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BRISBANE QLD 4001 AUSTRALIA
Biography
Erin Kenna works in the Aquatic Ecosystem Processes group, part of the Coasts and Ocean Research program within Oceans and Atmosphere. Erin is a generalist who wears different hats to support research in varying capacities across multiple projects as a data manager, data engineer, data operations, spatial scientist, software engineer and generally facilitating the organisation of and access to data. He joined CSIRO in 2016 after 12 years’ working with environmental and spatial data for Queensland State government, private sector and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Prior to joining CSIRO Erin worked on programs assessing biodiversity and developing data and assessment frameworks to integrate environmental science into products for management, spatial planning and policy purposes.
Science/Professional Areas
- Advanced GIS and spatial information skills including experience in developing data workflows.
- Spatial metadata production and management conforming to international standards and formats.
- Data collation, project development and workshop coordination to support spatial planning in coastal, marine and terrestrial environments.
- Use and development of standards, vocabularies and ontologies.
- Software development using various language and tools including Python, Docker, bash, SQL, Jupyter, Linux, R, HPC, Cloud
- Integration of environmental science and spatial analysis for management and planning purposes.
- Commercial and open source geospatial databases and tools including the ESRI suite, QGIS, PostgreSQL database, SQL Server, File geodatabase, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GeoServer, GeoNetwork and related tools.
Professional Areas
- Environmental science
- Software development
- Python
- Geographic Information Systems
- Spatial analysis
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- geoserver
- data systems
- Water Quality Field Deployment And Operations
- SQL programming
- Software Engineering
- Data Processing & Analysis
- Data Quality Control And Evaluation
- Knowledge Brokering And Capacity Building
- Unix
Current Roles
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Coastal Data Manager
Coordinating the storage and attribution of field and lab data for various projects -
ARDC Identifiers for Instruments in Australia group member
Attending meetings and contributing to discussion and development of PIDs for instruments. -
Geospatial Capabilities Community of Practice member
Attending meetings and contribute to discussions and workshops. -
ARDC Australian Data Quality Interest Group member
Attending meetings and contributing to discussions. -
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) member
Following a number of working groups to stay up-to-date on the development and release of new standards.
Academic Qualifications
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2005
Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science and Geography)
James Cook University
Publications
ORCID 0000-0003-0309-7808
We have publications by Mr Erin Kenna