Dr Mark Holton

Research Officer, Biosciences

m.d.holton@swansea.ac.uk

Research Office - 127B
First Floor
Wallace Building
Singleton Campus

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8834-3283

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About

Employed by both Computer Science and Biosciences and previously in Engineering, primarily working on design / implementation of datalogging and multiple sensory circuits for use in the field of HCI and animal monitoring systems, and big data visualisation / search-and-categorisation algorithms.

Areas Of Expertise

Data visualisation
Data analysis
Search algorithms
Digital circuit design
Sensor data logger systems
HCI device design / implementation

Career Highlights

Research

Development of processor-controlled digital circuit.

Publications

Research Highlights

Wilson, R., Grundy, E., Massy, R., Soltis, J., Tysse, B., Holton, M., Cai, Y., Parrott, A., Downey, L., Qasem, L., Butt, T., & Parrott, A. (2014). Wild state secrets: ultra-sensitive measurement of micro-movement can reveal internal processes in animals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 12(10), 582-587.
https://doi.org/10.1890/140068, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa19803
Wilson, G., Holton, M., Walker, J., Jones, M., Grundy, E., Davies, I., Clarke, D., Luckman, A., Russill, N., Wilson, V., Plummer, R., & Wilson, R. (2015). A new perspective on how humans assess their surroundings; derivation of head orientation and its role in ‘framing’ the environment. PeerJ, 3(e908), e908-29.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.908, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20646
Bidder, O., Walker, J., Jones, M., Holton, M., Urge, P., Scantlebury, D., Marks, N., Magowan, E., Maguire, I., Wilson, R., Jones, M., Holton, M., & Wilson, R. (2015). Step by step: reconstruction of terrestrial animal movement paths by dead-reckoning. Movement Ecology, 3(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-015-0055-4, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21955
http://www.movementecologyjournal.com/content/3/1/23
Walker, J., Jones, M., Laramee, R., Holton, M., Shepard, E., Williams, H., Scantlebury, D., Marks, N., Magowan, E., Maguire, I., Bidder, O., Di Virgilio, A., Wilson, R., & Laramee, B. (2015). Prying into the intimate secrets of animal lives; software beyond hardware for comprehensive annotation in ‘Daily Diary’ tags. Movement Ecology, 3(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-015-0056-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21998
http://www.movementecologyjournal.com/content/3/1/29
Wilson, G., Norman, B., Walker, J., Williams, H., Holton, M., Clarke, D., Wilson, R., & Holton, M. (2015). In search of rules behind environmental framing; the case of head pitch. Movement Ecology, 3(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-015-0051-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25469

