This is a project which is currently making use of HPC facilities at Newcastle University. It is active.
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The project involves the development and application of large-scale spatial ecological analyses to support marine conservation planning and biodiversity policy. The work combines species distribution modelling, future climate projections, uncertainty analyses, and conservation prioritisation approaches to assess patterns of biodiversity, persistence, and representation across marine systems.
The project will use R-based analytical workflows for large-scale spatial ecological modelling, biodiversity assessment, marine bioregionalisation, and conservation prioritisation. Processing will involve handling large raster and parquet-based datasets representing species distributions, future climate projections, environmental variables, and associated uncertainty layers.
Key software and tools are expected to include R, Arrow, DuckDB, GDAL, and spatial analysis libraries for raster and vector processing, alongside specialist conservation planning software including Zonation for spatial prioritisation analyses. Workflows will involve large-scale data preprocessing, raster manipulation, spatial overlay analyses, prioritisation modelling, and iterative scenario testing.