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We are all PALS

Our work has taken us around the globe, both physically and virtually. As a team, we have collaborated and learned from each other for many years across projects large and small alongside partners from a variety of communities and organizations.

PALS.eco began in 2025 as a new platform for continuing and expanding our longstanding collaboration - through PALS we aim to focus on our specific areas of expertise while expanding the reach and impact of our tools and methods to a broader range of geographies (and the PALS within each location).

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Our Team

  • Cofounder & Master Mapper

    Sam is a UK-based Geographer with 15+ years’ cross-sector experience. He has delivered geospatial solutions for coastal ecosystem management and invasive species eradication, with a focus on local communities. Sam also volunteers and consults for humanitarian charity MapAction, supporting organisations with disaster preparedness and response. He recently led a deployment to Belize responding to unprecedented wildfires.

    Publications: Google Scholar

    General Profile: LinkedIn

  • Cofounder & Traveling Coder

    Working in tech since 2007, Court is a developer with 18 years of experience working for companies like ESRI, SurveyMonkey, MyRadar & Blue Ventures. He may spend a lot of time in Vim, but he is no stranger to fieldwork and goes to the field every chance he gets.

    General Profile: LinkedIn

  • Advisor & Cofounder

    For 20+ years, Trevor has been combining geospatial and field data to produce maps, understand change, make predictions, and assist decision makers.  Trevor’s work as a scientist, educator, program developer, and team builder involves communities, conservation non-profits, Universities, governments, and private sector organizations, and includes 20 countries across five continents.  

    Publications:Google Scholar

    UBC Faculty of Forestry:Faculty Profile

    General Profile:LinkedIn