All Research

Journal Articles

Reynolds, S., Redcliffe, J., Norman, B., Wilson, R., Holton, M., Franklin, C., & Dwyer, R. (2024). Swimming with humans: biotelemetry reveals effects of “gold standard” regulated tourism on whale sharks. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 0, 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2024.2314624, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65580
Gunner, R., Wilson, R., Holton, M., Bennett, N., Alagaili, A., Bertelsen, M., Mohammed, O., Wang, T., Manger, P., Ismael, K., & Scantlebury, D. (2023). Examination of head versus body heading may help clarify the extent to which animal movement pathways are structured by environmental cues?. Movement Ecology, 11(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00432-y, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00432-y
Fehlmann, G., O'Riain, M., Kerr, C., Hailes, S., Holton, M., Hopkins, P., & King, A. (2023). Using behavioral studies to adapt management decisions and reduce negative interactions between humans and baboons in Cape Town, South Africa. Conservation Science and Practice
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12948, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12948
Christensen, C., Bracken, A., O'Riain, M., Fehlmann, G., Holton, M., Hopkins, P., King, A., & Fuertbauer, I. (2023). Quantifying allo-grooming in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) using tri-axial acceleration data and machine learning. Royal Society Open Science, 10(4)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221103, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221103
Wilson, R., Reynolds, S., Potts, J., Redcliffe, J., Holton, M., BUXTON, A., Rose, K., & Norman, B. (2022). Highlighting when animals expend excessive energy for travel using dynamic body acceleration. iScience, 25(9), 105008
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105008, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60524
Garde, B., Wilson, R., Fell, A., Cole, N., Tatayah, V., Holton, M., Rose, K., Metcalfe, R., Robotka, H., Wikelski, M., Tremblay, F., Whelan, S., Elliott, K., & Shepard, E. (2022). Ecological inference using data from accelerometers needs careful protocols. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(4)
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13804, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59252
Dentinger, J., Borger, L., Holton, M., Jafari-Marandi, R., Norman, D., Smith, B., Oppenheimer, S., Strickland, B., Wilson, R., & Street, G. (2022). A probabilistic framework for behavioral identification from animal-borne accelerometers. Ecological Modelling, 464, 109818
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109818, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58741
Wilson, R., Holton, M., Neate, A., Del’Caño, M., Quintana, F., Yoda, K., & Gómez-Laich, A. (2022). Luck and tactics in foraging success: the case of the imperial shag. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 682, 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13967, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58851
Gunner, R., Wilson, R., Holton, M., Hopkins, P., Bell, S., Marks, N., Bennett, N., Ferreira, S., Govender, D., Viljoen, P., Bruns, A., Schalkwyk, O., Bertelsen, M., Duarte, C., Rooyen, M., Tambling, C., Göppert, A., Diesel, D., & Scantlebury, D. (2022). Decision rules for determining terrestrial movement and the consequences for filtering high-resolution global positioning system tracks: a case study using the African lion ( Panthera leo ). Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 19(186), 20210692
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0692, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59241
Wilson, R., Rose, K., Gunner, R., Gunner, R., Holton, M., Marks, N., Bennett, N., Bell, S., Twining, J., Hesketh, J., Duarte, C., Bezodis, N., Jezek, M., Painter, M., Silovsky, V., Crofoot, M., Harel, R., Arnould, J., Allan, B...., & Scantlebury, D. (2021). Animal lifestyle affects acceptable mass limits for attached tags. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1961)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58306
Bracken, A., Christensen, C., O’Riain, M., Fehlmann, G., Holton, M., Hopkins, P., Fuertbauer, I., & King, A. (2021). Socioecology Explains Individual Variation in Urban Space Use in Response to Management in Cape Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus). International Journal of Primatology, 43, 1159-1176.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-021-00247-x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59107
Gunner, R., Holton, M., Scantlebury, D., Hopkins, P., Shepard, E., Fell, A., Garde, B., Quintana, F., Gómez-Laich, A., Yoda, K., Yamamoto, T., English, H., Ferreira, S., Govender, D., Viljoen, P., Bruns, A., Schalkwyk, O., Cole, N., Tatayah, V...., & Wilson, R. (2021). How often should dead-reckoned animal movement paths be corrected for drift?. Animal Biotelemetry, 9(1), 43
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00265-9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58382
