I work jointly on the conservation of several key species in Namibia and environmental impact assessment for offshore wind in the UK, Denmark and USA. I am a methods developer who is primarily involved in spatially explicit modelling and environmental impact assessment methods and is the main developer/maintainer of the MRSea R package for use in estimating distribution and abundance of animals. The R-package allows the fitting of spatially adaptive 1- and 2D splines in a GLM/GAM framework. Its main applications are in analysing data for environmental statements for the development of offshore wind (visual boat/aerial or digital aerial data) but it also finds use in home range estimation assisting in the conservation of several key Namibian species. She also had a significant contribution to developing guidance, methods and R software (MRSeaPower) for quantifying spatially explicit power to detect change.

 

I also have a keen interest in training workshops, teaching both in the UK and abroad.  Alongside teaching duties at the University of St Andrews I have delivered workshops in ‘Quantifying the power to detect change’ and ‘Statistical training for decision makers’ and developed materials for introductory statistics courses to up-skill PhD students and staff across the university.