I research past and present environmental change, mostly through ice cores, and mostly in/around Antarctica. I dabble in open-source software development (R and a sprinking of MATLAB) to help answer research questions.
- m.harris@gns.cri.nz (work)
- 0000-0002-3726-2376 (orcid)
- @mattrpharris.bsky.social (Bluesky)
- ResearchGate
I'm interested in anything and everything related to paleoclimatology via a proxy lens. Particularly new and exciting methods/proxies. A large portion of my work to date has been related to the analysis of fluorescent organic matter (FOM) in ice cores, which was the core focus of my PhD, and has been the focus of a significant amount of my coding efforts.
I have also spent quite a bit of time running, and analysing outputs from, NOAA's HYSPLIT atmospheric trajectory model.
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| lwia.r | A library of functions for the LGR liquid water isotope analyser |
| SampleQueue | An automated file processing system for the HORIBA Aqualog |
| eemUtils | A suite of functions for working with EEM-fluorescence data in R |
| ERA5handlers | Simple parsers for ERA-5 data from the Copernicus CDS |
| bathy.classifieR | User-prompt tree for bathymetric image classification |
| MCCPT | Monte-Carlo changepoint analysis of paleoclimate records |
| turtleCPTs | An adaptation of the MCCPT approach for the analysis of turtle scutes |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| trajSpatial | HYSPLIT endpoint cluster and spatiotemporal analysis |
| ICQC | A WIP quality-control and reporting system for ion chromatography data used by the NZ National Ice Core Facility |
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| Minjerribah-hysplit | An analysis of rainfall-associated atmospheric trajectories to two islands in subtropical eastern Australia. Contribution to Tibby et al. (2025), JQS |
| MCCPT | Monte-Carlo changepoint analysis of paleoclimate records. R package produced alongside Cadd et al. (2021) |
| TurtleScuteCPTs | A contribution to Linscott and Wallace (2026). Monte-carlo changepoint analysis applied to turtle scute radiocarbon-derived growth rate data. Widespread shifts in turtle growth rates are linked to environmental stressors. |
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| compiling-era52arl | A step-by-step how-to for compiling the era52arl program on Linux |
