Fish Ecology & Video Analysis Lab

Lindholm's Fish Ecology & Video Image Analysis group focuses its research program on shelf & slope ecology, image-based approaches to data collection, and the application of science to policy & management. 

 

Grant-funded Research Projects
Immersive VR Dive Curriculum: Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary (NMSF) 
Immersive VR Dive Curriculum for At-Risk Youth (CA Coastal Commission WhaleTale)
VR Dive Curriculum 
Monitoring No-Take Safety Zone at San Clemente Island (US Navy)
Mid-depth Rocky Reef Ecosystems in the MLPA Marine Protected Areas (OPC/CA Sea Grant)
OCNMS Fiber Optic Cable Seabed Recovery Survey (OCNMS)
San Clemente Island Deep Water Monitoring (US Navy)
California Undersea Imagery Archive (OPC)
The Anthropocene Research Award in Marine Conservation
Landscape Ecology of Fishes on Southern Carmel Bay's Deep Wall and Reefs
Deepwater Site Characterization in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Quantification of Seafloor Habitat Impacts from Bottom Trawling under Selected Trawl Modifications
MBNMS-CSUMB Research Partnership
Improving the Data Available for Stock Assessments and Management of West Coast Groundfish through Collaborative Fisheries Research
Cruising for Conservation - Group Foraging of Coral Reef Fishes in the Eastern Caribbean and the Implications for Local Diversity
Landscape Ecology of Nearshore Biological Communities Along the California Coast: from Video-based Diver Transects to Spatial Modeling
Research Staff & Students
Student Researcher / Project
Kerri Johnson (MLML Grad Student) / Thesis research: Comparative Analysis of Fish Assemblages Inside and Outside a Military Exclusion Zone at San Clemente Island, California
Luis Cerrillos / Comparison of Diver-operated Stereo Video to eDNA Samples for Surveys of California Reef Fishes
Neil Elias / Comparison of Diver-operated Stereo Video to eDNA Samples for Surveys of California Reef Fishes
Kenzie Broome (Project Staff) / Video processing for VR curriculum
Kerri Johnson (MLML Grad Student)
Kate Roetcisoender / Honors capstone research: Comparing Assemblages of Temperate Reef Fishes Between High- and Low-Relief Rocky Substrate Using Two Stereo Video Platforms
Alex Weatherford / Honors capstone research: Swimming in the Status Quo: A Fish's Guide to Boring Habitats
Mitchell Kindred / Group capstone research: Patterns in the Latitudinal Distribution of Marine Fish and Invertebrates Along California's Coast - Fall 2024
Kameron Strickland (MLML Grad Student) / Thesis research: Comparing a novel use of underwater virtual reality imagery to traditional diver underwater census techniques for the study of temperate reef fish communities
Travis Leggett (MLML Grad Student) / Thesis research: The distribution of newly-abundant purple urchins with varying seafloor topography and water depth along the edge of the Carmel submarine canyon using stereo diver-operated video and diver observations - graduation 
Natalie Frontella / Research Assistant
Justin Gill (MLML Grad Student)
Denise Drachenberg / Honors capstone research: The co-occurrence of purple urchins and coralline algae using stereo diver-operated video and diver observations
Jordan Velasco / Honors capstone research: Focused on the distribution of kelp greenlings and lingcod using VR imagery and diver data
Lissa Giacalone (CSUMB Grad Student) / Research Assistant
Tommy Dolan / Honors capstone research: Diel variation in demersal fish assemblages and microhabitat associations in the deep photic zone of the Carmel submarine canyon
Megan Salomonson / Honors capstone research: Drift kelp utilization by temperate reef fishes beyond the reef-sand interface
Kameron Strickland / Honors capstone research: Microhabitat associations of kelp rockfish (Sebastes atrovirens) along the reef-sand interface at central Californian reefs
Marisa Thompson / Honors capstone research: Variation in fine-scale habitat associations of vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus) and canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) with latitude along California's coastline
Lab Resources
Diver-operator Stereo Video (DOV) Rig
Underwater Video Census Tools
Insta360 x2 (1), x3 (2), x4 (2) cameras / VR Development
MetaQuest 2 (2), 3 (18) headsets / VR Development
Remotely-operated Vehicle (ROV)
SeaGIS Digital Imagery software
GoPro camera array for 360 video (6) /VR Development
U/W video cases rated to 50m depth / VR Development
 
Video Resources & Portals
Statewide Video Catalog
Sanctuary Shelf Characterization & Image Display (SCID) Tool
Sanctuary Literature Reviews  (cbretz@csumb.edu for PDF access)
Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Published Research Studies in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, 2017. Marine Sanctuaries Conservation Series ONMS-17-08. 115pp.
Characterizing the Spatio-Temporal Extent of Acoustic Telemetry Research in the National Marine Sanctuaries, 2017. National Marine Sanctuary Foundation Award  #2015-09-B-35