Paul Harris BSc (London) MSc (Leeds) PhD (Newcastle)
Position:
StratAG Postdoctoral Fellow
Office:
Postgraduate Lab, 2nd Floor, Iontas Building
NUI Maynooth
Telephone:
+353 (0) 1 708 6731
Fax:
+353 (0) 1 708 6456
Email:
Disciplines:
Applied spatial statistics with applications in water, soil and air pollution; spatial statistics for seabed classification; methodological advances in robust spatially-varying parameter models.
Background:
Formerly employed as a geostatistician for Goldfields, South Africa; a research associate in the Dept. of Sociology, Durham, UK; and a research associate in the Dept. of Geography, Manchester, UK.
Selected Publications:
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2013
- Radu T, Gallagher S, Byrne B, Harris P, Coveney S, McCarron S, McCarthy T, Diamond D (2013) Portable XRF as a rapid technique for surveying elemental distributions in soil. In press Spectroscopy Letters
- Harris P, Brunsdon C, Charlton M (2013) The comap as a diagnostic tool for nonstationary kriging models. In press International Journal of Geographical Information Science
- Demšar U, Harris P, Brunsdon C, Fotheringham AS, McLoone S (2013) Principal components analysis on spatial data: an overview. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103(1): 106-128
- Demšar U, Harris P (2011) Visual comparison of moving-window kriging models. Cartographica 46(4): 211-226
- Harris P, Brunsdon C, Charlton M (2011) Geographically weighted principal components analysis. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 25:1717-1736
- Harris P, Juggins S (2011) Estimating freshwater acidification critical load exceedance data for Great Britain using space-varying relationship models. Mathematical Geosciences 43: 265-292
- Harris P, Brunsdon C, Fotheringham AS (2011) Links, comparisons and extensions of the geographically weighted regression model when used as a spatial predictor. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 25:123-138
- Harris P, Charlton M, Fotheringham AS (2010) Moving window kriging with geographically weighted variograms. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 24:1193-1209
- Harris P, Fotheringham AS, Crespo R, Charlton M (2010) The use of geographically weighted regression for spatial prediction: an evaluation of models using simulated data sets. Mathematical Geosciences 42:657-680
- Harris P, Fotheringham AS, Juggins S (2010) Robust geographically weighed regression: a technique for quantifying spatial relationships between freshwater acidification critical loads and catchment attributes. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100(2): 286-306
- Harris P, Brunsdon C (2010) Exploring spatial variation and spatial relationships in a freshwater acidification critical load data set for Great Britain using geographically weighted summary statistics. Computers & Geosciences 36:54-70
- Harris P, Lindley S, Gallagher M, Agius R (2009) Identification and verification of ultrafine particle (UFP) affinity zones in urban neighbourhoods: sample design and data pre-processing. Environmental Health 8 (Suppl 1):S5 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-S1-S5
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