Education
PhD, Geography 2011 - 2016
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Dissertation: Incorporating movement into species distribution models.
Advisor: Jennifer A. Miller
Committee Members: Eugenio Arima, Anthony Di Fiore, Timothy Keitt, Kenneth R. Young
Areas of Competency: Geographic Information Science, Biogeography
MSc Geographic Information Science with Merit 2009 - 2010
The University of Nottingham, UK
Dissertation: Using ENVISAT MERIS MTCI and MGVI to characterise the response to spatio-temporal variability in atmospheric carbon dioxide as measured by SCIAMACHY WFM-DOAS.
Advisor: Doreen S. Boyd
BSc Geography: First Class Honours 2006 - 2009
The University of Nottingham, UK
Dissertation: A comparison of the biological assemblage of rock rubble groynes with natural rocky shores around the coast of England.
Advisor: Richard Field
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education 2018 - 2019
University College Cork, Ireland
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education 2017 - 2018
University College Cork, Ireland
Academic Employment
Lecturer (established), Department of Geography, University College Cork (July 2020 - present).
Lecturer, Department of Geography, University College Cork (July 2017 - July 2020).
Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of York. Working under Dr Daniel Kudenko on the Innovate UK and BBSRC funded project “Crowd-Sourced Prediction of Plant Pest and Disease Occurrence using Mobile Apps” (June 2016 - April 2017).
Instructor of Record (Assistant Instructor), Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin. Lead instructor of Spatial Data & Analysis GRG 310C for Summer 2015 and Landscape Ecology GRG 335N for Spring 2015.
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin. Working under Dr. Jennifer A. Miller on NSF project #0962198, a study which investigates the effects of spatial structure, sampling and scale on simulated data (Sep 2011 to May 2013 and Jan 2014 to present).
Graduate Student Instructor (Teaching Assistant), Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of
Texas at Austin. Working under Dr. Carlos Ramos Scharrón in GRG 301C The Natural Environment. In charge of 3 weekly lab sections (61 students) which consisted of a 30 minute lecture and 1 hour exercises.
Publications
Books (peer reviewed)
Holloway, P. (2023) Understanding GIS through Sustainable Development Goals: Case Studies in QGIS. CRC Taylor Francis
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
O'Mahony, J., Vanmechelen, A., & Holloway, P. (2023) Quantifying the distributions and overlap among deer and endangered/vulnerable plant species in Ireland under climate change. Annals of GIS
Nowbakht, P., O'Sullivan, L., Wall, D.P., & Holloway, P. (2023) Implementation of novel polygon-based obfuscation methods to improve privacy protection in agricultural data. Transactions in GIS 27(1), 84-104.
Dalla Pria, C., Cawkwell, F., Newton, S., & Holloway, P. (2022) City Living: Nest-Site Selection Preferences for Urban Herring Gulls, Larus argentatus. Geographies 2(2), 161-172.
Kandrot, S., Hayes, S., & Holloway, P. (2022) Applications of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology to support Integrated Coastal Zone Management and the UN Sustainable Development Goals at the Coast. Estuaries & Coasts
Nowbakht, P., O'Sullivan, L., Cawkwell, F., Wall, D.P., & Holloway, P. (2022) A comparison of obfuscation methods used for privacy protection: Exploring the challenges of polygon data in agricultural research. Transactions in GIS 26(2)
Lambert, L., Cawkwell, F., & Holloway, P. (2021) The importance of connected and interspersed urban green and blue space for bird diversity: A case study in Cork City, Ireland. Geographies 1(3), 217-237.
Joshi, S., Mittal, S., Holloway, P., O'Gallachoir, B., Shukla, P., & Glynn, J. (2021) High resolution global spatiotemporal assessment of solar PV's potential for renewable electricity generation. Nature Communications 12, 5738.
Levi, S., Ray, K., & Holloway, P. (2021) Mapping Community Perceptions in Ports through Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS): A case study in Cork Harbour. Irish Geography. 54(1) 1-30.
O'Mahony, J., de la Torre Cerro, R., & Holloway, P. (2021) Modelling the distribution of the Red Macroalgae Asparagopsis to Support Sustainable Aquaculture Development. AgriEngineering 3, 251-265.
de la Torre Cerro, R., & Holloway, P. (2021) A review of the methods for studying biotic interactions in phenological analyses. Methods in Ecology & Evolution 12, 227-244.
Holloway, P., Kenna, T., Linehan, D., O'Connor, R., Bradley, H., O'Mahony, B., & Pinkham, R. (2021) Active Learning using a Smartphone App: Analysing Land Use Patterns in Cork City, Ireland. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 45, 47-62
McDonough, S., & Holloway, P. (2020) Incorporating host-parasite biotic factors in species distribution models: Modelling the distribution of the Castor Bean tick, Ixodes ricinus. Irish Geography 53(2), 105-125.
