Lucie Hazen

Lucie Hazen joined COS in February 2011 as a Research Analyst where she works with Science Director Larry Crowder to build COS’s science vision.  To date, she has focused on coordinating COS interdisciplinary working groups and co-organized the COS Ocean Policy course in summer 2011.  Current working groups are synthesizing available research and examining effects of climate change on coral reefs, climate change on pelagic predators and coastal hypoxia in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Ultimately, the working groups will offer policy recommendations for successful management of critical ecosystem services.

Before joining COS, Lucie managed several marine research and conservation projects with policy applications at Duke University Marine Lab.  In her six years at Duke, she served as a liaison between principal investigators, research scientists, administrators, subcontractors and funders. With experience in project management and oversight, including monitoring budgets and milestones, coordinating team research goals, leading reporting efforts, facilitating communications,and organizing symposia and stakeholder meetings, she brings a strong skill set to support COS’s goals and initiatives.

Lucie received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Washington, where she also earned a Master of Science from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.  Her academic background is in ecology and fisheries biology, and she has extensive experience in field research and project management. 

Publications

Best B.D., P.N. Halpin, E. Fujioka, A.J. Read, S.S. Qian, L.J. Hazen and R.S. Schick. 2007. Geospatial web services within a scientific workflow: Predicting marine mammal habitats in a dynamic environment. Ecoinformatics 2(3):210-223.
 
Halpin P.N, A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, C. Good , L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography 22(2):104-115.
           
Kot, C., E. Fujioka, L.J. Hazen, B.D. Best, A.J. Read and P.N. Halpin. 2010. Spatio-temporal gap analysis of OBIS-SEAMAP project data: Assessment and way forward. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12990.