Rate My Professor Catherine Waite

Dr Catherine Waite is a Research Associate in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. She is a quantitative ecologist with an interest in integrating remote sensing and field-based data collection techniques to examine ecosystem functioning. Her current research focuses on global mangrove degradation and restoration. She also works on land-use scenario modelling to identify management regimes and interventions to meet human and biodiversity needs. Additionally, she has an interest in tropical forest functioning, in particular the role that lianas play in tropical forest recovery pathways and carbon storage. In this area, she is working on developing dynamic global vegetation models to include liana data in order to investigate global carbon storage and forest recovery from climate and human disturbance.

Waite holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Nottingham, awarded in 2020.