Hines, Ellen

Ellen Hines is an associate professor in the Dept. of Geography and Human Environmental Studies at San Francisco State University, and an adjunct associate professor in the Geography Department at the University of Victoria, Canada. Most of her research encompasses the myriad issues surrounding marine and coastal marine mammals and integrated coastal management locally and in developing countries. She has been working in SE Asia since 1999, in Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam, looking at the population/habitat assessment and conservation issues affecting coastal marine mammals, including dugongs, Irrawaddy dolphins, Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphins and finless porpoises. She also worked in Turneffe Atoll, Belize for six years with her students, studying manatees, dolphins and community-based mapping. Her interests in GIS and remote sensing involve public participation mapping as input into marine protected area and spatial management, marine mammal habitat delineation and use in marine and coastal areas, climate change scenario mapping, and applications for LiDAR and hyperspectral data in the SF Bay Area and beyond!