• Andy Turner's Achievements Web Page

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  • Introduction

    • For information about my achievements.
    • Contents:
      • Scope
      • 2006-06-09 to 2007-06-09
      • 2005-06-09 to 2006-06-09
      • Validation and Metadata

  • Scope

    • To understand what is acheivement, more information can be found via the following URL:
      • http://www.answers.com/topic/achievement
    • Achievements can be summarised and classified in many different ways.
    • It is not easy to record all achievements.
    • It is not straighforward to filter or decide what achievements are more important or required higher levels of skill.
    • In this page there are lists of my achievements compiled to assist in my personal review process.
    • Many of the achievements listed here are a result of collaborative activity and the credit cannot be individually attributed.

  • Achievements from 2006-06-09 to 2007-06-09

    • This Section is an attempt to list my achievements from 2006-06-09 to 2007-06-09
    • Web Content
      • Arguably the single most important achievement has been the development of my World Wide Web content.
      • This forms part of it and the URL for this section is as follows:
        • http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/personal/achievements/#Achievements_2006-06-09_to_2007-06-09
      • If you visit this URL using a standard User Agent Web Browser you will find that there are links within this Section to relevant details.
    • Project Work
      • MoSeS (2005-07-01 - Present)
        • Developed Information Content on NCeSS wiki
        • Developed Information Content on NCeSS Intranet
        • Developed Andy Turner's MoSeS Project Web Page detailing project involvement
        • Developed and publicly released MoSeS software for demographic modelling with 2001 UK Population Census Data
        • Developed and publicly released documentation
      • Developed Geomorphometrics Research Interests and Grids software.
    • Funding Applications
      • Granted Applications
        • JISC OGC Grid Collision
      • Applications in Process
        • NCeSS Node Proposal
    • Networking:
      • Attendance at OGC Technical Committee meetings:
        • 2006-12
          • Andy Turner's OGC TC Meeting 2006-12 Page
        • 2006-06
          • Andy Turner's OGC TC Meeting 2006-06 Page
      • Attendance at miscellaneous specialist meetings:
        • NCeSS Show Case 2007. Manchester, UK. 2006-06-12 to 2006-06-13.
          • Andy Turner's NCeSS Show Case 2007 Web Page
        • DS Online Games And Simulation Meeting, Los Angeles, USA. 2007-03-01 to 2007-03-02.
        • GRADE Informal Information Sharing Workshop. University of Sheffield. 2007-01-19.
          • Andy Turner's GRADE Web Page : 2007-02-19
        • NIEeS Grid GIS Working Group Meeting 2006-11-28
        • JISC First Joint Meeting of the GEMS/GEESE/GRID OGC Collision/NCeSS eInfrastructure Projects 2006-10-10
        • Leeds Humanities Research Institute Meeting 2006-06-07
      • Attendance at Workshops and Conferences:
        • Agent Based Modelling of Complex Spatial Systems Workshop. University California Santa Barbara, USA. 2007-04-14 to 2007-04-16
          • Andy Turner's Agent Based Modelling of Complex Spatial Systems Web Page
          • Blog 2006-04-16
        • NCeSS e-Infrastructure Workshop. Manchester, UK. 2007-01-15 to 2007-01-16.
          • Andy Turner's NCeSS e-Infrastructure Workshop 2007-01 Web Page
        • SOSoRNET Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH). King’s College London, UK, 2006-12-18 to 2006-12-19.
