Darren Grafius
Visiting Fellow
Cranfield School of Management
Cranfield University
United Kingdom
Biography
Darren received his PhD in Geography from the University of Iowa, where his research focused on the landscape ecology of mountain treelines in the western United States. He studied the carbon dynamics of the ecotone and its linkages with climate change, with particular attention given to the complex interactions of different factors and how the importance of various relationships change with the scale of investigation. More recently, Darren was an environmental modeller on the NERC-funded 'Fragments, Functions, Flows and Urban Ecosystem Services' (F3UES) project where he worked to combine the wealth of data emerging from the project into a unified framework and develop new tools for mapping and understanding ecosystem service provision in urban landscapes. Overall he is drawn to research topics that concern human-environment interaction, social and environmental adaptation to global change, and that take a broad and interdisciplinary view.
Research Interest
Dr. Darren's research focuses on opportunities and risks presented by interdependencies in complex infrastructure networks.
Publications
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Grafius DR, Corstanje R, Siriwardena GM, Plummer KE, Harris JA (2017) A bird’s eye view: using circuit theory to study urban landscape connectivity for birds. Landscape Ecology 32: 1771-1787.
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Nor AN, Corstanje R, Harris JA, Grafius DR, Siriwardena GM (2017) Ecological connectivity networks in rapidly expanding cities. Heliyon 3.
