EBM Tools Network Webinar Series

The EBM Tools Network Webinar Series highlights key tools and tool use case studies to help practitioners learn about tools quickly and determine their suitability for specific EBM projects. Webinars are held 1-3 times per month and typically last 1 hour.

Upcoming EBM Tool Demonstration Webinars

 

Presentation on Esri’s Emerging Natural and Ocean Sciences Agenda by Dawn Wright of Esri (August 2, 2 pm EDT/11 am PDT/6 pm GMT). Increasingly, GIS is part of the collaboration between computer scientists, information scientists, and domain scientists to solve complex scientific questions. Successfully addressing scientific problems, such as informing regional decision- and policy-making for coastal zone management and marine spatial planning, requires integrative and innovative approaches to analyzing, modeling, and developing extensive and diverse data sets. The current chaotic distribution of available data sets, lack of documentation about them, and lack of easy-to-use access tools and computer modeling and analysis codes are still major obstacles for scientists and educators alike. Contributing solutions to these problems is part of an emerging science agenda for oceanography and related natural sciences that will be discussed. Esri has also recently launched a major ocean GIS initiative, and the talk will highlight some recent projects in progress, including a new ocean basemap, a new ocean geodesign platform for coastal and marine spatial planning, developing contributions to CI's Ocean Health Index project, and more. Learn more at http://bit.ly/kupPiZ.  Register for this webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/290196833.

Demonstration of SeaSketch by Will McClintock and Evan Thomas Paul of the University of California at Santa Barbara (August 21, 1 pm US EDT/10 am US PDT/5 pm GMT). SeaSketch is a web-based collaborative GeoDesign tool for ocean planning. It is designed as a "software-service," meaning that users may log onto the site and immediately begin using a host of features including: (1) defining a study region, (2) uploading and organizing map data for visualization, (3) creating user groups with specific data permissions, (4) creating map-based chat forums and invite users to participate, (5) defining sketch classes that correspond to sector-based management tools (e.g., conservation areas, aquaculture sites, mining sites, transportation zones, etc.), (6) designing and deploying geospatial survey tools (e.g., human use information, marine mammal sitings, etc.), and (7) sharing sketches, map book marks, map annotations and attachments within the map-based discussion forum. With assistance in developing case-specific analytics (e.g., those that correspond to each sketch class), users will also be able to: (8) generate reports that indicate how well designs meet guidelines (e.g., conservation or energy goals, etc.) and (9) visualize trade-off plots to find more optimal solutions. Finally, process facilitators will be able to: (1) trace sketch lineages to determine the origin and transference of spatial designs, (2) visualize social network diagrams to determine where collaboration is occurring or breaking down, and (3) generate layer use statistics to know where users are looking on the map and what features they are using to make decisions. Tool developers are developing SeaSketch as an end-to-end solution for marine spatial planning, from early discussions of existing data to data gathering to design, analysis, implementation and adaptive management. Learn more about SeaSketch at http://seasketch.org.  Register for this webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/550292777.

 

Download Recordings of Past EBM Tool Webinars (by Date)

Webinars below are organized by the date they were held.