Benjamin Michael Marshall.
Research Profile
Welcome to a website documenting my research into movement ecology, meta-science, the wildlife trade, and ecology.
Welcome to a website documenting my research into movement ecology, meta-science, the wildlife trade, and ecology.
I am currently employed as a Post-doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow UK, where I am responsible for the analysis of deer movement and rodent occurrence data. I am working with a team developing landscape-wide maps describing deer and rodent habitat connectivity. These connectivity maps feed into a wider project examining how tick hosts and landscape characteristics influence tick densities and the prevalence of Lyme disease.
Outside of my primary employment at Glasgow, I continue to participate in several collaborations involving the exploration and sharing of a large quantity of US-derived wildlife trade data, the testing utility of modern movement ecology analyses for snake movement data, and the examination of Jungle Crow behaviour and morphology.
Research interests:I worked as part of a team researching venomous snakes, mainly King Cobras (Ophiophagus hannah) and Green Pit Vipers (Trimeresurus sp.), in Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Thailand. The research focused on the use radio telemetry, with my role primarily involving the tracking of and data collection on the King Cobras.
My duties also included data review, presenting data summaries of snake movements, creating publication material from videos to logos, photo documentation, assisting with education, training team members, aiding snake capture efforts, and snake surveying. I created the plates and provided photos for three upcoming scientific publications. Additionally, I was a team liaison to help a BBC film crew collect footage for the Wild Thailand documentary.
Throughout the years I have undertaken design and photography work.
I designed a logo for the local currency exchange scheme for the St. Andrews area, along with poster templates and other design assets.
I took all the photography for the 2011 landowners calendar for the Wytch Farm oil pipeline that included locating suitable locations and taking photographs to a predefined specification. I have had photography published in various newspapers in digital and print forms (Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Dorset Echo). My photographs have been used by the BBC, in the tenth edition Schmap York Guide, a guide by the World Lighthouse Society about Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses in Scotland and by the Marwell Zoological Park. I continue to sell photographs in various forms online.