Dr Mark Mulligan completed his undergraduate degree in geography at the University of Bristol from 1988-1991. After a brief period in the rainforests of Brunei with the then Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Brunei Rainforest Expedition, he moved to King’s for his PhD on 'Modelling hydrology and vegetation change in a degraded semi-arid area', supervised by Professor John Thornes.
In 2003, Mark was appointed Reader in Geography and in 2004 was awarded the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers Gill Memorial Award for ‘innovative monitoring and modelling’ of environmental systems.
Research：
Development and application of spatial policy support systems
Agriculture, land use change and climate change impacts on water and ecosystems
Ecosystem services mapping and modelling
Tropical forests and tropical montane cloud forests
Environmental modelling, environmental Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and environmental monitoring with open source hardware
Mark's research interests include climate, hydrology and vegetation processes and dynamics, and their interactions with each other, and with human activity, in the Mediterranean and tropical humid environments. His research applies high-tech field monitoring based on his open-source designs atwww.freestation.organd distributed process-based computer modelling.
He is committed to science in the service of society and has thus focused (collaboratively with industrial partners) on making his research results available to industrial and policy-oriented users through decision support tools atwww.policysupport.organd web-based modelling tools and data distribution systems andgeodata.policysupport.org.