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Georgia Pickavance

Georgia Pickavance

  • Position: Research Data Co-ordinator
  • Email: G.C.Pickavance@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 3396
  • Location: 10.22 Garstang Building

Profile

Responsible for growing the quality, quantity and woldwide impact of ForestPlots.net, a sophisticated web-based application for managing, sharing, and analysing forest demographic, biodiversity, soil and carbon data; focussing on the wold's most species-rich and carbon-dense tropical forests in Amazonia, Africa, and Southeast Asia.  

Main duties and responsibilities:

  • Share in-depth technical knowledge with colleagues worldwide to ensure that partners adopt consistent and high quality methods
  • Develop and provide one-to-one and one-to-many training workshops to ForestPlots users in English and Spanish
  • Co-ordinate and organise data management progress for international partners and projects
  • Enter, code and quality control new tropical forest plot data using ForestPlots.net and SQL
  • Compile, organise, interpet and analyse ecological and spatial data using ArcGIS, R, Access, SQL
  • Support the RAINFOR, AfriTRON, T-FORCES and MonANPeru research projects
  • Participate in fieldwork in tropical environments
  • Present ForestPlots to external organizations in the UK and worldwide
  • Manage all project websites
  • Create, update and maintain all project maps
  • Provide support to the ForestPlots.net Database Manager