Adam is an earth and climate scientist working across a range of climate change mitigation and adaptation projects, in roles combining research, rapid evidence assessment and synthesis, project management, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge exchange.

Adam is interested in driving research impact by making research findings more useful to national and local decision makers, other researchers, and engaged climate-aware audiences. As project manager for the OpenLAND and OpenCLIM projects, Adam works with colleagues to understand how stakeholders use climate datasets, what questions they need to answer, and how. This informs the research methodology and the format of project outputs to maximise their useability.    

In the MACC Hub project (Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change), Adam is developing local climate risk reports and stakeholder workshops to assist local organisations to better understand climate risks and strengthen their adaptive capacity. 

Previously, Adam researched satellite observed trends in burned area, fire–climate indicators (FWI, CHI, NDVI, VPD), and emissions, for the Mediterranean region, to investigate the balance of climatic and socioeconomic drivers of these trends.

During COVID-19, Adam collaborated on research to estimate the temporary effect of COVID restrictions on daily global CO2 emissions. He developed a confinement index, representing the relative impact of COVID policies on domestic activities for dozens of countries. This work was included in the Global Carbon Budget estimates for 2020 and 2021.

Adam is an expert in gathering and summarising latest research and led a series of reviews by international teams of scientists, published through the ScienceBrief platform. This was a tool for keeping up with the latest science emerging on climate change impacts, climate projections and understanding.

Adam's research includes greenhouse gas emissions and climate change mitigation, synthesis and rapid evidence assessment of climate change impacts, climate resilience and climate adaptation, and climate change risk assessment.

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research