Hastings, R., Cummins, V., & Holloway, P. (2020) Assessing the impact of physical and environmental factors in determining the habitat suitability of seagrass ecosystems. Sustainability 12(20), 8302.
Holloway, P. and Field, R. (2020) Can Rock-Rubble Groynes Support Similar Intertidal Ecological Communities to Natural Rocky Shores? Land 9(5), 131.
Holloway, P. (2020) Aggregating the conceptualisation of movement data better captures real world and simulated animal-environment relationships. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 34(8), 1584-1606
Meyer, T., Holloway, P., Christiansen, T.B., Miller, J.A., D’Odorico, P., and Okin, G. (2019) An assessment of multiple drivers determining woody species composition and structure: A case study from the Kalahari. Land. 8(8), 122.
Holloway, P. (2018) Simulating movement-related resource dynamics to improve species distribution models: A case study with oilbirds in northern South America. The Professional Geographer 70(4), 528-540.
Holloway, P., Kudenko, D., & Bell, J.R. (2018). Dynamic selection of environmental variables to improve the prediction of aphid phenology: A machine learning approach. Ecological Indicators 88, 512-521.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. (2017). A quantitative synthesis of how movement has been incorporated within species distribution modelling. Ecological Modelling 356, 91-103.
Holloway, P., Miller, J.A., & Gillings, S. (2016). Incorporating movement in species distribution models: how do simulations of dispersal affect the accuracy and uncertainty of projections? International Journal of Geographic Information Science 30(10), 2050-2074.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. (2015). Exploring spatial scale, autocorrelation and nonstationarity of bird species richness patterns. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 4, 783-798.
Miller, J.A. & Holloway, P. (2015). Incorporating movement in species distribution models. Progress in Physical Geography.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. (2014) Uncertainty Analysis of Step-Selection Functions: The Effect of Model Parameters on Inferences about the Relationship between Animal Movement and the Environment. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8728, 48-63.
Book Chapters
Holloway, P., & Miller, J.A. (2018) Analysis and Modeling of Movement. In Comprehensive Geographic Information Systems. Ed Cova, T.J. & Tsou, M.H.
Miller, J.A. & Holloway, P. (2017). Niche theory and models in The International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology (Ed. Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M.M., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W., and Marston, R.A.). John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed extended abstracts or paper)
Holloway, P. (2020) Advancing beyond static representations of movement in spatial analysis. GIRSUK 2020, Birbeck (Virtual), UK, 21-24 April 2020.
Holloway, P., O’Connor, R., Linehan, D., Kenna, T. (2019) Digital (Urban) Geography: Student-Led Research Methodology Training using Smartphone Apps. Learning Connections 2019, Cork, Ireland, 5-6 December 2019.
Holloway, P. (2018) Spatial Simulation to Project Dynamic Movement of Species. GISRUK 2018, Leicester, UK, 17-20 April 2018.
Holloway, P. (2017) Individual-Based Modelling of Species’ Dynamic Resource Use. GeoComputation 2017, Leeds, UK, 4-7 Sept 2017.
Holloway, P., Miller, J.A., & Gillings, S. (2016) Uncertainty Analysis of the Dispersal Models used in Species Distribution Modelling. GISRUK 2016, Greenwich, UK, 30 March - 1 April 2016.
Holloway, P., Miller, J.A., & Gillings, S. (2015) Simulating the effects of migration on the uncertainty of species’ range shifts. GeoComputation 2015, Dallas, TX, 20-23 May 2015.
Holloway, P., & Miller, J.A. (2012) A novel modelling technique to incorporate regular movement into species distribution models. Workshop on Time-GIScience, Columbus, Ohio.
Technical Reports
Kandrot, S. & Holloway, P. (2020) Applications of Drone Technology for Sustainable Development of the Coastal Zone: A Literature Review. Project Report COAST Sustainable Resilient Coasts [391]. Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme.
Encyclopaedia Entries
Holloway, P. (2013) “Chatham Island temperate forests,” in Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopaedia, ed. Robert Warren Howarth, Golson Books Ltd.
Research Grants
Teagasc Walsh Scholarship Grant [2021220], Indicators of Soil Health. Total Award €96,000, 4 years (2022-2026), PI Paul Holloway (UCC); P. Holloway: PI.
