Many thanks to ICAN newsletter editor Andy Sherin for his great efforts on ICAN's first official newsletter!

Please feel free to circulate to others. We will publish Vol 1 No 2 in September. Please consider sending in an article.

We are very interested in making sure the newsletter is useful! Please send any comments you might have for improvement to Andy, Ned or Dawn.

Andy Sherin
Director, Secretariat
Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Over the last few months the ICAN steering and management working groups have been looking at options around how to put governance of the Network on a sound footing. A decision was taken to seek to become an official International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) project under the International Oceanographic Commission (IOC). IOC has provisionally accepted our request. We look forward to working with IOC on progressing activities of mutual interest.

A public announcement can be found at: http://www.eucc.net/euccnews/ . Thanks to Roger Longhorn for his hard work on this issue over recent months.

The Water Atlas of the Florida Center for Community Design + Research, University of South Florida, is the latest to join ICAN. Welcome!

The North Carolina Coastal Hazards Decision Portal of East Carolina University, USA is the latest to join ICAN. Welcome!

Presentation on Networking Coastal Web Atlases to Address Regional-Scale Issues: Lessons from the West Coast and the Great Lakes

by David Hart of Wisconsin Sea Grant and Tanya Haddad of the Oregon Coastal Management Program (December 6 at 2 pm Eastern/11 am Pacific/7 pm GMT).

DOWNLOAD webinar at the EBM Tools Network page

The European Commission's European Atlas of the Seas (Maratlas) is the latest to join ICAN. Welcome!

Event web site: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/socialcoastforum

Discuss how social science made a difference in addressing a coastal management issue. Submit an abstract by Monday, October 24, 2011.

At this forum you will talk with coastal officials who have used social science tools to make management decisions and hear from social scientists who have developed the tools and methods used to address coastal management issues. You will learn about projects where social science data were successfully integrated with biological and physical data to develop coastal solutions, and you will laugh and commiserate with your colleagues as you hear about those social science projects that did not go quite as well as expected.

Most importantly, we will all benefit from the stories and resources this forum will provide in finding the social science contributions to solving coastal management issues.

Great photos from the ICAN 5 workshop now available at www.flick.com, courtesy of Liz O'Dea, State of Washington Department of Ecology.

A symposium co-organized by ICAN on "Advances in Coastal Atlases, Habitat Mapping, and Habitat Assessment Science to Support Fisheries and Ecosystem Decisions" will be taking place at the American Fisheries Society 141st Annual Meeting, 8 September 2011, Seattle, Washington, USA (http://afs.confex.com/afs/2011/webprogram/Session1675.html ).