Summary
CIEEM invite you to join us as we chat Kathleen about her research on a Bayesian Belief Network Approach to understand forest management impacts.
Description
Forest management decisions need to be backed by data. However, this data can be difficult to find and compile. Kathleen will share how they created a model using expert elicited information to understand how site characteristics and management decisions impact the delivery of ecosystem services.
Kathleen has a BSc in environmental science from University of Massachusetts Boston and a MSc in biodiversity and conservation from Trinity College Dublin. Kathleen has a wide range of interests having done research in disease ecology, tropical ecology, and Irish hazel woodlands. After finishing her MSc, she began a dry forest and habitat restoration project in Hawaii. She then worked on a forest management project in the Sierra Nevada.
Kathleen is the PhD student on the ForES project. Her research questions align directly with the project as she focuses on ecosystem accounts in Irish forestry. She will analyse the accounts created and will develop the models needed for a decision support tool.
