I'm a multidisciplinary climate scientist, interested in how coastal wetlands are vulnerable to climate change, but how they can also help us mitigate and adapt to it.

In particular we use the lens of blue carbon to understand (1) carbon cycling and other ecosystem services; (2) how blue carbon ecosystems respond to climate change stressors such as sea-level rise and climatic oscillations; (3) how blue carbon ecosystems respond to deforestation; and (4) how we can use blue carbon to promote mangrove conservation and restoration, whether through national greenhouse gas inventories or carbon credit projects.
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I'm the Cochran Family Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Director for the Center for Public Policy Research at Tulane University. From 2009-2022 I was based at the National University of Singapore. I was an Associate Professor and Dean's Chair (2018-2022) and an Assistant Professor (2012-2017) in the Department of Geography, and a Research Fellow with the Singapore-Delft Water Alliance and the Applied Plant Ecology Lab (2009-2011). I received my PhD in wetland geography from the University of Cambridge.​
 
Internationally, I'm a member of the International Blue Carbon Initiative's Scientific Working Group, the United Nations Global Ocean Decade Programme on Blue Carbon (GO-BC), and the International Standards Organization Working Group on coastal blue carbon (ISO/TC8/SC13/WG5). I'm a founding member of the IUCN Mangrove Specialist Group and our Lab is a member organization of the Global Mangrove Alliance.
 
I'm the co-Editor in Chief of ​WIREs Climate Change. If you're new to publishing I'm always happy to chat with students and early career researchers about the publishing process and what an editor looks for. 
 
Teaching
Tulane University
- EENS4480/6480 Natural Climate Solutions
- EENS3660 Nature-based Solutions
- EENS1300 Earth as a Living Planet
 
National University of Singapore
- GE4207 Coastal Management
- GES1004 Biophysical Environment of Singapore
- GE3230 Field Studies in Geography: Southeast Asia
- GE3231 Natural Hazards​
- GE3240 Geographical Research: Developing Ideas
- GE5211 Dynamic Environments
- GE5217 Field Methods in Environmental Sciences 
- ENV3102 Field Course in Environmental Studies

Service
Tulane University
- Director, Center for Public Policy Research, The Murphy Institute
- Chair, Resilient Habitats and Communities taskforce
- School Promotion & Tenure Committee

National University of Singapore
- Deputy Director, Center for Nature-based Climate Solutions
- Co-Director, Bachelor of Environmental Studies program