Dr Andrew Martin

Dr Andrew Martin

Andrew complete his D.Phil. in the group as part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) Doctoral Training Partnership. Using dendrochronological methods, he investigated the role of soil nutrients, specifically nitrogen, in controlling the growth of deciduous shrubs in the Arctic tundra. He was supervised by Dr. Lizzy Jeffers, Dr. Marc Macias-Fauria (Geography) and Prof. Kathy Willis.

Additional contributions:

Global Pollen Project. This project was envisioned as an open science tool and framework for the identification of pollen from their morphology. Collaborating with William Harvey, Andrew led design and development of a function-first web framework, which now runs https://globalpollenproject.org. Work is continuing on the Global Pollen Project alongside further collaborator Sandra Nogué: pollen traits are currently being incorporated to enable characterisation of plant families, genera, and species by their pollen and spore traits.

Local Ecological Footprint Tool (LEFT) and EcoSet. Andrew led the development of the technical infrastructure for LEFT during its transition from research prototype to a live tool.

Systematic Map Visualisation. Andrew developed a lightweight framework for the visualisation and exploration of systematic maps, with Gill Petrokofsky. Some of our systematic maps are visualised here using the framework.

FetchClimate. Andrew worked at Microsoft Research Cambridge during a three month internship, on a project to incorporate geo-temporal datasets of future climate (i.e. CMIP5 scenarios) into Microsoft’s FetchClimate tool.

Selected Publications

H. Epstein, U. Bhatt, M. Raynolds, D. Walker, B. C. Forbes, T. Horstkotte, M. Macias-Fauria, A. Martin, G. Phoenix, J. Bjerke, H. Tømmervik, P. Fauchald, H. Vickers, R. Myneni, C. Dickerson, 2017: Tundra Greenness [in Arctic Report Card 2017], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.

Long, P. R., Benz, D., Martin, A. C., Holland, P. W. A., Macias-Fauria, M., Seddon, A. W. R., Hagemann, R., Frost, T. K., Simpson, A. C., Power, D. J., Slaymaker, M. A. and Willis, K. J. (2017), LEFT – a web-based tool for the remote measurement and estimation of ecological value across global landscapes. Methods Ecol Evol. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12924

Martin A.C., Jeffers E.S., Petrokofsky, G., Myers-Smith, I, and Macias-Fauria, M. (2017), Shrub growth and expansion in the Arctic tundra: an assessment of controlling factors using an evidence-based approach. Environmental Research Letters. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7989

Martin, A. C., and Harvey, W. J. (2017), The Global Pollen Project: A New Tool for Pollen Identification and the Dissemination of Physical Reference Collections. Methods Ecol Evol. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12752