Monitoring Marine Ecosystems - Integrating Field and Earth Observation
Welcome to the Marine Ecosystems Monitoring Lab, within the School of The Environment, at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia).
We are focused on developing cost-effective applied approaches for mapping and monitoring marine ecosystems to answer targeted conservation and management questions.
We integrate field data with earth observation imagery captured from underwater and/or above water platforms to provide information on benthic species composition, abundance and/or structure over time and space. Platforms could be divers, snorkelers, robots, drones, planes and satellites.
We work within multiple marine ecosystems such as shallow coral reefs, seagrass, kelp and mangrove habitats. These habitats occur across varied spatial extents, from small islands to global scales. For instance, our study sites include Moreton Bay, Heron Reef, the Great Barrier Reef, wider Australia, and Asia Pacific.
Marine Ecosystems Monitoring Researchers have a long-standing history with the University of Queensland’s Earth Observation activities through the Remote Sensing Research Centre, the Centre of Remote Sensing Spatial Information Science and the Biophysical Remote Sensing Group.
We engage with the local community, Indigenous groups, citizen scientists, researchers and management from start to finish, to ensure our research has the highest possible impact to support marine ecosystem conservation.
See our Research Impact.
