Stuart is a post-doctoral ecologist with a joint position between the University of Adelaide and the University of Copenhagen. His research is focused on the ecological impacts of rapid climate change, and the drivers of extinction and biodiversity loss across large spatiotemporal scales. He has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in processing large spatiotemporal datasets for a range of ecological, environmental, and climatological analyses. Broadly, my geospatial knowledge and skillset have provided key inputs for the development of ecological models, through modelling of both climate and environmental change, and biodiversity modelling.

The world’s coral reefs are being exposed to increasingly severe and frequent marine heatwaves, causing mass bleaching events that threaten thousands of reef-associated species, and the services they provide to nature and people. Stuart’s Fellowship project aims to generate a high spatial resolution dataset of sea surface temperatures that characterises trajectories of warming for the world’s coral reefs, and the associated changes in bleaching risk, from 1985 to 2100 using a range of climate models and future scenarios.