3D Habitat Mapping
For the last ten years, Kailey has conducted long-term monitoring and 3D modeling within the Hawaiian Islands and Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM). Reef architecture or structure is essential for a thriving coral reef ecosystem. Due to the increase in disturbances within coral reefs, there is an urgent need to increase the capacity and spatial scale of marine monitoring of these culturally important islands/atolls. Kailey aims to integrate emerging technologies such as structure-from-motion photogrammetry and environmental DNA, to enhance the resolutions of biological and physical data obtained in reef monitoring. This allows for detailed quantitative investigations from macro to microorganisms to identify reef characteristics that support biodiversity. This approach has the potential to transform management and conservation of the coral reefs by determining critical features for reef resiliency that have yet to be incorporated into management.
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Images below were taken while on a research cruise to Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. (Photos by John Burns and Nick Jeremiah)
Latest Publications
Publications
Burns, J.H., Weyenberg, G., Mandel, T., Ferreira, S.B., Gotshalk, D., Kinoshita, C.K., Marshall, M.J., Del
Moral, N.A., Murphy, S.J., Pascoe, K.H. and Runyan, A (2020). A comparison of the diagnostic
accuracy of in-situ and digital image-based assessments of coral health and disease. Frontiers in Marine
Science, 7, 304.
Fukunaga, A., Kosaki, R. K., Pascoe, K. H., & Burns, J. H. (2020). Fish Assemblage Structure in the
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Is Associated with the Architectural Complexity of Coral-Reef
Habitats. Diversity, 12(11), 430.
Cristobal F.R., Dodge M., Noll B., Rosenberg N., Burns J.H.R., Sanchez J., Gotshalk D., Pascoe
K.H., & Runyan A. (2020). Exploration of Coral Reefs in Hawai‘i through Virtual Reality: Hawaiian
Coral Reef Museum VR. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '20).
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 545–546. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3404542
Burns, J. H. R., Fukunaga, A., Pascoe, K. H., Runyan, A., Craig, B. K., Talbot, J., ... & Kosaki, R. K.
(2019). 3D habitat complexity of coral reefs in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands is driven by coral
assemblage structure. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial
Information Sciences.
Pascoe, K. H. (2019) Community Structure and Demographic Drivers of Partial Mortality in Corals
throughout the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Diss. University of Hawai'i at Hilo