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Mark Young

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Ecological Sciences
Ecological Sciences
Plant Scientist/Information Technologist
mark.young@hutton.ac.uk
+44 (0)344 928 5428 (*)

The James Hutton Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

ORCID iD iconView Mark Young on ORCID [1]
 

Current technical activities

  • Database development, administration and management in EU projects TRUE [2], TOMRES [3], AMIGA [4], PURE [5], Legume Futures [6], SIGMEA [7] and experimental data for the Agroecology Sub-group
  • Web page development, administration and management; web frontends for databases for EU projects and Agroecology.
  • Programming and development of bespoke software solutions for Agroecology.
  • Development of DEXi multi attribute decision support models.
  • Development of a compartment and flow model in Simile [8] to simulate the flow of nitrogen and carbon through arable and hill farming systems.
  • Development and maintenance of physiological measurement equipment and data loggers.
  • Provide expertise, training and support in GPS and GIS to Agroecology.

 

Current research interests

  • Monotoring of greenhouse gas emissions as part of the Centre for Sustainable Cropping at Balruddery.
  • Examination of machine learning and datamining techniques for data analyses.
  • Development of DEXi multi attribute decision support models for the Centre for Sustainable Cropping..
  • Development of a compartment and flow model (using to simulate the flow of nitrogen and carbon through arable and hill farming systems.
  • Examination of nitrogen budgets within crop systems incorporating legumes.

 

Past research

  • Geneflow as part of the SIGMEA project with various European Partners.
  • Ecotyping of barley and Capsella bursa-pastoris.
  • GIS analyses of European datasets in collaboration with workers from the Josef Stafan Institute, Slovenia.
  • Geneflow between Brassica napus and Brassica rapa.
  • Image analysis of graded potatoes.
  • A predictive model of potato tuber size distribution and procedures to optimise its operation.
  • Optimisation of nitrogen and water use in the potato crop.
  • An investigation of the factors associated with different patterns of reducing sugar accumulation in stored potato tubers.
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Links:
[1] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2855-4673
[2] https://www.true-project.eu/
[3] http://www.tomres.eu/
[4] http://www.amigaproject.eu/
[5] http://www.pure-ipm.eu/
[6] http://www.elrc.eu/
[7] https://www6.inra.fr/sigmea
[8] http://www.simulistics.com/