The website has been updated significantly with a new layout and more details on my PhD work
I've just submitted my first ever journal paper. It's been sent off to Remote Sensing of Environment, and is entitled On the accuracy of visibility-derived estimates of Aerosol Optical Thickness. I'm now entering the long wait for referees comments - let's hope it goes well.
I have just received my (provisional) marks for my Doctoral Training Year. During this year I took a number of modules, some designed specifically for students doing the PhD programme that I am on, and some which were from other courses elsewhere in the university. This means that I was taking a number of modules for which I did not have the prerequisites. Overall I gained an average of 74.5%, which is a First Class mark. My highest mark was 82%, and my lowest 68%.
I have received an email from an employee of the police department in Henderson City, Nevada, USA, thanking me for releasing RTWTools for ArcGIS (a set of free tools for ArcGIS) and stating how useful they have been in helping their GIS analyses.
An interview with me has been published in the I'm a Geographer supplement of the latest issue of Geographical Magazine. The supplement is available as a PDF (my bit starts on page 6 of the PDF) and
the reference for this
article in
the
magazine
is:
Royal Geographical Society, 2010, 'I'm a geographer', Geographical Magazine, September 2010 issue, p52
I've just found out that my dissertation had been sumitted for the dissertation prize of the Quantitative Methods Research Group (part of the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers). My dissertation was "highly commended" by the panel, and was of "a significantly higher standard than the rest", thus "presenting a tough choice to the judges". Sadly I didn't win outright, but as only two students were "highly commended" I am very pleased. For the official announcement see the QMRG website.
I have just submitted an abstract for the Global Sand Seas conference at the RGS-IBG, London in October. I will be presenting a poster based on my work on automatically extracting dune pattern metrics from DEMs.
I have just submitted my first conference paper, written in collaboration with my supervisor. It will be appearing in the Conference Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society 2010. It will be given out on a CD at the conference, and is also available for download here (PDF, 397kb, 8 pages).
Today my final degree results were released. I gained a First Class mark (72.8% overall) which was the highest mark in my year, making me 1st out of 166 geography students. My dissertation scored 81%, the second highest dissertation mark in the year. All of my module marks for my final semester were First Class marks (> 70%). My full marks transcript is available for download (PDF, 158Kb, 1 page)