Geospatial Project Manager
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Meg is a geospatial project manager with 18 years at the intersection of GIS and Ecology. She enjoys international collaborations in practical and innovative natural resource management solutions. She has published applied geospatial research in Ecological Applications, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Water Research, Environmental DNA, and Biological Invasions. In previous roles she led an island conservancy’s GIS Program and managed a productive, federal Ecological Modelling Lab; Meg brings her field ecologist roots and practical boots-on-the-ground field knowledge to large-data modelling, analysis, app and map development.
While at Tasman District Council (TDC), she added Civil Defence Emergency Management GIS to her toolkit and worked with surge response in three events. At Council, Meg led the GIS configuration of the TDC’s internal-facing LocalMaps Natural Hazards Viewer, co-led the development of a secure mapping space for sites of significance to Maori, updated the Resource Management Plan mapping system, built maps, dashboards and web apps for Council clients.
As a previous Council Information Science & Technology GIS analyst, Meg has first-hand experience with Council processes, mapping systems, requirements and challenges; she’s familiar with mandates which guide polices and regulations. As a spatial ecologist, she has led both site-specific and regional scale in-field and desktop-based: stream and vegetation community mapping, regional long-term, spatially-balanced natural resource survey designs, and rare-species habitat mapping projects.
Specialisations:
Spatial and statistical data analysis, data translation and process automation
Python/R programming, ArcGIS Online including StoryMaps, Collector/Survey123, Dashboards, and WebMapping applications
Cartography and data presentation
Data/geodatabase design and management
Esri ArcGIS Software including LocalMaps, Desktop GIS and most extensions
Hydrological network, watershed & catchment analysis
Optimizing regional, multi-year monitoring designs