ICAN Working Groups

Submitted by dawn on 17 November 2008 - 1:56pm.

To further its objectives, ICAN has formed a number of working groups, each of which has its own page on this portal where more information is available:

The TECHNICAL task force researches and develops solutions for coastal web atlas (CWA) advancement, especially the semantic interoperability between CWA through the use of ontologies. Technical task force members include:

Luis Bermudez, SURA
Simon Claus, VLIZ
Laurent d'Ozourville, EurOcean
Declan Dunne, CMRC
Tanya Haddad, OCMP
Kathrin Kopke, CMRC
Yassine Lassoued, CMRC
Liz O'Dea, Washington Department of Ecology, coordinator
Eoin O'Grady, Marine Institute
Alessandro Sarretta, ISMAR-CNR, Italy
Dawn Wright, OSU, co-coordinator

The STRATEGIC PLANNING group is tasked with developing the long-term mission and objectives of ICAN, as well as how best to implement our vision and obtain needed resources. As such, this group identifies suitable funding opportunities and responds to calls for grant proposals. The working group is also concerned with raising awareness and promoting the benefits of ICAN to the developer and user communities, including non-technical, high-level decision makers. Strategic planning working group members include:

Ned Dwyer, CMRC, coordinator
Tony LaVoi, NOAA CSC
Roger Longhorn, Info-Dynamics Research Assoc Ltd & UNESCO IODE
Andrus Meiner, EEA
Tim Nyerges, University of Washington
Greg Reed, UNESCO IODE
Ronan Uhel, EEA
Dawn Wright, OSU

The GOVERNANCE working group is tasked with creating and implementing a governance model for ICAN, including procedures for admitting primary and associate members, and the structure and function of a central coordination group, a steering group, and issues of technical task force governance. Governance working group members include:

Ned Dwyer, CMRC
John Helly, San Diego Supercomputer Center, coordinator
Roy Lowry, BODC, co-coordinator
John Pepper, UK Hydrographic Office
Dawn Wright, OSU

The ASSESSMENT working group is concerned with assessing how CWAs are used by different user communities, and if user expectations are being met. This may include carrying out a comprehensive baseline inventories of existing coastal atlases and their functionalities. Assessement working group members include:

Kathy Belpaeme, Coordination Centre for Integrated Coastal Zone Management of Belgium, EU coordinator
Marcia Berman, VIMS, US coordinator
Tanya Haddad, OCMP
David Hart, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Kathrin Kopke, CMRC
Tony LaVoi, NOAA CSC, US co-coordinator
Andrus Meiner, EEA
Tim Nyerges, University of Washington
Liz O'Dea, Washington Dept. of Ecology
Gabe Sataloff, NOAA CSC
Lucy Scott, African Marine Atlas team
Kathy Taylor, Washington Dept. of Ecology
Randy Warren, NOAA CSC
Dawn Wright, OSU