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 ).

The 5th International Coastal Atlas Workshop (ICAN 5) is being held at UNESCO IOC IODE headquarters, 31 August to 2 September 2011, Oostende, Belgium, in advance of CoastGIS 2011. The theme is Coastal Atlases as Engines for Coastal & Marine Spatial Planning.
     ICAN 5 Program | ICAN 5 Participants

13-15 September 2010, Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Meeting Web Site

The ICAN Great Lakes 2010 meeting brought together ~50 key professionals who are developing, maintaining, and/or evaluating a CWA for their specific political area or region. The meeting location in Madison, Wisconsin allowed a focus on the benefits of networked CWAs for Great Lakes management and restoration. Four additional and important emphases of the meeting were: (1) outreach to emerging CWAs; (2) understanding how CWAs relate to broader initiatives such as the Digital Coast and the Integrated Ocean Observing System; (3) training elements so that participants take away tangible products/knowledge; and (4) continuation of internal ICAN organizational business.

Coastal Informatics: Web Atlas Design and Implementation

- Edited by Dawn J. Wright (Oregon State University, USA), Edward ("Ned") Dwyer and Valerie Cummins (Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, Ireland, now at the Maritime and Energy Research Campus and Commercial Cluster)
- Foreword by Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director, European Environment Agency
- Published by IGI-Global.