Education

• BA 1991- Biology, Brown University
• MS 1998- Oceanography, University of Hawaii
• PhD 2002- Oceanography, University of Hawaii

Research Interests

• Coral reef remote sensing
• Bio-optics of coral reef benthos
• Radiative transfer in optically shallow marine environments
• Coral reef ecology and community structure
• Multivariate statistics and classification analysis
• Active Research

Teaching Activities

• OCN 699- Directed Research
• OCN 770- Introduction to MATLAB for Scientists

10 Selected Publications

Hochberg EJ, Atkinson MJ, Apprill A, Andréfouët S (2004) Spectral reflectance of coral. Coral Reefs; 23: 84-95

Andréfouët S, Payri C, Hochberg EJ, Hu CM, Atkinson MJ, Muller-Karger FE (In press) Scaling-up spectral discrimination of coral reef benthos from species to communities: the case of French Polynesia macroalgal communities using in situ and airborne reflectance. Marine Ecology Progress Series

Mumby PJ, Skirving W, Strong AE, Hardy JT, LeDrew EF, Hochberg EJ, Stumpf RP, David LT (2004) Remote sensing of coral reefs and their physical environment. Marine Pollution Bulletin 48: 219-228

Hochberg EJ, Andréfouët S, Tyler MR (2003) Sea surface correction of high spatial resolution Ikonos images to improve bottom mapping in near-shore environments. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41: 1724-1729

Hochberg EJ, Atkinson MJ, Andréfouët S (2003) Spectral reflectance of coral reef bottom-types worldwide and implications for coral reef remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment 85: 159-173

Hochberg EJ, Atkinson MJ (2003) Capabilities of remote sensors to classify coral, algae and sand as pure and mixed spectra. Remote Sensing of Environment 85: 174-189

Andréfouët S, Payri C, Hochberg EJ, Che LM, Atkinson MJ (2003) Airborne hyperspectral detection of microbial mat pigmentation in Rangiroa atoll (French Polynesia). Limnology and Oceanography 48: 426-430

Andréfouët S, Kramer P, Torres-Pulliza D, Joyce KE, Hochberg EJ, Garza-Perez R, Mumby PJ, Riegl B, Yamano H, White WH, Zubia M, Brock JC, Phinn SR, Naseer A, Hatcher BG, Muller-Karger FE (2003) Multi-site evaluation of IKONOS data for classification of tropical coral reef environments. Remote Sensing of Environment 88: 128-143

Andréfouët S, Hochberg EJ, Payri C, Atkinson MJ, Muller-Karger FE, Ripley H (2003) Multi-scale remote sensing of microbial mats in an atoll environment. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24: 2661-2682

Andréfouët S, Muller-Karger FE, Hochberg EJ, Hu C, Carder KL (2001) Change detection in shallow coral reef environments using Landsat 7 ETM+ data. Remote Sensing of Environment 79: 150-162

Hochberg EJ, Atkinson MJ (2000) Spectral discrimination of coral reef benthic communities. Coral Reefs 19: 164-171

Atkinson M, Barnett H, Aceves H, Langdon C, Carpenter S, McConnaughey T, Hochberg E, Smith M, Marino B (1999) The Biosphere 2 coral reef biome. Ecological Engineering 13: 147-171