Cullen Scholarship [CS-21-009], The status of sensitive fish species within Irish waters and their vulnerability in relation to fishing and discarding practices. Total award €100,000, 4 years (2022-2026), PIs Emer Rogan, Tom Reed, Paul Holloway (UCC); P. Holloway: PI
Enterprise Ireland [CS-2021-2067], ERC Proposal Preparation Support. Total Award €13,524.29, 1 year, PI Paul Holloway (UCC), P. Holloway: PI
Teagasc Walsh Fellowship Grant [2020219], Land use and sustainability – exploring the potential of alternative proteins. Total award €96,000, 4 years (2021-2025), PI Paul Holloway (UCC); P. Holloway: PI.
Met Éireann TRANSLATE, Project to Standardise Future Climate Information for Ireland. Total award €600,000, 2 years, PI Paul Nolan (ICHEC), P. Holloway: co-PI
Science Foundation Ireland Discover [20/DP/8119], NatureWatch: Exploring the Benefits of Nature to Wellbeing using Technology. Total award €40,030.00, PI: P. Holloway (UCC), P. Holloway: PI
Health Research Board and the Irish Research Council COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Response Funding [7372], Modelling the entwinned dynamics of social and physical distancing. Total Award €111,039.53, 2 years (2020-2022), PI Paul Holloway (UCC); P. Holloway: PI
Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme 2014-2020 [82087], ECHOES: Effects of Climate Change on Bird Habitat around the Irish Sea. Total Award €2,687,581, 4 years (2019-2023), PI Crona Hodges (Geo Smart Decisions); P. Holloway: Co-I (15%-time contribution ~€30,000)
Environmental Protection Agency [5148]¸PhenoClimate: Impact of Climate Change on Phenology of Ireland. Total Award €226,028, 2 years (2019-2021), PI Astrid Wingler (UCC); P. Holloway: Co-PI (WP-Leader - €62,044).
Teaching & Learning Research and Enhancement Fund, Digital Shift: Deploying and Evaluating Smartphone Apps for Research Methodology Training in Geography. Total award €1,062.72, 1 year (June 2018-2019), Team Application (P.Holloway, D, Linehan, R. O’Connor).
Teagasc Walsh Fellowship Grant [2018034], Agri-Environmental Big Data analytics via WebGIS: Geospatial data obfuscation and modelling of crop growth and productivity. Total award €88,000, 4 years (Oct 2018-2022), P. Holloway: PI of UCC.
Fellowships
Named / Endowed Continuing Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2015 – Summer 2016.
Robert E. Velselka Endowed Fellowship for Graduate Research Travel, Summer 2013.
Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011.
Natural Environment Research Council Scholarship to study an MSc in GIS, The University of Nottingham, 2009.
Awards
The President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2018/19, University College Cork, October 10 2019.
The J. Warren Nystrom Award Finalist, Annual AAG Meeting, Boston, MA, April 5-9 2017.
Best Paper by an Early Career Researcher, GIS Research in the UK 2016 (GISRUK 2016), Greenwich, UK, March 30 – April 1 2016.
2nd Place, Best Overall Conference Paper, GeoComputation 2015, Dallas, TX, May 20-23 May 2015.
1st Place, AAG Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Honours Student Paper Competition, Annual AAG Meeting, Chicago, IL, April, 21-25 2015. Link.
Professional Development Award, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, April 2015
The Achievement Award 2014, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin.
The Leadership Award 2014, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin.
1st Place, John Odland Student Paper Award, AAG Spatial Analysis and Modelling Specialty Group, Annual AAG Meeting, Tampa, FL, April 8-12, 2014. Link.
Professional Development Award, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, April 2014
2nd Place, AAG Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Honours Student
Paper Competition, Annual AAG Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13, 2013. Link.
Department of Geography and the Environment Conference Travel Award, Annual AAG Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. April 9-13, 2013
Department of Geography and the Environment Conference Travel Award, Annual AAG Meeting, New York, NY, February 24-28, 2012
Finalist, Student Paper Competition, Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division of the AAG, Austin,
TX, November 10-12, 2011
The Swinnerton Prize for Geographical Fieldwork, presented to one member of the graduating academic year in the University of Nottingham for the recognition of the best fieldwork in physical geography carried out as part of the final year dissertation, 2009
UKBORDERS CASE STUDY commissioned by Edina: Spatial Inequalities: An investigation of spatial disparity in the North-West of England, 2008
Teaching Experience
Taught Courses
*denotes Module Coordinator, ⁰denotes shared teaching
University College Cork:
University of Texas at Austin:
Conference Presentations
Conference Proceedings (abstract)
de la Torre Cerro, R., Holloway, P., & Gleeson, E. Quantifying phenological mismatches: Climate change drivers and their impacts on biotic interactions through different trophic levels. Festival of Ecology, BES Annual Conference, Virtual, December 14-18, 2020
de la Torre Cerro, R., Holloway, P., & Gleeson, E. Quantifying phenological mismatches: Climate change drivers and their impacts on biotic interactions through different trophic levels. Environ 2020, Dublin, Ireland (Virtual), October 20, 2020. Awarded CIWEM sponsored Best Water Related Presentation.
