A warm welcome!
Dr Adrian Cooper has been fascinated with wildlife and conservation since his early childhood. His academic background is within Geography where Adrian has specialized in the public engagement with conservation spaces in wilderness regions, coastal wetlands, and community-based conservation. In 1999, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In August 2023, Adrian was elected as a European Citizen Science Ambassador for the United Kingdom.
Regions of Interest: Scandinavia, Russia, Caribbean, Mediterranean and Antarctica. All focused on:
Systems Thinking in Practice
Socio-Ecological systems
Using R and Python code in data analysis and visualization
Geographical Information Systems
Community-based conservation and Citizen Science
Software Systems Project Management
Currently: Founder and Chair of Felixstowe's Community Nature Reserve (2015 - present)
Founder and Chair of Felixstowe's Citizen Science Group (2018 - present)
Adrian's radio series, Sacred Nature won the Environment category of the 2009 Jerusalem Radio Awards. The judges described the series as 'an outstanding piece of broadcasting'.
