Dr Holly East

My research interests are focused on the interface between geomorphology and ecology in tropical coastal environments, particularly within seagrass and reef island systems. My recent work has included reconstructions of past reef island evolution in relation to environmental change, calculation of reef sediment budgets, and analyses of connectivity between seagrass meadows and reef islands.

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• No apparent trade-offs associated with heat tolerance in a reef-building coral, Lachs, L., Humanes, A., Pygas, D., Bythell, J., Mumby, P., Ferrari, R., Figueira, W., Beauchamp, E., East, H., Edwards, A., Golbuu, Y., Martinez, H., Sommer, B., van der Steeg, E., Guest, J. 12 Apr 2023, In: Communications Biology
• Post-bleaching alterations in coral reef communities, Elma, E., Gullström, M., Yahya, S., Jouffray, J., East, H., Nyström, M. 1 Jan 2023, In: Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment, East, H., Johnson, J., Perry, C., Finlay, G., Musthag, A., Zahir, H., Floyd, M. 14 Feb 2023, In: Communications Earth and Environment
• Lagoonal reef island formation in Huvadhoo atoll, Maldives, highlights marked temporal variations in island building across the archipelago, Liang, C., Kench, P., Ford, M., East, H. 1 Oct 2022, In: Geomorphology
• Mainstreaming the Environment: Exploring pathways and narratives to improve policy and decision‐making, Scott, A., Holtby, R., East, H., Lannin, A. 1 Feb 2022, In: People and Nature
• SizeExtractR: A workflow for rapid reproducible extraction of object size metrics from scaled images, Lachs, L., Chong, F., Beger, M., East, H., Guest, J., Sommer, B. 14 Mar 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution
• Fine-Tuning Heat Stress Algorithms to Optimise Global Predictions of Mass Coral Bleaching, Lachs, L., Bythell, J., East, H., Edwards, A., Mumby, P., Skirving, W., Spady, B., Guest, J. 7 Jul 2021, In: Remote Sensing
• Wave exposure shapes reef community composition and recovery trajectories at a remote coral atoll, Lange, I., Benkwitt, C., McDevitt-Irwin, J., Tietjen, K., Taylor, B., Chinkin, M., Gunn, R., Palmisciano, M., Steyaert, M., Wilson, B., East, H., Turner, J., Graham, N., Perry, C. 1 Dec 2021, In: Coral Reefs
• Evidence of resilience in lagoonal platform islands in response to rising sea level on Huvadhoo Atoll, Maldives, Liang, C., Kench, P., Ford, M., East, H. 31 Dec 2020, Proceedings of Virtual Conference on Coastal Engineering, 2020, Coastal Engineering Research Council
• Modelling reef hydrodynamics and sediment mobility under sea level rise in atoll reef island systems, East, H., Perry, C., Beetham, E., Kench, P., Liang, Y. 1 Sep 2020, In: Global and Planetary Change

• Matthew Floyd Spatial dynamics of Maldivian seagrass meadows and their role in ecosystem services for marine conservation Start Date: 18/01/2021
• Emily Husband The Formation and Evolution of Caribbean Coral Reef Islands Start Date: 01/10/2020

• Geography PhD January 09 2018
• Environmental Science and other Physical Science MPhil June 30 2012
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA

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