Education, publications, presentations

Selected conference presentations

Organiser and trainer for 'Entry level R maps from African data' tutorial for the useR! 2021 conference.

Organiser and trainer for 'Making my first map in R' tutorial for the satRday Nairobi 2021 conference.

Afrimapr: resources and a community for mapping data in Africa. CODATA Connect presentation (invited talk for the Research Data Skills Series), 2021.

A review of the MEOP Consortium and data repository. South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP) Research Symposium, Hermanus, 2018.

Polar conference, Davos, Switzerland, 2018: (1) A review of the MEOP Consortium and data repository; (2) Comparing data derived from animal-borne and Argo observations; (3) Physical forcing of ecosystems in the Prince Edward Islands region.

Using R for Oceanography, satRday R users conference, Cape Town, 2017.

Physical forcing of ecosystems in the vicinity of the Prince Edward Islands (1); and, Comparing vertical temperature and salinity gradients derived from animal-borne and Argo observations (2). SANAP Research Symposium, Pretoria, 2016.

Land-sea interactions and consequences for food webs: an application of ECOTRAN. SANAP Research Symposium, Grahamstown, 2014.

Environmental changes as a driver of weevil body size. Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) conference, Buenos Aires, 2010. Award for best presentation in session.

Range limits and abundance structure of an invasive springtail. Research symposium in applied population biology, NERC, Silwood Park, UK, 2010.

Adaptive management and transboundary conservation in southern Africa. International Association for Impact Assessment conference, Stavanger, 2006.