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The Wave
Fall 2004
Welcome to the ESRI Marine GIS e-newsletter, The Wave, a guide for interesting Marine GIS current events, publications, and opportunities.
Recent Events
ESRI International User Conference
August 9-13, San Diego, California
Four ocean sessions at the User Conference (UC) filled an entire day with marine-, coastal-, and ocean-related paper sessions divided into the four topics listed below. Explore the variety of ocean-, coastal-, and marine-related papers.
- GIS for Marine Biology
- GIS for the Deep Ocean
- Marine Data Model Case Studies
- Coastal GIS
ESRI Multidimensional GIS Summit
Marine Metadata Initiative
Following the Commissions: Analysis and Implementation of the Ocean Commission and Pew Commission Reports
Second National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration
Useful URLS
POET
NEREIDS
ArcGIS Marine Data Model
Current information can be downloaded from the project's Web sites:
Here you can find the updated UML and repository, PowerPoint presentations, a marine data types diagram, and other documentation. Many case studies representing different implementations were presented at the ESRI UC 2004 and can be reviewed in the proceedings.
A tutorial explaining how to get your data into the model, from start to finish, can be downloaded at
http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/arcgis/MDM_Tutorial/.
New Publications
A Geospatial Framework for the Coastal Zone
©2004 National Academies Press
NRC Committee on National Needs for Coastal Mapping & Charting
www.nap.edu
GIS for Coastal Zone Management
©2004 CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
By Darius Bartlett, UCC, and Jennifer Smith, WWF
www.crcpress.com
Upcoming Marine GIS-Related Events
Coastal GeoTools
- March 7–10, 2005, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- Focuses on the technical information needs of the nation's coastal programs
Association of American Geographers
- April 5–9, 2005, Denver, Colorado
- Includes Coastal and Marine Geography Specialty Group
CoastalZone 05
- July 18–21, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Focuses on balancing the issues and interests of land and sea
You are receiving this e-mail because you have expressed an interest in activities of the ESRI Marine Special Interest Group.
If you know anyone who would like to ride this wave, please pass it along! And check out the ESRI Marine and Coastal Web site for more information.
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