Dr David Kidd
- Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
- Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- School of Built Environment and Geography
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer
About
I am a geographical information scientist with a wide range of interests related to the integration, analysis and visualisation of diverse and disparate data to address complex environmental and historical questions and problems such as, climate change, the evolution of the planet and life, place names, and the 19th-century Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
Qualifications
- PhD Applications of Geographical Information Systems to Phylogeography, University of St. Andrews, 2005.
- MSc Geographical Information Systems, UNIGIS University of Huddersfield, 1998.
- PG Diploma Environmental Impact Assessment, University of Aberystwyth, 1990.
- BSc (Hons) Plant and Environmental Biology, University of St. Andrews, 1989.
Domains
Publications
Gallery of work
The Ghost of Happisburgh, Norfolk. Coastal Erosion 1970–2022.
Building Use and Age in Kingston upon Thames Town Centre
Combines Ordnance Survey LIDAR 3D point cloud, Verisk UK Buildings, and Historic England Listed Buildings
The Age and Bearing of Mammalian Evolutionary Relationships
Lines connect the nodes of a super-tree of all mammals, with the tips located at the centre of the range of each mammal range.
The Global Legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1759–1869)
Explorer, naturalist, geologist and diplomat, Alexander von Humboldt was once one of the most famous people in the world. He reputably has more things named after him than anyone else in history. He is my hero.
Our Demonic Landscape
Density of places named after The Devil or Hell
Places with Beech in their name and the distribution of Beech trees
Hot spot analysis reveals regions with high density of Beech trees also have high density of places with beech in their name.
Videos of my work
Pitcher Piano Pub, Richmond upon Thames
3D model of Pitcher Piano pub in Richmond by Peter Harmston BSc GIS, Kingston University London.
Kingston University GIS in Action
Geospatial visualisation by students and staff in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Kingston University London
Evolutionary cartography
Fly-by movie of 3D spatial evolutionary trees (geophylogenies) created in ArcScene.
3D Evolutionary of the Goodeids fish family in Central Mexico and 15 million years of hydrological change.
Hogsmill River (Demo in Geovisionary)
GeoPhyloBuilder the Movie
3D evolutionary trees over geography from my Postdoc at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC.
Meteor Crater, Arizona (Demo in Geovisionary)
Geophylogeny of all Mammal
Tree nodes elevation is proportional to age of divergence. Nodes located by spatial centroid averaging of subclade ranges.