I am a Professor with the Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State University (NCSU).

I relocated to NCSU in Aug 2019 from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) where I had a faculty position and built the Geospatial Analysis for Environmental Change Lab.

I am a geospatial data scientist with 10 years of experience post-PhD in the higher education research sector. I work to improve understanding of flooding and surface water dynamics and their drivers of change (e.g., climate and land-use) at regional to global scales. I develop machine-learning pipelines based on terabytes of satellite imagery using cloud computing. Results of my work can underpin water policy and management in areas with competing water demands and conservation decisions. In my prior work I have translated my research findings to government organizations, which have attested the importance of my work for policy and management decisions.

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Appointments

Professor, Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University (2024-)

Associate Professor, Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University (2019–2024)

Lecturer & Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales (2012–2019)

Lecturer, Murdoch University (2011)

Teaching at NCSU

GIS 712: Environmental Earth Observation and Remote Sensing
I developed and taught this course for the first time in Fall 2020 using open source software including Python, Jupyter notebooks, Git, and QGIS. A syllabus is available here.

GIS 495: Geospatial Analytics for Environmental Change
I developed and first taught this course in Fall 2022, utilizing open-source software such as Python, Jupyter notebooks, Git, and QGIS, see here. Through the course, students gain hands-on experience creating open-source data story maps, which they can showcase in their portfolios. You can view an example of a student-created story map [here].

ES 400: Analysis of Environmental Issues I taught this capstone course in 2020-2021.