Glenn Moncrieff
Spatial Data Scientist
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolGlenn Moncrieff is a Spatial Data Scientist with a decade of experience applying machine learning, probabilistic modelling and cloud-native remote sensing to conservation and climate challenges. He bridges academia and practice—publishing in leading journals, co-authoring IPCC contributions, and translating research into operational monitoring tools used by policy makers and conservation managers. At The Nature Conservancy and SAEON he has built scalable pipelines and Bayesian models that convert sensor and imagery data into actionable ecosystem intelligence. Comfortable across the full data stack, he deploys distributed computing and tools like xarray and Google Earth Engine to take prototypes into production. He also mentors early-career researchers, bringing pedagogy and rigorous reproducible workflows to teams. Based in Cape Town, he combines deep ecological training (PhD in Physical Geography) with pragmatic data engineering to accelerate biodiversity monitoring.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Geography at Goethe UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Ecology, Master of Science - MS, Ecology at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (51)
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satellite-images10
sentinel10
earth-observation9
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datasets9
satellite-imagery9
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keras9
emit9
satellite9
object-detection8
ecology8
alien7
r-package7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GMoncrieff/hyper-iap
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Classification of alien invasive plants from hyperspectral data from point localities
Contributions:35 commits, 24 PRs, 87 pushes in 5 months
pythonromalienhyperspectralplants
dreamhigherct/dreamhigher
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
dream higher website
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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