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.
11 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 (54)
r-package10
r10
synthesis10
quarto9
ecology9
meta-analysis9
data-import9
data-vizualisation8
biodiversity8
pairwise8
spatial-data8
javascript8
biology8
environmental8
deduplication7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mjwestgate/revtools
May 2016 - Jan 2021
Tools to support research synthesis in R
Contributions:6 releases, 330 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 8 months
synthesisresearch-support
ESHackathon/eshackathon.github.io
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
Website for ESH
Contributions:245 commits, 1 PR, 220 pushes in 2 years 8 months
javascript
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