Dr Jennifer McKinley
Dr Jennifer Mary McKinley
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) 1984, Queen’s University Belfast
PhD 2001, Queen’s University Belfast
Senior Lecturer (GIS)
Email: j.mckinley@qub.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology,
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1NN, UK
Telephone
++ 44 (0)28 90973827
Current Teaching:
GGY1007 Dynamic Earth
GGY2040 Techniques in Earth Science
GGY3023 Advanced Geographical Information Systems
Current Administrative Roles:
Advisor of Studies
Current Research: Environmental Change
Member of the Environmental Change cluster
Member of the Spatial Technologies and Research Forum
Member of the Geomaterials Research Group
Current Research Funding
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) project grant EP/E049648/1 and Knowledge Transfer secondment (KTS)
Recent Publications
McKinley, J.M. & McCabe S. (2010). Predictive modelling of weathering processes using geostatistics. (Eds. M. Oliver and R. Kerry) Geographical Analysis Vol. 4 issue 2, 180-203.
McKinley, J.M. & Leuangthong O. (2010 in press). An examination of transformation techniques to investigate and interpret multivariate geochemical data analysis – the Tellus Case Study. GeoENV-VII Springer volume.
McKinley, J.M., Ruffell, A. & Worden, R.H. (2010 in press). An integrated stratigraphic, petrophysical, geochemical and geostatistical approach to the understanding of burial diagenesis: Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, South Yorkshire, UK. Linking diagenesis to sequence stratigraphy of sedimentary rocks (Morad S. & Ketzer M eds.) International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication.
McKinley, J.M., Ruffell A., Harrison M., Meier-Augenstein W., Kemp H., Graham C. & Barry L. 2009 .Spatial thinking in search methodology: A Case Study of the ‘No Body Murder Enquiry, West of Ireland. In: K. Ritz et al. (eds) Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics, Springer, 285-302.
Ruffell, A. & McKinley, J.M. 2008. Geoforensics. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, England. 332p.
Publications:
McKinley, J.M. and Warke, P.A. 2007. Controls on permeability: Implications for stone weathering. In: R. Prikryl & B.J. Smith (eds) Building Stone Decay: from Diagnosis to Conservation. Geological Society Special Publication 271: 225–236. The Geological Society, London.
McKinley, J.M. and Ruffell, A. 2006. Contemporaneous Spatial Sampling at a Scene of Crime: Advantages and Disadvantages. Forensic Science International.
McKinley, J.M., Warke, P.A., Lloyd, C.D., Ruffell, A.H. and Smith, B.J. 2006. Geostatistical analysis in weathering studies: case study of Stanton Moor building sandstone. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 31, 950-969.
McKinley, J.M., Lloyd C.D. and Ruffell A.H. (2004) Use of variography in permeability characterisation of visually homogeneous sandstone reservoirs with examples from outcrop studies. Mathematical Geology, vol.36, no. 7, 761-779.
