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Scotland faces pressing environmental challenges, from biodiversity loss to climate change, requiring cross-sector collaboration and integrated solutions. The Source-to-Sea (S2S) approach offers a holistic framework, recognising the interconnectedness of land, freshwater, and marine environments. It focuses on water flows linking river basins, lakes, aquifers, estuaries, coastlines, and open oceans, forming the S2S system.
I work at BioSS as a mathematical modeller. My theoretical effort has largely focused on population and individual-level dynamic process-based models using and developing a variety of techniques: data augmentation MCMC, particle methods, model and posterior-based proposals, multi-temperature MCMC, novel ABC methods and reliable approaches to model selection. These have allowed me to investigate, amongst other things, the genetic basis for epidemiological traits, disease transmission experiments, disease spread in wild populations and phylodynamic analyses. I have a keen interest in developing
I am a mathematical modeller focussing on Agent-Based Modelling approaches to represent real-world complex systems. I am currently applying these models to endemic disease spread in the Scottish cattle trading system, and researching the effectiveness of novel disease control measures and their impacts at systems- and individual-level. More generally, I am interested in modelling the dynamics of behavioural adaptation of individuals in response to the introduction of well-intentioned interventions. Details can be found on my web page . SRP area: 2.2 - Livestock Production, Health, Welfare, and
The most pressing societal challenges of the first half of the 21st century, including climate change, the biodiversity crisis and building a restorative economy, are systems challenges. To solve them requires understanding and quantification of how key systems respond to both global change and local responses. We are therefore developing tools for efficient computation at scale, estimation of large scale and systems model parameters, and the analysis of multiple models to test understanding and enable proper quantification of uncertainty.
š A Central Hub for Water Innovation Launched under the theme āWater for Change: Connecting Scotlandās Water Community for Science-Policy Dialogue,ā the WWD digital hub served as a central platform to showcase Scotlandās leadership in sustainable water governance, emphasising waterās critical role as a catalyst for environmental, social, and policy transformation. Over the past seven years, with strong support from the Scottish Government, the HNICās World Water Day events have built a strong tradition of fostering evidence-based decision-making. However, 2025 marks a pivotal shift, moving
The aim was to produce an updated Scottish genetic diversity scorecard for ongoing monitoring of biodiversity within terrestrial species and to expand its relevance to marine species to support strategies to prevent and reverse biodiversity decline.
Potato is the second most important food crop in the UK, and the underpinning seed potato industry contributes >Ā£1 billion to Scotlandās economy. Aphid-vectored viruses threaten potato harvests because infected crops are downgraded or destroyed. Historically, Scotland has maintained low virus levels in potato crops, but this is changing due to the warming climate, new virus variants, loss of crop protection products, and aphid resistance to insecticides. New practices and efficient dissemination are needed urgently to protect the potato sector and prevent virus infections becoming more severe