STRONG VOICES FOR THE SPATIAL INDUSTRY Meet the new team of enthusiastic and talented Geospatial professionals to engage with our members and be a voice to the spatial industry.
Jasmin Callosa-Tarr – Spatial Stream Chair
inclusion and diversity and mentoring agenda for the industry.
Anya Duxfield – Committee Member
Jasmin is a geospatial professional with more than 25 years of experience working in New Zealand, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Philippines and other South-East Asian countries. Her passion is in the field of participatory GIS and resilience. Jasmin is also a committee member of the NZ Esri Users Group and the Secretary for the NZ GIS in Conservation. Jasmin works for a global consulting firm and is based in Wellington as the APAC Technical Leader for Project GIS as well as the NZ Spatial Lead. She enjoys problem solving, talking to clients, taking care of the team and contributing and adding value to society. She is most happy when she sees that her work is being using for community improvements and welfare. Jasmin hopes to contribute to the Spatial Stream by leading the committee and driving the promotion of the interests of the spatial professionals in New Zealand. She is also very passionate in enhancing the
Anya has worked in oil and gas exploration industry in the United Kingdom; as a geologist in a research organisation in New Zealand and worked in academic research in New Brunswick, Canada. In Canada, Anya also worked for 9 years as a Support Manager and Support Product Manager for Fledermaus software suite which is a hydrographic processing and 4D visualization software. She returned home to New Zealand late in 2014. Initially, working as a geospatial administrator for local government authority and running her own consultancy. Anya’s professional passions are geology, hydrography, oceanography, and geospatial data analysis. Time in the field as a researcher and surveyor has given Anya a real appreciation for where the data comes from, how it was gathered, what hardware and
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