Brandyn Lucca
Brandyn Lucca is a posdoctoral scholar at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington (Seattle, WA). His academic background includes a BSc in marine biology (University of Rhode Island), and both a MSc and PhD in Marine and Atmospheric Science (Stony Brook University). Brandyn's research focuses on using active acoustics to study environmental variability in the spatiotemporal distributions of marine organisms, and better understand how sound scatters from different types of animals through physics-based and numerical methods.
Sessions
Water column sonar data collected by echosounders are essential for fisheries and marine ecosystem research, enabling the detection, classification, and quantification of fish and zooplankton from many different ocean observing platforms. However, the broad usage of these data has been hindered by the lack of modular software tools that allow flexible composition of data processing workflows that incorporate powerful analytical tools in the scientific Python ecosystem. We address this gap by developing Echostack, a suite of open-source Python software packages that leverage existing distributed computing and cloud-interfacing libraries to support intuitive and scalable data access, processing, and interpretation. These tools can be used individually or orchestrated together, which we demonstrate in example use cases for a fisheries acoustic-trawl survey.