Nature Imagery

Nature Imagery's mission is demonstrating and communicating our responsibility to respect and preserve the environment. Through direct government contracts as well as working for contracting agencies and cooperative institutes, Mr. Anderson has contributed greatly to state and federal agencies' coral reef ecosystem and oceanic research projects. Th... rough federal contract, Nature Imagery fulfilled in situ and photographic data collection and management services for long-term monitoring of vessel grounding restoration sites in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). To fulfill those contract requirements, Mr. Anderson planned and conducted benthic surveys collecting demographic data for hard and soft corals, along with underwater still photo and video image capture, assessed injuries and implemented restorative actions to coral reef and seagrass benthic communities caused by vessel grounding, anchor dragging, etc. As necessary for potential NRDA cases, Mr. Anderson co-authored scientific reports, journal articles, and presentations discussing the injury assessment, coral restoration, and ongoing monitoring of select sites within FKNMS, including an oral and 2 poster presentations accepted for the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium. Additional requirements of those contracts involved programming, maintaining, deploying, and managing data from 35 water temperature recording stations throughout FKNMS, and making that data available to NOAA and EPA databases for further dissemination. Most recently, Mr. Anderson has been employed by the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH) as a contractor to the Joint Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) to fulfill coral reef ecosystem monitoring and research in the US Pacific Territories and Affiliated States. In this role, Mr. Anderson is an important member of the team responsible for conducting autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) operations conducting surveys up to depths of 1,500 m. In that capacity, Mr. Anderson is ...Read More