Dr Thomas Bishop

Research interests

I am a Senior Lecturer in Environmetrics. Environmetrics is concerned with application and development of statistical methods for solving environmental and agricultural problems. My current research interests include:

• monitoring of the spatial and temporal change of water quality in surface and ground waters;
• developing methods for performing experiments at the landscape-scale;
• pedometrics and digital soil mapping; and
• mechanistic modelling of environmental processes, in particular catchment hydrology and spatialisation of point simulation models.

Background

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.

Recent publications

• T.F.A.Bishop & R.M. Lark. 2008. Reply to “Standardized vs. customary ordinary cokriging…” by A. Papritz. Geoderma, 146, 397-399.
• T.F.A. Bishop & R.M. Lark. 2008. A comparison of methods for modelling coregionalized variables: parametric vs non-parametric approaches. Geoderma, 148, 13-24.
• 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.
• 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.
• R.M. Lark & T.F.A. Bishop. 2007. Kriging particle size fractions of the soil. European Journal of Soil Science, 58, 763-774.
• T.F.A. Bishop & R.M. Lark. 2006. The geostatistical analysis of experiments at the landscape-scale. Geoderma, 133, 87-106.
• 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.
• 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.

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