flora. She is working on the Leverhulme funded programme 'Valuing the Arc' (http://valuingthearc.org/) at the University of Cambridge which is modelling ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania