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Lucieer, Vanessa

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Vanessa
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Senior Research Scientist
University of Tasmania

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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 

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

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

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

Publications

Marine Biodiversity Hub publications by: Lucieer, Vanessa

  • Post survey report for the Coral Sea Australian Marine Park 2019 (2020)
    V.L. Lucieer; R. Beaman; E. Woehler; J. Horowitz; A. Nau; P. Vandenbossche
  • A suite of field manuals for marine sampling to monitor Australian waters (2019)
    R. Przeslawski; S.D. Foster; J. Monk; N. Barrett; P.J. Bouchet; A. Carroll; T.J. Langlois; V.L. Lucieer; J. Williams; N.J. Bax
  • 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
  • Field manuals for marine sampling to monitor Australian waters (2018)
    R. Przeslawski; S.D. Foster; V.L. Lucieer; J. Monk; P.J. Bouchet; T.J. Langlois; A. Carroll; J. Williams; N. Barrett; F. Althaus; R.J. Beaman; P. Berents; T. Bridge; M.R. Clark; J. Colquhoun; L.M. Currey Randall; G.J. Edgar; M. Fellows; C. Frid; A. Friedman; D.C. Gledhill; J.S. Goetze; D. Harasti; K.R. Hayes; N.A. Hill; G.R. Hosack; C. Huveneers; D. Ierodiaconou; T. Ingleton; A. Jordan; G.A. Kendrick; D.M. Kennedy; E. Lawrence; T.B. Letessier; M. Linklater; M. Lowry; H.A. Malcolm; J.J. Meeuwig; S.L. Nichol; T. O'Hara; K. Picard; A. Post; M.J. Rees; J. Santana-Garcon; M. Scott; J.P.W. Siwabessy; J. Smith; M. Stowar; M. Taylor; C. Thompson; M. Tran; A. Tyndall; V. Laurent; S. Whitmarsh
  • Comparative assessment of seafloor sampling platforms (2018)
    R. Przeslawski; S.D. Foster; J. Monk; T.J. Langlois; V.L. Lucieer; R.D. Stuart-Smith
  • An evaluation of the error and uncertainty in epibenthos cover estimates from AUV images collected with an efficient, spatially-balanced design (2018)
    J. Monk; N. Barrett; D. Peel; E. Lawrence; N.A. Hill; V.L. Lucieer; K. Hayes
  • ARMADA: A marine data aggregator and visualisation tool to support management of Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Area (2017)
    D. Watts; N. Barrett; E. Flukes; V.L. Lucieer; K.R. Hayes
  • 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
  • Biological and habitat feature descriptions for the continental shelves of Australia’s temperate-water marine parks - including collation of existing mapping in all AMPs (2017)
    J. Monk; J. Williams; N. Barrett; A. Jordan; V.L. Lucieer; F. Althaus; S.L. Nichol
  • Collation of existing shelf reef mapping data and gap identification - Phase 1 Final Report Shelf reef key ecological features (2016)
    V.L. Lucieer; R. Porter-Smith; S.L. Nichol; J. Monk; N. Barrett
  • Outcropping reef ledges drive patterns of epibenthic assemblage diversity on cross-shelf habitats (2016)
    J. Monk; N. Barrett; N.A. Hill; V.L. Lucieer; S.L. Nichol; J.P.W. Siwabessy; S.B. Williams
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mapping habitats and developing baselines in offshore marine reserves with little prior knowledge: a critical evaluation of a new approach (2015)
    E. Lawrence; K.R. Hayes; V.L. Lucieer; S.L. Nichol; J.M. Dambacher; N.A. Hill; N. Barrett; J.T. Kool; J.P.W. Siwabessy
  • Spatial scale and geographic context in benthic habitat mapping: review and future directions (2015)
    V. Lecours; R. Devillers; D.C. Schneider; V.L. Lucieer; C.J. Brown; E.N. Edinger
  • Variation and uncertainty in bathymetric slope calculations using geographical information systems (2014)
    M.F.J. Dolan; V.L. Lucieer
  • Filling the gaps: Predicting the distribution of temperate reef biota using high resolution biological and acoustic data (2014)
    N.A. Hill; V.L. Lucieer; N. Barrett; T.J. Anderson; S.B. Williams
  • Choosing between strategies for designing surveys: autonomous underwater vehicles (2014)
    S.D. Foster; G.R. Hosack; N.A. Hill; N. Barrett; V.L. Lucieer
  • Understanding community-habitat associations of temperate reef fishes using fine-resolution bathymetric measures of physical structure (2014)
    M.J. Cameron; V.L. Lucieer; N. Barrett; C.R. Johnson; G.J. Edgar
  • The new wave of bathymetry data - uses and limitations for marine benthic habitat mapping and geomorphology (2013)
    M. Dolan; V.L. Lucieer
  • Optimising GEOBIA for seafloor classification. Multibeam Backscatter–State of the Technology, Tools & Techniques Workshop (2013)
    V.L. Lucieer
  • 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
  • The new wave of bathymetry data- uses and limitations for marine benthic habitat mapping and geomorphology (2013)
    M. Dolan; V.L. Lucieer
  • Exploring the role spatial scale plays in marine habitat mapping using multiscale geomorphometric analyses (2013)
    V. Lecours; R. Devillers; E. Edinger; C.J. Brown; V.L. Lucieer
  • Do marine substrates ‘look’ and ‘sound’ the same? Supervised classification of multibeam acoustic data using autonomous underwater vehicle images (2013)
    V.L. Lucieer; N.A. Hill; N. Barrett; S.L. Nichol
  • Catchment-based classification of Australia's continental slope canyons (2012)
    R. Porter-Smith; V.D. Lyne; R.J. Kloser; V.L. Lucieer
  • On the use of abiotic surrogates to describe marine benthic biodiversity (2010)
    M. McArthur; B.P. Brooke; R. Przeslawski; D.A. Ryan; V.L. Lucieer; S.L. Nichol; A.W. McCallum; C. Mellin; I.D. Cresswell; L. Radke
  • Characterisation of shallow inshore coastal reefs on the Tasman Peninsula, South Eastern Tasmania, Australia. In: GeoHAB Atlas of Seafloor Geomorphic Features and Benthic Habitats (2010)
    V.L. Lucieer; N. Barrett; N.A. Hill; S.L. Nichol
  • Fuzzy clustering for seafloor classification (2009)
    V.L. Lucieer; A. Lucieer
  • Image segmentation of seabed texture homogeneity from multibeam backscatter data. (2009)
    V.L. Lucieer
  • Mapping seabed texture homogeneity using multibeam backscatter data: Can we use it as a surrogate for biodiversity assessment? (2009)
    V.L. Lucieer; G. Lamarche
  • A review of abiotic surrogates for marine benthic biodiversity. (2009)
    M. McArthur; B.P. Brooke; R. Przeslawski; D.A. Ryan; V.L. Lucieer; S.L. Nichol; A.W. McCallum; C. Mellin
  • Linking morphometric characterisation of rocky reef with fine scale lobster movement. (2008)
    V.L. Lucieer; H. Pederson
  • Inshore habitat mapping in the South-East of Tasmania (2008)
    N. Barrett; V.L. Lucieer
  • Assessing the robustness of a morphometric classification model to help predict Australia’s benthic marine habitat diversity (2008)
    V.L. Lucieer; H. Pederson; N. Barrett; C.D. Buxton
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