People

PI and staff directly supporting the Census Mapping and Visualization effort

Patrick N. Halpin (PI)

Patrick's experience lies in marine geospatial ecology, spatial technologies, (GIS, satellite remote sensing), and spatial analysis for marine conservation. He is Director of the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab at Duke University, and serves on many international steering committees and advisory panels generally applied to marine science & conservation as well as environmental sciences & policy.

Ben Best (Lead Tech)

Ben's core specialties are in ecological informatics and geographical information systems (GIS). Originally hired to Duke in 2002 to setup the OBIS-SEAMAP online geodatabase, Ben has since acquired an M.S. in Environmental Sciences and worked on several projects involving predictive habitat and connectivity modeling. His focus is in spatial, statistical and visual techniques for quantifying and displaying the distribution, abundance and behavior of pelagic marine animals.

Ei Fujioka (Mapping Expert)

With his rich experiences in IT (Information Technology) back in Japan and fresh education in environmental sciences in the US, Ei Fujioka is a perfect match in database management and mapping solutions for CoML Mapping & Visualization Team.
He has recently specialized in visualization and mapping with Google Maps and Google Earth, products which play a central role on the OBIS-SEAMAP web site.

Ben Donnelly (Webmaster)

Ben Donnelly brings over 10 years of experience supporting research computing to the CoML M&V project. Before coming to Higher Education, he worked in the publishing and design industry, and has long been fascinated by visual communication techniques.

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