Dr. Abbie Chapman

Biography

Abbie's research considers biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments with common themes in spatial analysis, environmental impact assessment, and sustainable development. Based at the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Abbie's postdoctoral work at UCL focuses on biodiversity pressures associated with food crops grown in southern Africa for domestic consumption and international export. Abbie contributes to projects aiming to identify sustainable future pathways for food systems, while accounting for trade-offs and synergies in land, water, food, biodiversity, human health, and nutrition. With a PhD, Abbie specialized in using traits to study biodiversity and biogeography of deep-sea hydrothermal-vent fauna. Her thesis resulted in a paper published as an Editor's Choice article in Diversity Distributions. She co-led an iDiv-funded working group with an international team of experts to build a global trait database for vent species and investigated functional and taxonomic uniqueness of vent regions. Previously, during her PhD, Abbie worked as a Trainee Oil Spill Modelling Consultant at Oil Spill Response Limited, where she conducted oil spill modeling.

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