Wilson, R., Rose, K., Metcalfe, R., Holton, M., Redcliffe, J., Gunner, R., Borger, L., Loison, A., Jezek, M., Painter, M., Silovský, V., Marks, N., Garel, M., Toïgo, C., Marchand, P., Bennett, N., McNarry, M., Mackintosh, K., Brown, R., & SCANTLEBURY, D. (2021). Path tortuosity changes the transport cost paradigm in terrestrial animals. Ecography, 44(10)
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05850, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57321
Hopkins, L., Geraldi, N., Pope, E., Holton, M., Lurgi Rivera, M., Duarte, C., & Wilson, R. (2021). Testing angular velocity as a new metric for metabolic demands of slow-moving marine fauna: a case study with Giant spider conchs Lambis truncata. Animal Biotelemetry, 9(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00255-x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58099
Gunner, R., Holton, M., Scantlebury, M., Schalkwyk, O., English, H., Williams, H., Hopkins, P., Quintana, F., Gómez-Laich, A., Borger, L., Redcliffe, J., Yoda, K., Yamamoto, T., Ferreira, S., Govender, D., Viljoen, P., Bruns, A., Bell, S., Marks, N...., & Wilson, R. (2021). Dead-reckoning animal movements in R: a reappraisal using Gundog.Tracks. Animal Biotelemetry, 9(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00245-z, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57810
Gunner, R., Wilson, R., Holton, M., Scott, R., Arkwright, A., Fahlman, A., Ulrich, M., Hopkins, P., Duarte, C., & Eizaguirre, C. (2021). Activity of loggerhead turtles during the U-shaped dive: insights using angular velocity metrics. Endangered Species Research, 45, 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01125, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57123
Williams, H., Shepard, E., Holton, M., Alarcón, P., Wilson, R., Lambertucci, S., Holton, M., & Wilson, R. (2020). Physical limits of flight performance in the heaviest soaring bird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201907360
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907360117, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54372
Wilson, R., Williams, H., Holton, M., Virgilio, A., Borger, L., Potts, J., Gunner, R., Arkwright, A., Fahlman, A., Bennett, N., Alagaili, A., Cole, N., Duarte, C., & Scantlebury, D. (2020). An “orientation sphere” visualization for examining animal head movements. Ecology and Evolution, 10(10), 4175-4514.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6197, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54373
Arkwright, A., Archibald, E., Fahlman, A., Holton, M., Crespo-Picazo, J., Cabedo, V., Duarte, C., Scott, R., Webb, S., Gunner, R., & Wilson, R. (2020). Behavioral Biomarkers for Animal Health: A Case Study Using Animal-Attached Technology on Loggerhead Turtles. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7
https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00504, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53034
Williams, H., Duriez, O., Holton, M., Dell'Omo, G., Wilson, R., & Shepard, E. (2018). Vultures respond to challenges of near-ground thermal soaring by varying bank angle. The Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb.174995
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.174995, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45287
Wilson, R., Holton, M., Virgilio, A., Williams, H., Shepard, E., Lambertucci, S., Quintana, F., Sala, J., Balaji, B., Lee, E., Srivastava, M., Scantlebury, D., & Duarte, C. (2018). Give the machine a hand: A Boolean time-based decision-tree template for rapidly finding animal behaviours in multisensor data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9(11), 2206-2215.
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13069, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43234
Clark, C., Barnes, C., Swindell, N., Holton, M., Bingham, D., Collings, P., Barber, S., Summers, H., Mackintosh, K., Stratton, G., Holton, M., Summers, H., Mackintosh, K., & Stratton, G. (2018). Profiling Movement and Gait Quality Characteristics in Pre-School Children. Journal of Motor Behavior, 50(5), 557-565.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2017.1375454, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36113
Lush, L., Wilson, R., Holton, M., Hopkins, P., Marsden, K., Chadwick, D., & King, A. (2018). Classification of sheep urination events using accelerometers to aid improved measurements of livestock contributions to nitrous oxide emissions. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 150, 170-177.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2018.04.018, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39589
Wilson, R., Gómez-Laich, A., Sala, J., Dell'Omo, G., Holton, M., & Quintana, F. (2017). Long necks enhance and constrain foraging capacity in aquatic vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1867), 20172072
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2072, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36822
McNarry, M., Wilson, R., Holton, M., Griffiths, I., Mackintosh, K., Griffiths, I., Holton, M., Wilson, R., McNarry, M., & Mackintosh, K. (2017). Investigating the relationship between energy expenditure, walking speed and angle of turning in humans. PLOS ONE, 12(8), e0182333
