Mark Young

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

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.

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.