Dr. Rachael Turton

Rachael is an Ecologist with particular focus on high latitude land surface processes. She researches land surface processes by developing and evaluating representations of biogeochemical cycles in JULES. She is working on the QUINTUS, MOYA, UAMS and UKESM projects.  

She has worked on two post doctoral research projects. At Cambridge University and British Antarctic Survey Rachael was involved in multi-platform remote sensing of the impact of climate change on northern forests of Russia and in the Geography Department at Cambridge University she addressed the plant growth carbon source-sink debate through observations, experiments, and modelling.

Rachael has a BSc in Ecology from Durham University, an MPhil in the effects of particulate emissions from a steel works on a nutrient limited mobile dune ecosystem from Durham University and a PhD, measuring and modelling the radiation, energy and water balance of sparse canopy gaps in a birch forest with a seasonal snowpack, in sub-Arctic Sweden, from UKCEH and Edinburgh University.