Meet the passionate team of scientists, researchers, data analysts, and software developers behind Seamap Australia.
Emma has been part of the Seamap Australia team since 2016, initially leading the technical work to ingest, synthesise and manage spatial data for Seamap’s national seafloor habitat database. She now oversees the ongoing curation of portal content and produces many of the spatial synthesis products and visualisations used in Seamap Australia.
Emma works closely with the developers at Condense on the design of Seamap Australia’s mapping interface, data tools and analytics features. Seamap is her favourite project, and she is always happy to hear from people using, contributing to, or exploring the platform!
Emma Flukes is a marine ecologist and Data Solutions Architect at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. Her early research focused on temperate kelp ecosystems before moving into research data infrastructure through the IMAS Major Open Data Collection project in 2014.
For more than a decade, Emma has managed data for the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program Marine Biodiversity Hub and Marine and Coastal Hub. Alongside this, her work as a Data Solutions Architect focuses on translating complex research data into robust, reusable products, systems and workflows. Emma’s passion is in data enablement: building the practical capability needed to use research data confidently in planning, assessment and decision-making.