Holloway, P. From Static to Dynamic: Spatiotemporal Analysis in GIScience. GIS Ireland 2018 Conference IRLOGI, Dublin, Ireland. November 7, 2018.
Holloway, P. What is moving? How the semantic conceptualisation of movement data changes animal-environment inferences. International Statistical Ecology Conference, St Andrews, UK. July 2-6, 2018.
Holloway, P. Incorporating Movement Related Resource Dynamics into Species Distribution Modelling. Annual Meeting of the AAG, Boston, MA. April 5-9, 2017.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. Modelling species range shifts in response to climate change: how does incorporating migration affect uncertainty in projections. Annual Meeting of the AAG, Chicago, IL. April 21-25, 2015.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. User decisions in step-selection functions: How selection of model parameters influences the relationship between animal movement and the environment. Symposium on Animal Movement and the Environment. Raleigh, NC. May 5-8, 2014.
Holloway, P. Sensitivity analysis of step-selection function model parameters. Annual Meeting of the AAG, Tampa, FL. April 8-12, 2014.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A., Incorporating Movement in a Dynamic Landscape in Species Distribution Modelling, US-International Association of Landscape Ecology, Annual Symposium, Austin, TX. April, 14-17, 2013.
Holloway, P. How movement pattern analysis can improve species distribution models. Annual Meeting of the AAG, Los Angeles, CA. April, 9-13, 2013.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. Using simulated data to explore the effects of sampling strategy and density on species distribution models. Annual Meeting of the AAG, New York, NY. February 24-28, 2012.
Holloway, P. Fire ecology: The forests of Texas. Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division of the AAG. Austin, TX. November 10-12, 2011.
Conference Posters
Joshi, S., Mittal, S., Holloway, P., O’Gallachoir, B., Shukla, P.R., & Glynn, J. A hi-resolution assessment of global rooftop solar PV’s technical and economic potential using big data and machine learning. Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium 13 (IAMC13). Virtual, 1-4 December 2020. Awarded Best Poster 2020.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. The effects of dispersal on projections of species distributions: a simulation approach. Species on the Move. Kruger National Park, South Africa, 22-26 July, 2019.
Scarrot, R.G., Cawkwell, F., Jessopp, M., O’Rourke, E., Cusack, C., & Holloway, P. Opportunities for multi-variate perspectives in characterising hyper-temporal ocean-surface heterogeneity. ESA Living Planet Symposium. Milan, Italy, May 13-17, 2019.
Lambert, L., Cawkwell, F., & Holloway, P. Urban Green & Blue Spaces in Cork City and their Contribution to Biodiversity. Irish Earth Observation Symposium. Dublin, Ireland, December 6, 2018.
Invited Lectures
The Irish Organisation for Geographic Information, IRLOGI Webinar, “Active Geospatial Learning Using a Smartphone App: Analysing Land Use Patterns in Cork City, Ireland”, October 21st 2020.
University College Cork, Frontiers in Biology Seminar Series, “Can species keep track of climate change? The need for improved dispersal modelling.” October 4, 2019.
University of St Andrews, Bell Edwards Geographic Data Institute, “From static to dynamic: Aggregating the conceptualisation of movement data better captures real world and simulated animal-environment relationships.” June 11, 2019.
University College Cork, Geography Research Seminar Series, “Understanding and Predicting Species Distributions and Phenological Shifts: A GIScience approach.” March 14, 2019.
University of York, Artificial Intelligence Group, Department of Computer Science, York, UK, "Machine Learning and Geocomputation in Ecological Modelling." October 19, 2016.
University of Texas, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, TX, “The Safari of Death.” February 28, 2014.
University of Texas, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, TX, “Incorporating regular movement analysis to improve species distribution model predictions: A case study using the oilbirds of South America.” March 29, 2013.
PhD, Geography 2011 - 2016
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Dissertation: Incorporating movement into species distribution models.
Advisor: Jennifer A. Miller
Committee Members: Eugenio Arima, Anthony Di Fiore, Timothy Keitt, Kenneth R. Young
Areas of Competency: Geographic Information Science, Biogeography
MSc Geographic Information Science with Merit 2009 - 2010
The University of Nottingham, UK
Dissertation: Using ENVISAT MERIS MTCI and MGVI to characterise the response to spatio-temporal variability in atmospheric carbon dioxide as measured by SCIAMACHY WFM-DOAS.
