John Martin

Teaching interests
Taught Modules 

ENV5208 Environmental Impact Assessment
ENV5209 Work Placement 
SCI5301 Masters Research Project

Module leader for:

Research interests
Landscape Character Assessment.
The application of Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) in Landscape Character Assessment and Geoenvironmental Engineering.
Sustainable and Inclusive development of brownfield sites.
Engineering geology mapping and non-invasive monitoring.
 

Grants & contracts

2011 Cornwall Council, 'Creation of a Toolkit to assess Seascape Character and Sensitivity to Offshore Developments', with Miss E Bowes.

2011  Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ' State of the AONB Atlas', with Mrs F Davey.

2011  Blackdown Hills Area  of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ' Establishing good practice guidelines for the use of GIS in AONB management', with Mrs F Davey.

2011 South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ‘Digital Atlases for Devon's Outstanding Landscapes', with Mrs F Davey.

2010 RDA/ERDF Proof of Concept Fund,  – “ Application of Geospatial Techniques to Landscape Character Assessment” , £12,100, with Mrs F Davey.

2010 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, 'Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) through contemporary moving image practice', £4,300. PI: Heidi Morstang

2008 Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ‘Landscape Change in the Cornwall AONB’,  with Mrs F Davey.

2008 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, ‘Monitoring Landscape Change in the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’, £4,950, with Mrs F Davey and Dr S Lavender.

2008 Vice-Chancellor's Community Research Award, ' Geo-environmental Assessment of Brentor Commons', £6,700, with Dr M Donkin.

2005 Tamar Valley AONB Service, 'Development of a Tamar Valley GIS',   with Dr S Lavender.

Publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Palmer H., Hughes V.,  Norris S and Martin J.C. (2010), The Illegal Tipping of Waste: Geoenvironmental Issues Facing Rural Areas, Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, New Delhi, India, 8 – 12 November, 2010.

Davey, F., Lavender, S., Martin, J.C. and Teverson R. (2008), A Critical Review of Geospatial Techniques for Landscape Character Assessment, Proceedings of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Conference, University of Exeter, 15^th 17^th September 2008.


Martin J.C., (In preparation), Representing Desk Study Data in the Context of XML/GML, Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering.

Martin J.C., Javadi A.A., and Bello-Dambatta A. (2008), A Framework for Decision Support System for Sustainable Management of Contaminated Land, Proceedings of the Challenge of Sustainability in the Geoenvironment, GeoCongress, New Orleans, 9^th – 6^th March 2008.

Javadi A.A., Martin J.C. and Bello-Dambatta A. (2008), Artificial Intelligence Systems for Geo-Environmental Engineering with Specific Reference to Contaminated Land Investigation , Proceedings of the 12^th IACMAG Conference, Goa, 1^st- 6^th October, 2008.

Martin J.C. & Toll D.G. (2006), The Development of a Knowledge-Based System for the Preliminary Investigation of Contaminated Land, Computers and Geotechnics, 33/2, pp. 93-107.

Martin J.C. & Tregaskis C. (abstract accepted 2006), Sustainable and Inclusive Development of Contaminated Land, Proceedings of the Environment: Survival and Sustainability International Conference, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, 19^th -24^th February 2007.

Martin J.C. & Toll D.G. (2006), The Development of a Data Structure for the Storage of Preliminary Site Investigation Data, Proceedings of the IAEG 10th International Congress, Nottingham, 6^th -10^th September 2006.

Nasir-Habeeb R., Martin J.C., and Lavender S. (abstract accepted), The Use of GIS Techniques in the Landscape Character Assessment of an Area Contaminated by Historical Mining Activity, Proceedings of the Geo-Environment & Landscape Evolution International Conference, 6^th – 8^th June 2006.

Martin J.C., Hatipoglu B., Incecik M. and Toll D.G. (2003), Recent Integrated Knowledge Based Systems Developed for Geotechnical Engineering Purpose, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Developments in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Near East University, Lefkosa, Turkey, 29^th -31^st May 2003 pp. 119 - 126.

George I. and Martin J.C. (2001), Falmouth Harbour Feasibility Study, Report to Cornwall Enterprise and Regional Development Agency, March 2001.

Reports & invited lectures

Representing Desk Study Data, Geo-Engineering Data: Representation and Standardisation Workshop, Joint Technical Committee of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, University of Nottingham (invited speaker). 

Geotechnical Databases, Meeting of Case Based Reasoning Systems for Landslides Project, University of Istanbul (invited speaker).

Other academic activities

PhD students

Bello-Dambatta, A. "Development of a Decision Support System for Sustainable Management of Contaminated Land"
GWR Studentship
Second supervisor