Rose is a remote sensing scientist at Earth Sciences New Zealand (formally NIWA) with a background in software engineering. Her work primarily focuses on combining and processing geospatial data (LiDAR point clouds through satellite imagery). Her time is split between remote sensing applications in environmental hazards and marine ecology and biosecurity. Her research interests centre on surface generation and attribute mapping from a wide array of spatial and geospatial datasets.

She is the primary maintainer of the OSS Python package GeoFabrics, which is focused on combining elevation data, water features and flood infrastructure to produce hydro DEMs and hydraulic roughness maps for use in river flood modelling.