          • Andy Turner's SOSoRNET SOCH Workshop Web Page
        • Fifth All Hands Meeting, University of Nottingham, 2006-09-18 to 2006-09-21
        • FOSS4G 2006 - Open Source Geospatial Communities JOINT CONFERENCE 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland. 2006-09-11 to 2006-09-15.
          • Andy Turner's FOSS4G 2006 Web Page
        • Portals and Portlets workshop 2006-07-17 to 2006-07-19
          • Andy Turner's Portals and Portlets workshop 2006-07-17 to 2006-07-19 Web Page
        • Who Runs Leeds Workshop II 2006-07-10
        • GIS e-Science: Developing a Roadmap
          • Andy Turner's AHRC funded GIS e-Science Workshop Belfast 2006-07-03 to 2006-07-04 Web Page
        • Geographic Visualization Across the Social Sciences : State of the Art Review. NCeSS Workshop Manchester 2006-06-12 to 2006-06-13
          • Andy Turner's NCeSS Geographic Visualization Across the Social Sciences : State of the Art Review Workshop Web Page
    • Teaching and pedagogy
      • Delivered for the third year running a lecture, practical and performed an assessment of an assignment on Geomatics/Geomorphometrics for GEOG5060:
        • This work has again helped improve the Grids software by testing.
        • The students worked hard this year, making this course component more up-to-date and sustainable.
    • Publications
      • Software
        • Grids Java Library (On-going development)
        • Geographically Weighted Statistics Java Library (On-going development)
      • Projects
      • Research Interests
      • Articles
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) MoSeS 2001 UK Demographic Initialisation Page. CCG Working Paper.
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) MoSeS: UK Population Bases for Socio-economic Modelling. CCG Working Paper.
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) MoSeS: Developing a Model of the Contemporary UK Human Population: Towards a Specification for Agent/Environment Interaction Modelling
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) 'GRIDS_1.0 Core Package Description'. CCG Working Paper.
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) 'Raster Based Geographically Weighted Statistics for Studying the Spatial Change of Incidence Distributions Over Time: An Application to Stats 19 Personal Injury Road Accident Data'. CCG Working Paper.
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) Geomorphometrics: Ideas for Generation and Use. CCG Working Paper.
        • Daw M., Proctor R., Lin Y., Hewitt T., Jie W., Voss A., Baird K., Turner A.G.D., Birkin M., Miller K., Dutton W., Jirotka M., Schroeder R., de la Flor G., Edwards P., Allan R.J., Crouchley R. (2007) Sustaining an e-Infrastructure for Social Science. Abstract submitted to the 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science.
        • Holden, J., Shotbolt, L., Bonn, A., Burt, T.P., Chapman, P.J., Dougill, A.J., Fraser, E.D.G., Hubacek, K., Irvine, B., Kirkby, M.J., Reed, M.S., Prell, C., Stagl, S., Stringer, L.C., Turner, A.G.D., Worrall, F. (2007) Environmental change in moorland landscapes. Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 82, Issues 1-2, May 2007, Pages 75-100. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V62-4N0X5TH-1/2/8571592dc70189ad6d71824eb52ac2a9). doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.01.003
        • Birkin M., Turner A.G.D., Wu B. (2006) A Synthetic Demographic Model of the UK Population: Methods, Progress and Problems. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on e-Social Science, UK, June (2006-06).