Advisor: Doreen S. Boyd
BSc Geography: First Class Honours 2006 - 2009
The University of Nottingham, UK
Dissertation: A comparison of the biological assemblage of rock rubble groynes with natural rocky shores around the coast of England.
Advisor: Richard Field
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education 2018 - 2019
University College Cork, Ireland
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education 2017 - 2018
University College Cork, Ireland
Academic Employment
Lecturer (established), Department of Geography, University College Cork (July 2020 - present).
Lecturer, Department of Geography, University College Cork (July 2017 - July 2020).
Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of York. Working under Dr Daniel Kudenko on the Innovate UK and BBSRC funded project “Crowd-Sourced Prediction of Plant Pest and Disease Occurrence using Mobile Apps” (June 2016 - April 2017).
Instructor of Record (Assistant Instructor), Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin. Lead instructor of Spatial Data & Analysis GRG 310C for Summer 2015 and Landscape Ecology GRG 335N for Spring 2015.
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin. Working under Dr. Jennifer A. Miller on NSF project #0962198, a study which investigates the effects of spatial structure, sampling and scale on simulated data (Sep 2011 to May 2013 and Jan 2014 to present).
Graduate Student Instructor (Teaching Assistant), Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of
Texas at Austin. Working under Dr. Carlos Ramos Scharrón in GRG 301C The Natural Environment. In charge of 3 weekly lab sections (61 students) which consisted of a 30 minute lecture and 1 hour exercises.
Publications
Books (peer reviewed)
Holloway, P. (2023) Understanding GIS through Sustainable Development Goals: Case Studies in QGIS. CRC Taylor Francis
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
O'Mahony, J., Vanmechelen, A., & Holloway, P. (2023) Quantifying the distributions and overlap among deer and endangered/vulnerable plant species in Ireland under climate change. Annals of GIS
Nowbakht, P., O'Sullivan, L., Wall, D.P., & Holloway, P. (2023) Implementation of novel polygon-based obfuscation methods to improve privacy protection in agricultural data. Transactions in GIS 27(1), 84-104.
Dalla Pria, C., Cawkwell, F., Newton, S., & Holloway, P. (2022) City Living: Nest-Site Selection Preferences for Urban Herring Gulls, Larus argentatus. Geographies 2(2), 161-172.
Kandrot, S., Hayes, S., & Holloway, P. (2022) Applications of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology to support Integrated Coastal Zone Management and the UN Sustainable Development Goals at the Coast. Estuaries & Coasts
Nowbakht, P., O'Sullivan, L., Cawkwell, F., Wall, D.P., & Holloway, P. (2022) A comparison of obfuscation methods used for privacy protection: Exploring the challenges of polygon data in agricultural research. Transactions in GIS 26(2)
Lambert, L., Cawkwell, F., & Holloway, P. (2021) The importance of connected and interspersed urban green and blue space for bird diversity: A case study in Cork City, Ireland. Geographies 1(3), 217-237.
Joshi, S., Mittal, S., Holloway, P., O'Gallachoir, B., Shukla, P., & Glynn, J. (2021) High resolution global spatiotemporal assessment of solar PV's potential for renewable electricity generation. Nature Communications 12, 5738.
Levi, S., Ray, K., & Holloway, P. (2021) Mapping Community Perceptions in Ports through Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS): A case study in Cork Harbour. Irish Geography. 54(1) 1-30.
O'Mahony, J., de la Torre Cerro, R., & Holloway, P. (2021) Modelling the distribution of the Red Macroalgae Asparagopsis to Support Sustainable Aquaculture Development. AgriEngineering 3, 251-265.
de la Torre Cerro, R., & Holloway, P. (2021) A review of the methods for studying biotic interactions in phenological analyses. Methods in Ecology & Evolution 12, 227-244.
Holloway, P., Kenna, T., Linehan, D., O'Connor, R., Bradley, H., O'Mahony, B., & Pinkham, R. (2021) Active Learning using a Smartphone App: Analysing Land Use Patterns in Cork City, Ireland. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 45, 47-62
McDonough, S., & Holloway, P. (2020) Incorporating host-parasite biotic factors in species distribution models: Modelling the distribution of the Castor Bean tick, Ixodes ricinus. Irish Geography 53(2), 105-125.
Hastings, R., Cummins, V., & Holloway, P. (2020) Assessing the impact of physical and environmental factors in determining the habitat suitability of seagrass ecosystems. Sustainability 12(20), 8302.
Holloway, P. and Field, R. (2020) Can Rock-Rubble Groynes Support Similar Intertidal Ecological Communities to Natural Rocky Shores? Land 9(5), 131.
