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MSc. Emma Daniels
PhD-student
Email: emma.daniels(at)wur.nl
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My name is Emma Daniels and I work as a PhD-student in the Knowledge for Climate (KvK) project since January 2011. I received my Bachelor in Environmental Sciences at Utrecht University with a focus on climate change and modelling. After living in the USA for a year, I'd been accepted into a Masters programme in Earth Sciences (System Earth Modelling) also at Utrecht University, where I wrote my thesis on the eco-hydrology of drought and survival mechanisms of trees. The last five months of my studies I have spent at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) where I did an internschip at the Agricultural Meteorology division (World Climate Programme). |
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Research interests
- Land surface - atmosphere interactions
- Hydrology
- Terrestrial ecology
- Coupling hydrological and atmospherical models
- Vegetation modeling
Current research
"The impact of land surface, land use changes and atmospheric boundary layer processes on the future climate at a local scale", under supervision of dr. Ronald Hutjes and prof. dr. Bert Holtslag.
The results of this project are of more general use for the production of next-generation high resolution climate scenarios for the Netherlands and as such of long term relevance to all of society as they will allow better development of adaptation measures. Also the feedback of larger scale adaptation measures (e.g. large scale water management, green cities, novel crops) on future weather will be aided by the developments foreseen here.