James Lawson
Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lawson is a plant ecologist, conservation planner and data scientist with 11 years’ experience translating ecological research into decision-support software for threatened species management. Based in Sydney, he builds interactive web tools that combine climate projections, land tenure, patch metrics and niche representation to rank optimal site networks for conservation under future climates. His background spans large-scale data assembly and analysis—from standardising 300,000+ trait records for AUSTRAITS to quantitative leaf proteomics across 108 species—bringing strong reproducible R coding and statistical modelling skills to applied conservation problems. He collaborates closely with government managers to ensure tools are useable in real-world planning, and continues to drive academic outputs alongside consultancy work for New South Wales’ flagship threatened species program. An unusual blend of protein-chemistry training and field-based plant ecology gives him a rare cross-scale perspective on how molecular to landscape processes inform climate-adaptive conservation.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), plant ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), plant ecology at Macquarie UniversityPostgraduate Diploma, Environmental Science, Postgraduate Diploma, Environmental Science at University of Auckland
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (14)
ecology10
database9
knitr8
rmarkdown8
r8
stable7
data-wrangling7
data-visualisation6
r-package5
data-visualization5
stream2
carbon-emissions2
spss1
apache-flink1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jamesrlawson/leaf_proteomics
Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:124 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
jamesrlawson/waterloggingCO2
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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