Environmental Sciences Research Institute

  1. Background
  2. Publications
  3. Research Grants
  4. Teaching Interests

Dr Paul McKenzie

Lecturer in Geography

Contact Me
School of Environmental Sciences
University of Ulster
Cromore Road
Coleraine
BT52 1SA
Tel: +44(0)28 70124628
Email: sjp.mckenzie@ulster.ac.uk

Qualifications

2004 – 2007 PhD, Remote sensing for landscape ecology, University of Ulster
2002 – 2003 MSc (Distinction) in Geographic Information Systems, University of Ulster
2001 – 2002 PGCE (Primary), University of Ulster
1998 – 2001 BSc (Hons) Geography , University of Ulster

Experience

2006 – Present Lecturer, University of Ulster
2009 - Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Research interests

  • Testing and development of spatial metrics to quantify habitat patterns across broad spatial scales
  • Integration of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing technologies to monitor land use/land cover change
  • Identifying patterns and changes in urban form and structure
  • Fuel poverty

External activities

Regional Committee Member of Royal Geographical Society

Member of the Irish Earth Observation group

Publications

Number of items: 9.

Walker, R., McKenzie, Paul, Liddell, C and Morris, Christopher (2012) Area-based targeting of fuel poverty in Northern Ireland: An evidenced-basedapproach. Applied Geography, 34. pp. 639-649.

Rogers, David, Cooper, Alan, McKenzie, Paul and McCann, Thomas (2012) Assessing regional scale habitat area with a three dimensional measure. Ecological Informatics, 7. pp. 1-6.

Liddell, C, Morris, Chris, McKenzie, Paul and Rae, Gordon (2012) Measuring and monitoring fuel poverty in the UK: National and regional perspectives. Energy Policy.

McNally, AJD and McKenzie, Paul (2011) Combining multispectral aerial imagery and digital surface models to extract urban buildings.. Journal of Maps, 2011. pp. 51-59.

Liddell, C, Morris, C, McKenzie, Paul and Rae, Gordon (2011) Defining Fuel Poverty in Northern Ireland: A preliminary review. DSDNI. 164 pp.

McKenzie, Paul, Cooper, Alan, McCann, Thomas and Rogers, David (2011) The ecological impact of rural building on habitats in an agricultural landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning, 101 (3). pp. 262 - 268.

Mesev, Victor and McKenzie, Paul (2008) Urban morphology reconstruction: links between satellite imagery and address information. In: GIS and Evidence-based Policy Making. (Eds: Wise, Stephen and Craglia, Max), Taylor & Francis, pp. 19-42. ISBN 0-8493-8583-0

McKenzie, Samuel John Paul (2008) Disaggregating Job Seekers Allowance Satistics for Belfast using IKONOS Satellite Imagery. JOURNAL OF MAPS, 0. pp. 444-450.

McKenzie, Paul, Cooper, Alan and McCann, Thomas (2007) Monitoring patterns of land cover change in cultural Irish landscapes using landscape metrics and SPOT 5 imagery. In: 7th International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands. IALE Publication Series . Vol 1 537-538

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Research Grants

2012: Habitats Directive Article 17 reporting: completion of Upland and Woodland Habitat surveillance reports for Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA).

2012: iMap GIS in Schools project, Access and Distributed Learning (ADL) Outreach Funding, University of Ulster.

2012: Area-based approach to tackling fuel poverty, Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM).

2011: Northern Ireland Countryside Survey 2007: Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA).

2010: Smart people, Smarter Meters, Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) SMART Programme.

2010: Online Dissertation Support System, University of Ulster, Centre for Higher Educational Practice (with colleagues from the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster).

2009-10: E-facilitated Assessment and Feedback, University of Ulster, CETL R & R programme (with colleagues from the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster).

2005: OASIS (Optimizing Access to Spot Infrastructure for Science) scheme for SPOT satellite imagery at multiple spatial scales.

Teaching Interests

Geographic Information Systems and Science; Remote Sensing; Geosurveillance; Programming for GIS; GIS Databases.