Peter W Brewer

Interests

Research

My primary research interests are in the implementation of informatics techniques to solve problems and facilitate collaboration in a wide range of scientific disciplines. I have led the design and establishment of the Tree Ring Data Standard (TRiDaS). This is an international effort to produce a data exchange schema to facilitate the sharing of dendrochronological data and to enhance collaboration. The standard has been developed by more than 80 dendrochronologists and computer scientists from 13 countries. Building upon the TRiDaS initiative, I have also led the development of several important applications for use in the dendrochronology community. These include: Tellervo (a comprehensive dendro sampling and curation system); TRiCYCLE (a universal dendro data conversion tool support 24 data formats); and FHAES (fire history analysis and exploration system).I am also very interested in the implementation and use of modelling and mapping techniques to help understand spatial relationships in data. I have been interested in the modelling of species distribution patterns and the effect that both past and future climates have and will play. This has led me to help develop the openModeller application which is used around the world to help understand and predict species distribution patterns.

Courses

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Brewer, P. (2016). Tellervo: a guide for users and developers. Blurb.

Chapters

• Jones, A. C., White, R. J., Gray, W. A., Bisby, F. A., Caithness, N., Pittas, N., Xu, X., Sutton, T., Fiddian, N. J., Culham, A., & others, . (2005). Building a biodiversity grid. In Grid Computing in Life Science(pp 140--151). Springer.

Journals/Publications

• Brewer, P., & Jansma, E. (2015). Dendrochronological data in archaeology: guide to good practice.
• Brewer, P. (2014). Data Management in Dendroarchaeology Using Tellervo. Radiocarbon, 56, S79–S83.
• Jansma, E., Lanen, R. J., Brewer, P. W., & Kramer, R. (2012). The DCCD: a digital data infrastructure for tree-ring research. Dendrochronologia, 30, 249--251.
• Jansma, E., Lanen, R. J., Sturgeon, K., Mohlke, S., & Brewer, P. W. (2012). {TRiDaBASE}: A stand-alone database for storage, analysis and exchange of dendrochronological metadata. Dendrochronologia, 30, 209--211.
• Pearson, C. L., Griggs, C. B., Kuniholm, P. I., Brewer, P. W., Wa{\.z}ny, T., & Canady, L. (2012). Dendroarchaeology of the mid-first millennium AD in Constantinople. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39, 3402--3414.
• Brewer, P., Murphy, D., & Jansma, E. (2011). {TRiCYCLE}: a universal conversion tool for digital tree-ring data. Tree-Ring Research, 67, 135--144.
• Souza Mu{\~n}oz, M. E., De Giovanni, R., Siqueira, M. F., Sutton, T., Brewer, P., Pereira, R. S., Canhos, D. A., & Canhos, V. P. (2011). openModeller: a generic approach to species’ potential distribution modelling. GeoInformatica, 15, 111--135.
• Brewer, P., Sturgeon, K., Madar, L., & Manning, S. (2010). A new approach to dendrochronological data management. Dendrochronologia, 28, 131-134.
• Jansma, E., Brewer, P., & Zandhuis, I. (2010). {TRiDaS} 1.1: The tree-ring data standard. Dendrochronologia, 28, 99--130.
• Eckardt, H., Brewer, P., Hay, S., & Poppy, S. (2009). Roman barrows and their landscape context: a GIS case study at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. Britannia, 40, 65--98.
• Pearson, C. L., Dale, D. S., Brewer, P. W., Kuniholm, P. I., Lipton, J., & Manning, S. W. (2009). Dendrochemical analysis of a tree-ring growth anomaly associated with the Late Bronze Age eruption of Thera. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36, 1206--1214.
• Pearson, C., Dale, D., Brewer, P., Salzer, M., Lipton, J., & Manning, S. (2009). Dendrochemistry of White Mountain bristlecone pines: An investigation via Synchrotron Radiation Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 114.
• Bisby, F., Roskov, Y., Ruggiero, M., Orrell, T., Paglinawan, L., Brewer, P., & Bailly, N. (2007). Species 2000 \& ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist.
• Yesson, C., Brewer, P. W., Sutton, T., Caithness, N., Pahwa, J. S., Burgess, M., Gray, W. A., White, R. J., Jones, A. C., Bisby, F. A., & others, . (2007). How global is the global biodiversity information facility?. PLoS One, 2, e1124.

Proceedings Publications

• Pahwa, J. S., Brewer, P., Sutton, T., Yesson, C., Burgess, M., Xu, X., Jones, A. C., White, R. J., Gray, W. A., Fiddian, N. J., & others, . (2006). Biodiversity World: A problem-solving environment for analysing biodiversity patterns. In Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2006. CCGRID 06. Sixth IEEE International Symposium on, 1.
• White, R., Jones, A., Pittas, N., Gray, A., Xu, X., Sutton, T., Bromley, O., Caithness, N., Fiddian, N., Bisby, F., Bhagwat, S., Brewer, P., Yesson, C., & Williams, P. (2004). Building a biodiversity problem-solving environment. In All Hands Meeting (AHM 2004), Nottingham.
• White, R., Bisby, F., Caithness, N., Sutton, T., Brewer, P., Williams, P., Culham, A., Scoble, M., Jones, A., Gray, W., & others, . (2003). The BiodiversityWorld environment as an extensible virtual laboratory for analysing biodiversity patterns. In Proc. UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Nottingham, UK, EPSRC.