Capacity building for China's Marine NGOs: Blue Pioneer Program
Abstract
As the coordinator of the 2018 Blue Pionner Program, Zhao introduced their work and Blue Pioneer Program to the State Secretary of the Minister of Climate and Environment of Norway in a close-door meeting.
Zhao Xiang (赵 翔)
Birder/Conservation Scientist/Software developer
I’m a birder, conservation scientist, and software developer working at the intersection of ecology and code. As a Software Developer and R Specialist at QCIF, I build and maintain the EcoCommons Platform, helping researchers run species distribution models and spatial analyses at scale. I earned my MPhil at QUT, where I applied spatial and statistical modelling to biodiversity monitoring in Antarctica. Along the way I’ve tutored GIS and environmental planning, led a panda conservation project in China, and been recognised with the BirdLife International Young Conservation Leaders Award. My work centres on turning ecological questions into reproducible, well-designed tools.