Who are we?
The CBCS Coding Club comprises a group of students and early career researchers in CBCS and SENV at the University of Queensland. Coding Club is currently co-led by:
Kristine (Tin) Buenafe
I am a PhD candidate from the Philippines working on climate-smart marine conservation planning with a particular focus in the high seas. I thoroughly enjoy coding all-day [(in the dark and in my froggy jumper) with my feet up blasting Someone Like You by Adele in my headphones], working on developing reproducible tools and frameworks used to facilitate the uptake of climate-smart approaches in on-the-ground, applied conservation planning approaches. When I’m not knee-deep in coding, I am navigating the science-policy interface, particularly in relation to the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, by engaging with key players and stakeholders in the process.
Yi Fei Chung
Fei is a PhD candidate in the School of the Environment at The University of Queensland. His research focuses on policy settings that can enhance climate adaptation while also developing methods to account for the effects of climate extremes in these policies. He primarily uses programming for applications ranging from simulating species persistence across landscapes to modelling alternative policy scenarios.
Rosa Mar Dominguez-Martinez
I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland who somehow went from growing up in the Spanish mountains to becoming completely obsessed with the ocean (turns out, following the sun was a good life strategy). Now I spend my days wrestling with massive datasets in R, creating visualizations that hopefully make sense, and investigating how international seafood trade impacts marine life. My PhD focuses on the sustainability of global seafood supply chains, particularly the trade of threatened species as seafood. When I’m not coding or untangling the complexities of fish economics, I’m dreaming up novel ways to make our seafood consumption more sustainable.