My background is in software development and I came to Adelaide to try and apply my skills towards aiding our natural world and helping to conserve our amazing biodiversity. My wife has also been pursuing her PhD in Ecology, studying Malleefowl on the Eyre Peninsula. Both of us studying concurrently has been both highly rewarding and often challenging in many ways!
My PhD research has focussed on developing tools for improving the quality of biodiversity data collected by citizen scientists. I developed two mobile apps for iOS and android devices for The Great Koala Count in South Australia in 2016 and similarly for the Echidna Conservation Science Initiative (echidnaCSI) which began in 2017 and continues today. The echidnaCSI project was one of the 3 finalists for the 2021 Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science.
Hi there! I’m Diego, a biologist from Peru. I am in the middle of my PhD, working with the Spatial Science Group at the University of Adelaide. I have always been interested in the natural world and tried to explore it as much as I can.
Growing up in suburban Adelaide, I never had any particular hobbies or interests, other than being generally hands-on. Going through high school, as with most people, I still had little idea of what direction I wanted to go – so I took the “I don’t know” option and applied for a BSc at Adelaide Uni.
I’m a final year PhD Candidate in Environmental Remote
Sensing and Spatial Science at the University of Adelaide. Although I started
my professional career as a GIS technician, for the better part of the past 20
years I have worked as an archaeological consultant, specializing in heritage
surveys and rockshelter excavations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. My PhD research aims to show to how aerial
and satellite remote sensing technologies can help us better understand the ancient
Aboriginal archaeological record of the Australian arid zone. It has been a
lifelong passion of mine to marry my interests in Earth observation imagery
with the archaeology—and I love it!
If you’d like to learn more about my academic work, you can
check out my University
of Adelaide researcher profile. However,
I thought I’d spend this paragraph briefly describing ‘the real me.’ I grew up
in central Texas, but I’ve been living and working in Australia more-or-less
since the mid-199os. I’m a proud dad and
I’ve been married to my fabulous wife Sarah for nearly 20 years. We live on
Kangaroo Island, where we built a beautiful stone house from the rocks on our
land. When I’m not working, I enjoy performing original music at markets and
venues around the island.
The
recent Kangaroo Island bushfires have had a devastating effect on our community.
In response, I have been using satellite imagery to map
bushfire affected areas for the purpose of assisting recovery efforts. You
can help Kangaroo Island with the recovery by supporting local producers and
businesses by visiting the island for a holiday in the near future. There is
still so much to see and enjoy in this beautiful place.
Starting with a bachelor’s degree in evolutionary biology I moved on to a rather unrelated though interesting Honours project. I designed and built a 3D printer that used urealytic bacteria to cement sand grains together creating 3D sandstone prints! While this was successful, my Honours taught me that working in a wet lab wasn’t for me. Deciding data science and working at a computer was more my speed I followed my botanical interests to the remote sensing group to commence a PhD.
Growing up on a dairy farm in the French countryside, I’ve always had an interest in sustainable land management and the environment surrounding me. After studying Biochemical Engineering (B.Sc) and Environmental Management (M.Sc) in France, I decided to move to Adelaide in 2012, for a couple of years, to gain professional experience in an English speaking country, and to discover new landscapes and a new culture. Seven years later I’m still here in Adelaide, but I gained so much professional experience over the years and learnt a lot about the Australian Environment.
I’m a third year PhD student working with the Spatial Science Group at the University of Adelaide. Prior to my PhD, I completed a Bachelor of Environmental Science and a Bachelor of Sustainable Environments at the University of South Australia.
Despite (or perhaps because of?) growing up on a hobby farm, I’ve always been fascinated by marine ecosystems. This led me to study Marine Biology at the Uni of Adelaide from 2012. Realising the underrated power of remote sensing for monitoring broad scale marine processes in my third year, I joined the Spatial Sciences Group in 2015 to complete my Honours. After this, I was offered a short research contract looking at changes in coastal productivity in relation to Murray River flows. This experience convinced me to stay on with the SSG and study further. Seems like they can’t get rid of me?!
I have completed a B.Sc (Mineral Geoscience) in 2013 followed by a B.Sc (Honours) in Remote Sensing in 2015 at Adelaide Uni and I am now in my final year of my Ph.D which will be completed in mid 2019.
I was born in South Australia (SA) and I’ve never lived elsewhere, except for holidays – I looooove holidaying in new places overseas. So, while many of the members of our group have exciting worldly backgrounds, I’m ‘just South Australian’. I don’t say that as a bad thing, I’m very attached to this wonderful state. I just mention it as geographical-temporal context.
But sometimes I do wish SA was a bit cooler and wetter.
We are a mix of Academics, Post-Docs and PhD's who specialise in a range of applications of GIS and Remote Sensing. We frequently solve small or large image processing, spatial, or related coding problems. However, much of this knowledge remains inside our individual heads, or, it quickly slides out...
This site was created to store the collective solutions of our group. Hopefully they'll be more useful gathered together in a searchable form.
