Hi,
My name’s Taraka, (pronounced TAA-Rah-Ker – it originates from Hindu mythology), but everyone knows me as T – yes, just the letter T.
I’ve now left academia because my hobby of writing fiction made more sense as a job! It’s been a great change, and a lot more people now read what I write. 🙂
If you want to contact me, you can do so via a commonly used email service that begins with g. tdaviesbarnard.
I’m interested in the relationship between changes in the climate and vegetation. My research has covered work on how the biogeophysics and biogeochemistry balance out at different scales and in different future scenarios, land use change, and terrestrial nitrogen and carbon cycles, particularly biological nitrogen fixation.
My previous roles included University of Exeter, where I worked on improving the representation of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle in the JULES model, and then modelled land use change in Borneo.
In my spare time, I’m a cyclist, hill walker, kitesurfer, computer geek, gin enthusiast, and dog team member.