Teresa Frost Email & Phone Number

Thetford, Gb

Thetford

I lead the BTO/RSPB/JNCC Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS), including scheme development, data management and analysis and ensuring the smooth running of the scheme with the WeBS team at BTO, the WeBS partner Steering Committee and 140 volunteer local organisers. I am responsible for overseeing the annual report, Waterbirds in the UK which has an online interactive reporting application and a written summary report.Annually around 3000 volunteers take part in WeBS, making monthly counts of non-breeding waterbirds throughout the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom

Trustee/Executive Committee member for the National Forum for Biological Recording. NFBR is a small membership based charity providing an independent voice for biological recording in the UK and online and offline forums for discussion by organisations and individual recorders to solve some of the challenges in collecting and using data on the UK's wildlife.

The National Biodiversity Network brings together hundreds of collectors, curators and users of biodiversity data. The National Biodiversity Network Trust was set up as an independent charity in 2000 to oversee and facilitate the development of the Network. The Trust is also supported by a wide range of biodiversity data contributors and users and through a membership scheme.I was nominated to represent ALERC on the NBN Trust Board. I aimed to represent the needs and views of local records centres, local natural history museums, volunteer biological recorders and local recording/natural history groups and societies at Board level; particularly during the process of producing the NBN Strategy 2015-2020 and associated action plan.

Responsible for managing all aspects of the Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre at Tullie House Museum, the Local Records Centre for Cumbria. CBDC's mission is to bring together and make available information on Cumbria’s natural history, wildlife sites and habitats for education, research and decision making.I lead a small expert team of biodiversity data professionals who are dedicated to collating high quality sites, habitat and species information for Cumbria; systematically validating, verifying and managing that data; supporting the volunteer community in collecting data and the taxonomic and recording skills they need to do so; and working with the CBDC partners to ensure that the data is used as widely as possible, particularly in local planning and development.My responsibilities include bringing in all funding for CBDC from our services and grants, advocating the use of biodiversity evidence and promoting CBDC and wildlife recording to the public via our website, events and the media. I lead on the development of the Centre, which launched in October 2011, particularly on the policies and procedures needed to become accredited. I also make use of my technical skills on many of our projects, such as mapping for local species atlases, statistical analysis and developing reporting applications.Read more about the CBDC team: http://www.cbdc.org.uk/index.php?page=meet-the-team

ALERC is the national association for Local Environmental Records Centres (LERCs) such as Kent and Medway Biological Records Centre and Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre. LERCs form a network of local hubs in the National Biodiversity Network.As an ALERC director I worked to advocate LERCs nationally; input the LERC perspective into relevant consultations and guidance; and facilitate the sharing of innovations, expertise and experience of biological recording and biodiversity and geodiversity data management between LERCs. I aimed to increase awareness of the range of information, skills, knowledge and experience that LERCs and LERC staff collectively offer.

Faversham, Kent

Responsible for developing and maintaining data storage, retrieval and reporting products for biodiversity data. As part of a small team, I was involved with many aspects of the records centre, from updating the website and newsletter to attending events and helping the public identify common species.Technologies I used day to day included ESRI ArcGIS software; VBA for Excel and Access and the biological database Recorder 6, built on MS SQL Server.

Stochastic Modelling and Analysis of Wildfowl Anatidae Monitoring Data from the Wetland Bird SurveyTHESIS ABSTRACTThe analyses for the project used data for twenty-six wildfowl (sub-)species for winter seasons from 1966/67 to 2006/07. The limitations and bias of the sampling methods currently used in the Wetland Bird Survey, are examined. It is shown that post-selection of sites by the proportion of missing values, as is done currently, introduces an additional bias that impacts on reported population trends. A new site selection criteria that minimises additional bias is proposed. WeBS wildfowl data comprise monthly counts of populations that change over each winter season due to short-term immigration and emigration. Ideas and methods from the field of Functional Data Analysis are used to explore phenological changes (spatiotemporal variation in the seasonal patterns) due to changing species distributions and to select months where the seasonal patterns are most stable. The Underhill method, of imputing missing values using a site-year-month multiplicative model and the EM algorithm to generate an annual Underhill Index, is reviewed. It is shown that the model is a poor fit to most wildfowl WeBS data sets. Currently WeBS abundance indices are calculated using the Underhill Index, which treats each species' seasonality as stationary, using the arithmetic mean over months and sites to derive a population index. Using ideas from economics, various alternative indexing approaches to constructing a single yearly index from the monthly counts are compared with simulated examples and WeBS data. The results have implications beyond the Wetland Bird Survey, to other wildlife monitoring schemes; particularly those that monitor populations which show strong seasonal dynamics.

Slimbridge, Gloucester

Several visits as background research for Wetland Bird Survey PhD studies, working with ecologists to gain a deeper understanding of wildfowl survey methodologies and the needs for monitoring data for wildfowl populations.

Sand Hutton

Project looking at the possibilities of avian species separation based on S-band marine radar echo characteristics at Central Science Laboratory (now FERA).

Phd, Statistics (Ecological)

Mres, Mathematics In The Living Environment

Mmath, Mathematics, First

Activities and Societies: Cathsoc (President), Aberystwyth Natural History Society (Secretary), UWA Society of Change Ringers (Deputy.