Aidan Byrne

Aidan Byrne

PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, King's College London

Aidan is a final year PhD candidate based at King's College London and the Natural History Museum London, funded by the London NERC DTP. His project utilises open-access remote sensing and climate products to investigate hydrological changes across the East African Rift System, their environmental drivers, and the impacts of changes on water quality and biodiversity.

Articles by: Aidan Byrne

Flamingos on the lake. Kenya. Africa. Nakuru National Park.

East Africa's Lake Nakuru almost doubled in size in 13 years — and that's bad news for flamingos

By Aidan Byrne published

Africa's soda lakes are rising and it's decimating the cyanobacteria flamingos have evolved to eat, putting the species at risk of drastic declines if current trends continue.