Research Interests
The Marine & Coastal Conservation and Spatial Planning Lab at the Estuary & Ocean Science Center at San Francisco State University, is a research center dedicated to utilizing and developing the most relevant, powerful and practical geospatial tools to contribute to interdisciplinary marine and coastal conservation.
Our lab and collaborators seek to describe, model and predict the effects of human use on the marine and coastal environment. This includes habitat modeling and mapping for marine endangered species and ecosystems, sea level change scenarios, documenting of human use and values.
Marine spatial planning (MSP) is an interdisciplinary concept to help us understand and value ecosystem services in communities. Geospatial tools for mapping resources and analyzing research as part of MSP are available, and need to be locally/regionally relevant.
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Research Goals
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Develop practical and repeatable research methods to inform marine spatial planning
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Contribute to the development, application and standardization of marine spatial planning tools locally and internationally.