Holloway, P. (2020) Aggregating the conceptualisation of movement data better captures real world and simulated animal-environment relationships. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 34(8), 1584-1606
Meyer, T., Holloway, P., Christiansen, T.B., Miller, J.A., D’Odorico, P., and Okin, G. (2019) An assessment of multiple drivers determining woody species composition and structure: A case study from the Kalahari. Land. 8(8), 122.
Holloway, P. (2018) Simulating movement-related resource dynamics to improve species distribution models: A case study with oilbirds in northern South America. The Professional Geographer 70(4), 528-540.
Holloway, P., Kudenko, D., & Bell, J.R. (2018). Dynamic selection of environmental variables to improve the prediction of aphid phenology: A machine learning approach. Ecological Indicators 88, 512-521.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. (2017). A quantitative synthesis of how movement has been incorporated within species distribution modelling. Ecological Modelling 356, 91-103.
Holloway, P., Miller, J.A., & Gillings, S. (2016). Incorporating movement in species distribution models: how do simulations of dispersal affect the accuracy and uncertainty of projections? International Journal of Geographic Information Science 30(10), 2050-2074.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. (2015). Exploring spatial scale, autocorrelation and nonstationarity of bird species richness patterns. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 4, 783-798.
Miller, J.A. & Holloway, P. (2015). Incorporating movement in species distribution models. Progress in Physical Geography.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. (2014) Uncertainty Analysis of Step-Selection Functions: The Effect of Model Parameters on Inferences about the Relationship between Animal Movement and the Environment. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8728, 48-63.
Book Chapters
Holloway, P., & Miller, J.A. (2018) Analysis and Modeling of Movement. In Comprehensive Geographic Information Systems. Ed Cova, T.J. & Tsou, M.H.
Miller, J.A. & Holloway, P. (2017). Niche theory and models in The International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology (Ed. Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M.M., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W., and Marston, R.A.). John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed extended abstracts or paper)
Holloway, P. (2020) Advancing beyond static representations of movement in spatial analysis. GIRSUK 2020, Birbeck (Virtual), UK, 21-24 April 2020.
Holloway, P., O’Connor, R., Linehan, D., Kenna, T. (2019) Digital (Urban) Geography: Student-Led Research Methodology Training using Smartphone Apps. Learning Connections 2019, Cork, Ireland, 5-6 December 2019.
Holloway, P. (2018) Spatial Simulation to Project Dynamic Movement of Species. GISRUK 2018, Leicester, UK, 17-20 April 2018.
Holloway, P. (2017) Individual-Based Modelling of Species’ Dynamic Resource Use. GeoComputation 2017, Leeds, UK, 4-7 Sept 2017.
Holloway, P., Miller, J.A., & Gillings, S. (2016) Uncertainty Analysis of the Dispersal Models used in Species Distribution Modelling. GISRUK 2016, Greenwich, UK, 30 March - 1 April 2016.
Holloway, P., Miller, J.A., & Gillings, S. (2015) Simulating the effects of migration on the uncertainty of species’ range shifts. GeoComputation 2015, Dallas, TX, 20-23 May 2015.
Holloway, P., & Miller, J.A. (2012) A novel modelling technique to incorporate regular movement into species distribution models. Workshop on Time-GIScience, Columbus, Ohio.
Technical Reports
Kandrot, S. & Holloway, P. (2020) Applications of Drone Technology for Sustainable Development of the Coastal Zone: A Literature Review. Project Report COAST Sustainable Resilient Coasts [391]. Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme.
Encyclopaedia Entries
Holloway, P. (2013) “Chatham Island temperate forests,” in Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopaedia, ed. Robert Warren Howarth, Golson Books Ltd.
Research Grants
Teagasc Walsh Scholarship Grant [2021220], Indicators of Soil Health. Total Award €96,000, 4 years (2022-2026), PI Paul Holloway (UCC); P. Holloway: PI.
Cullen Scholarship [CS-21-009], The status of sensitive fish species within Irish waters and their vulnerability in relation to fishing and discarding practices. Total award €100,000, 4 years (2022-2026), PIs Emer Rogan, Tom Reed, Paul Holloway (UCC); P. Holloway: PI
Enterprise Ireland [CS-2021-2067], ERC Proposal Preparation Support. Total Award €13,524.29, 1 year, PI Paul Holloway (UCC), P. Holloway: PI
Teagasc Walsh Fellowship Grant [2020219], Land use and sustainability – exploring the potential of alternative proteins. Total award €96,000, 4 years (2021-2025), PI Paul Holloway (UCC); P. Holloway: PI.
