Matt Levey, MSc

Fisheries Ecologist

Matt Levey grew up in southern California and graduated from San Diego State University where he earned degrees in Biology and Political Science. After graduating Mr. Levey went to work for the California Department of Fish & Game where he worked on near-shore fisheries research. While working for the CDFG he began the graduate program at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in the Ichthyology Lab working under Gregor Cailliet. At MLML Mr. Levey's interests were marine fish ecology and essential fish habitat. His thesis project focused on the distribution and abundance of reef fishes among various hard bottom habitats at two locations in the Gulf of California. Matt's interest in ecology and fish habitat led him to take a course in seafloor mapping, which soon led to job opportunities working with the Seafloor Mapping Lab at CSUMB and the Habitat Ecology Group at the NOAA Fisheries Santa Cruz Lab. Mr. Levey is currently the Pacific Region Project Manager for AOA Geophysics' Marine Geoscience Division and has spent considerable time working on numerous seafloor mapping and GIS related projects around the world. Mr. Levey's main skills are project planning and implementation, and GIS data collection, management, analysis, and presentation. He especially excels at integrating advanced technologies with conventional tools for finding practical and economical solutions to spatially relevant problems.

 

 

 

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