As a researcher, he has worked in the geosciences (specifically in terrain modelling, remote sensing, and glaciology), but has a broad scientific knowledge-base and has helped clients in many fields.
Educated at Queen's University (B.Sc.H.), Canada as well as the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil) and Leeds (Ph.D.) in the UK, Dr James has 20 years of experience in editing and publishing scientific research and has himself published in a wide variety of high-impact journals including Science, Nature Geoscience, IEEE, JGR, GRL and The Cryosphere.
He has acted as an expert reviewer for a number of government foundations including: German Research Foundation (DFG), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
He has also acted as an expert reviewer for many important, high-impact journals.
He is an author on more than 30 scientific publications including a contributing author to 4 editions of a leading textbook in environmental monitoring. See Google Scholar for more information.
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