Biography
I’m a marine scientist and conservationist, passionate about using technology to connect people with the oceans we depend on. My work blends science, innovation, and community engagement to create meaningful change. Through the SBS Cooperative and PMRF, I’m developing ways for students, researchers, and coastal communities to explore and protect our oceans with remote sensing tools and underwater technologies making them more accessible. I believe in the power of collaboration, education, and open technologies to build a more sustainable and just future for our planet.
PMRF: Probabilistic Multimodal Reef Fusion
PMRF (Probabilistic Multimodal Reef Fusion) is a predictive modelling framework designed to support coral reef conservation and restoration under environmental change. It integrates diverse data sources, including seabed mapping, reef imagery, oceanographic conditions, and emerging biological indicators, into a single probabilistic system that forecasts habitat suitability, ecosystem resilience, and restoration potential.
Rather than only mapping where reefs exist today, PMRF helps identify where they are most likely to persist, recover, or benefit from intervention in the future. By combining multimodal data with uncertainty-aware modelling, the framework provides decision-support tools for scientists, conservation practitioners, and exploration programs working to protect marine ecosystems in a changing climate.
About PMRF
To sense the sea is to listen, not just with instruments, but with stories, memory, and care.
PMRF is an evolving archive of the ocean, shaped by communities, students, scientists, and stewards who live alongside it. Founded by researchers from James Cook University, the project brings together underwater sensing, creative media, and federated data systems to make marine knowledge more just, more poetic, and more shared.
Born from fieldwork in coral reefs, mangrove forests, and coastal villages, we believe that the tools we use to study the ocean must also reflect the values of those who depend on it. That means working collaboratively, locally, and in many voices, building open-source technologies, listening to traditional knowledge, and documenting not just change, but presence.
At its heart, PMRF is about connection between land and sea, between data and story, and between people who might otherwise never meet. It’s a platform, a philosophy, and an invitation to imagine a more caring, creative, and decentralized future for ocean sensing.
