Dr Gemma Miller

Research Interests

My research interests focus on production efficiency in beef and sheep systems.
I also have operational management responsibility for SRUC's GreenCow respiration chamber facility. Key interests include:

Measurement of GHG outputs from ruminants, including proxy development and testing.
Reducing the environmental impact of ruminant production systems, including improved production efficiency and GHG mitigation strategies.
Precision Livestock Farming: development of technologies for monitoring individual animal productivity, health and welfare in real time.
Modelling of beef animal growth and carcass composition.

Selected research projects

Re-defining nutrition standards for improving beef production efficiency. Development of improved models for prediction of intake, growth and carcass composition and feed interactions for the UK beef industry (CIEL, AHDB, 2018-2023).
Opti-beef. Improved automated carcass grading in the abattoir (Innovate UK, 2019-2022).
Beef Monitor. Prediciton of carcass traits in live cattle using measurements from 3D imaging technology (Innovate UK, 2014-2018).
Novel animal-mounted sensor technology to improve efficiency and sustainability (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Innovation Club: BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, 2017-2018).

Selected publications

Miller, G.A., J.J. Hyslop, D. Barclay, A. Edwards, W. Thomson and C-A. Duthie (2019) Using 3D imaging and machine learning to predict liveweight and carcass characteristics of live finishing beef cattle. Fronteirs: Smarter Farming: New Approaches for Improved Monitoring, Measurement and Management of Agricultural Production and Farming Systems. In Press
Miller, G.A., Rees, R.M., Griffiths, B.S., Ball, B.C., and Cloy, J.M. (2019) The sensitivity of soil organic carbon pools to land management varies depending on former tillage practices. Soil and Tillage Research 189:236-242
Muñoz-Tamayo, R., Ramírez Agudelo, J. F., Dewhurst, R. J., Miller, G., Vernon, T. and Kettle, H. (2018) A parsimonious software sensor for estimating the individual dynamic pattern of methane emissions from cattle. Animal doi.org/10.1017/S1751731118002550
Rooke, J.A., Miller, G., Flockhart, J., McDowell, M. and MacLeod, M. (2016) Nutritional strategies to reduce enteric methane emissions. Scottish Government ClimateXChange.

Dr Gemma Miller

Postdoctoral Scientist

Address: Beef and Sheep Research Centre, Roslin Institute Building, Easter Bush, Edinburgh EH25 9RG

Telephone: 0131 6519 290

E-mail: gemma.miller@sruc.ac.uk

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