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
Other
Publications
Hughes, B.B., M.D. Levey, M.C. Fountain, A.B. Carlisle, F.P. Chavez, and M.G. Gleason. 2015. Climate mediates hypoxic stress on fish diversity and nursery function at the land–sea interface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(26): 8025–8030.
Hughes, B.B., M.D. Levey, J. Brown, M. Fountain, A.B. Carlisle, S.Y. Litvin, C.M. Greene, W.N. Heady, and M.G. Gleason. 2014. Nursery Functions of U.S. West Coast Estuaries: The State of Knowledge for Juveniles of Focal Invertebrate and Fish Species. Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA. 168 pp.
García-García, A., M.D. Levey, and E.B. Watson. 2013. High resolution seismic study of the Holocene infill of the Elkhorn Slough, central California. Continental Shelf Research 55: 108–118.
García-García, A., T. Schoolmeester, D. Orange, A. Calafat, J. Fabres, E. Grossman, M. Field, T. Lorenson, M. Levey, and M. Sansoucy. 2012. Recent sedimentary processes in the Cap de Creus Canyon head and adjacent continental shelf, NE Spain: Evidence from multibeam bathymetry, sub-bottom profiles and coring. In: Sediments, Morphology and Sedimentary Processes on Continental Shelves: Advances in Technologies, Research and Applications. M.Z. Li, C.R. Sherwood, and P.R. Hill (eds). Special Publication 44 of the International Association of Sedimentologists, 109: 71–98. DOI:10.1002/9781118311172
Schoolmeester, T., J. Fabres, M. Canals, A. Orange, E. Grossman, A. Garcıa-Garcıa, M. Field, and M. Levey. 2005. Shallow sediment structure revealed from high resolution surveys in the upper Cap de Creus Canyon. In Final EuroSTRATAFORM Meeting, pp. 24–27.
Presentations / Posters
Levey, M.D., and B.B. Hughes. 2013. Mapping the implications of low oxygen (hypoxia) on available habitat for select species of flatfish in Elkhorn Slough. Presentation at ESRI Ocean GIS Forum. Redlands, CA. November.
Levey, M.D., A. García-García, and E.B. Watson. 2011. Mapping modern and historical geological changes to the Upper Elkhorn Slough Estuary, Moss Landing, California. Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December.
Sandoval, E., and M. Levey. 2010. Predicting marine species occurrence utilizing GIS and habitat preference models. Poster presented at AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting. Portland, OR. February.
Levey, M.D., A. García-García, and D.L. Orange. 2009. Evidence of hurricane-induced mudflows and their characteristics near the West Delta, Gulf of Mexico. Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December.
Moore, C., A. Colyer, T. O’Donnell, J. Ellis, M. Levey, and D. Greene. 2009. ArcGIS and 3D simulation – life of field planning tool. Presentation at the ESRI Petroleum Users Group Conference. Houston, TX. February.
Orange, D.L., P.A. Teas, J. Decker, P. Baillie, P. Gilleran, and M.D. Levey. 2008. The utilisation of seaseep surveys (a defense / hydrography spin-off) to identify and sample hydrocarbon seeps in offshore frontier basins. Presentation to International Petroleum Technology Conference, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. December.
Levey, M.D., A. García-García, D.L. Orange, M. Mulrey, G. Shipton, I. Herbert, and RV Pelican field party. 2008. Preliminary results and QC of a shallow-water, high-resolution acoustic survey near Panama City, Florida. Presentation at Shallow Survey 2008, Portsmouth, NH. October.
Levey, M.D. 2006. Patterns of reef fish distribution and abundance among selected locations in the Gulf of California. 87th meeting of the Western Society of Naturalists. November.
Levey, M.D., D. Orange, A. García-García, M. Todd, J. Fabres, and A. Gardner. 2005. High resolution seafloor mapping off the Cap de Creus canyon head, West Gulf of Lion. AAPG 2005 Annual Convention: Exploring Energy Systems, Calgary, Canada. June 19–22.