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First Official ICAN Newsletter!
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
ICAN to become a UNESCO IOC IODE project
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.
U. of South Florida's Water Atlas joins ICAN
The Water Atlas of the Florida Center for Community Design + Research, University of South Florida, is the latest to join ICAN. Welcome!
North Carolina Coastal Hazards Decision Portal joins ICAN!
The North Carolina Coastal Hazards Decision Portal of East Carolina University, USA is the latest to join ICAN. Welcome!
European Atlas of the Seas (Maratlas) joins ICAN!
The European Commission's European Atlas of the Seas (Maratlas) is the latest to join ICAN. Welcome!
ICAN 5 Photos Now Available
Great photos from the ICAN 5 workshop now available at www.flick.com, courtesy of Liz O'Dea, State of Washington Department of Ecology.
ICAN 5 Event Intro and Photos, Oostende, Belgium
Wonderful photos HERE courtesy of Liz O'Dea!
ICAN 5 just completed in Oostende, Belgium!
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
ICAN Great Lakes Workshop 2010 a Great Success
13-15 September 2010, Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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.
ICAN's new book is out!
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.
