Dr Julie Vercelloni
Associate Investigator
Julie’s research interests focus on combining state-of-the-art technologies offered by machine learning, remote sensing and by the rise of citizen science and, Bayesian modelling to help understanding complex problems related to coral reef conservation. She is also develloping new approaches to better estimate reef aesthetic values using virtual reality and human perceptions of beauty.
Research Interests:
Bayesian Methods for Ecology
Big data analytics
Citizen Science
Coral reefs
Environmental monitoring
Virtual Reality
Projects
Prizes, awards and special recognition
2019
Finalist, Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science was awarded to Erin Peterson, Kerrie Mengersen, Julie Vercelloni, Ross Brown. Awarded from the Australian Museum .
2019 Spatial Excellence Award Queensland for People and Community was awarded to Julie Vercelloni, Erin Peterson, Kerrie Mengersen, Alan Pearse, Bryce Christensen, Edgar Santos-Fernandez, Ross Brown, Grace Heron. Awarded from the FrontierSI.
2020
Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards for People and Community was awarded to Julie Vercelloni, Kerrie Mengersen, Erin Peterson. Awarded from the Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards.
2018
A unified platform for missing values methods and workflows was awarded to Nick Tierney, Julie Vercelloni. Awarded from the The R Consortium.
Project Summary: The objective is to create a reference platform on the theme of missing data management and to federate contributors. This platform will be the occasion to list the existing packages, the available literature as well as the tutorials that allow to analyze data with missing data. New work on the subject can be easily integrated and we will create examples of analysis workflows with missing data. Anyone who would like to contribute to this exciting project can contact us.
Publications
Invited talks, refereed proceedings and other conference outputs
(2016). Virtual reality for conservation.
Web3D 2016. doi: 10.1145/2945292.2945319
(2016). Virtual reality for conservation.
Web3D 2016: 21st International Conference on Web3D Technology. 177–178. doi: 10.1145/2945292.2945319
Journal Articles
(2018). Recovery of coral assemblages despite acute and recurrent disturbances on a South Central Pacific reef.
Scientific Reports. 8(1), 9680. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-27891-3
(2017). Modelling imperfect presence data obtained by citizen science.
Environmetrics. 28(5), e2446. doi: 10.1002/env.2446
(2017). Crown-of-thorns starfish undermine the resilience of coral populations on the Great Barrier Reef.
Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26(7), 846 - 853. doi: 10.1111/geb.12590
(2017). Improved Coral Population Estimation Reveals Trends at Multiple Scales on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Ecosystems. 20(7), 1337 - 1350. doi: 10.1007/s10021-017-0115-2
(2015). Searching for the best bet in life-strategy: A quantitative approach to individual performance and population dynamics in reef-building corals.
Ecological Complexity. 23, 73-84. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2015.07.003
(2014). Understanding Uncertainties in Non-Linear Population Trajectories: A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Hierarchical Approach to Large-Scale Surveys of Coral Cover.
PLOS ONE. 9(11), doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110968
Technical reports and unrefereed outputs
(2016). Monitoring Through Many Eyes:Spatially enabling people to protect the Great Barrier Reef.
