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Profiles
Dr Ruth Weaver
Deputy Head of School
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
In my role as Deputy Head with responsibility for teaching and learning I chair the School’s Teaching and Learning committee. I also Chair the University’s Academic Regulations Sub-Committee and am, therefore, a member of the University’s Teaching and Learning Committee. Separately, I am a member of the University’s Academic Board. In 2012-13 I chaired the project steering group which led to the opening of University Technical College (UTC) Plymouth in September 2013 and am currently the Chair of Governors of UTC Plymouth. In the spring of 2014 I was a member of the group convened by the A-level Content Advisory Board (ALCAB) to re-draft the A-level Geography syllabus.
Qualifications
B.A. (Hons) Geography University of Reading 1981
PhD Remote sensing of moorland vegetation University of Durham 1987
Before joining the Unversity at Plymouth I was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Aberdeen, working on a NERC-funded project examining vegetation succession
Professional membership
Member of:
British Ecological Society
Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society
Teaching interests
My teaching responsibilities lie in the fields of landscape ecology, biogeography, biological conservation and remote sensing. I lead a Stage 2 module in Landscape Ecology and a stage 3 module in Biological conservation, contribute to a Stage 3 module in GIS and remote sensing in Earth Sciences and advise undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking dissertations in these areas. I contribute to a variety of field courses and modules on geographical methods, including quantitative techniques.
Research interests
My main interests are in:
• developing methodologies to identify, describe and account for spatial pattern in vegetation, particularly in areas of rapid change between plant communities or ecosystems.
• determining the extent to which information on such pattern can be extracted from remotely sensed data
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2017
'Spatial Learning and Wayfinding in an Immersive Environment: The Digital Fulldome'
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
20,
(5)
327-333
, DOI
2012
'The Immersive Virtual Environment of the digital fulldome: Considerations of relevant psychological processes'
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
70,
(8)
561-575
, DOI
2011
'What is the Use of Fieldwork? Conceptions of Students and Staff in Geography and Geology'
Journal of Geography in Higher Education
35,
(1)
121-141
, DOI
2006
'Geostatistics, spatial rate of change analysis and boundary detection in plant ecology and biogeography'
Progress in Physical Geography
30,
(2)
201-231
2004
'Identification of the spectral characteristics of British semi-natural upland vegetation using direct ordination: a case study from Dartmoor, UK'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING
25,
(17)
3369-3388
, DOI
2004
'Identification of the spectral characteristics of British semi-natural upland vegetation using direct ordination: a case study from Dartmoor, UK'
International Journal of Remote Sensing
25,
(17)
3369-3388
2000
'Surface pollen-vegetation relationships on the Atlantic seaboard: South Uist, Scotland'
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
27,
(2)
359-378
, DOI
2000
'Allochthonous and autochthonous mire deposits, slope instability and palaeoenvironmental investigations in the Borve Valley, Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland'
HOLOCENE
10,
(1)
97-108
, DOI
1997
'Introducing objective tests and omr-based student assessment: A case study'
Journal of Geography in Higher Education
21,
(1)
114-126
1997
'Landscape and plant community boundaries in biogeography'
PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
21,
(3)
315-353
, DOI
1994
'A biogeographical study of plant communities and environmental gradients on South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland'
Scottish Geographical Magazine
110,
(2)
85-99
, DOI
1994
'Laboratory measurements of the spectral properties of estuarine suspended particles'
Netherlands Journal of Aquatic Ecology
28,
(3-4)
237-244
, DOI
1993
'Geographical information systems and remote sensing in land use planning: an introduction'
Applied Geography
13,
(1)
5-8
, DOI
1989
'Cover Monitoring heather burning in the North York Moors National Park using multi-temporal Thematic Mapper data'
International Journal of Remote Sensing
10,
(7)
1151-1153
, DOI
1987
'Technical note. Using LANDSAT MSS data for measuring ice sheet retreat'
International Journal of Remote Sensing
8,
(7)
1069-1074
, DOI
1987
'Spectral separation of moorland vegetation in airborne Thematic Mapper data'
International Journal of Remote Sensing
8,
(1)
43-55
, DOI
1984
'Integration of remote sensing data for moorland mapping'
Satellite remote sensing. Proc. 10th anniversary conference, Reading, 1984, (Remote Sensing Society, University of Reading)
191-200
Conference Papers
1984
'INTEGRATION OF REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR MOORLAND MAPPING IN NORTHERN ENGLAND'
1417-1423