Lisa Woolgar

Lisa Woolgar holds an MBA and a degree in Physics with Satellite Technology. Since joining ITOPF in 2006, she has progressed through various roles and functional areas.

Early on, Lisa provided technical support by playing a pivotal role in developing ITOPF’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS), satellite remote sensing and knowledge sharing platforms. Since then, she has acted as project manager on multiple cross-functional projects and led the Information and Communication Team for over a decade. In doing so, she has contributed to the development and enhancement of IT systems, databases and digital technology, as well as building ITOPF's social media presence and communications. 
 
Lisa has now transitioned to the role of Business Adviser to the Managing Director, where she acts as a high-level strategic partner, offering operational and advisory support at the executive level and leveraging her broad experience to help shape ITOPF’s continued success.

Previous Experience

Before joining ITOPF, Lisa worked in the QinetiQ Space department focusing on image processing, feature extraction and developing algorithms using IDL and image processing software with high resolution optical and SAR data. Using her broad range of skills she was part of a project providing operational services for automatic SAR ship detection and classification, as well as providing GIS consultancy and project support for a governmental information mapping service portal.

As a research assistant at Southampton Oceanography centre Lisa worked on projects to understand the Agulhas current and autonomous drifting temperature/salinity profiling Argo floats.

Published Papers

Stevens L. (2014) Visualising spill risk: understanding and assessing regions of heightened vulnerability associated with increased seaborne transport of oil. Proceedings of the 22nd Triennial International Oil Spill Conference, Savannah, Georgia May 5-8 2014

Stevens L. (2013) Assessing the changing risk of oil spills and oil movements. Proceedings of the 2013 Esri International User Conference, San Diego, California July 9-13 2013.

Woolgar L. (2008) Assessing the increasing risk of marine oil pollution spills in China. Proceedings of the 20th Triennial International Oil Spill Conference, Savannah, Georgia May 4-8 2008