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Ruth Weaver

 

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Ruth Weaver

  • Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Address: Room 104, 8 Kirkby Place, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 587911
  • Alternative telephone: +44 (0)1752 233053
  • Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 233054
  • Email: R.Weaver@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
Teaching and research in remote sensing and biogeography
Deputy Head, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Director, Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Experiential Learning in environmental and natural sciences 

Qualifications & background

B.A. (Hons) Geography University of Reading 1981

PhD Remote sensing of moorland vegetation University of Durham 1987


Before joining the Unversity at Plymouth I was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Aberdeen, working on a NERC-funded project examining vegetation succession

 

Professional membership

Member of:

British Ecological Society

Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society

 


Teaching interests

I teach these modules in the School of Geography:

GGP2116 Landscape Ecology and Biogeography

GGP3113 Ecological Sustainability and Biological Conservation

EAR5203 Remote Sensing and GIS


 

 


Research interests

My main interests are in:

• developing methodologies to identify, describe and account for spatial pattern in vegetation, particularly in areas of rapid change between plant communities or ecosystems.

• determining the extent to which information on such pattern can be extracted from remotely sensed data


 



Other academic activities
My principal activity is as Director of one of the Unversity's four Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (see http://www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/tinits/cetl/) Each of the Plymouth CETLs attracts a recurrent budget of £500k per annum for five years, between 2005 and 2010, and a one off capital budget of £2.5m. The aim of the CETL in Experiential Learning in environmental and natural science is to further develop our excellence in fieldwork, lab work and work-based learning in the environmental and natural sciences, and to disseminate both this new work and existing good practice across the institution and the sector. Further details of how we have done this can be found at www.plymouth.ac.uk/cetl/el  


Links

Geography Academic staff

Environmental Processes and Management Research Group
CETL: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/cetl/el