The idea behind starting this blog is multi-fold. It’ll act as a sounding board for ideas and methodologies, for data sources and potential analysis, a well as for general observations in the climate, risk or GIS field.
The primary focus if research is most likely on topics such as Disaster and general resilience; Vulnerability; Emergency preparedness; GIS, spatial and temporal data investigation; Climate change and meteorology; Environmental and systems integrity; Humanitarian issues; and How they can all relate. Some of the tools, methodologies or concepts I'll be using for analysis include Data integrity and cleaning; Automated sanity checking; Automated processing; Statistical and Spatial Analysis; Highly replicable outputs; Contextually Focused outputs; and Comprehensive assessments.
Much of the work in these fields are from the academic perspective - comprehensive understanding is only gleaned when viewed at a coupled real-world scenario that appreciates the system inter-linkages and dependencies, so I’ll be looking at real-world applications whenever possible. I also endeavour to make any analysis or outcomes contextually framed and with practical applicability. I hope to breach the barrier to entry that is academic and/or technical specialisation in the interests of increasing engagement and removing siloed decision making and intervention on issues that affect people and sectors not generally versed with some of these principles.
Outputs and presentation need to know and speak to the applicable audience and exhibit principles of effective form and robust function delivery to empower, not intimidate. This is the aim of the work I’ll be doing here. I might not always get it right, but this is the bar for which I am aiming.