Publications

• Caldararu, S., Palmer, P. I., and Purves, D. W.: Inferring Amazon leaf demography from satellite observations of leaf area index, Biogeosciences Discuss., 8, 10389-10421, doi:10.5194/bgd-8-10389-2011

Conferences

• Large-scale seasonal changes in leaf cover over the Amazon basin are explained by variations in solar radiation, at AGU Fall Meeting December 2010, San Francisco, USA
• A new data-constrained model of leaf phenology for the Amazon basin, at the International Conference on Phenology: Plant Ecology and Diversity, April 2010, Edinburgh UK

Summer schools

• Annual summer course in flux measurements and advanced modelling, July 2009, Boulder, USA
• Microsoft Research Summer School, June 2009, Cambridge, UK

Internships

• Internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge, April - June 2010 Parametrisation of regional scale models using a Bayesian fitting algorithm

• Internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge, February - April 2012 Spatial distribution of parameters in a global scale model of leaf phenology