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Ciar Noble is an Associate Tutor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA), within the Faculty of Science. He holds a PhD (2025) from UEA, an MRes from Imperial College London (2019), and a BSc from Newcastle University (2018). His research focuses on landscape structure, anthropogenic disturbances (e.g., fires), and spatio-temporal variations in biotic communities. He also maintains a longstanding interest in herpetology, though his current work emphasizes ecosystem-scale analyses using multi-taxa datasets. His contributions align with UN Sustainable Development Goals addressing environmental protection and biodiversity conservation.
Education:
- PhD, Spatio-temporal patterns of land-use change and biodiversity loss in the Brazilian Amazon, University of East Anglia (2021–2025)
- MRes, The impact of logging and oil palm on Bornean anurans, Imperial College London (2018–2019)
- BSc, Conservation of amphibian communities in neotropical agroecosystems, Newcastle University (2015–2018)
Research Interests:
- Landscape fragmentation and fire prevalence in Amazonia
- Species-area relationships and biodiversity metrics
- Conservation strategies for degraded tropical forests
- Insect responses to forest fragmentation (e.g., dung beetles)
- Flood hazard modeling in the UK
Recent Article Trends: Noble’s work spans from Amazonian fire dynamics to UK flood hazards, emphasizing fragmentation impacts and conservation thresholds. His 2024 Nature paper on degraded forest conservation thresholds has garnered significant policy and media attention.
Advising & Grants: No formal advisees are listed in the provided text, and grants are not explicitly mentioned.
