Martin Westgate
Team Leader at Atlas of Living Australia
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolMartin Westgate is a team leader and scientific programmer based in Canberra who heads the Science & Decision Support Team at the Atlas of Living Australia, combining applied biodiversity informatics with decision-focused delivery. With 11 years’ experience bridging academic research and operational data services, he transitioned from a Research Fellow at ANU—where his PhD on how past fire regimes shape frog persistence informed landscape-scale conservation—to leading teams that turn ecological data into actionable insights. An experienced R developer, he has substantial expertise in package development, statistical analysis and data visualisation, enabling reproducible workflows and robust analytical products. Martin’s background in landscape ecology and environmental management gives him a rare fluency in both ecological theory and the software engineering needed to scale it for national biodiversity platforms. He is known for translating complex ecological questions into pragmatic, data-driven tools that support policy and management decisions.
12 years of coding experience
Australian National UniversityBachelor of Science (Honours), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Flinders University
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Github Skills (50)
ecology10
biology10
r-package10
r10
quarto10
meta-analysis10
biodiversity10
open-science9
javascript9
distributions9
shiny8
pairwise8
spatial-data8
environmental8
deduplication8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AtlasOfLivingAustralia/galah-R
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Query living atlases from R
Contributions:13 releases, 2 reviews, 313 commits in 2 years 1 month
r-packagequeryrstatsatlasesr
AtlasOfLivingAustralia/delma
Jun 2024 - Jan 2026
R package for parsing markdown to eml (and back)
Contributions:1 release, 25 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year 7 months
markdownparsingrr-package
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