Post-doctoral Associate
Laura joined the Duke Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab as a Post-doctoral Associate in 2014. Her research projects at MGEL include:
- Extrapolating cetacean densities to enhance their conservation in data poor areas (paper published in Conservation Biology and modeling results freely accessible via the OBIS-SEAMAP website)
- Investigating temporal resolutions in species distribution models of highly mobile marine animals (paper published in Diversity and Distributions)
- Assessing survey efforts throughout ocean basins using environmental space analyses (paper published in Scientific Reports)