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Zhi
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About

Current activities

 I am working for NESP D1 and D3 projects.

Background

 Spatial modelling using a range of GIS and Remote Sensing technologies

Academic qualifications

 PhD (ANU)

Membership of key national committees

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

Australian Marine Science Association

Stories

17 November 2020

Abundant corals and fishes emerge from the ancient contours of Arafura Marine Park
  • Arafura Marine Park
  • BRUVS
  • seafloor mapping
  • survey

9 September 2020

Marine monitoring shows no-take reserve helps resist urchin invasion
  • AUV
  • rocky reefs
  • no-take areas
  • ecological monitoring

7 February 2020

Request a free poster

22 January 2020

Setting out to survey our southern-most coral reefs
  • Lord Howe Marine Park
  • survey
  • BRUVS
  • Bluefin
  • AUV
  • Elizabeth Reef
  • Middleton Reef

10 September 2019

Ningaloo survey finds deep treasures worth protecting
  • Ningaloo Marine Park
  • National Park Zone
  • survey
  • BRUVS
  • Marine Park management

5 June 2019

Our standards are spreading: from sampling the eels and sponges of St Lucia, to sorting Sydney's cryptic crabs

29 April 2019

Making the first national seafloor habitat map

1 April 2019

Mapping the life mesophotic

19 December 2018

New deep-sea delights discovered in marine parks south of Tasmania
  • Investigator
  • Huon marine park
  • Tasman Fracture Marine Park
  • deep-sea corals
  • seamounts
  • Solenosmilia

23 November 2018

Scientists and marine park managers go deep to study unique life on marine mountains

8 August 2018

Bass Strait's Boags Marine Park reveals its vast and remarkable dunes
  • Boags Marine Park
  • mobile dune fields
  • tidal currents
  • TV Bluefin

25 June 2018

Mapping past and present in Beagle Marine Park

10 May 2018

BRUVS and fishes (and spatially-balanced sampling): a recipe for monitoring at Flinders Marine Park
  • Flinders Marine Park
  • spatially balanced survey design
  • BRUVS
  • monitoring demersal fish

7 May 2018

Rating the habitat in Australia’s 753 submarine canyons
  • submarine super canyons
  • submarine canyons
  • key ecological features
  • KEFs
  • canyon habitats

30 April 2018

Marine sampling field manuals to support biodiversity monitoring at a national scale

13 September 2017

Port Jackson sharks assemble among the sponge gardens of Beagle Commonwealth Marine Reserve
  • Beagle Marine Park
  • Port Jackson sharks
  • rocky reefs
  • surveys
  • sponge gardens
  • RV Bluefin

9 March 2017

Divers donate 30,000 hours to building a national view of shallow reef biodiversity

18 October 2016

RV Bluefin gives young scientists a first taste of research at sea
  • Freycinet Marine Park
  • BRUVS
  • Bluefin
  • Sirius

23 August 2016

'Extreme' citizen scientists film black corals at spectacular unexplored reef off Tasmania’s east coast
  • Freycinet Marine Park
  • Joe's Reef
  • black corals
  • survey

27 July 2016

Oceans of the Unknown art-science exhibition - Hobart, August 2016

12 May 2016

Scientists create first map of global seafloor diversity

5 May 2016

Hub data manager Emma Flukes is an inspirational advocate for open data

11 March 2015

AUV provides imagery to assess southern marine reserve

17 October 2014

Remarkable reefs

26 September 2014

From brittle stars grows a ‘tree of life’: how genes trace life on Earth

26 August 2014

Brittle stars light up scientists' understanding of marine life evolution

26 February 2013

So many fish, one great map

4 April 2012

Hub researchers to convene 4 AMSA symposia

Projects

Project D1 – National data collation, synthesis and visualisation to support sustainable use, management and monitoring of marine assets
Project D2 - Standard operating procedures for survey design, condition assessment and trend detection
Project D3 - Implementing monitoring of AMPs and the status of marine biodiversity assets on the continental shelf
Project 2: National Maps of Biodiversity and Connectivity
Improvement of existing and development of new surrogacy relationships between physical variables and biodiversity patterns
Surrogacy review, data quality assessment and data compilation

