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Forest Research Data Manager

Responsibilities include providing support to scientific and systems projects as required. This currently includes design and maintenance of databases and associated intranet interfaces.

Paul is also strongly involved in obtaining external datasets for Forest Research. Conversely, Paul is involved in making Forest Research Data more publically available in line with the government’s open data policy.

Paul Taylor joined Forest Research in 2001, as part of the Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) project and was soon involved in data management on a broader scale. He has since been involved as data manager on a variety of many other projects within FR.

Data Manager

Forest Research

Northern Research Station

Roslin

Midlothian EH25 9SY

UK

Other Research

Tree health diagnostic and advisory service – DBA and support (including TreeA!ert and Observatree)

Combined Experiment Database and other internal databases – DBA and support

FR’s Inspire and #OpenDefra open data contributions

FutMon – data delivery

Peer reviewed journal articles

Knowledge exchange activities (other delivery channels)

2013 – Initial submissions towards Forest Research’s INSPIRE contributions

2016 – Responsible for Forest Research’s non-GIS contributions towards #OpenDefra