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The Ningaloo Project

A field-data system for tracking nesting sites of four critically endangered sea turtle species.

Year
2015
Role
Full-stack developer (web + iOS via Cordova)
Stack
Meteor.js · JavaScript · Cordova · iOS · Geolocation · Maps

The Ningaloo Project modernized data collection for four of the six most endangered sea turtle species in the world. The mobile app handled field collection (geo-location, photo capture, offline data caching), and the web dashboard handled the historical view, with sync between the two.

Working with marine biologists made me think about a question I’ve been chasing ever since: what’s the right tool for someone whose work happens outside cell coverage and whose data has to survive imperfect sync? Conservation tooling has a sharper definition of “reliable” than most consumer software will ever need.