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Phoebe Morton

Phoebe Morton is a PhD student at SEI York, working with Andreas Heinemeyer on a Defra project (BD5104) on peatland management and ecosystem services in the UK. Phoebe has a BSc in Biology (with a Year in Industry) from the University of York.

“I am specifically looking at the effects of different types of heather management on peatland vegetation, carbon dynamics, greenhouse gas fluxes and water quality. My undergraduate project focussed on investigating how mycorrhizas and biochar (charcoal) affect greenhouse gas fluxes from forest soil. I worked for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in the Scottish Highlands for a year as a placement student, which included work with gamebirds in a wide variety of upland habitats, assessing vegetation changes and habitat mapping.”