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182333, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34844
Williams, H., Holton, M., Shepard, E., Largey, N., Norman, B., Ryan, P., Duriez, O., Scantlebury, M., Quintana, F., Magowan, E., Marks, N., Alagaili, A., Bennett, N., & Wilson, R. (2017). Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial magnetometry. Movement Ecology, 5(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-017-0097-x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32735
https://movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40462-017-0097-x
Fehlmann, G., O’Riain, M., Hopkins, P., O’Sullivan, J., Holton, M., Shepard, E., & King, A. (2017). Identification of behaviours from accelerometer data in a wild social primate. Animal Biotelemetry, 5(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-017-0121-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32730
Barnes, C., Clark, C., Holton, M., Stratton, G., & Summers, H. (2017). Quantitative Time Profiling of Children's Activity and Motion. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 49(1), 183-190.
https://doi.org/10.1249/mss.0000000000001085, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa49765
Clark, C., Barnes, C., Holton, M., Summers, H., & Stratton, G. (2016). Profiling movement quality and gait characteristics according to body-mass index in children (9–11 y). Human Movement Science, 49, 291-300.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2016.08.003, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa29588
Wilson, R., Holton, M., Walker, J., Shepard, E., Scantlebury, D., Wilson, V., Wilson, G., Tysse, B., Gravenor, M., Ciancio, J., McNarry, M., Mackintosh, K., Qasem, L., Rosell, F., Graf, P., Quintana, F., Gomez-Laich, A., Sala, J., Mulvenna, C...., & Gravenor, M. (2016). A spherical-plot solution to linking acceleration metrics with animal performance, state, behaviour and lifestyle. Movement Ecology, 4(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-016-0088-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30318
Wilson, G., Norman, B., Walker, J., Williams, H., Holton, M., Clarke, D., Wilson, R., & Holton, M. (2015). In search of rules behind environmental framing; the case of head pitch. Movement Ecology, 3(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-015-0051-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25469
Walker, J., Jones, M., Laramee, R., Holton, M., Shepard, E., Williams, H., Scantlebury, D., Marks, N., Magowan, E., Maguire, I., Bidder, O., Di Virgilio, A., Wilson, R., & Laramee, B. (2015). Prying into the intimate secrets of animal lives; software beyond hardware for comprehensive annotation in ‘Daily Diary’ tags. Movement Ecology, 3(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-015-0056-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21998
http://www.movementecologyjournal.com/content/3/1/29
Bidder, O., Walker, J., Jones, M., Holton, M., Urge, P., Scantlebury, D., Marks, N., Magowan, E., Maguire, I., Wilson, R., Jones, M., Holton, M., & Wilson, R. (2015). Step by step: reconstruction of terrestrial animal movement paths by dead-reckoning. Movement Ecology, 3(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-015-0055-4, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21955
http://www.movementecologyjournal.com/content/3/1/23
Wilson, G., Holton, M., Walker, J., Jones, M., Grundy, E., Davies, I., Clarke, D., Luckman, A., Russill, N., Wilson, V., Plummer, R., & Wilson, R. (2015). A new perspective on how humans assess their surroundings; derivation of head orientation and its role in ‘framing’ the environment. PeerJ, 3(e908), e908-29.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.908, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20646
Wilson, R., Grundy, E., Massy, R., Soltis, J., Tysse, B., Holton, M., Cai, Y., Parrott, A., Downey, L., Qasem, L., Butt, T., & Parrott, A. (2014). Wild state secrets: ultra-sensitive measurement of micro-movement can reveal internal processes in animals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 12(10), 582-587.
https://doi.org/10.1890/140068, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa19803

Conference Contributions

Zhang, C., Sahoo, D., Pearson, J., Robinson, S., Holton, M., Hopkins, P., & Jones, M. (2020). Active PinScreen: Exploring Spatio-Temporal Tactile Feedbackfor Multi-Finger Interaction. In 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and ServicesACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3379503.3403531, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54578
Robinson, S., Pearson, J., Holton, M., Ahire, S., & Jones, M. (2019). Sustainabot – Exploring the Use of Everyday Foodstuffs as Output and Input for and with Emergent Users. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '19 (pp. 1-12). ACM Press.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300456, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48078

Career History

Research Officer, College of Engineering / College of Science

2010 - Present