Andrew Martin
@iomandrew
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Post-doctoral researcher in Arctic Ecology, University of Oxford. Interests in tree rings, pollen, modelling, palaeoecology, biodiversity, Manx environment 🇮🇲
Isle of Man
Joined December 2013
The Isle of Man's parliamentary ombudsman appears to be financially limited by the executive - despite requesting a £50,000 budget, only £34,000 was given for 2023/24: Should Govt have control of this budget?.
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RT @zhenyongzhu: Thanks to @iomandrew, Deedle.RPlugin is revived to target .NET 5. It references latest RProvider 2.0.2 that supports inter….
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Deedle implements an efficient and robust frame and series data structures for manipulating with structured data. It supports handling of missing values, aggregations, grouping, joining, statistical...
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We've recently released RProvider v2, which enables cross-platform F# - R interop - now an endorsed package at @fslaborg (thanks @kMutagene) - looking forward to doing some biodiversity modelling with it #dotnet #fsharp
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Principal planner recommended despite contrary to environment policies 1 + 3. Changes in 2019/20 removed ability to appeal from all organisations / charities / individuals aside from land owners within 20 metres of development. Decisions against policy now go unchallenged. (2/2).
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17 Manx farmhouses demolished. Only 23% of policy assessed for 'replacement' homes in countryside. New preprint: Time to follow your own planning policy @IOMGovernment? We're not living up to UNESCO biosphere status @ManxRadio @billshimmins @GeoffreyBoot.
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Evidence-informed approach suggests that major policy implementation problems severely impact the Isle of Man's ability to meet its UNESCO Biosphere Reserve commitments (3/3) @greenwoodtree.
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Only 23% of all policy complied with; nearly half of all buildings recommended for demolition were historic or vernacular, including 17 vernacular farmhouses; and 72% of approved replacements did not comply with policy (2/3).
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New preprint online (please provide comments!) - Rural Manx vernacular buildings are not protected by planning policy: an evidence-informed approach reveals inconsistency in policy application and assessment (1/3).
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Controls on Arctic shrub growth/exp: spatial gaps and temporal limits to recent evidence. New paper @IOPenvironment
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For #PlantDay2017, Global Pollen Project featured on @MethodsEcolEvol blog: Pollen's role in plant conservation
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Post Provided by Andrew Martin The Global Pollen Project is a new, online, freely available tool developed to help people identify and disseminate palynological resources. Palynology – the study of…
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. @neotomadb @FergusJChadwick @greenwoodtree @OxLEL Global Pollen Project API can be made public for @neotomadb if interested.
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Learning about Xamarin, .net core and uwps, how can we be more engaging with environmental tools? #buildtour @OxLEL
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GM as tool to overcome plant disease? Cassava now top 10 plant disease, best action to take? @Prof_GD_Foster #SOTWP
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(4/4) The Global Pollen Project is built with 5 + MVC6 + EF7. What a learning experience going from MVC3! @OxLEL.
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(3/4) Digitise your reference collections into our library of pollen grains. Look through grains, just like under a microscope @OxLEL.
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(2/4) The Global Pollen Project is linked to GBIF for a rigorous taxonomic backbone & Neotoma for species distribution maps @OxLEL.
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