Nicholas Murray
Professor at ESA
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolNicholas Murray is an Australia-based spatial ecologist and Professor at James Cook University with a decade of experience translating remote sensing and spatial analysis into actionable, large-scale conservation science. He leads the JCU Global Ecology Lab and serves as Science Lead for the GEO Global Ecosystem Atlas, advising major international efforts including ESA projects on ecosystem extent dynamics and wetland inventories. His multidisciplinary work—rooted in a PhD on global shorebird declines—combines Python, GIS, Matlab and R to map and monitor previously unmapped ecosystems across continental to global scales. Known for bridging academic research and operational Earth-observation platforms, he focuses on delivering the science that directly informs ecosystem risk assessment and policy. An often-overlooked strength is his breadth across field biology and policy-facing advisory roles, giving him rare practical insight from ground surveys to global satellite products.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy Conservation Science, Doctor of Philosophy Conservation Science at The University of QueenslandBachelor of Science (Honours) Ecology, Bachelor of Science (Honours) Ecology at Griffith UniversityBachelor of Science Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science Environmental Science at Flinders University
Github Skills (3)
biodiversity8
climate-change7
sustainability7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nick-murray/coastTrain
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 1 push in 10 months
red-list-ecosystem/gee-redlist
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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