Atsuko Fukunaga

Dr. Atsuko Fukunaga is an ecological research statistician for Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and Hawai‘i Division of Aquatic Resources working through the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Her current research focuses on coral-reef ecology and utilization of Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry to quantify structural complexity of coral reefs in 3D that influences the abundance and distribution of reef organisms.

2010	Ph.D., Marine Science	University of Auckland
2006	M.S., Zoology	University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
2002	B.S., Zoology	University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

I mostly code in R but also enojoy learning Python.

My backgroud is quantitative marine ecology.

I am a certified technical diver and rebreather diver.

Fukunaga A, Pascoe KH, Kosaki RK, Burns JHR. 2024. Elucidating Temporal Patterns in Coral Health and Assemblage Structure in Papahānaumokuākea. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 12:1267.
Ferreira SB, Burns JHR, Pascoe KH, Kapono CA, Reyes AJ, and Fukunaga A. 2023. Prediction of habitat complexity using a trait-based approach on coral reefs in Guam. Scientific Reports 13:11095.
Fukunaga A, Asner GP, Grady BW, and Vaughn NR. 2023. Fish assemblage structure, diversity and controls on reefs of South Kona, Hawai‘i Island. PLoS ONE 18:e0287790.
Burns JHR, Pascoe KH, Ferreira SB, Kane H, Kapono C, Carrell TL, Reyes A, and Fukunaga A. 2023. How do underwater cultural heritage sites affect coral assemblages? Remote Sensing 15:2130.
Fukunaga A, McKenna SA, Brown EK, McCutcheon AL, and Burns JHR. 2022. Temporal patterns in coral reef fish assemblages with varying disturbance levels: a tale of two National Parks in Hawai‘i. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:1038365.

See my ResearchGate profile for all my publications.