The EBM Tool Demonstration Webinar Series provides a way to learn about tools quickly (webinars typically last 1 hour) to determine their suitability for specific EBM projects.  Webinars are held 1-3 times per month.  You can view a list of upcoming webinars and download recordings of past webinars below.  Sign up for notices of upcoming webinars.   

Tool Demonstrations Available (Click on the Name of the Tool to Learn More)

anyWare Polling | ARIES | Atlantis | California Ocean Uses Atlas Project | Coastal Resilience EBM Tool Demonstration Project | Coastal Web Atlas Interoperability Prototype | Communities at Sea Mapper | Connie | e-Participation | EBM Tools Awareness #1 | EBM Tools Awareness Webinar #2 | Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) | Eonfusion | Eureka | Fishery Analyst | Fledermaus | Google Earth and Google Maps | IAN | | Integrated Land-Sea Planning Toolkit | InVEST | InVitro | Making Maps with Google Earth and Google Maps | Mapping the Cumulative Impact of Human Activities on Marine Ecosystems | Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET) | Marine Integrated Decision Analysis System (MIDAS) | Marine Reserves and Local Fisheries Interactive Simulation | MarineMap | MarineMap (New Version) | Marxan | Marxan with Zones | MINOE | Miradi | Mitigation Ratio Calculator | Models in support of decision making: deliberative effectiveness, explanatory effectiveness, and policy relevance of models in natural resources management. Case studies in the Laurentian Great Lakes | MPA EZ – the CCIF MPA Financial Management Tool | Multi-species Community-Based Fisheries Monitoring and Managing Tool | Multipurpose Marine Cadastre | NatureServe Vista | Ocean and Coastal EBM Implementation Handbook | Participatory GIS | Reef Resilience Toolkit | Restoration Prioritization Toolset | SLAMM and SLAMM-View | Social Network Mapping and Analysis | Study comparing tool-based and stakeholder-based approaches for designing marine reserve networks | U.S. Legislative Atlas

Upcoming EBM Tool Presentations and Demonstrations

Demonstration of Marine Integrated Decision Analysis System (MIDAS) by Suchi Gopal and Les Kaufman of Boston University (March 10, 2 pm US EST/11 am US PST).  MIDAS is a spatial decision support system to help marine managed area (MMA) managers and users quickly analyze and visualize outcomes from the interaction of socio-economic, governance, and ecological factors of MMAs.  Users can input data for 15 critical determining factors, five each for socio-economic, governance, and ecological factors.  The tool then displays possible outcomes such as state of governance, livelihoods, ecosystem health, outcomes related to MMA effectiveness, and maps of the spatial distribution of risk.  Learn more about MIDAS.  Register for this webinar at www1.gotomeeting.com/register/534407665. 

Demonstration of a Coastal Web Atlas Interoperability Prototype by Dawn Wright of Oregon State University, Tanya Haddad of the Oregon Coastal Management Program, and Liz O’Dea of the Washington State Department of Ecology (March 25, 3 pm US EDT/Noon US PDT).  Imagine being able to access coastal geographic data of all kinds from all over the world easily through a user-friendly web interface!  The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) is a new informal group of organizations working towards this goal by scoping and implementing data interoperability approaches for Coastal Web Atlases.  One of ICAN’s major goals is to help build a functioning digital atlas of the worldwide coast by organizing an interoperability network for the integration of locally-maintained Coastal Web Atlases.  This work also has implications for global spatial data infrastructures and Internet mapping projects.  During the webinar, presenters will give an overview of ICAN and how to get involved and give a demonstration of a Coastal Web Atlas Interoperability Prototype.  This tool is a proof-of-concept of how Coastal Web Atlases from different parts of the world can be linked.  It demonstrates an easy way to search for coastal geographic data from any atlas that is connected to the ICAN Prototype.  Learn more about the International Coastal Atlas Network at http://ican.science.oregonstate.edu/ican and view the interoperability prototype at http://ican.ucc.ie/.  Sign up for the EBM Tools Network mailing list if you would like to receive information to register for this webinar. 

Making Maps with Google Earth and Google Maps by Shane Bradt of the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension (April 6, 2 pm US EDT/11 am US PDT).  This webinar demonstrated how to make interactive and 3D maps using free Google mapping tools. It explored the basics of Google Earth and Google Maps with a focus on creating maps to share with others. With Google Earth, you can show points, lines and areas with colors and icons of your choice and link to webpages, pictures and email addresses. Google Maps provides the ability to create a custom map online and share it with colleagues, have them contribute to the map, and embed your custom map in your own website.  A training manual which walks users through how to use the Google Earth and Google Maps functionality demonstrated in this webinar is available from UNH’s Cooperative Extension at  http://extension.unh.edu/GISGPS/GISINFO.cfm?crs=18.  Google Earth can be downloaded at http://earth.google.com. Google Maps is available at http://maps.google.com.  Sign up for the EBM Tools Network mailing list if you would like to receive information to register for this webinar.

