email: lgonzalez@harc.edu
phone: 281-364-6044
fax: 281-363-7914
Lisa Gonzalez is a Research Scientist with the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC). Her professional experience focuses on the analysis and dissemination of data relating to the health and productivity of bays and estuaries, coastal watersheds, and the Gulf of Mexico.
Lisa manages projects and conducts research relating to various coastal issues including coastal water quality, fish and wildlife populations, invasive species, habitat characterization, freshwater flows, and seafood safety. Lisa has experience managing and analyzing large environmental monitoring data sets, developing estuarine indicators, conducting status and trends analyses of estuarine natural resources and resource use, and disseminating science-based information to interested stakeholders and the public.
She joined HARC in 2002 after working as a Research Associate for the Environmental Institute of Houston at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Prior to that Lisa served as Operations Manager at the Institute of Marine Life Sciences at Texas A&M University at Galveston. Lisa earned a Master of Science degree in Environmental Management from the University of Houston-Clear Lake in 2000. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Fisheries from Texas A&M University at Galveston in 1992.
Expertise
Coastal Ecology
Marine Fisheries
Hydrology
Data Management and Analysis
Environmental Management
Public Policy
Projects
Galveston Bay Status & Trends and State of the Bay Report (PI)
Central Southwest Gulf Coast Information Node of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (Stephanie Glenn, PI)
The Quiet Invasion: Galveston Bay Invasive Species Field Guides (PI)
Double Bayou Watershed Characterization Project (Dr. Stephanie Glenn, PI)
A Collaborative Approach to Managing the Invasion Potential of Aquarium Species (Priscilla Weeks, PI)
Texas Coastal Management Program Performance Measures (PI)
The Galveston Bay Ecological Indicators Project (Jim Lester, PI)
The Galveston Bay Invasive Species Risk Assessment (Jim Lester, PI)