Mr Alan Pearse
Research assistant
I am a research assistant for Dr Erin Peterson. I have a passion for environmental and ecological statistics, and my specialities are GIS, scientific programming, and experimental design.
Research Interests:
Adaptive survey design
Environmental monitoring
GIS
Modelling of biological and environmental systems
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Science (Earth Science), Bachelor of Mathematics (Statistical Science)
Projects
Prizes, awards and special recognition
2019
2019 Spatial Excellence Award Queensland for People and Community was awarded to Julie Vercelloni, Erin Peterson, Kerrie Mengersen, Alan Pearse, Bryce Christensen, Edgar Santos-Fernandez, Ross Brown, Grace Heron. Awarded from the FrontierSI.
2017
Australian Esri Young Scholar Award was awarded to Alan Pearse. Awarded from the Esri Australia.
I was awarded the Esri Young Scholar Award for my work on IDW-Plus, an ArcGIS toolbox that calculates spatially explicit watershed attributes for stream survey sites. As a result, I was awarded an 8-day trip to San Diego in the U.S. where I presented the toolbox at the Esri User Conference.
Publications
Invited talks, refereed proceedings and other conference outputs
(2018). SSNdesign: an R package for pseudo-Bayesian optimal and adaptive design on stream networks.
UseR!2018.
Journal Articles
(2018). Giant coral reef fishes display markedly different susceptibility to night spearfishing.
Ecology and Evolution. 8(20), 10247 - 10256. doi: 10.1002/ece3.4501
(2017). Modelling imperfect presence data obtained by citizen science.
Environmetrics. 28(5), e2446. doi: 10.1002/env.2446
(2017). IDW-Plus: An ArcGIS Toolset for Calculating Spatially Explicit Watershed Attributes for Survey Sites.
JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 53(5), 1241-1249. doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12558
Publicly available softwares
(2018). rwalkable.
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