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Charlotte Sharpe

Biography

I am a PhD student supervised primarily by Professor Phil Stephens, as part of the NETGAIN doctoral focal award, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). As part of the first cohort of NETGAIN students, my research will focus on the science and practice of nature markets, specifically developing methods for predicting and quantifying contributions of nature markets toward a net positive future for biodiversity in England. Drawing on my research experiences in both Biology and Geography at undergraduate level, this project utilises a multi-disciplinary approach between the natural and social sciences, which is supported by my interdisciplinary team of supervisors (Professor Robbie McDonald, Office for Environmental Protection, and Dr Flurina Wartmann, University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences). 

My main research experience comes from my time spent as a Masters by Research (MRes) student at Durham, involving a year-long research project where I contributed to a growing field of camera trap research, aiming to alter conventional camera traps for small mammals (mice, voles, and shrews). I deployed modified camera traps in the north east of England to survey small mammal communities, within the broader context of the ongoing range expansion of the non-native Greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula. Alongside this field-based research, I also spent time researching effective methods of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and citizen science for processing vast quantities of image data uploaded to MammalWeb, a national mammal monitoring scheme in the UK. 

Publications

Journal Article