  • Achievements from 2005-06-09 to 2006-06-09

    • This Section is an attempt to list my achievements from 2005-06-09 to 2006-06-09
    • Web Content
      • Arguably the single most important achievement has been the development of my World Wide Web content for e-Social Science
      • This forms part of it and the URL for this section is as follows:
        • http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/personal/achievements/#Achievements_2005-06-09_to_2006-06-09
      • If you visit this URL using a standard User Agent Web Browser you will find that there are links within this Section to the relevant information details
    • Project Work
      • MoSeS (2005-07-01 - Present)
        • Organised MoSeS Information Management System as a collaborative working environment for a virtual organisation crossing administrative boundaries
          • Developed Information Content on NCeSS wiki
          • Developed Information Content on NCeSS Intranet
          • Developed Andy Turner's MoSeS Project Web Page detailing project involvement
        • Successfully organised and ran MoSeS GIS and Grid Agenda Setting Workshop, Leeds 2005-09-13.
        • Initiated and developed numerous collabortions
          • BHPS and Census Data Assimilation (data, grid enabling) Manchester (GEMS)
          • MPJ (software) Portsmouth (Distributed Systems Group)
          • Preserve (data, provenance, software) Southampton (PASOA).
        • Developed and publicly released state-of-the-art software for demographic modelling with 2001 UK Population Census Data
        • Developed and publicly released documentation
      • Completed work on tempQsim Work Package 3 (2002-12-01 - 2006-01-01)
        • Produced geomorphometrics data for the Mediterranean region of Europe
      • Sustainable Uplands: Sustainable Upland Management for Multiple Benefits (2004-09-01 - 2005-09-01)
        • As a co-investigator Andy's role was to attend meetings and provide advice on implementing and developing a Geographic Information System.
    • Funding Applications
      • Granted Applications
        • Sustainable Uplands: Managing Uncertainty in Dynamic Socio-Economic Systems: An Application to UK Uplands (2006-03-01 - Present)
        • ESRC e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences (Ready for Kick-Off Meeting)
      • Applications in Process
        • JISC OGC Grid Collision
    • Networking
      • Research Collaborations
        • Widened Involvement in Geographical Information Community
          • Became OGC Technical Committee representative for the University of Leeds
          • Work on Unfunded Projects
            • Who Runs Leeds (2006-04 - Present)
            • SIM-UK (2005-03 - Present)
            • Future Cities (2005-02 - Present)
          • Attendance at Workshops and Conferences
            • White Rose Grid Workshop: Introduction to e-Infrastructure: Enabling the research of the future 2006-03-28
            • The 4th Meeting of the NIEeS Grid GIS Working Group 2006-02-01 to 2006-02-02
            • Fourth All Hands Meeting, University of Nottingham, 2005-09-19 to 2005-09-22
            • Workshop on Grid Middleware and Geospatial Standards for Earth System Science Data 2005-09-06 to 2005-09-07
            • First International Conference on e-Social Science 2005-06-22 to 2005-06-24
            • Frontiers in Transportation: Social and Spatial InterReview: A Satellite Event of the 9th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning & Urban Management, CUPUM '05. In collaboration with the World Conference on Transportation Research Society, Special Interest Group on Transport and Spatial Development, WCTRS SIG-1. Netherlands, 2005-07-02 to 2005-07-06
    • Teaching and pedagogy
      • Delivered for the second year running a lecture, practical and performed an assessment on geomorphometrics for GEOG5060
    • Publications
      • Presentation at White Rose Grid Workshop: Introduction to e-Infrastructure: Enabling the research of the future 2006-03-28
      • Software
        • Grids Java Library (On-going development)
        • Geographically Weighted Statistics Java Library (On-going development)
      • Articles
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) MoSeS 2001 UK Demographic Initialisation Page
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) MoSeS: UK Population Bases for Socio-economic Modelling
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) MoSeS: Developing a Model of the Contemporary UK Human Population: Towards a Specification for Agent/Environment Interaction Modelling
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) 'GRIDS_1.0 Core Package Description' CCG Working Paper.
        • Turner A.G.D. (In preparation) 'Raster Based Geographically Weighted Statistics for Studying the Spatial Change of Incidence Distributions Over Time: An Application to Stats 19 Personal Injury Road Accident Data' CCG Working Paper.
        • Birkin M., Turner A.G.D., Wu B. (2006) A Synthetic Demographic Model of the UK Population: Methods, Progress and Problems. Abstract submitted for the Second International Conference on e-Social Science, UK, June (2006-06).
        • Birkin M., Turner A.G.D., Wu B. (2006) Proof of Concept for a Dynamic Simulation Model of the UK Population. Abstract submitted for the Second International Conference on e-Social Science, UK, June (2006-06).
        • Birkin M., Clarke M., Rees P., Turner A.G.D., Wu B., Keen J., Chen H., Hodrien J., Townend P., Xu J. (2005) Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science (MoSeS). Poster presented at the Fourth e-Science All Hands Meeting, UK, September.
        • Turner A.G.D. (2005) 'GIS Options for a proposed UK upland moorland project' RELU, Sustainable Upland Management for Multiple Benefits Scoping Study, CCG Working Paper, February.
    • Considerata
      • Sustainable Uplands: Managing Uncertainty in Dynamic Socio-Economic Systems: An Application to UK Uplands
        • I have withdrawn the labour intensive part of my committment to this project. My role is now one of expert advisor. I am to attend project meetings and advise research assistants on the development of a Geographical Information System and the integration of Agent Based Models

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