Bio
Mr. Matthew Levey has worked in the marine science field for more than 25 years. He specializes in web based and desktop geographic information systems (GIS) for geophysical, biological, and environmental data as well as scientific computing for spatial modeling and analysis. He also has extensive experience on large-scale biological and geophysical surveys and has been a client representative for oil exploration, geohazard surveys, and pipeline route planning. He has worked in Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, India, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Morocco, Turkey, Angola, Australia, and the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, Mr. Levey has experience acquiring and processing multibeam and sidescan sonar data, as well as working with seismic, subbottom profiler, magnetometer, and gravitometer acquisition and data.
Relevant Experience
GIS Analysis
Assessing Risk of Proposed Extended Duration Autonomous Vehicle Missions — Co-develops, maintains, and improves a Python-based autonomous vehicle risk assessment simulator and supporting infrastructure. Tasks include managing global open-source marine environmental hindcast and forecast data, and developing client-side user interfaces and web-maps, and backend server and geoprocessing scripts. Incorporates marine science, environmental modeling, statistical analysis, data management, and web development.
Web Development
Elkhorn Slough Foundation Water Quality Report Card, California — Builds and maintains a novel web-map version of the Elkhorn Slough Foundation’s Water Quality Report Card. The Water Quality Report Card integrates 30+ years of water quality monitoring among 22 locations in Elkhorn Slough. Each site location presents a grade score for nine nutrients and an overall grade. Each nutrient for the selected site displays its score for the entire water-year.
GIS Design
Subsea Field Layout and Development — Developed and maintained a first-of-its-kind GIS and database management system for the planning, development, implementation, analysis, and management of subsea oil and gas fields and pipeline and cable route planning.
Education & Credentials
M.S., Marine Science, Moss Landing Marine Labs, Moss Landing, California, 2005
B.S., Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 1995
B.A., Political Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 1995
Continuing Education
Esri ArcGIS certified (2001)
NAUI Scientific Diver (1994)
Professional Affiliations
Leadership Team member of the Monterey Bay Marine GIS User Group