Alex Cheesman

Alexander Cheesman is a Senior Research Fellow working at James Cook University and the University of Exeter in the UK,

He is a plant eco-physiologist and soil scientist interested in the dynamic interaction of tropical systems in a changing world. He is an active researcher on issues of climate change, air pollution, nutrient management, and plant physiology.

Alex completed his PhD in Soil and Water Science at the University of Florida, USA, much of the field work for which was carried out in the remote wetlands of Panama. This led to a 2 year post-doctoral research fellowship at STRI with Dr Klaus Winter, a position funded jointly by the Smithsonian Institute Global Earth Observatory (SIGEO) and Center for Tropical Forest Studies (CTFS), now called CTFS-ForestGEO, with the objective of researching the effects of increasing temperature upon tree physiology in the tropics. From June 2013 to June 2018 he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at James Cook University (JCU) working with Dr Lucas Cernusak on issues of plant ecophysiology adaptation and acclimation. Since 2018 he has held a senior research fellow role at JCU and the University of Exeter in the UK primarily working on TropOZ - an interenational effiort to examine the impacts of air pollution (and in particular ozone) on tropical systems.