Inventory, forecasting and operational support (IFOS)
Kris initially joined FR in 2021 as an Urban Forest Research Scientist, working on i-Tree Eco natural capital accounting projects, the UK urban canopy cover webmap, and empirical urban cooling research. Kris’s roles outside FR include being a teaching fellow with the international charity Science Corps, a Senior Statistical Officer at the Office for National Statistics in the Covid Infection Survey, a marine biologist in the Norwegian Norsk Polar Institute, and a research technician in the Maklakov gerontology research group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Kris received an integrated Masters in Natural Sciences in 2014 from UEA. He continued his studies there in the Gage evolutionary research group with EnvEast funding, to complete an award-winning PhD in 2019 on the impact of climate change on insect fertility. Kris has been enthusiastic about sharing scientific knowledge. For example, by authoring blogs in website like Scienvy and the Conversation. As a Fellow of Higher Education he has taught on several university modules including woodland ecology on a residential field course in Killarney National Park between 2016-2019.
Kris is a Research Statistician providing a broad range of support for FR scientists including sampling, processing, analysing, visualising, interpreting, and publishing data. Kris’s main statistical programmes are R, Excel, and ImageJ. Kris is keen to share and training on statistical knowledge, programming skills, and best practise.
Selected publications (Please see ResearchGate and Google Scholar for a full list): Academic papers
ONS official publications
FR official publications
