The South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP)
Slide 2 Forest reserves & protected areas of Sabah Slide 3
Slide 4 The Royal Society SEARRP & research in Sabah SEARRPs
mission: To enable excellence in collaborative research and
training that makes a major contribution to the understanding of
rainforests, their conservation and restoration and underpins the
sustainable management of tropical landscapes The Royal Society
established SEARRP in 1985 and headquartered the Programme at the
then newly-opened Danum Valley Field Centre The longest running
overseas programme supported by the Royal Society and, with the
exception of military links, between the UK and Malaysia Danum
Valley Field Centre: the leading and most productive field station
in the Old World Tropics and one of the top three globally SEARRP
facilitates research by individual scientists and through a suite
of major projects supported by a standing team of over 60 Research
Assistants Training programmes - undergraduate field courses,
post-graduate courses & specialist training Slide 5 Slide 6
Slide 7 Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11 Slide 12 Slide 13 Slide
14 Slide 15 Slide 16 Slide 17 Slide 18 Slide 19 Sabah Biodiversity
Experiment Smithsonian 50ha plot Slide 20 SEARRP: Key indicators
& outputs 160+ PhD and MSc degrees completed (>50 by
Malaysian students) with a further ~40 currently underway ~15
million (RM75 million) of active research grants currently
associated with SEARRP Over 450 refereed journal articles published
since 1985 (including three special issues of Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society) with 200+ papers published since
2010 17,000+ citations SEARRP institutional h-index: 74 Suite of
major, strategic research projects established Key strategic
partnerships that bridge the gap between science, policy and best
practice Direct conservation impacts - huge expansion in the extent
of protected forests surrounding Danum Slide 21 1990 Slide 22 2010
Slide 23 2014 Slide 24 The SE Asia Rainforest Research Partnership
re-launching SEARRP Enabling rainforest protection, restoration and
sustainability through excellence in research and training UK
SEARRP charity oversight, direction, international engagement &
funding Academic Council the main scientific driver of the new
SEARRP Griffith University, AustraliaSwansea University, UK James
Cook University, AustraliaUniversity of Nottingham, UK Cambridge
University, UKNatural History Museum, UK University of Oxford,
UKZoological Society of London, UK Imperial College, UKLeiden
University, Netherlands Sheffield University, UK University of
British Columbia, Canada University of York, UKUniversity of
Zurich, Switzerland Lancaster University, UKETH, Switzerland
University of Leeds, UKUniversiti Malaysia Sabah University of
Aberdeen, UKForest Research Centre, Sabah Sabah-based SEARRP
Society day-to-day operations, local and regional engagement Goals
Delivering wide-ranging impacts with a focus on informing policy
Enabling collaboration & coordination between partner
institutions Providing opportunities for Malaysian students and
early career scientists Facilitating academic exchange Slide 25
Thanks & acknowledgements Slide 26
