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ProfessorVanessa Lucieer

Centre Head, Ecology and Biodiversity IMAS / Professor/Interim Co-Executive Director, IMAS

Ecology and Biodiversity

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  • Centre Head, Ecology and Biodiversity IMAS / Professor/Interim Co-Executive Director, IMAS
    Ecology and Biodiversity
  • +61 3 6226 6931 (Work)
  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Ecology and Biodiversity, 213.5 IMAS Salamanca, Hobart CBD Campuses, TAS

SERVICE & ENGAGEMENT

  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Ecological Benthic Units: A new characterisation of the global seafloor for ocean spatial planning and management (opens in a new tab)⁠
    31 Jul 2026
  • MEDIA INTERVIEW
    Our last great unexplored frontier- the seabed (opens in a new tab)⁠
    17 Apr 2019
    Did you know we've only mapped around 5% of the ocean floor? Phil chats to Dr Vanessa Lucieer and Dr Rebecca Carey from the University of Tasmania about an ambitious plan to map the entire ocean floor, all 140 million square miles of it!
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Shedding the full spectrum of light on sea ice communities at Cape Evans, Antarctica (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2019
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Acoustic illumination
    1 Jan 2018
    To outsiders, submarine science is a shadowy world – a deep field of arcane methodologies and shadowy sounding devices, used to plumb depths haunted by some of the most extreme denizens of evolution.
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Soda water oceans in the shadow of the volcano (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2018
    IMAS researchers Dr Vanessa Lucieer, Erica Spain and Amy Nau this week completed a 20-day voyage to New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty on the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)’s RV Tangaroa, under the watchful eye of the of the Whakaari/White Island volcano (Whakaari pron: far-car-ri). The aim of the voyage was to enhance capability to acoustically detect and characterise liquid and gaseous targets in the water column of coastal oceans around 200 metres in depth.
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Sounding the sparkling depths (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2018
  • MEDIA INTERVIEW
    What robots can tell us about biodiversity - or #10 amazing things you may have not known about AUVs. Science in the Pub- High Tech Science- Robots and drones doing the dirty (work)
    1 Jan 2017
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Ocean inspiration
    1 Jan 2016
  • MEDIA INTERVIEW
    AUV shines light on seafloor terrain
    16 Dec 2014
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Looking up from under the sea
    1 Dec 2014
  • MEDIA INTERVIEW
    Tour the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves
    30 Nov 2014
    Pulling back the blue curtain of the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves. Discover the amazing diversity they contain, and the science that’s helping us understand them...
  • MEDIA INTERVIEW
    A different side to the ice
    19 Nov 2014
    We’re in Antarctica unlocking it’s underwater secrets.
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Mapping stories from sea floor
    1 Jan 2014
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Australia's capacity for acoustic research is booming
    1 Jan 2013
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Science lifts lid on murder on the seabed
    1 Jan 2013
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Multiscale analysis of bathymetry and backscatter for seafloor habitat mapping in New Zealand EEZ
    1 Jan 2009
  • MEDIA INTERVIEW
    Planet Ocean.
    1 Jan 2006
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    SeaMap Tasmania - an update. Fishing Today, 19 (6)
    1 Jan 2006
  • MEDIA INTERVIEW
    SeaMapping Tasmania. ABC Radio National: Perspective. 3rd March @ 5.55pm 585AM
    1 Jan 2006
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Good progress on Sea Mapping
    1 Jan 2005
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Mapping of seabed habitat in south-east and north-east abalone fishing blocks - an update on SEAMAP Tasmania
    1 Jan 2005
  • MEDIA PUBLICATION
    Exposing the Sea Floor with GIS
    1 Jan 2002