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What is GEM?

The Global Ecosystem Monitoring network (GEM) is an international effort to measure and understand forest ecosystem functions and traits, and how these will respond to climate change.

An innovative approach to science

Our team is now spread over three continents. We are using this site as a tool to coordinate our efforts and experiment with networking science, a more efficient way of working as an international team. This site also allows you get closer to our scientists: from the corridors of Oxford University to the remote terrains of the rainforest, get our latest scoops, communicate directly with the team, and delve into our photo diaries.

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    Yadvinder Malhi

    I am Professor of Ecosystem Science at Oxford University.
    I lead the Ecosystems Programme at the Environmental Change Institute, with a focus of understanding the functioning of tropical forests and...

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    Sam Moore

    I am a Post-doc at the University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Environmental Change Institute and I am currently implementing studies of carbon allocation and cycling at...

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    Erika Berenguer

    I am interested in the resilience of tropical forests in human-modified landscapes. Specifically, I investigate how human disturbances, such as selective logging and wildfires, impact carbon stocks in the Amazon.

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    Norma Salinas

    I am a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Oxford. I am working with plant traits along altitudinal gradients in tropical forests. My research involve many aspects of tropical...

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    Jos Barlow

    I'm interested in understanding how human activities influence the value of tropical forests for species conservation, ecosystem functioning and the livelihoods of local people.

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    Oliver Phillips

    My long-term research goal is to understand the dynamics of carbon and biodiversity across the world’s tropical forests, how these change with our changing climate, and how they may feedback...

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    Beisit Luz Puma Vilca

    I'm a Biologist , I followed my degree at the National University of San Antonio Abad del Cusco - Perú. I focus on plant physiology and cell metabolism.

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    Vilma Champi Ayma

    Im a Biologist with degree at the National University of San Antonio Abad del Cusco - Perú, with interest to make studies regarding the climatic change.

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    Cécile Girardin

    I coordinate carbon cycling data for the GEM network. I am an ecosystems scientist focussing on carbon dynamics of tropical forest ecosystems. Following my PhD at Oxford University School of...

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    Jhon del Aguila Pasquel

    I am a Peruvian biologist, got my degree in National University of Peruvian Amazon. I worked in RAINFOR permanent plots placed in Iquitos, Peru. Nowadays, I work for Peruvian Amazon...

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    Ben Hur Marimon Junior

    Professor at the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Campus of Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. The broad scope of my interest is the impact of environmental changes in...

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    Georgia Pickavance

    I am a Database Assistant, supporting the tropical forest database ForestPlots.net and associated research projects RAINFOR, Afritron and T-FORCES. I am studying for a Masters in GIS alongside my research...

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    Greg Goldsmith

    I am a tropical plant physiological ecologist with a particular interest in plant-water relations. My doctoral research, based at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on the impacts of drought...

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    Kate Halladay

    I have been working on clouds and climate in the Andean transect for my doctoral thesis at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Following on from this, I have...

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    Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi

    I am a Research Scientist with the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) with particular interest in the role of tropical forests in global carbon cycle/budget as well as population...

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    Dr. Stephen Adu-Bredu

    I m a Senior Research Scientist at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana, and Head of the Forest and...

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    Assoc Prof Fred Babweteera

    Fred Babweteera is the Director of Budongo Conservation Field Station and Regional Coordinator (AFRICA), Research and Conservation, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.

    He is a highly motivated tropical forest ecologist...

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    Walter Huaraca Huasco

    Walter is an experienced botanist and plant biologist who focuses on carbon cycling in tropical forest ecosystems. He has been working on the Andes to Amazon transect established by the...

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    Beatriz Schwantes Marimon

    Professor at the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Campus of Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Ecologist working with structure, dynamics and management of vegetation types of the transition...

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    LEANDRO VALLE FERREIRA

    Possui graduação em Ciências Biologicas pela Universidade de Brasília (1985), mestrado em Biologia (Ecologia) pelo Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (1991) e doutorado em Biologia (Ecologia) pelo Instituto Nacional...

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    Esteban Alvarez

    I´m a PhD student in the Department of Ecology at the Alcalá of Henares University, Spain. Currently working with forest diversity, biomass, and dynamics in complex environmental gradients in Colombia.

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    Rocio Urrutia Jalabert

    I am a DPhil student at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. My thesis is about primary productivity in millennial Fitzroya cupressoides forests in southern Chile,...

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    Martha Crockatt

    I am a Research Manager at Earthwatch (Oxford), leading the research on carbon cycling in fragmented temperate forests in Wytham Woods. Our data is collected with the assistance of Earthwatch...