Publications

Marine Biodiversity Hub publications by: Huang, Zhi

  • An eco-narrative of the Gascoyne Marine Park, North-west marine region (2021)
    A. Post; R. Przeslawski; Z. Huang; D. Smith; L. Kirkendale; N. Wilson
  • Money Shoal, Arafura Marine Park: An eco-narrative (2021)
    M.L. Puotinen; R. Galaiduk; S.L. Nichol; M. Stowar; J. Colquhoun; M. Case; C. Speed; Z. Huang; K.J. Miller
  • Arafura Marine Park Eco-narrative (2021)
    R. Galaiduk; S.L. Nichol; M. Stowar; J. Colquhoun; M. Case; M.L. Puotinen; C.W. Speed; Z. Huang; K.J. Miller
  • Earth Observation for monitoring of Australian Marine Parks and other off-shore Marine Protected Areas (2020)
    S. Sagar; I. Falkner; A. Dekker; Z. Huang; D. Blondeau-Patissier; C. Phillips; R. Przeslawski
  • Gascoyne Marine Park Post-survey report, RV Falkor, FK200308 (2020)
    A. Post; R. Przeslawski; Z. Huang; D. Smith; L. Kirkendale; N. Wilson
  • An eco-narrative Kimberley Marine Park - North west marine region (2019)
    M.L. Puotinen; R. Galaiduk; K.J. Miller; R. Nanson; Z. Huang; S.L. Nichol
  • An eco-narrative of Huon Marine Park - South-east marine region (2019)
    V.L. Lucieer; J. Monk; Z. Huang; S.L. Nichol; K.J. Miller; A. Williams
  • An eco-narrative of Joseph Bonaparte Gulf Marine Park – North marine region (2019)
    R. Galaiduk; Z. Huang; K.J. Miller; R. Nanson; R. Przeslawski; S.L. Nichol
  • Origin of high density seabed pockmark fields and their use in inferring bottom currents (2018)
    K. Picard; L. Radke; D. Williams; W. Nicholas; P. Siwabessy; F. Howard; J. Gafeira; R. Przeslawski; Z. Huang; S.L. Nichol
  • Comparative assessment of pelagic sampling methods used in marine monitoring (2018)
    P.J. Bouchet; C. Phillips; Z. Huang; J.J. Meeuwig; S.D. Foster; R. Przeslawski
  • An eco-narrative of Perth Canyon Marine Park - South-west marine region (2018)
    R. Nanson; Z. Huang; P.J. Bouchet; S.L. Nichol; K.J. Miller
  • An eco-narrative of Gifford Marine Park - Temperate East marine region (2018)
    R. Nanson; A. Carroll; Z. Huang; S.L. Nichol; K.J. Miller
  • An eco-narrative of Geographe Marine Park - South-west marine region (2018)
    R. Galaiduk; R. Nanson; Z. Huang; S.L. Nichol; K.J. Miller
  • Baseline biogeochemical data from Australia’s continental margin links seabed sediments to water column characteristics (2017)
    L. Radke; T. Nicholas; P.A. Thompson; J. Li; E. Raes; M. Carey; I. Atkinson; Z. Huang; J. Trafford; S.L. Nichol
  • Palaeoshorelines on the Australian continental shelf: morphology, sea-level relationship and applications to environmental management and archaeology (2017)
    B.P. Brooke; S.L. Nichol; Z. Huang; R.J. Beaman
  • Environmental predictors of foraging and transit behaviour in flatback turtles (Natator depressus) (2017)
    M. Thums; D. Waayers; Z. Huang; C. Pattiaratchi; J. Bernus; M. Meekan
  • Theme D Project showcase and future research prioritisation workshop report (2017)
    N. Barrett; B.P. Brooke; Z. Huang; K.J. Miller; S.L. Nichol; S.D. Foster; R. Przeslawski; V.L. Lucieer; T. O'Hara
  • Continental-scale hotspots of pelagic fish abundance inferred from commercial catch records (2017)
    P.J. Bouchet; J.J. Meeuwig; Z. Huang; T.B. Letessier; S.L. Nichol; M.Julian Caley; R.A. Watson
  • Application of random forest, generalised linear model and their hybrid methods with geostatistical techniques to count data: Predicting sponge species richness (2017)
    J. Li; B. Alvarez; J.P.W. Siwabessy; M. Tran; Z. Huang; R. Przeslawski; L. Radke; F. Howard; S.L. Nichol
  • Ecosystem understanding to support sustainable use, management and monitoring of marine assets in the north and north-west regions: final report 2016 (2017)
    K.J. Miller; M.L. Puotinen; R. Przeslawski; Z. Huang; P.J. Bouchet; B. Radford; J. Li; J.T. Kool; K. Picard; M. Thums; J.J. Meeuwig; S.L. Nichol
  • A conceptual surrogacy framework to evaluate the habitat potential of submarine canyons (2017)
    Z. Huang; T.A. Schlacher; S.L. Nichol; A. Williams; F. Althaus; R. Kloser
  • Geomorphological classification of reefs: draft framework for an Australian standard (2016)
    S.L. Nichol; Z. Huang; F. Howard; R. Porter-Smith; V.L. Lucieer; N. Barrett
