Seeing Below the Surface: Quantifying the Underwater Environment with Image Analysis

Date: Wednesday, Jun 12, 2019
Time: 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM
Location: Edwards Hall, Room 103

Chair(s): Theodore Angradi, Peter Esselman, Knut Mehler, Molly Wick

Using underwater imagery to improve invasive species monitoring in the Great Lakes
Knut Mehler, Great Lakes Center at SUNY Buffalo State; Lyubov Burlakova, Great Lakes Center at SUNY Buffalo State ; Alexander Karatayev, Great Lakes Center at SUNY Buffalo State; Maxwell Morgan, Cetacean Marine Inc

A new high-resolution historic substrate layer for the Laurentian Great Lakes
Gust Annis, The Nature Conservancy; Matthew Herbert, The Nature Conservancy; Jared Ross, Michigan State University; Stephanie Hickel, The Nature Conservancy

Spawning site characterization of Lake Whitefish and Lake Sturgeon in the Fox River, Lake Michigan
Christopher Houghton, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay; Patrick Forsythe, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay; Andrew Ransom, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay; Stefan Tucker, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

Performance of machine learning algorithms for classifying benthic habitats and species
Peter Esselman, U.S. Geological Survey; Christopher Roussi, Michigan Tech Research Institute; Meryl Spencer, Michigan Tech Research Institute; Samuel Pecoraro, US Geological Survey; Jennifer Wardell, US Geological Survey; Scott Dwyer, US Geological Survey; Anthony Arnold, US Geological Survey