Dr David Kidd
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
- Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- School of Engineering and the Environment
- Penrhyn Road
Senior lecturer
- Email:
- david.kidd@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am a geographical information scientist with a wide range of interests related to the integration, analysis and visualisation of diverse and disparate data to address complex environmental and historical questions and problems such as, climate change, the evolution of the planet and life, place names, and the 19th-century Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
Qualifications
- PhD Applications of Geographical Information Systems to Phylogeography , University of St. Andrews, 2005.
- MSc Geographical Information Systems, UNIGIS University of Huddersfield, 1998.
- PG Diploma Environmental Impact Assessment, University of Aberystwyth, 1990.
- BSc (Hons) Plant and Environmental Biology, University of St. Andrews, 1989.
Domains
My teaching duties are:
- I am Course Director for the the MSc in Environmental Management.
- I lead and tech the fist-year 15-credit GG4003 Digital Mapping module that teaches students how to use desktop and cloud-based Geographical Information Systems to make publication quality maps.
- I teach land use land cover change mapping and species distribution modelling in the second year module GG5180 Ecology and Conservation,
- I teach coastal change mapping, geomorphological mapping and risk mapping in GG5190 Geomorphology and Geophysical Hazards.
- Undergraduate and postgraduate tutor.
- Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations that use GIS or that evaluate environmental problems related to sustainability.
Courses taught
My research is concerned with the application of geographical information systems in evolutionary, ecological, environmental and historical sciences with an emphasis on data integration and visualisation.
Specialisms
- Geographical information systems
- Data and databases
- Cartography and data visualisation
- Web technologies
- Environmental science
Publications
Large, particular bovids may require localised conservation effort to prevent extinction
Traill, Lochran W., Wanger, Thomas C. and Kidd, David, 2012, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (25), Suppl., pp 111-116
Geophylogenies and the map of life
Kidd, David M., 2010, Systematic Biology (59), 6, pp 741-752
Linking big: the continuing promise of evolutionary synthesis
Sidlauskas, Brian, Ganapathy, Ganeshkumar, Hazkani-Covo, Einat, Jenkins, Kristin P., Lapp, Hilmar, McCall, Lauren W., Price, Samantha, Scherle, Ryan, Spaeth, Paula A. and Kidd, David M., 2009, Evolution (64), 4, pp 871-880
Geophylobuilder 1.0: an ArcGiS extension for creating 'geophylogenies'
Kidd, David and Liu, Xianhua, 2008, Molecular Ecology Resources (8), 1, pp 88-91
Phylogeographic information systems: putting the geography into phylogeography
Kidd, David M. and Ritchie, Michael G., 2006, Journal Of Biogeography (33), 11, pp 1851-1865
Spatial temperature variation in the Eastern Pyrenees
Pepin, Nicholas and Kidd, David, 2006, Weather (61), 11, pp 300-310
Integrating environmental models with GIS: An object-oriented approach utilising a hierarchical data format (HDF) data repository
Duane, William, Livingstone, David and Kidd, David, 2000, Transactions in GIS (4), 3, pp 263-280
Gallery of work
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The Ghost of Happisburgh, Norfolk. Coastal Erosion 1970 - 2022.
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Building Use and Age in Kingston upon Thames Town Center
Combines Ordnance Survey LIDAR 3D point cloud, Verisk UK Buildings, and Historic England Listed Buildings
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The Age and Bearing of Mammalian Evolutionary Relationships
Lines are connect the nodes of a supertree of all Mammals with the tips located at the center of the range of each mammal range.
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The Global Legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1759-1869)
Explorer, naturalist, geologist and diplomat, Alexander von Humboldt was once one of the most famous people in the world. He reputably has more things named after him than anyone else in history. He is my hero.
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Our Demonic Landscape
Density of places named after The Devil or Hell
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Places with Beech in their name and the distribution of Beech trees
Hot spot analysis reveals regions with high density of Beech trees also have high density of places with beech in their name.
