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Dr Lindesay Scott-Hayward
Senior Research Fellow (seconded to Office of the Principal)
Research: Use of spatially adaptive smoothing (SALSA methods) and geodesic distance (CReSS method) for modelling species distributions. Of particular interest is analysis of environmental impact assessment survey data.
PhD: Predicting the distribution of marine organisms in spatially complex regions.
Research Interests:
- Developing methods for environmental impact assessment
- Spatially adaptive smoothing
- Correlated data
- Areas of complex topography (two dimensional smoothing using geodesic distances)
- Splines
- Radial basis functions
Workshop Teaching:
- Introduction to Statistical Modlling
- Spatial modelling methods for correlated data (splines, GAMs, GEEs)
- Using the MRSea R-package
- Distance Sampling
Project Manager:
- Managing an EPSRC funded project: Ecological Survey Spatial Modelling (ESSMod)
- Modelling spatial distribution and change from wildlife survey data (ESSMod).
- Key words: Distance Sampling, SECR, INLA
Reports and Software:
- Marine renewables strategic environmental assessment: Statistical Modelling of bird and cetacean distributions in off-shore renewables development areas (2013; contract for Marine Scotland (SB9 (CR/2012/05))
- Guidance document
- MRSea R-package
- MRSea User Guide and reference manual
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Paxton, C.G.M., Scott-Hayward, L.A.S. & Rexstad, E. 2014. Statistical approaches to aid the identification of Marine Protected Areas for minke whale, Risso’s dolphin, white-beaked dolphin and basking shark. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 594.
Talks:
- Uncertainty in an Ecological Setting: Regresion based models. (Understanding Uncertainty in Ecological Modelling, January 2015, LSE)
- Methods Comparison Exerciese: statistical modelling in renewables developments areas (ISEC Talk 2014) (International Statistical Ecology Conference)
- EIMR Talk 2014 and extended abstract (Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewable Energy Technologies)
- ECS Talk 2013 (European Cetacean Society)
Research Overview:
Details about my research, teaching and industry involvement can be found here:
http://lindesay80.wix.com/lasscotthayward
15 (of 15 /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/status/published available) for lass. (source: University of St Andrews PURE)
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Journal of Experimental Biology 2017 vol. 220 pp. 2878-2886
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2017 vol. 74 pp. 716-726
2017 pp. 1
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2017 vol. 71
Journal of Applied Ecology 2016 vol. 53 pp. 1642-1652
2016 vol. 517
Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 2015 vol. 20 pp. 305-322
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 2014 vol. 23 pp. 340-360
2014
2014 vol. 573
Functional Ecology 2013 vol. 27 pp. 314-322
2013
2011
Marine Ecology Progress Series 2011 vol. 436 pp. 257-272
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010 vol. 132 pp. 5799-5802
Contact Details:
Dr Lindesay Scott-HaywardThe Observatory
Buchanan Gardens
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
KY16 9LZ
Fife
UK
tel: 01334 461824
fax: 01334 461800
room: 128
email: lass@st-andrews.ac.uk
Related:
research@st-andrewsDepartmental website
Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling
Sea Mammal Research Unit
School of Mathematics & Statistics
National Centre for Statistical Ecology
Scottish Oceans Institute
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The Secretary
Scottish Oceans Institute
Institiud Chuantan na h-Alba
Gatty Marine Laboratory
East Sands St Andrews
KY16 8LB
Scotland
UK
tel: +44 (0) 1334 463472
fax: +44 (0) 1334 463443
email: soi@st-andrews.ac.uk
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