ProfessorVanessa Lucieer
Centre Head, Ecology and Biodiversity IMAS / Professor/Interim Co-Executive Director, IMAS
Ecology and Biodiversity
- Centre Head, Ecology and Biodiversity IMAS / Professor/Interim Co-Executive Director, IMASEcology and Biodiversity
- +61 3 6226 6931 (Work)
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Ecology and Biodiversity, 213.5 IMAS Salamanca, Hobart CBD Campuses, TAS
SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy
Teaching
Marine spatial analysis, biodiversity, seafloor mapping, geomorphology, marine acoustics and remote sensing
Teaching expertise
Vanessa has experience teaching across a range of spatial science areas in both the lecture theatre and field based settings in areas such as marine geoscience, acoustics and seafloor classification and biodiversity assessment.
Teaching responsibility:
KSM103 Mapping the Ocean
KSA224 Oceanographic Methods
Research Supervision
Professor Vanessa Lucieer is interested in supervising projects on seafloor mapping, underwater sensor development and examining the links between the physical marine environment and ecology to map spatial patterns in marine biodiversity.
SUPERVISION & TEACHING
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONPredictive Modeling of Antarctic Seafloor Biodiversity under Contemporary and Future Climate Scenarios25 May 2026
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONSpectral Mapping of Climate Change26 Jan 2026
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONConserving Antarctic Benthic Diversity7 Jul 2025
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDeveloping biologically sensitive indicators from underwater imagery to underpin national- and global- scale monitoring programs for deepwater Marine Parks14 Oct 2024
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONCharacterising reef habitats6 Dec 2023
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONHow Climate Change Impacts the Role of Viruses in Marginal Ice Zone Blooms28 Mar 2023
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONCharacterising Ice Shelf Fractures from the Micro to the Macro-scale21 Feb 2022
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDemography in a Changing Climate: Modelling environmental influences on the population dynamics of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) at Macquarie Island11 Jun 2021 - 3 Jul 2026
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONEvolution of the Seafloor of the Australian-Antarctic Southern Ocean21 Sep 2020
- CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISIONMorphology, Formation and Habitats of Southern Tasman Sea Seamounts7 Sep 2020
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONProximal Remote Sensing of Seafloor Communities with Underwater Imaging Techniques5 Sep 2019 - 14 Dec 2023
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONSeabirds as Vectors for Nutrients and Pollutants to Islands1 Dec 2018 - 26 Aug 2023
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONSpatio-temporal Planning within the Framework of Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture1 Feb 2017 - 16 Dec 2022
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMulti-sensor Acoustic Evidence of Submarine Volcanism across Diverse Tecto-volcanic Regimes1 Nov 2016 - 16 Dec 2022
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDevelopment of Hyperspectral and RGB Imaging Systems for Under-ice Mapping of Fine Scale Sea-ice Biophysical Properties31 Mar 2016 - 14 Aug 2020
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONAdvancing Multibeam Echosounder Water Column Analysis: Methods and applications for midwater targets2 Jun 2015 - 18 Dec 2025
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONBathymetric and Tectonic Consequences of Plume Interaction with the Ocean Floor1 Nov 2014 - 19 Dec 2018
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONRelationships and Interactions between Temperate Reef Fish Communities, Physical Habitat Structure and Marine Protection16 Jan 2009 - 4 Nov 2013