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Fisheries Ecology Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
110 Shaffer Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831) 420-3900
Fax: (831) 420-3980

Lisa Wedding

Postdoctoral Scholar - Marine Spatial Ecologist

Fisheries Ecology Division

Contact Information:

Phone: (831) 420-3993
Fax: (831) 420-3977
E-mail: lisa.wedding@noaa.gov

Programs:

Habitat Ecology Team

Research Interests:

Lisa Wedding joined the NOAA Fisheries - Habitat Ecology Team and the UCSC Institute of Marine Sciences to work as Postdoctoral Scholar in the Fall of 2011. She has a special interest in applying a geospatial approach to study marine biogeographic patterns in support of marine conservation and management. Lisa earned her PhD in Geography with a specialization in Marine Landscape Ecology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2010. Her dissertation research involved spatially predictive modeling and mapping of coral reef fish assemblages in Hawaii using bathymetric LiDAR (Light detection and ranging) data. Working with the Habitat Ecology Team, she will continue to focus her marine landscape ecology research efforts on spatial modeling of demersal fishes. This work will spatially integrate remotely sensed habitat data to create predictive models and maps of rockfish density and biomass in order to delineate areas of critical habitat, support marine spatial planning and provide a robust fisheries independent approach to support the assessment and management of critical habitats and fish stocks.

Additional Information:

Selected Publications:

S. Pittman, Wedding, L., Battista, T., and B. Costa (in press) Applications of LiDAR Data to Coral Reef Ecosystems. Chapter 10 in Goodman, Purkis & Phinn (eds.). Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs: A Guide for Mapping, Monitoring and Management.

Wedding, L., C. Lepczyk, S. Pittman, Friedlander A. and S. Jorgensen. (2011) Quantifying Seascape Structure: Extending Terrestrial Spatial Pattern Metrics to the Marine Realm. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 427: 219–232. [View article ]

Friedlander, A.M., L.M. Wedding, J. E. Caselle, B. M. Costa (2011) Integration of Remote Sensing and in situ Ecology for the Design and Evaluation of Marine Protected Areas: Examples from Tropical and Temperate Ecosystems. In: Remote Sensing of Protected Lands (Y.Q. Wang, ed.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Wedding, L. Gibson, B., Walsh, W. and T. Battista. (2011) Integrating Remote Sensing Products and GIS Tools to Support Marine Spatial Management in West Hawaii. Journal of Conservation Planning, 7; 60 - 73. [View article ]

Byungyun Y., J. Kaplan, J. Sisskind, L. Wedding, et al. (2009) Book Review: Manual of Geographic Information Systems. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 75, 1263-1266.

Wedding, L, and A. Friedlander. (2008) Determining the Influence of Seascape Structure on Coral Reef Fishes in Hawaii Using a Geospatial Approach. Marine Geodesy, 31, 246-266.

Wedding, L, A. Friedlander, M. McGranaghan, R. Yost and M. Monaco (2008) Using Bathymetric LiDAR to Define Nearshore Benthic Habitat Complexity: Implications for Management of Reef Fish Assemblages in Hawaii. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 4159-4165.

Selected Teaching Experience:

INSTRUCTOR BIOL 403: Field Problems in Marine Biology
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Biology (2009-2011)
Created a geospatial curriculum for a one-month intensive field marine biology course at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology . Taught undergraduates to use GPS, plan a field sampling design using benthic habitat maps, manage data in GIS (Geographic Information Systems), collect remotely sensed data, conduct spatial analysis and create map products for scientific reporting.

INSTRUCTOR GEOG 488: Geographic Information Systems
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Biology (2009)
Taught undergraduate and graduate students the proper design, implementation and management of a GIS database. Techniques for spatial data manipulation were presented in depth and the course culminated with independent student research projects demonstrating the application of GIS.

Additional Highlights:

Co-organizer (Lisa Wedding, NOAA and Nadine Golden, USGS) for the Monterey Bay Marine GIS User Group. Please visit the user group website for updated information on GIS training and networking events for the broader GIS science community in Monterey Bay. The goal for these semi-annual meetings is to foster collaboration among academic, private, state and federal agencies and NGO's in the Monterey Bay marine GIS science community.

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