Dr. William Wint

Dr. William Wint (EDENext & Oxford University) From ecological entomology in the 70’s to tropical and temperate community ecology 80’s, to environmental resource assessment in the 80’s and 90’s to spatial analysis, data management and disease risk modelling in more recent times.

Current interests probably best summarised by a list of current projects:

a) Spatial modelling of Bovine Tuberculosis in the UK

b) Team Leader of Data Management team for EU FP6 EDEN project (Emerging Diseases in a changing European Environment) (http://edendatasite.com)

c) Spatial analysis of human disease vectors response to climate change for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, (ECDC, Stockholm)

d) Production of Global Livestock distribution maps for the UN FAO Gridded Livestock of the World datasets

e) Contribution to the invertebrates chapter for a forthcoming book on the contribution of Wytham Woods to Ecology

f) Producing distribution maps of the historical distribution of tsetse in Southern Africa using remotely sensed climatic indictors for the International Atomic energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna)

g) Animal disease modelling in the Philippines; spatial analysis of the economic impact of Trypanosomiasis control in East Africa; assessment of livestock and forest resources in Zambia; and construction of spatial data archives and websites for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO, Rome)

h) Upgrading the Botswana Aerial Survey Information System for the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Botswana