Professional summary
Research Interests
- Biodiversity Monitoring
- Biological Recording
- Citizen Science
- Biological Impacts of climate change
Brief CV
- 2022 to date: Individual Merit Scientist
- 2010 to date: Head of the Biological Records Centre
- 2007 to 2008: Coordinator of the EU FP6 project, Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
- 2002 to date: Leading the CEH contribution to the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
- 1999-2004: Research on farm-scale effects of herbicide-tolerant GM crops
- 1998-2001: Research on ecology of urban ecosystems
- 1994 to date: Research on the distributions of species
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Southampton), 2006
- MSc (University of York), 1994
- BSc (University of Southampton), 1992
- PhD (University of Southampton), 2006
- MSc (University of York), 1994
- BSc (University of Southampton), 1992
Selected publications
- Rapid range shifts of species associated with high levels of climate warming
- Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data
- Indexing butterfly abundance whilst accounting for missing counts and variability in seasonal pattern
- What have we learnt from 50 years of biological recording?
Web tools and apps
iRecord for capturing, reviewing and sharing wildlife sightings
Mobile apps for recording wildlife
Automated Insect Monitoring (AMI) systems for biodiversity monitoring
iRecord for capturing, reviewing and sharing wildlife sightings
Mobile apps for recording wildlife
Automated Insect Monitoring (AMI) systems for biodiversity monitoring