Resources
Packages
Packages I’ve built and contributed to.
corella
Functions to standardise data according to Darwin Core
delma
Functions to convert metadata statements from R Markdown or Quarto Markdown to Ecological Metadata Language
feathers
Colour palettes inspired by the plumage of Australian birds. For species exhibiting sexual dimorphism, I have used female colours
galah
An interface for accessing biodiversity data hosted by GBIF and other living atlases
galaxias
An interface that simplifies the process of converting biodiversity data into Darwin Core Archives for publishing
koel
Functions that make it easier to retrieve and summarise biodiversity data within spatial and temporal constraints, and email these data as a summary table
Talks
Source code and slide decks from recent talks, built using Quarto. Pressing the S key brings up speaker notes if you’re after the full experience.
Conserving the Unseen: Data Gaps in the Atlas of Living Australia
Ecological Society of Australia 2025
Supporting scientists and decision-makers to use biodiversity data
International Congress for Conservation Biology 2025
Continental-scale biodiversity data assessment using the Atlas of Living Australia
Victorian Biodiversity Conference 2023
EcoAssets: streamlining access to data from Australian environmental research infrastructures
Ecological Society of Australia 2023
Tutorials
Posts covering topics on data cleaning, analysis, and visualisation, with a focus on biodiversity data.
An introduction to species distribution modelling using tidysdm & tidymodels
Combining multiple species distributions on one map with hexagons and points
Alternatives to box plots: Using beeswarm and raincloud plots to summarise ecological data
Multiple colour scales in choropleth maps with ggnewscale