Demonstration of new version of MarineMap Decision Support Tool by Will McClintock (UCSB), Charles Steinback (Ecotrust), and Matt Merrifield (TNC) (May 3, 2 pm EDT/11 am PDT).  MarineMap is a web-based decision-support tool that allows users to draw prospective Marine Protected Areas and receive immediate feedback on the protections and impacts from the drawn proposal. Users can then adjust the proposal or share it with others.  A new version of MarineMap, launching in February 2010, includes a modeling tool for predicting the biological and economic effects of different MPA proposals and selecting sites that will produce optimal benefits for both conservation and fisheries objectives.  In addition, the new version of MarineMap has a dramatically different look, feel, and underlying system architecture.  Capitalizing on Google Earth and Google Wave APIs, the new MarineMap has an improved layout, query tool, support for visualizing temporal data, layer organization, KML tours and spatial discussion forum. MarineMap is based on entirely free and open source code. Learn more about MarineMap.  Sign up for the EBM Tools Network mailing list if you would like to receive information to register for this webinar. 

Demonstration of Miradi 3.1 by Nick Salafsky of Foundations of Success (June 3, 3 pm US EDT/Noon US PDT).  Miradi is a user-friendly program that allows conservation practitioners to design, manage, and monitor projects according to standards developed by leading conservation organizations. The program guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards to define their project scope, design conceptual models of their project site, plan and conduct viability analysis of conservation targets, prioritize threats, develop objectives and actions, and select monitoring indicators to assess the effectiveness of their strategies. Miradi also supports the development of workplans and budgets and allows import and export of data to online databases. This webinar will demonstrate basic Miradi functionality as well as describe how some conservation projects are using Miradi.  Learn more about Miradi at https://miradi.org.  Sign up for the EBM Tools Network mailing list if you would like to receive information to register for this webinar. 

Past EBM Tool Presentations and Demonstrations  

***Click here to view and download past webinars from 2008.***

***Click here to view and download past webinars from 2009.***

Overview of the Ocean and Coastal EBM Implementation Handbook by Kathryn Mengerink and Jordan Diamond of the Environmental Law Institute (January 20, 2010).  The Environmental Law Institute has released the Ocean and Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management: Implementation Handbook, which identifies successful approaches to implementing marine EBM, describes the limitations of these approaches, and highlights opportunities to apply the approaches in the future.  The various EBM approaches described may be useful in different settings depending upon regional needs and opportunities The Handbook also provides a spectrum of examples of projects that take steps toward EBM.  This webinar gave an overview of key findings and EBM examples from the Handbook.  The Handbook is available for download at www.elistore.org/reports_detail.asp?ID=11350.  Download the recording of the presentation [Windows Media .wmv format].  If you are unable to download the recording, please contact us.

Presentation on Comparing Tool and Stakeholder-Based Approaches to Marine Reserve Network Design by Carissa Klein of the University of Queensland and Charles Steinback of Ecotrust (February 3, 2010). In this presentation, two of the study’s authors showed the results of a comparison of the effectiveness of different marine reserve network proposals at representing biodiversity and minimizing estimated negative impacts to fishermen.  Some marine reserve network proposals were designed by the study authors using a numerical optimization tool, and others were networks designed by stakeholders during the course of California’s Marine Life Protection Act Initiative.  The study authors used the same spatial data representing biodiversity and recreational fishing effort that were used by the stakeholders to design marine reserves. In addition, they used commercial fishing data not explicitly available to the stakeholders.  The study found that networks of marine reserves designed with numerical optimization tools represented the same amount or more of each habitat and had less of an estimated impact on commercial and recreational fisheries. The networks designed by the stakeholders could have represented more of each habitat with no additional impact on the fisheries. Of four different marine reserve proposals considered in the initiative, the proposal designed by fishermen was more efficient than the proposals designed by other stakeholder groups at representing biodiversity and minimizing impact to the fishing industry. These results highlight the necessity of using comprehensive information on fishing effort to design a reserve network that efficiently minimizes negative socioeconomic impacts.  Download the recording of the presentation [Windows Media .wmv format].  If you are unable to download the recording, please contact us.

Presentation on Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) and SLAMM-View by Jonathan Clough of Warren Pinnacle Consulting and Jeff Ehman of Image Matters (February 23, 2010).  The Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) simulates the dominant processes involved in wetland conversions and shoreline modifications during long-term sea level rise.  Map distributions of wetlands are predicted under conditions of accelerated sea level rise, and results are summarized in tabular and graphical form.  SLAMM 6.0 (open source) has just been released and can be downloaded at http://warrenpinnacle.com/SLAMMFORUM/index.php?topic=55.0.  SLAMM-View is a web-based visualization tool that portrays pairs of mapped simulation results from one or more sea level rise scenarios and time steps in conjunction with other thematic layers (e.g. state and county boundaries, NWI wetland areas) that provide context.  Analysis tools provide summaries of changes for user-defined areas.  Learn more about SLAMM at www.warrenpinnacle.com/prof/SLAMM/index.html and SLAMM-View at www.slammview.org.   Download the recording of the presentation [Windows Media .wmv format].  If you are unable to download the recording, please contact us.