From west_coast_data_network at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Fri Dec 20 11:30:52 2013 From: west_coast_data_network at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (west_coast_data_network at listsmart.osl.state.or.us) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:30:52 -0800 Subject: [West Coast Ocean Data Network] Happy Holidays from West Coast Ocean Data Network! Message-ID: Happy Holidays! The West Coast Governors Alliance on Ocean Health thanks the participants of the West Coast Ocean Data Network meeting last month in Costa Mesa, CA. The meeting brought together over 75 ocean and coastal data managers and data users from state and federal agencies, tribal governments, research universities, and NGOs to discuss strategies for better data sharing on the West Coast including: - Providing feedback on the West Coast Ocean Data Portal, a website that will link existing data catalogs together and provide an easy to use gateway to discover ocean and coastal data. - Expressing need for communication and visualization tools to help the Network inform ocean issues like tracking marine debris, adapting to sea level rise, monitoring ocean acidification, and marine planning. - Highlighting the need for 'data diplomats' at partner organizations to provide points of contact for data resources and technical capacity across the West Coast. Followup from the meeting will include: - Incorporating Network feedback into the design and function of the Portal. - Formalization of the Network through a ?Statement of Support?. - Development of data visualization and Network communication tools. - A formal meeting proceedings document with presentations will be available shortly. You can access the West Coast Ocean Data Network Statement of Support here. The West Coast Ocean Data Portal is a project of the West Coast Governors Alliance on Ocean Health to increase discovery and connectivity of ocean and coastal data and people to better inform resource management, policy development, and marine planning. It is generously funded through a NOAA Regional Ocean Partnership grant. You can learn more at http://westcoastoceans.org/WCODP or contact Todd Hallenbeck (todd.r.hallenbeck at westcoastoceans.org). -- *Todd R. Hallenbeck* | Program Coordinator West Coast Ocean Data Portal West Coast Governors Alliance Cell: (408) 482-6807 todd.r.hallenbeck at westcoastoceans. org | www. westcoastoceans.org/RDF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: