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Adam Butler

Statistician
Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland
JCMB, The King's Buildings,
EDINBURGH, EH9 3JZ, Scotland, UK.

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4896
Fax: +44 (0)131 650 4901

Research Interests

I have been employed as a postdoctoral researcher at BioSS since 2004, and have research interests in environmental risk assessment, extreme value methods, and spatio-temporal modelling.

I am currently employed on a number of distinct projects:

Statistical input to the ALARM project, an EU-funded project to assess large-scale environmental risks to European biodiversity with tested methods: see the ALARM@BioSS webpage for more information.
Statistical research, publicly funded through the Scottish Executive's rural and environmental research programme, to develop latent Gaussian models for environmental data, working with Chris Glaseby.
External contract work.

I have a PhD on the statistical modelling of synthetic oceanographic extremes (2005) and a BSc in Statistics (2001), both from Lancaster University. My PhD was supervised by Janet Heffernan and Jonathan Tawn, and was in collaboration with Roger Flather from the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory. I have also worked at CEH Monks Wood.