Jared Kibele | Curriculum Vitae 160 Goat Island Rd. – Leigh 0985 – New Zealand
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Scientist / Developer / GIS Analyst
Education University of Auckland, New Zealand PhD, Marine Science
Leigh Marine Lab, NZ 2012–Present
University of California, Santa Cruz Bachelor’s of Science, Marine Biology, With Honors
Santa Cruz, CA, USA 2004–2006
PhD Thesis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . title: Submerged habitats from space: Increasing map production capacity with new methods and software. supervisors: Nick Shears and Richard Taylor description: Maps of submerged habitats are vital for resource management and ecological studies. Passive optical methods (using satellite and aerial imagery) show great potential for mapping large areas at low cost, but current methods tend to perform poorly in temperate waters and are too complex to be implemented by researchers and resource managers without specialized knowledge of remote sensing. This thesis presents MORE-MAPS: a system of methods and open source software suited to tropical, subtropical, and temperate environments. MORE-MAPS incorporates the entire map production process: from the processing of ground truth data to water column correction, image classification, and accuracy assessment. Individual components of MORE-MAPS are developed in chapters 2 - 5 and applied to mapping broad scale habitats in the temperate waters of northeastern New Zealand in chapter 6. MORE-MAPS can dramatically reduce barriers to the production of habitat maps of the shallow subtidal for use in research and marine spatial planning.
Publications J. Kibele and N. T. Shears, “Non-parametric empirical depth regression for bathymetric mapping in coastal waters,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Accepted pending minor revisions. J. Kibele, “Benthic Photo Survey: Software for Geotagging, Depth-tagging, and Classifying Photos from Survey Data and Producing Shapefiles for Habitat Mapping in GIS,” Journal of Open Research Software, vol. 4, Mar. 2016. K. James, J. Kibele, and N. T. Shears, “Using satellite-derived sea surface temperature to predict the potential global range and phenology of the invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida,” Biological Invasions, pp. 1–16, Aug. 2015.
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Notable Projects Benthic Photo Survey: jkibele.github.io/benthic_photo_survey OpticalRS: A Python Library for Optical Remote Sensing. jkibele.github.io/OpticalRS Accuracy Assessment Plugin for QGIS: github.com/jkibele/acc-assess
Experience MarineMap (now SeaSketch.org) Senior GIS Analyst
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA January 2008–October 2010
I helped to conceive and implement a web based decision support tool for stakeholders in the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPA). I worked with members of the MLPA Science Advisory Team to translate scientific goals and objectives for the creation of a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) into complex geospatial analyses that could provide non-technical users with immediate feedback on the extent to which their proposed package of MPAs satisfied the guidelines. Before these analyses were available in MarineMap, it took a team of analysts over a week to evaluate a set of stakeholder proposals.
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission GIS Analyst
Montery, California, USA January 2007–January 2008
I worked at the Monterey, CA office of the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) and provided GIS services to DFG staff. In addition to map making and spatial analysis for numerous other projects, I produced analyses for marine reserve proposals in support of the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative.
Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, Others Lab Tech, Research Assistant, Diver
Santa Cruz and Monterey 2003–2006
While attending Monterey Peninsula College and UC Santa Cruz, I worked many jobs. I was a lab technician for Dr. Fiorenza Micheli’s lab at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station for about a year where I helped with field work, built the lab website, and did general lab work. I was research assistant and diver on an acoustic fish tracking project at UC Santa Cruz. I also scrubbed boat bottoms, conducted guided shore dives, and dive mastered on several dive charter boats.
415 Productions, Inc Programmer
San Francisco, CA, USA 1999–2003
I wrote code for websites. This was mostly HTML but there was some CSS, JavaScript, and Python as well. I also did a lot of graphical production work. Projects I worked on include: Credit Suisse, Library of Congress, and Levi Strauss.
Computer skills Programming: Python with emphasis on: GDAL, Scipy, Numpy, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, scikitimage, Django, and pandas. Also familiar with: R, LATEX, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML, SQL, C, Bash. Software: QGIS, PostGIS (and PostgrSQL), ESRI ArcGIS, GRASS, Spyder, Jupyter Notebook, Git Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Mac, Windows. Listed in order of preference.
Note My wife and I sailed our 31’ sailboat from California to New Zealand. Stops along the way included Mexico, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Niue, and Tonga. We had a blog while sailing: www.svarchiteuthis.com. This is not particularly relevant in professional terms, but it does explain why I was unemployed for all of 2011.
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