I am a geospatial developer focusing on web mapping/GIS applications, data integration, APIs, cloud infrastructure and user experience.

I am the technical lead for geospatial information services and infrastructure within BAS.

This includes:

• Ensuring BAS can deliver its geospatial information through a suitable Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
• Providing APIs to integrate data from multiple sources through appropriate technologies and standards
• Providing web-based mapping, analysis and GIS tools for use by our operations staff, science staff and the general public
• Providing support and advice to others on how geospatial data can be delivered with online services
• Developing and implementing platforms our services run on, including automatic provisioning of cloud/on-premise infrastructure, continuous integration and other tools
• Working with other teams, such as data managers, system administrators and various providers and contractors to deliver complex projects
• Promoting user-need driven development and focusing on user experience to make tasks more intuitive, and information more accessible
• Engaging with the wider geospatial community, to improve our services and contribute back ideas as open source software

I joined BAS in 2013, and until 2019 worked as a software developer with the UK Polar Data Centre. I now work in the Mapping and Geospatial Information Centre (MAGIC).

I have a degree in Geography focusing on GIS, geographies of health and perception of crime. I also worked on a JISC funded research project, Bomb Sight.

Outside of technology, I am interested in hiking, diving, board games, traditional/digital cartography and doing cool things with lights.

Since 2020 I have been a software development volunteer with Map Action, a GIS and Information Management charity providing support to humanitarian agencies and partners. Previously I have helped organise, and participated in, local Missing Maps events.

1. Embedded Maps Service

   Embeddable maps for visualising simple features on a suitable basemap.

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2. Assets Tracking Service

   The Assets Tracking Service shows where British Antarctic Survey ships, aircraft and vehicles are at any given time.

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3. Rothera Wharf

   Over the next decade Rothera Research Station will be upgraded to ensure its facilities keep the UK at the forefront of climate, biodiversity and ocean research.

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4. Antarctic Digital Database

   The SCAR ADD is a seamless compilation of topographic data for Antarctica to 60°S. It is the place to go to get data such as Antarctic coastline or contours for working in desktop GIS.

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1. Antarctic sea ice loss explained in new study

   Scientists have discovered that summer sea ice in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica has decreased by one million square kilometres – an area twice the size of Spain – […]

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2. Updated Mapping Datasets for Antarctica

   A newly updated Antarctic Digital Database is released today (12 May 2020). Aimed at the science and logistics communities, the maps include updates to the ice shelf front around Thwaites […]

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