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.
Invasive weeds can threaten native biodiversity and negatively impact on agriculture. A group of researchers at QUT and CSIRO, including an ACEMS member, designed and implemented a new framework for rapidly modelling the invasion risk of weeds using Bayesian belief networks.
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
Pearse, A. R., McGree J., Som N., & Peterson E.
(2018). SSNdesign: an R package for pseudo-Bayesian optimal and adaptive design on stream networks. UseR!2018.
