Maina Mbui

Biography

I am a spatial scientist with research interests in Geoinformation Science and Environmental modelling applied to a wide range of environments, predorminantly in ecology and biodiversity conservation. My recent research is focused on understanding and predicting the impacts of environmental variability and change on marine and coastal social-ecological systems at local and global scales in-order to support conservation and adaptation planning. I have also explored questions in a range of other fields including water resources, sustainable agriculture and food security. Therefore, my work integrates diverse disciplines of macro-ecology, climate science, oceanography, remote sensing, hydrology, and decision science, in an effort to help in solving the often cross disciplinary environmental and societal problems. Given the many large and diverse data sets that I work with, I am also involved with data science projects focused on developing tools for integrating, analyzing and extracting information from multiple (often large) data sets more effectively, making it easier to include cross-disciplinary information in addressing complex environmental and ecological questions.

Research Interest

• Leadership • Teams • Employee attitudes and performance