Tracking Coastal Change at Catalina Island

Advisors: Diane Kim (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences) , Jessica Dutton (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences) , Deborah Khider (Viterbi School of Engineering)
Students: Wei-Fan Chen , Sameeksha Mahajan , Zijing Zhang , Pratheek Athreya

Description

Since 1992, the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies ‘Catalina Conservation Divers’ have been collecting underwater biological and environmental data from coastal ocean sites around Catalina Island, California. In cooperation with the USC Wrigley Institute, the CCD team (made up of community scientists and volunteer SCUBA divers) conducts quarterly surveys of marine species and benthic water temperatures at various depths and locations. The Wrigley Institute has been collecting and archiving this data for years, and the data has not been holistically studied to date. We need assistance in analyzing data for trends across location, ocean depth, and time.

Awards

  • Best Data Science Poster

Students

Advisors

Skills Required by the team

  • Statistics
  • Programming
Fall 2019 Featured Best Data Science Poster