Met Éireann TRANSLATE, Project to Standardise Future Climate Information for Ireland. Total award €600,000, 2 years, PI Paul Nolan (ICHEC), P. Holloway: co-PI
Science Foundation Ireland Discover [20/DP/8119], NatureWatch: Exploring the Benefits of Nature to Wellbeing using Technology. Total award €40,030.00, PI: P. Holloway (UCC), P. Holloway: PI
Health Research Board and the Irish Research Council COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Response Funding [7372], Modelling the entwinned dynamics of social and physical distancing. Total Award €111,039.53, 2 years (2020-2022), PI Paul Holloway (UCC); P. Holloway: PI
Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme 2014-2020 [82087], ECHOES: Effects of Climate Change on Bird Habitat around the Irish Sea. Total Award €2,687,581, 4 years (2019-2023), PI Crona Hodges (Geo Smart Decisions); P. Holloway: Co-I (15%-time contribution ~€30,000)
Environmental Protection Agency [5148]¸PhenoClimate: Impact of Climate Change on Phenology of Ireland. Total Award €226,028, 2 years (2019-2021), PI Astrid Wingler (UCC); P. Holloway: Co-PI (WP-Leader - €62,044).
Teaching & Learning Research and Enhancement Fund, Digital Shift: Deploying and Evaluating Smartphone Apps for Research Methodology Training in Geography. Total award €1,062.72, 1 year (June 2018-2019), Team Application (P.Holloway, D, Linehan, R. O’Connor).
Teagasc Walsh Fellowship Grant [2018034], Agri-Environmental Big Data analytics via WebGIS: Geospatial data obfuscation and modelling of crop growth and productivity. Total award €88,000, 4 years (Oct 2018-2022), P. Holloway: PI of UCC.
Fellowships
Named / Endowed Continuing Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2015 – Summer 2016.
Robert E. Velselka Endowed Fellowship for Graduate Research Travel, Summer 2013.
Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011.
Natural Environment Research Council Scholarship to study an MSc in GIS, The University of Nottingham, 2009.
Awards
The President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2018/19, University College Cork, October 10 2019.
The J. Warren Nystrom Award Finalist, Annual AAG Meeting, Boston, MA, April 5-9 2017.
Best Paper by an Early Career Researcher, GIS Research in the UK 2016 (GISRUK 2016), Greenwich, UK, March 30 – April 1 2016.
2nd Place, Best Overall Conference Paper, GeoComputation 2015, Dallas, TX, May 20-23 May 2015.
1st Place, AAG Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Honours Student Paper Competition, Annual AAG Meeting, Chicago, IL, April, 21-25 2015. Link.
Professional Development Award, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, April 2015
The Achievement Award 2014, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin.
The Leadership Award 2014, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin.
1st Place, John Odland Student Paper Award, AAG Spatial Analysis and Modelling Specialty Group, Annual AAG Meeting, Tampa, FL, April 8-12, 2014. Link.
Professional Development Award, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, April 2014
2nd Place, AAG Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Honours Student
Paper Competition, Annual AAG Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13, 2013. Link.
Department of Geography and the Environment Conference Travel Award, Annual AAG Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. April 9-13, 2013
Department of Geography and the Environment Conference Travel Award, Annual AAG Meeting, New York, NY, February 24-28, 2012
Finalist, Student Paper Competition, Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division of the AAG, Austin,
TX, November 10-12, 2011
The Swinnerton Prize for Geographical Fieldwork, presented to one member of the graduating academic year in the University of Nottingham for the recognition of the best fieldwork in physical geography carried out as part of the final year dissertation, 2009
UKBORDERS CASE STUDY commissioned by Edina: Spatial Inequalities: An investigation of spatial disparity in the North-West of England, 2008
Teaching Experience
Taught Courses
*denotes Module Coordinator, ⁰denotes shared teaching
University College Cork:
- ER1006 - Applied Earth Systems⁰ 2019-
- ER3052 - Earth Science Literature Review⁰ 2018-
- ER4005 - Frontiers in Earth Science⁰ 2020-
- GG1013 - Environmental Geography⁰ 2018-
- GG1015 - Applied Geography⁰, 2017-
- GG2022 - Field Work*, 2018-
- The Burren* 2018
- Galway* 2019
- Virtual* 2020, 2021
- GG2037 - Introduction to Geoinformatics⁰, 2017-2019
- GG2038 - Geographical Research Methods⁰, 2017-
- GG3006 - Research Methods and Dissertation*⁰ 2017-
- GG3012 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems*, 2018-
- GG3052 - Geography Literature Review⁰ 2017-
- GG6501 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems*, 2017-
- GG6533 - Spatial Ecology and GIS*, 2020-
- PX3001 - Professional Work Experience⁰, 2019-
University of Texas at Austin:
- GRG 310C - Spatial Data & Analysis*, Summer 2015.
