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Thomas Bishop
Senior Lecturer in Environmetrics

Phone: +61 2 9351 5115
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Thomas Bishop graduated from the University of Sydney with a BScAgr (Hon 1) in 1996 and a PhD in Agriculture in 2002. In early 2007 he accepted a Senior Lectureship in Environmetrics. Prior to that he worked in a variety of positions including being a Spatial Analyst at the NSW Department of Land & Water Conservation, undertaking Postdoctoral research at the University of Florida, Rothamsted Research Institute in the UK and the University of New South Wales.

His general research interests are in the field of Environmetrics and concern the application and development of statistical methods for solving environmental and agricultural problems. In the past he has worked with a variety of natural resource information, including agronomic, soil, hydrological and native vegetation data.

His current research interests include:

1. An emerging interest in the monitoring of the spatial and temporal change of environmental properties, particularly water quality.
2. Developing methods for performing experiments at the landscape-scale.
3. Pedometrics and Digital Soil Mapping which was the focus of his PhD.
4. Mechanistic modelling of environmental processes, particularly the spatialisation of point simulation models.

He is the coordinator of all applied statistics units taught in the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. They include Biometry 2 (BIOM2001), Statistics for the Natural Sciences (BIOM3006) and Environmetrics 4 (ENVX4002). He also lectures in the GIS units taught within the Faculty.

  1. T.F.A. Bishop & R.M. Lark (2007). A landscape-scale experiment on the changes in available potassium over a winter wheat cropping season. Geoderma, 141, 384-396.
  2. R.M. Lark, T.F.A. Bishop & R. Webster (2007). Using expert knowledge with control of false discovery rate to select regressors for prediction of soil properties. Geoderma, 138, 65-78.
  3. R.M. Lark & T.F.A. Bishop (2007). Kriging particle size fractions of the soil. European Journal of Soil Science, 58, 763-774.
  4. T.F.A. Bishop & R.M. Lark (2006). The geostatistical analysis of experiments at the landscape-scale. Geoderma, 133, 87-106.
  5. A. van Griensven, T. Meixner, S. Grunwald, T.F.A. Bishop, M. Diluzio & S. Srinivasan (2006). A global sensitivity analysis tool for the parameters of multi-variable watershed models. Journal of Hydrology, 324, 10-23.
  6. T.F.A. Bishop, B. Minasny & A.B. McBratney (2006). Uncertainty analysis of soil-terrain models. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 20, 117-134.
  7. T.F.A. Bishop & A.B. McBratney (2002). Creating field extent digital elevation models for Precision Agriculture. Precision Agriculture, 3, 37-46.
  8. T.F.A. Bishop, A.B. McBratney & B.M. Whelan (2001). Measuring the quality of digital soil maps using information criteria. Geoderma, 103, 97-113.
  9. T.F.A. Bishop & A.B. McBratney (2001). A comparison of prediction methods for the creation of field-extent soil property maps. Geoderma, 103, 151-162.
  10. A.B. McBratney, T.F.A. Bishop & I.S. Teliatnikov (2000). Two soil profile reconstruction techniques. Geoderma, 97, 209-222.
  11. A.B. McBratney, I.A.O. Odeh, T.F.A. Bishop, T.M. Shatar & M.S. Dunbar (2000). An overview of pedometric techniques in soil survey. Geoderma, 97, 293-327.
  12. T.F.A. Bishop, A.B. McBratney & G.M. Laslett (1999). Modelling soil attribute depth functions with equal-area quadratic smoothing splines. Geoderma, 91, 27-45.