Friday 20 November 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
David Attenborough Building Manatee Room
Pembroke Street Cambridge CB2 3QZSpatial data is pervasive in conservation research, and the insights it provides are crucial to our understanding of global threats to biodiversity.
About
Spatial data is pervasive in conservation research, and the insights it provides are crucial to our understanding of global threats to biodiversity. But, since we come from many different academic backgrounds, like me you might find yourself needing to teach yourself quite a lot in the ways of spatial data science through the course of your research. In this session, I will overview what I have learned over the first two years of my PhD; in particular, I will outline how and when I use each of the most popular GIS tools (QGIS, R, Python, and Google Earth Engine) with some code examples to get you started in the right direction. There will also be plenty of time for Q&A, so please bring your spatial data science questions and challenges to discuss as a group!
In person in the Manatee Room, DAB, and on Teams.
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3493776425100381?p=nwWJcNydOggxzFxfG1
Meeting ID: 349 377 642 510 038 1
Passcode: 2sC7Yu7t
Photo by Mohit Kumar on Unsplash
Contact
Marina Melanidis