Staff Profile:Dr Fiona Underwood

Name:

Dr Fiona Underwood

Job Title:

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

Research:

I am interested in the development of statistical methods in interdisciplinary research to address applied problems in conservation, climate, natural resource management and agriculture. I am especially keen to exploit the potential of Bayesian methods and graphical statistical modelling to address these issues. Two key areas of research work are:

1. Development of statistical methods to understanding how climate variability impacts a natural or managed system or organism.

2. Design of monitoring/sampling strategies:

• Development of long-term monitoring study designs for natural resource management
• Implications of research questions that require modelling of complex systems on study design

Research groups / Centres:

Applied Statistics
Associate of the Walker Institute

See Fiona Underwood's personal page for more information.

Publications:

Underwood, F.M (2009) Describing long-term trends in precipitation using generalized additive models Journal of Hydrology 364 285-297. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.11.003

Bennett, E.L., Blencowe, E., Brandon, K., Brown, D., Burn, R.W., Cowlishaw, G.C., Davies,G., Dublin, H., Fa, J., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Robinson, J.R., Rowcliffe, J.M., Underwood, F.M. , Wilkie, D. (2007) Hunting for Consensus: a statement on reconciling bushmeat harvest, conservation and development policy in west and central Africa. Conservation Biology 21 (3) 884-887

Milliken, T., Burn, R.W., Underwood, F.M. and Sangalakula, L. (2004). The Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) and the illicit trade in ivory. Proceedings of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (UNEP), Bangkok : 13 , Doc 29.2A

Burn, R.W. and Underwood, F.M. (2000) Statistical aspects of sampling populations of forest elephants. Natural Resource Modeling 13 (1) 135-150.