{"id":20519,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/bell-patrick\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:04:29","slug":"bell-patrick","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/bell-patrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"content-section\" id=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sea-background-f\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"content-menu\"><li class=\"active\"><h5><a href=\"#tabs-1\">Biography<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-2\">Research<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-3\">Publications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-4\">Skills &amp; qualifications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-5\">Awards &amp; associations<\/a><\/h5><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container tabs-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-1\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Patrick Bell&#8217;s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>1992 &#8211; BSc (Hons) 1st class, UCW Aberystwyth, Geography<\/li>\n<li>1993 &#8211; GIS developer, Forestry Commission<\/li>\n<li>1993 &#8211; MSc (Distinction), UCW Aberystwyth, Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>1996 &#8211; GIS and web systems specialist, British Geological Survey<\/li>\n<li>2008 &#8211; Team Leader of Web Systems<\/li>\n<li>2013 &#8211; Team Leader of Information Systems<\/li>\n<li>2023 &#8211; Head of Informatics Solutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-2\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Web-based information delivery services<\/li>\n<li>Social media harvesting<\/li>\n<li>Scanned imagery and other digital asset delivery<\/li>\n<li>Data services for mobile devices<\/li>\n<li>Web-based collaborative working<\/li>\n<li>Real-time data delivery<\/li>\n<li>Spatial data web services and INSPIRE<\/li>\n<li>Web mapping<\/li>\n<li>Spatial data infrastructures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current projects and collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li><a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/xyztbc\">Geospatial data web services and INSPIRE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/xyztbc\">Energy Security &amp; Innovation Observing System: ESIOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epos-ip.org\">European Plate Observing System: EPOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukso.org\">UK Soil Observatory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"\/data\/apps\/home.html\">Mobile apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/xyztbc\">Citizen science and crowdsourcing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/view\/author\/961.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NERC Open Research Archive \u2014 Patrick Bell <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Powell, J, Nash, G, Bell, P. 2013. GeoExposures: documenting temporary geological exposures in Great Britain through a citizen-science web site. Proceedings of the Geologists&#8217; Association, Volume 124, Issue 4, June 2013, Pages 638\u2013647 DOI information: http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.pgeola.2012.04.004<br \/>\nPowell, J, Nash, G, Bell, P. 2011. Glimpses of the past. Geoscientist, 21 (11). 7.<br \/>\nShelley, W, Marchant, A, Bell, P, Westhead, K. 2011. BGS serves up data-to-go. Geoconnexion UK, Sept\/Oct 2011. 70-71.<br \/>\nWesthead, K, Bell, P, Jordan, C, Kingdon, A. 2010. From watercolour to web. Earthwise, 26. 12-13.<br \/>\nAdlam, K A M, Bell, P D, Wildman, G, Laxton, J L, Smith, N A, Skarpeli, S, Tsamouras, S. 2006. The development of a Geoinformation System for IGME. Proc. 21st Conference for ESRI Users, Athens, Greece.<br \/>\nBell, P D, Careless, J M, Pedley, R C, Smith, N A, Wood, B. 2003. A web-based spatial index to the data holdings of the Geological Survey of Ireland: technical documentation. BGS Commissioned Report CR\/03\/104.<br \/>\nMankelow, J M, Hatton, W H, Highley, D E, Colman, T B, Passmore, J H, Bell, P D. 2002. The application of mineral information management and delivery systems in the sustainable management of mineral resources. SCOTT, P W &amp; BRISTOW, C M (eds) Industrial Minerals and Extractive Industry Geology. Geological Society, London.<br \/>\nBell, P D, Adlam, K A M, Bury, A, Cannell, B, Careless, J M, Passmore, J H, Pedley, R C. 2000. BGS-geoIDS &#8211; An Analysis of ESRI&#8217;s ArcIMS 3.0 and its suitability for implementing a web-based Geoscience Database Index. Technical Report IR\/00\/11<br \/>\nBell, P D, Passmore, J H, Riddick, A T. 2000. The BGS intranet : delivering data to the geologists&#8217; desk : In: Earthwise No. 16 (2000) p. 28-29<br \/>\nRees, J G, Bell, P D, Newsham, R. 1998. Modelling Holocene accommodation space and sediment storage within the Humber Estuary : British Geological Survey, Marine Report Series, Technical Report WB\/98\/052<br \/>\nQuine, C P, Mackie, A L, &amp; Bell, P D. 1997. In the Woods with GPS. Mapping Awareness, 11(1), 28-32.<br \/>\nBell, P D, Quine, C P, &amp; Wright, J A. 1995. The Use of Digital Terrain Models to Calculate Windiness Scores for the Windthrow Hazard Classification. Scottish Forestry, 49(4), 217-225.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-4\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Project management<\/li>\n<li>Application development management<\/li>\n<li>Spatial data infrastructures<\/li>\n<li>Server GIS development<\/li>\n<li>Web development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-5\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Team awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2010 &#8211; Esri UK Innovation in Central Government (Highly commended): OpenGeoscience<\/li>\n<li>2011 &#8211; Esri UK Innovation in Central Government (Highly commended): iGeology<\/li>\n<li>2011 &#8211; ESRI International storytelling with maps &#8211; 3rd place for Best Mobile App<\/li>\n<li>2011 &#8211; ESRI International storytelling with maps &#8211; 1st place Community Favorite winner for Best Mobile App<\/li>\n<li>2011 &#8211; AGI Innovation &amp; Best Practice (Highly commended): iGeology<\/li>\n<li>2013 &#8211;\u00a0<a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esriuk.com\/conference2013\/awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esri UK Conference Best presentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2014 &#8211;\u00a0<a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.agi.org.uk\/images\/pdfs\/AwardsBrochureFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGI Award for Geospatial Excellence with Impact: UK Soil Observatory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":22286,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"64823,92106,81800,93715,72299,16555","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"tags":[],"bgs_role":[1547],"level":[],"location":[154],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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