Senior Scientific Officer

Location: Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 6500 378

E-mail Dr Tim Duffy

Biography

•  BSc and MSc in Ecology and Computer Science
•  Member of UK Location Programme Architecture & Interoperability Board
•  2011 :  PhD 'An Environmental Information System for Planners' (University of Edinburgh)
•  2000 :  BGS Murchison House working on BGS GIS information system projects including World bank and EU funded projects in India, Georgia, Africa
•  1983 –2012 :  NERC

Current projects and collaboration

•  Co-chair OneGeology (Global) Technical Working Group
•  Member of INSPIRE (EU) Services Team of the INSPIRE Initial Operating Capability Team
•  Member of IUGS-CGI Interoperability Working Group (managing development of GeoSciML)
•  Member of UK Location Programme Download Services Task and Finish Group
•  Member of UK Location Programme Metadata Working Group
•  Member of a NERC SIS group
•  Project leader for (OGC) Interoperability, AEGOS (EU African-European SDI project), Scottish Government SSDI
•  Task leader for Geospatial data web services and INSPIRE, OneGeology (Global) Technical

Skills

•  Conceptual Model Development
•  GIS Application
•  Project Administration
•  Systems and Data Analysis
•  Web GIS Development

Professional association

•  Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) including Chartered Information System Practitioner (CITP) status.

Research interests

•  GIS, XML and the WWW including INSPIRE and OneGeology implementation