Latest Contributions by DawnWright

As one of the largest geographic conferences in the world, the 2017 AAG Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Boston hosted as many as 9,500 geographers, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists from around the world. Special Session 2411: A New Map of Global Ecological Marine Units (EMUs) - An Environmental Stratification Approach Thursday, April 6, 1:20 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., AAG Annual Meeting, Boston Room: 200, Hynes, Second Level Roger Sayre (USGS), Dawn Wright (Esri), Charlie Frye (Esri) And this special publication (technical report) was given to every conference attendee requesting a conference bag  A New Map of Global Ecological Marine Units – An Environmental Stratification Approach Download the free color pdf  ... View more

GEOHAB (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) is an international association of marine scientists studying biophysical (i.e. geologic and oceanographic) indicators of benthic habitats and ecosystems as proxies for biological communities and species diversity.   The GeoHab 2017 annual conference will be held for the first time in Nova Scotia, Canada at the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Waterfront Campus from Monday May 1 to Friday May 5 2017.  Please find attached the program for the 2017 GeoHab workshop. The workshop this year is focused on Ocean Mapping technologies - and will take place on Monday 1st may at the NSCC Waterfront Campus.  Among the sessions will be "Analysis, Visualization and Sharing of 3D Ecological Marine Data," taught by Esri's Kevin Butler and Drew Stephens. The goal of the workshop is to offer delegates an opportunity to see first hand the latest and greatest innovations in ocean mapping tools (hardware and software) from a variety of ocean technology vendors. This will include hands-on trials of the latest software tools, classroom sessions on technology developments, and field demos of hardware. There will be a plenary session to discuss the technologies and identify future R&D activities associated with ocean floor mapping. Registration is open through the GeoHab website (http://geohab2017.wixsite.com/geohab2017). Please note that delegates are welcome to register for the workshop without registering for the main GeoHab conference. ... View more

Check out EarthXplorers, a great proof-of-concept to help transform K-12 env education http://httpbit.ly/2mVXBuB  A new video (above) describes EarthXplorers, a project of the University of Minnesota's LT Media Lab in partnership with Esri, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and others. EarthXplorers is a successful proof-of-concept that pairs mapping with an online learning environment to support guided project-based learning at the K-12 level. Thanks to David DiBiase and Charlie Fitzpatrick for this info! ... View more

Hot off the presses: Sayre, Wright, Breyer, Butler, Van Graafeiland, et al., 2017. A Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Ocean Based on Environmental Data, Oceanography 30(1):90–103. Also finally here! The Ecological Marine Units (EMU) Explorer mobile app, downloadable from iTunes or GooglePlay http://apple.co/2n9mDDh  | http://bit.ly/2n98mXb ... View more

As shared by Simon Hill, Federal Government Industry Lead for Esri Australia: "From a tragedy has emerged a small silver lining in the form of increased knowledge of a remote part the Indian Ocean floor. Esri Australia is working closely with Geoscience Australia at the moment to get the vast amounts of data collected made available to the public (via AWS)." Article from the Atlantic:  The Search for MH370 Revealed Secrets of the Deep Ocean Similar articles that appeared this week in Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union are attached. ... View more

Esri's online science portfolio has been updated! See the latest at esriurl.com/scicomm. ... View more