Jason Benedict is an Associate Research Specialist who joined the Conservation Economics Lab in January 2018. He is particularly keen on using geospatial technologies and data science to better understand the complex environmental issues that exist in the world today. Before joining the lab, Jason was part of various consultancies and NGOs working on spatial and non-spatial data collection, analysis, and visualization in Australia and Malaysia.
Research
As an associate research specialist at the Conservation Economics Lab, he leverages his expertise in geospatial data collation, cleaning, integration, and analysis to advance understanding of commodity-producing landscapes. His work strives to achieve improved transparency through the generation and analysis of important datasets, fundamental scientific advances through the use and analysis of this data, as well as effective communication of these results to the public. He is a collaborator on Trase for Indonesian oil palm and wood pulp – a public platform mapping supply chain actors to production regions and their environmental and social impacts.
Education
- BSc (Hons), Remote Sensing, University Technology Malaysia