Weeknotes: 27th July 2026

Last Week Habitat mapping with Tessera Last week I spent most the week down in Cambridge, primarily for a group meeting that David Coomes' group were having to review what Tessera related habitat mapping projects they have going. Given I am also starting to get my hands dirty on this topic, I was grateful that David had included me on the invite. As someone getting up to speed on this domain it's invaluable to see how other people are approaching this domain and what is of interest. As prep for the meeting I managed to do a little end-to-end run of a naive pipeline that takes a set of species observations from GBIF for a given country or subregion, looks up habitat preferences for them, and then uses Tessera to build a crude habitat map. Right now the habitat maps I'm making are clearly very broken, but I'm not to worried about that right now, my main aim was to try and work out if I had any gaps in my understanding of how to pull together the bits required to make any sort of map.…