John Coll

Biography

I graduated from the University of Stirling with an Honours degree in Environmental Science and Biology in 1996. After a few years back in the workplace, a PhD followed at the University of the Highlands and Islands: Local scale assessment of climate change and its impacts in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (2007). Since May 2008 I have been employed as a researcher with the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units (ICARUS) at Maynooth University. I am a climatologist with interests in climate change impacts and adaptation and biogeography. I have a particular interest and significant expertise in statistical and applied probability modelling for spatial binary data, and in applying this to explore the impacts of climate change on natural systems. While a strong interdisciplinary approach and broad understanding of climate change research has been developed, current areas of core research activity are; Homogeneity assessment of climate data. Application of the HOMER relative homogenisation programme (R-based) to multiple station time series. Bioclimatic envelope modelling: the application of techniques including Generalised Linear Models (GLMs), Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) and the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Applying model ensemble approaches in the BIOMOD library (R-based).

Research Interest

Geography