Hi!

I’m a pedologist working for Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research (MWLR) in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. My primary focuses are expanding S-Map coverage, supporting soil research activities and training the next generation of MWLR pedologists. I have strong interests in soil description, classification standards, and informatics. I also program (mostly in R) with a focus on geospatial technologies.

I keep a technical blog on this site.

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Selected projects

Publications

• Quarto-fied New Zealand Soil Classification
• Quarto-fied World Reference Base for Soil Resources
• Shiny web app for splining soil data (source code)

R Packages

• h3jsr: Access Uber’s h3-js library via R and V8
• mpspline2: A mass-preserving spline function for soils data
• em38: work with Geonics EM38 data files in R