Projects during Fish-PACE 2026

Name	Title	Team	Repo	Slides	Video
water-quality	Seasonal patterns in water quality in the Northern Gulf of California revealed by PACE hyperspectral data	José Andrés Vargas-Solano, Andrea Rebeca Lara Cera, Maria Emilia Rechimont
fishdrum	Red drum habitat associations with ocean color observed by PACE	Ron Vogel, Ted Chia, Jeniffer De Maligaya, Retno Septiani, Ayeshmantha Andagala
blue-monday	Evaluating hyperspectral versus multispectral approaches for mangrove ecosystem characterization using PACE OCI data, with the Niger Delta as a case study	Janelle Levine, Michelle Fasona, Rose Coggins, Shulhan Jihadi
hypoxia-zones	Linking ocean color and biogeochemical drivers of bottom-water hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico using PACE data	Josh Harringmeyer, Storm Heidinger, Ralf Riedel, Gianna Milton, Prem Kumar, Alireza Taheri Dehkordi, Krishna Mummadi, Christian Schmachtenberger
trawling4PACE	Predicting silver hake fishing hotspots in the Northwest Atlantic using PACE hyperspectral ocean color	Victoria Abunaw, Frederic Bonou, Leandro Machado Cruz, Mary Kate Munley, Punya Puthukulangara, Haley Synan, Justine Whitaker
megafauna	Whale species occurrence and environmental niche occupation in the North Atlantic inferred from PACE products	Ana Vaz, Liz Ferguson, James King
plankton-fish-guilds	Linking phytoplankton functional types to fish functional diversity using PACE data and bottom trawl surveys	Josefina Cuesta Núñez, Maité Barrena, Patrick Rizk, Jonathan Peake (mentor)
help-the-kelp	Mapping kelp canopy “color types” with PACE OCI hyperspectral data toward scalable, high-resolution monitoring	Tena Dhayalan, Annie Hansen, Christina Asante
bloom-bloom-bloom	Regional and taxonomic variability in phytoplankton hyperspectral signatures observed by PACE	Cassandra Pacheco, Sachithma Edirisinghe, Devon Winkler, Shelly Tomlinson, Felix Jose
optical-bot	Integrating IFCB autoclass data with PACE observations to examine phytoplankton community structure	Christian Schmachtenberget, Amir Chegoonian, Carolina Mateos, Lindsay Yue, José Augusto Valencia, Cara Wilson (mentor)
oil-spills	Distinguishing hyperspectral spectral signatures of marine oil spills using PACE data	Santiago Reynoso, Jorge Silva, Danalie Azofeifa, Alfredo Terrazas, Abdulmajid Sulaiman
hab-prediction-west	Advancing harmful algal bloom prediction for the U.S. West Coast using PACE hyperspectral information	Deborah Kutner, Bikas Gupta, Dale Robinson, Keshav Dubedi, Mathieu Richaud
ifcb-phytomix	PACE hyperspectral signatures from OCI, HARP2, and SPEXone across phytoplankton taxonomic groupings using IFCB data	Al-Hasan Antu, Forough Naali, Yi Zhen, Guangming Zheng