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Senior Research Scientist
University of Tasmania
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.

<p>Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies [IMAS]&nbsp; IMAS Waterfront Building, 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001</p>

Email 
vanessa.lucieer@utas.edu.au
Phone 
+61 3 62 266931

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About

Dr Lucieer is applying her expertise in marine habitat mapping to help develop monitoring techniques which can be used to map, characterise, understand and manage our oceans’ biodiversity.

Current activities

Vanessa is a senior research scientist in Theme 1- National monitoring, evaluation and reporting. This theme will contribute towards two goals: first, for a sustained national environmental monitoring strategy designed to evaluate marine ecosystem health, and second, for a sustained monitoring strategy to help manage the Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network (focussing on the Southeast Marine Region).

Background

Vanessa Lucieer has experience in developing marine spatial analysis techniques for benthic habitat classification for marine resource management. She has experience in both shipboard acoustic data acquisition and processing. Synthesising these data into spatial layers to be utilised in modelling and mapping of marine habitats is the focus of her current research.

Vanessa is interested in improving information systems for managers of Australia's marine estate and recently was involved in the development of Seamap Australia. 

Academic qualifications

UTAS PhD Marine Surveying [2007] ‘Spatial uncertainty estimation techniques for shallow coastal seabed mapping’.

UTAS Bachelor of Science [1999] Double Major in Remote Sensing and GIS with First Class Honours.

Publications

Dr Lucieer has published research papers, reports, book chapters and invited conference papers on topics such as:

  • marine habitat mapping
  • marine spatial analysis
  • acoustic image processing
  • marine biodiversity and conservation

Membership of key committees

Deputy Node Leader (South East Region)  for the Integrated Marine Observing System

Editor for Marine Geoscience Special Issue: Marine Geomorphometry 

Projects
Project D1 – National data collation, synthesis and visualisation to support sustainable use, management and monitoring of marine assets
Project D3 - Implementing monitoring of AMPs and the status of marine biodiversity assets on the continental shelf
Project D2 - Standard Operating Procedures for survey design, condition assessment and trend detection