Ian Ondo, a former member of the group, came back from UNEP-WCMC to present his current work.
Ian Ondo, a former member of the group and now a biodiversity modeller at UNEP-WCMC working on species distribution, conservation, use and traits, came back to present his current work, including four projects using AI to extract new biodiversity data and to build improved species distribution models.
Congratulations to Sukanneya Thiyagarajah for submitting her BSc Final Year Project dissertation for 2025/26, titled “Rarity of species used by humans”.
The group spent a day at Kew Gardens, walking the lake crossing, the glasshouses and the spring planting.
The group spent a day at Kew Gardens away from screens, walking the grounds together at the height of the spring flowering.
Marybel Soto Gomez joined the group from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to share her experience in science and her latest work on conserving plant agrobiodiversity in Ethiopia.
Marybel joined the group from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to share her experience in science and her latest progress on a framework to identify priority areas for conserving plant agrobiodiversity in Ethiopia, developed in collaboration with Sam and Felix from the team — followed, of course, by a good meal on campus!
For more on Marybel and her work, check out her wonderful recent interview with New Phytologist.