Dr Mark Richards

Dr Mark Richards
Dr Mark Richards
Dr Mark Richards

Programmer

About
Email Address
mark.richards@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address
1.07 Cruickshank Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
St. Machar Drive
AB24 3UU

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School/Department
School of Biological Sciences

Biography

  • Scientific Programmer, Environmental Modelling Group, University of Aberdeen, 2017 - present
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Modelling Group, University of Aberdeen, 2008 - 2017
  • Biology Tutor, Nov 2006, - Nov 2008
  • PhD in Plant Science, University of Aberdeen,  2003 - 2007
  • BSc (Hons.) Plant Science, University of Aberdeen, 1999 - 2003
  • Software Developer, 1995 - 1999
  • HND Computer Studies, University of Plymouth, 1993-1995
Research

Research Overview

I provide programming support for the following applications:

  • ECOSSE - a soil carbon and nitrogen model (Fortran)
  • GlobalECOSSE - a tool for running spatial simulations in parallel using ECOSSE (Python)
  • Mapit - a tool for batch generating publication quality maps of spatial data (Python)
  • PyETo - a package for calculating potential evapotranspiration (Python)