The abundance and distribution of seagrass resources
across these environments will be linked to managing
and preserving coastal marine resources is a formidable
challenge given the rapid pace of change affecting coastal
environments. Fast, accurate and quantitative tools
are needed for detecting change in coastal ecosystems.
Traditional in situ surveys are time and labor-intensive,
generally lack the spatial resolution and precision
required to detect subtle changes before they become
catastrophic, and can be difficult to maintain from
year-to-year. I am involved in several instrument development
proposals for using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
to obtain high resolution optical imagery of the nearshore
coastal zone. UAVs can fly underneath cloud cover to
provide unprecedented spatial and temporal imagery of
the coastal zone.
Some Representative Publications
Seibel,
B.A., and H.M. Dierssen. 2003. Tip of the iceberg: Cascading
trophic impacts of B-15A in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
Biol. Bulletin. 2025: 93-97.
Dierssen, H.M., R.C. Zimmerman, R.A. Leathers, T.V.
Downes, and C.O. Davis. 2003. Ocean color remote sensing
of seagrass and bathymetry in the Bahamas Banks by high
resolution airborne imagery. Limnology and Oceanography.
48 (1, part 2): 456-463. (http://aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_48/issue_1_part_2/)
Dierssen, H.M., R.C. Smith, and M. Vernet. 2002. Glacial
meltwater dynamics in coastal waters west of the Antarctic
Peninsula. Proc. National Academy of Science. 99(4):1790-1795.
Smith, R.C., K. Baker, H.M. Dierssen, S. Stammerjohn,
M. Vernet. 2001. Variability of primary production in
an Antarctic marine ecosystem as estimated using a multi-scale
sampling strategy. American Zoologist. 41:40-56
Dierssen, H., and R. C. Smith. 2000. Bio-Optical properties
and remote sensing ocean color algorithms for Antarctic
Peninsula Waters. Journal of Geophysical Research.
105(C11): 26301-26312.
Dierssen, H. M., M. Vernet, and R. C. Smith. 2000. Optimizing
models for remotely estimating primary production in
Antarctic coastal waters. Antarctic Science. 12:20-32.
Dierssen, H.M., and R.C. Smith. Case 2 Antarctic coastal
waters: the bio-optical properties of surface meltwater,
in Proc. Ocean Optics XV [CDROM], edited by S. Ackleson
and J. Marra, Off. of Nav. Res., Ocean, Atmos., and
Space S&T Dept., 2000.
Dierssen, H. 2000. Ocean color remote sensing of chlorophyll
and primary production west of the Antarctic Peninsula.
PhD Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, CA.
Dierssen, H.M., and R.C. Smith, Estimation of irradiance
just below the air-water interface, in Proceedings Ocean
Optics XIII, edited by S. Ackleson and R. Frouin, Proc.
SPIE Int. Soc. for Opt. Eng., 2963, 204-209, 1996.
Smith, R. C., Dierssen, H. M., and Vernet, M., 1996,
Phytoplankton biomass and productivity in the Western
Antarctic Peninsula Region. Ross, R. M., Hofmann, E.
E., and Quetin, L. B., ed., Foundations for Ecosystem
Research West of the Antarctic Peninsula: AGU Antarctic
Research Series.
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