Emma works as a Carbon Balance Modelling Scientist within the Mensuration, Growth and Yield team.

She is currently working on the Defra Forestry Research and Development (FR&D) ReForeSt project, which aims to investigate the impacts of woodland management on forest structure, biodiversity, and carbon. Her role in this project is to use the CARBINE forest carbon accounting model to model the carbon impacts of introducing management to unmanaged woodlands. Additionally, she provides support to the carbon modelling aspect of the Defra EVAST project, which aims to simulate how Defra policies in England might impact ecosystem service stocks, flows, and values. Emma is also working on forest carbon modelling within the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero – Forest Research Memorandum of Understanding (DESNZ-FR MOU).

Previously at Forest Research, Emma worked on a Defra Nature for Climate Fund (NCF) project which compared the carbon budgets of different land use change options. This included developing Life Cycle Assessments for different types of forestry and using Ecological Site Classification (ESC) and CARBINE to model carbon storage within forests.