Dr Regan Early
Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology
Daphne Du Maurier building (Room 3.057),
Centre for Ecology and Conservation,
University of Exeter, Penryn Campus,
Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE. UK.
Email: r.early@exeter.ac.uk
Twitter: @reganearly
Grants
2020
Natural Resources Wales contract “Development of a dormouse landscape model to support strategic conservation approaches in Wales”. Co-investigator. £25,000
Natural England contract LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES (LIFE18 NAT/UK/000039). Co-investigator. Modelling locations for seagrass restoration in the south of England. £20,000
2019
UK Met Office contract to improve the pollen forecast with information about pollen distribution and phenology. Joint PI. £20,000
2018
CABI contract “Forecasting the global invasion of Tuta absoluta”. £8000
UK Met Office contract “Pollen Modelling – vegetation source mapping”. Joint PI. £26,000
2017
BBSRC GCRF IAA award. “Combating Pest Alien Species in Central Africa.” £15,000.
2016
NERC iCASE studentship. “Climate opportunists: a threat to UK biodiversity and ecosystems?”
2015 - 2018
SERDP, the US Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. Co-performer “Conserving threatened plants in a non-stationary world: a predictive framework for assessing risks and guiding management.” $930,000.
2014
QuerCom: “Environmental controls of community structure and ecosystem function: an assessment with cork oak (Quercus suber) communities in the Iberian Peninsula.” (FCT, Portugal, EXPL/AAG-GLO/2488/2013). €50,000.
2013 - 2015
BiodivERsA pan-European project “European Conservation for the 21st Century.” (BIODIVERSA/0003/2011). €1.2 million.
2010 - 2014
Post-Doctoral Fellowship (FCT, Portugal). “Species range shifts under 21st century climate change: limitations and conservation strategies.” Funds salary and research for six years.
2007
British Ecology Society, Small Ecological Project Grant. “Exploring the mechanisms of range limitation in a declining butterfly: implications for future distributions under climate change.” €2500.
Career
2015
Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology, University of Exeter, UK
2010 - 2014
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cátedra Rui Nabeiro - Biodiversidade, Universidade de Évora, Portugal and Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
2008 - 2010
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, USA
2003 - 2007
PhD, University of York, UK
1999 - 2002
BA Biological Sciences, Oxford University, UK
Teaching
I lead the level 3 undergraduate field course to the Yukon Territory and Alaska. I also teach the level 2 module Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and co-teach the level 3 module ‘Science and Society’. Some of my previous teaching includes courses in invasions and species distribution modelling at the Doñana Biological Reserve international course in Spain, and species distribution modelling at MSc-level at Universidade de Évora, in Portugal.
Publications
See my Google Scholar page for publications.