Projects
These projects emphasize reusable science: data products, decision-support tools, workshops, and workflows that help collaborators move from climate and biodiversity data to conservation action.
Selected Research Tools & Projects
Ocean Downscaling Viewer
Interactive viewer for high-resolution derived ocean products, designed for mapping, inspection, and summary statistics across baseline and future products.
Methods and skills: R/Shiny, spatial raster workflows, ocean-climate downscaling, baseline and future climatologies, depth layers, regional overlays.
Conservation or policy relevance: Supports inspection of climate layers used in species distribution models, exposure analyses, and marine spatial planning.
Megafauna Data Viewer
Interactive explorer for marine megafauna occurrence records, with filters for species, data source, telemetry or observation records, quality control, year, and exclusive economic zone overlays.
Methods and skills: R/Shiny, biodiversity-data processing, telemetry and observation data, interactive maps, quality-control workflows.
Conservation or policy relevance: Makes Save the Blue 5 biodiversity data easier to review, communicate, and use in climate-informed conservation analyses for the Southeast Pacific.
Save the Blue 5
Applied research on climate change, marine megafauna, and conservation planning in the Southeast Pacific, including data workflows and modelling products for migratory species.
Methods and skills: Species distribution modelling, climate-data processing, spatial ecology, marine megafauna data synthesis, collaborative conservation science.
Conservation or policy relevance: Supports climate-smart conservation planning for threatened and migratory marine species across national waters and regional ocean governance contexts.
Ocean Fronts and Biodiversity
Research on how oceanographic fronts structure marine biodiversity, influence fishing pressure, and shape conservation priorities in a dynamic ocean.
Methods and skills: Spatial ecology, oceanography, ocean fronts, biodiversity modelling, climate-change analysis.
Conservation or policy relevance: Connects dynamic habitat features to adaptive conservation, spatial management, and policy-relevant marine science.
Ocean Climate Downscaling Pipeline
Workflow for transforming coarse-resolution future ocean projections into high-resolution 3D marine data layers for species distribution models and climate exposure analyses.
Methods and skills: R, HPC workflows, CMIP and reanalysis products, vertical interpolation, climatologies, anomaly methods, NetCDF and tabular exports.
Conservation or policy relevance: Converts raw climate-model products into reusable layers for ecological forecasting, climate-risk assessment, and conservation planning.
Reproducible Marine Ecology in R
Reusable repositories and teaching material for transparent analysis, maps, species distribution workflows, environmental data processing, and collaborative code review.
Methods and skills: R, Git/GitHub, Quarto, spatial data, gridded climate products, biodiversity data workflows.
Conservation or policy relevance: Builds capacity for transparent, repeatable conservation analyses across students, collaborators, and applied research teams.
Workshops and Teaching Materials
Climate Change Biology Hands-on Session
Course practicals for ESM 240 at the Bren School, focused on climate-smart marine conservation, CMIP6 climate data, R workflows, and applied climate-change biology.
Audience: master’s students in environmental science and management.
Role: instructor, with graduate-level lectures, assignments, project supervision, and coursework evaluation.
Ocean Fronts and Marine Megafauna Workshop
Workshop eBook and practical material from the 2024 NACECC workshop in Halifax, with modules on setup, Git and GitHub, climate data, gridded rasters, ocean fronts, megafauna data, and CMIP6 models.
Audience: marine conservation researchers and workshop participants.
Megafauna and Climate Change Workshop
Teaching repository for a marine megafauna and climate-change workshop, collecting reusable scripts, examples, and practical material for climate-informed biodiversity work.
Audience: researchers and students working with marine species, climate exposure, and reproducible analysis.
Guide to Climate Models in R
Teaching notes for working with climate-model outputs in R, useful for onboarding students and collaborators to climate-data workflows.
Audience: learners getting started with climate model data in R.
Climate Data Operators Guide
Introductory guide to using CDO for CMIP climate-data manipulation, including regridding, interpolation, batch processing, and summary operations on netCDF files.
Audience: students and analysts working with gridded climate data.