  • Identification and collation of Australia’s shelf mapping datasets and development of a national geomorphological classification scheme for reef systems - Phase 1 Workshop Report (2016)
    V.L. Lucieer; Z. Huang; R. Porter-Smith; S.L. Nichol; N. Barrett; K.R. Hayes
  • Analysing uncertainty in multibeam bathymetry data and the impact on derived seafloor attributes (2016)
    V.L. Lucieer; Z. Huang; J.P.W. Siwabessy
  • Analysis of approaches for monitoring biodiversity in Commonwealth waters: Field work report (2016)
    F. Althaus; N. Barrett; J.M. Dambacher; P. Davies; R. Ferrari; J.H. Ford; K.R. Hayes; N.A. Hill; G.R. Hosack; R. Hovey; Z. Huang; J. Hulls; T. Ingleton; A. Jordan; G.A. Kendrick; J.T. Kool; E. Lawrence; R. Leeming; V.L. Lucieer; H.A. Malcolm; L. Meyer; J. Monk; S.L. Nichol; D. Peel; N.R. Perkins; J.P.W. Siwabessy; M. Sherlock; T. Martin; M. Tran; A. Walsh; A. Williams
  • Characterising sediments of a tropical sediment-starved shelf using cluster analysis of physical and geochemical variables (2015)
    L. Radke; J. Li; G. Douglas; R. Przeslawski; S.L. Nichol; J.P.W. Siwabessy; Z. Huang; J. Trafford; T. Watson; T. Whiteway
  • Submarine Canyons: their role in shaping biodiversity patterns on the Australian margin - Fact sheet (2015)
    S.L. Nichol; J.T. Kool; Z. Huang
  • Remotely Sensed Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of the Leeuwin Current using Time-series MODIS Data (2015)
    Z. Huang; M. Feng
  • Simulated larval connectivity among Australia’s South-west submarine canyons (2015)
    J.T. Kool; Z. Huang; S.L. Nichol
  • Developing a toolbox of predictive models for the monitoring and management of KEFs and CMRs in the North and North-west regions - Scientific Workshop Report (2015)
    R. Przeslawski; K.J. Miller; S.L. Nichol; P.J. Bouchet; Z. Huang; J.T. Kool; B. Radford; M. Thums
  • Submarine Canyon Mapping (2014)
    Z. Huang; J.T. Kool; S.L. Nichol
  • Predictive Mapping of Seabed Substrata Using High-Resolution Multibeam Data (2014)
    Z. Huang; J.P.W. Siwabessy; S.L. Nichol; B.P. Brooke
  • Classification of submarine canyons of the Australian continental margin (2014)
    Z. Huang; S.L. Nichol; P.T. Harris; M.Julian Caley
  • Predictive mapping of soft bottom benthic biodiversity using a surrogacy approach (2014)
    Z. Huang; M. McArthur; R. Przeslawski; J.P.W. Siwabessy; S.L. Nichol; B.P. Brooke
  • Predictive mapping of seabed cover types using angular response curves of multibeam backscatter data: Testing different feature analysis approaches (2013)
    Z. Huang; J.P.W. Siwabessy; S.L. Nichol; T.J. Anderson; B.P. Brooke
  • How robust are your prediction derivatives? Error propagation modelling for seafloor terrain analysis of multibeam bathymetric data using dynamic simulation tools (2013)
    V.L. Lucieer; Z. Huang; J.P.W. Siwabessy; K. Hayes
  • Australian Marine Environmental Data: Descriptions and Metadata (2013)
    Z. Huang; R. Przeslawski; J.T. Kool; J. Li; P.J. Bouchet; S.L. Nichol
  • Developing physical surrogates for benthic biodiversity using co-located samples and regression tree models: a conceptual synthesis for a sandy temperate embayment (2012)
    Z. Huang; M. McArthur; L. Radke; T.J. Anderson; S.L. Nichol; J.P.W. Siwabessy; B.P. Brooke
  • Predictive modelling of seabed sediment parameters using multibeam acoustic data: a case study on the Carnarvon Shelf, Western Australia. In Lees, B.G. & Laffan, S.W (eds), (2012)
    Z. Huang; S.L. Nichol; J.P.W. Siwabessy; J. Daniell; B.P. Brooke
  • Including biogeochemical factors and a temporal component in benthic habitat maps: influences on infaunal diversity in a temperate embayment (2011)
    L. Radke; Z. Huang; R. Przeslawski; I.T. Webster; M. McArthur; T.J. Anderson; J.P.W. Siwabessy; B.P. Brooke
  • A new approach to mapping marine benthic habitats using physical environmental data (2011)
    Z. Huang; B.P. Brooke; P.T. Harris
  • Performance of predictive models in marine benthic environments based on predictions of sponge distribution on the Australian continental shelf (2011)
    Z. Huang; B.P. Brooke; J. Li
  • Australian marine physical environmental data – descriptions and metadata (2010)
    Z. Huang; B.P. Brooke; N. Whitta; A. Potter; M. Fuller; J. Dunn; C.Roland Pitcher
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