Place Matters - Table of Contents
Part I - Pushing the Envelope: Selected Models and Methods of Marine GIS
- Biogeographic Assessments of NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries: The Integration of Ecology and GIS to Aid in Marine Management Boundary Delineation and Assessment
Mark Monaco, Matt Kendall, Jamison Higgins, Charles Alexander, and Mitchell Tartt
NOAA/NOS National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, Biogeography Program and NOAA/NOS National Marine Sanctuaries Program
- Mapping Global Fisheries Patterns and their Consequences
Reg Watson, Jackie Alder, Villy Christensen and Daniel Pauly
University of British Columbia
Related website: Sea Around Us Project. - The Benefits and Pitfalls of Geographic Information Systems in Marine Benthic Habitat Mapping
H. Gary Greene, Joseph J. Bizzarro, Janet E. Tilden, Holly L. Lopez, and Mercedes D. Erdey
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories - Modeling Inshore Rockfish Habitat in British Columbia: A Pilot Study
Jeff Ardron and Scott Wallace
Living Oceans and Blue Planet Research and Education
Part II - Science in Action: Working Examples of Marine GIS
- The OCEAN Framework — Modeling the Linkages between Marine Ecology, Fishing Economy, and Coastal Communities
Astrid Scholz, Mike Mertens, and Charles Steinback
Ecotrust - Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: Advancing the Science and Policy of Marine Protected Areas
Satie Airame
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Related websites: SPEXAN and CI-SSAT. - The Tools of the Oregon Coastal Atlas
Tanya Haddad, Dawn Wright, Michele Dailey, Paul Klarin, John Marra, Randy Dana, and David Revell
Oregon Ocean-Coastal Management Program, Ecotrust, Oregon State University
Related websites: COMCI and Oregon Coastal Marine Viewer. - Nearshore Marine Conservation Planning in the Pacific Northwest: Exploring the Utility of a Siting Algorithm for Representing Marine Biodiversity
Zach Ferdaña
The Nature Conservancy
Part III - Democratizing Data: Civil Society Groups' Usage of Marine GISS
- Continental-scale Conservation Planning: The Baja, California to Bering Sea Region
Lance Morgan, Peter Etnoyer, and Elliott Norse
Marine Conservation Biology Institute and Aquanautix Consulting - Using GIS to Elicit and Apply Local Knowledge to Ocean Conservation
Kate Bonzon, Rod Fujita, and Peter Black
Environmental Defense - Rapid Shoreline Inventory: A Citizen-Based Approach to Identifying and Prioritizing Marine Shoreline Conservation and Restoration Projects
Philip Bloch, Jessemine Fung, Tom Dean, Lisa Younger, and Jacques White
People for Puget Sound, Washington Department of Natural Resources, Vashon Island Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy - Port Orford Ocean Resources Team: Partnering Local and Scientific Knowledge with GIS to Create a Sustainable Community in Southern Oregon
Victoria Wedell, David Revell, Laura Anderson, and Leesa Cobb
Oregon State University, Surfrider Foundation, and Port Orford Ocean Resource Team
Related websites: Ecotrust Fisheries.
Part IV - Epilogue
- Spatial Reasoning for "Terra Incognita": Progress and Grand Challenges of Marine GIS
Dawn J. Wright and Patrick N. Halpin
Oregon State University and Duke University - ArcMarine
- ArcGIS Data Models
- GEONGrid
- Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System
- Live Access Server
- Marine Metadata Interoperability Initiative
- OBIS-SEAMAP
- OPeNDAP (Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol)
- Open Geospatial Consortium
Related websites:
Presentations from the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting: http://dusk2.geo.orst.edu/placematters/ppts.html.
Figures and appendices from Place Matters are available here.