David Armstrong McKay

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I’m a Climate-Biosphere Scientist, Communicator, and Advocate, working to understand and enhance Earth system and socio-ecological resilience for an age of Climate and Ecological crisis. I’m currently working as a Research Consultant and Science Communicator (self-employed at Georesilience Analytics and based in Brighton, England) and am also a GSI Visiting Fellow at the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute and an associated researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre.

I'm fascinated by the co-evolution of the Earth, life, and human societies as a complex and dynamic system, and what this means for our future. My research uses numerical modelling and analysis to investigate Earth System resilience in the past and future, including climate-biosphere feedbacks and tipping points, dynamics and indicators of ecological resilience, and the sustainability of socio-ecological systems.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Associated Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
  • 2024–present
    Lecturer, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
  • 2022–2024
    Research Impact Fellow, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
  • 2020–2022
    GSI Visiting Fellow, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
  • 2018–2020
    Postdoctoral fellow, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
  • 2015–2018
    Postdoctoral researcher, University of Southampton

Education

  • 2015 
    National Oceanography Centre Southampton / University of Southampton, PhD Ocean and Earth Science
  • 2011 
    National Oceanography Centre Southampton / University of Southampton, MSci Geophysics

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