- GRG 335N - Landscape Ecology*, Spring 2015.
- GRG 301C - The Natural Environment, Fall 2013 (teaching assistant)
Conference Presentations
Conference Proceedings (abstract)
de la Torre Cerro, R., Holloway, P., & Gleeson, E. Quantifying phenological mismatches: Climate change drivers and their impacts on biotic interactions through different trophic levels. Festival of Ecology, BES Annual Conference, Virtual, December 14-18, 2020
de la Torre Cerro, R., Holloway, P., & Gleeson, E. Quantifying phenological mismatches: Climate change drivers and their impacts on biotic interactions through different trophic levels. Environ 2020, Dublin, Ireland (Virtual), October 20, 2020. Awarded CIWEM sponsored Best Water Related Presentation.
Holloway, P. From Static to Dynamic: Spatiotemporal Analysis in GIScience. GIS Ireland 2018 Conference IRLOGI, Dublin, Ireland. November 7, 2018.
Holloway, P. What is moving? How the semantic conceptualisation of movement data changes animal-environment inferences. International Statistical Ecology Conference, St Andrews, UK. July 2-6, 2018.
Holloway, P. Incorporating Movement Related Resource Dynamics into Species Distribution Modelling. Annual Meeting of the AAG, Boston, MA. April 5-9, 2017.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. Modelling species range shifts in response to climate change: how does incorporating migration affect uncertainty in projections. Annual Meeting of the AAG, Chicago, IL. April 21-25, 2015.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. User decisions in step-selection functions: How selection of model parameters influences the relationship between animal movement and the environment. Symposium on Animal Movement and the Environment. Raleigh, NC. May 5-8, 2014.
Holloway, P. Sensitivity analysis of step-selection function model parameters. Annual Meeting of the AAG, Tampa, FL. April 8-12, 2014.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A., Incorporating Movement in a Dynamic Landscape in Species Distribution Modelling, US-International Association of Landscape Ecology, Annual Symposium, Austin, TX. April, 14-17, 2013.
Holloway, P. How movement pattern analysis can improve species distribution models. Annual Meeting of the AAG, Los Angeles, CA. April, 9-13, 2013.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. Using simulated data to explore the effects of sampling strategy and density on species distribution models. Annual Meeting of the AAG, New York, NY. February 24-28, 2012.
Holloway, P. Fire ecology: The forests of Texas. Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division of the AAG. Austin, TX. November 10-12, 2011.
Conference Posters
Joshi, S., Mittal, S., Holloway, P., O’Gallachoir, B., Shukla, P.R., & Glynn, J. A hi-resolution assessment of global rooftop solar PV’s technical and economic potential using big data and machine learning. Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium 13 (IAMC13). Virtual, 1-4 December 2020. Awarded Best Poster 2020.
Holloway, P. & Miller, J.A. The effects of dispersal on projections of species distributions: a simulation approach. Species on the Move. Kruger National Park, South Africa, 22-26 July, 2019.
Scarrot, R.G., Cawkwell, F., Jessopp, M., O’Rourke, E., Cusack, C., & Holloway, P. Opportunities for multi-variate perspectives in characterising hyper-temporal ocean-surface heterogeneity. ESA Living Planet Symposium. Milan, Italy, May 13-17, 2019.
Lambert, L., Cawkwell, F., & Holloway, P. Urban Green & Blue Spaces in Cork City and their Contribution to Biodiversity. Irish Earth Observation Symposium. Dublin, Ireland, December 6, 2018.
Invited Lectures
The Irish Organisation for Geographic Information, IRLOGI Webinar, “Active Geospatial Learning Using a Smartphone App: Analysing Land Use Patterns in Cork City, Ireland”, October 21st 2020.
University College Cork, Frontiers in Biology Seminar Series, “Can species keep track of climate change? The need for improved dispersal modelling.” October 4, 2019.
University of St Andrews, Bell Edwards Geographic Data Institute, “From static to dynamic: Aggregating the conceptualisation of movement data better captures real world and simulated animal-environment relationships.” June 11, 2019.
University College Cork, Geography Research Seminar Series, “Understanding and Predicting Species Distributions and Phenological Shifts: A GIScience approach.” March 14, 2019.
University of York, Artificial Intelligence Group, Department of Computer Science, York, UK, "Machine Learning and Geocomputation in Ecological Modelling." October 19, 2016.
University of Texas, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, TX, “The Safari of Death.” February 28, 2014.
University of Texas, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, TX, “Incorporating regular movement analysis to improve species distribution model predictions: A case study using the oilbirds of South America.” March 29, 2013.