Mar

EcoCommons Hacky Hour (March 2026)

Name: EcoCommons Hacky Hour (March 2026)
Start: 2026-03-27T15:00:00
End: 2026-03-27T16:00:00

Join the EcoCommons Hacky Hour to get your ecological and environmental modelling questions answered and see a live demo of how to use the EcoCommons platform for your research.

About the Event

EcoCommons Hacky Hour runs every month to help both new and experienced users of EcoCommons, an ARDC-supported collaborative commons for analysing and modelling ecological and environmental challenges.

Topics covered in previous Hacky Hour sessions include:

how to get started with EcoCommons for species distribution modelling
what’s new on EcoCommons
questions about EcoCommons modelling services
opportunities to collaborate with us on new projects.

Format

We start the Hacky Hour by addressing any questions current users of the platform have.

In the second half of the Hacky Hour, we help new users get started with EcoCommons with a live walk-through and demo.

Who’s Using EcoCommons?

Ecologists in academia, industry and NGOs
Researchers who can code and researchers who don’t code
Ecological research trainers

Your Hacky Hour Host

Abhimanyu Raj is a Data Ecologist at EcoCommons, working with the Sustainable Futures team at the QCIF Digital Research. His work focuses on supporting ecological and environmental researchers to apply computational tools, spatial data, and modelling workflows to real-world conservation challenges.

Raj works closely with researchers, government agencies, NGOs, and environmental consultants to help them use the EcoCommons platform for tasks such as species distribution modelling, environmental data integration, and reproducible ecological workflows. His role involves both technical platform support and translating complex ecological modelling concepts into practical tools that researchers can use in their own projects.

He regularly delivers training sessions, live demonstrations and workshops on ecological modelling and environmental data analysis. Raj has facilitated workshops like Getting started with EcoCommons, Ecological Modelling Impact, R for ecologist, Co-design workflow etc., helping users across academia, government, and industry learn how to use EcoCommons and other modelling tools for their research.

Through Hacky Hours and training events, Raj enjoys working directly with the community to troubleshoot modelling challenges, demonstrate new platform capabilities, and support collaborative environmental research.