Newcastle University

Aileen Mill is a quantitative ecologist with 4 years postdoctoral experience. She has a special interest in modelling the structure and dynamics of complex systems. She is currently a KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) Associate working collaboratively within a team of researchers, at Newcastle and The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) in York on a range of projects including wildlife management and food contamination. These projects have involved a variety of analytical techniques including linear and non linear regression, mixed models, survival analyses, geospatial data and non-normally distributed data. She also has extensive experience of multivariate, and timeseries techniques. Projects she has recently been involved in include:

* Spatial analysis of the spread and control of Ruddy Duck in the UK.

* The epidemiology and clustering of American Foulbrood.

* Reanalysis of the Randomised Badger Culling Trial.

* PAH detection in shellfish.

* Detection of steroid abuse in meat producing animals.

Projects

• Population biology of salmon (Salmo salar) and sea trout (Salmo trutta) in the river Tyne: using modelling to understand the factors influencing migration patterns and determine the sustainable lever of exploitation.
  Project Leader(s): Zelda Van der Waal

• Mill AC, Rushton SP, Shirley MDF, Murray AWA, Smith GC, Delahay RJ, McDonald RA. Farm-scale risk factors for bovine tuberculosis incidence in cattle herds during the Randomised Badger Culling Trial. Epidemiology and Infection 2012, 140(2), 219-230.
• Mill AC, Rushton SP, Murrary AWA, Rose M. PAH contamination in Shellfish: Modelling to estimate exposure. Ecotoxicology 2011, 21(2), 393-408.
• Scarth JP, Clarke A, Teale P, Mill AC, Macarthur R, Kay J. Detection of endogenous steroid abuse in cattle: results from population studies in the UK. Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A: Chemistry, Analysis, Control, Exposure & Risk Assessment 2011, 28(1), 44-61.
• Scarth JP, Clarke A, Hands J, Teale P, Mill AC, Macarthur R, Kay J, De Brabander H. Detection of nandrolone and boldenone abuse in the ovine by GC-MS/MS. Chromatographia 2011, 73(11-12), 1155-1169.
• Yates L, Pierce M, Stephens S, Mill AC, Spark P, Kurinczuk JJ, Valappil M, Brocklehurst P, Thomas SHL, Knight M. Influenza A/H1N1v in pregnancy: an investigation of the characteristics and management of affected women and the relationship to pregnancy outcomes for mother and infant. Health Technology Assessment 2010, 14(34), 109-182.
• Scarth JP, Clarke A, Hands J, Teale P, Mill AC, Macarthur R, Kay J, De Brabander H. Validation of an Analytical Biomarker Approach for the Detection of Nandrolone Abuse in the Porcine. Chromatographia 2010, 72(3-4), 297-305.
• Mill AC, Sweeting CJ, Barnes C, Al-Habsi SH, MacNeil MA. Mass-spectrometer bias in stable isotope ecology. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 2008, 6, 34-39.
• Mill AC, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC. Explaining isotope trophic-step fractionation: Why herbivorous fish are different. Functional Ecology 2007, 21(6), 1137-1145.
• Dulvy NK, Polunin NVC, Mill AC, Graham NAJ. Size structural change in lightly exploited coral reef fish communities: Evidence for weak indirect effects. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2004, 61(3), 466-475.