Lindesay Scott-hayward
Deputy Director at CREEM
St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLindesay Scott-Hayward is a statistician and conservation-focused research leader with 12+ years applying spatially explicit methods to marine and terrestrial ecology, currently serving as Deputy Director and Head of CREEM-CRU at the University of St Andrews. She develops and maintains MRSea and MRSeaPower—widely used R tools that bring adaptive smoothing and spatially explicit power analysis into environmental impact assessment for offshore renewables and wildlife monitoring. Her work spans practical EIA projects across the UK, Denmark, the USA and Namibia, coupling rigorous modelling with capacity building through workshops and teaching. Trained to PhD level in Biostatistics, she blends deep quantitative expertise with hands-on software development and policy-relevant impact, including contributions to UN SDG objectives. Notably, her MRSea package has become a standard in offshore wind assessments and has been adapted for unusual uses such as home-range estimation in Namibian megafauna.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons. Zoology/Animal Biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons. Zoology/Animal Biology at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biostatistics at University of St AndrewsQueen Anne's School
Github Skills (10)
r7
dplyr4
grammar4
data-manipulation4
extrapolation3
marine2
classification2
data-preprocessing2
r-package1
surface1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lindesaysh/MRSea
Oct 2013 - Oct 2022
MRSea package construction
Contributions:15 releases, 298 commits, 8 PRs in 9 years 1 month
lindesaysh/MRSeaPower
Jan 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 3 months
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