Professor Marian Scott

Marian Scott has been Professor of Environmental Statistics at the University of Glasgow since 2000. She has a BSc (Hons) in Statistics from the University of Glasgow, and her PhD was in radiometric dating (jointly with Chemistry and Statistics). She is a chartered statistician, an elected fellow of the International Statistical Institute and in 2005 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was VP international for the RSE till 2019. She is a member of the SSAC and JNCC, as well as the EU Scientific committee on health, environment and emerging risks. She has been active in promoting the cause of interdisciplinary research particularly with regard to Statistics within the Environmental Sciences. Her research interests comprise environmetrics (the application of statistical and numerical methods to the observation of the environment), spatio-temporal data analysis, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis and radiocarbon dating, Current research projects include modelling river and sea loch water quality, the impact of climate change on eutrophication, environmental impacts of aquaculture and the development of networks of sensors to monitor water quality and quantity.