Latest Contributions by DawnWright

A deep thanks again for your participation in, or remote support of, our Esri Ocean GIS Forum last week, which made it among the best ever. Please find for your enjoyment:   A Storify of the many tweets during the event, including some great photos, story maps, and videos;   A Flickr album of photos, thanks to the expert work of Esri photographer Eric Laycock;   My plenary slide deck on Your Knowledge, Our Community, the Ocean’s Resilience, including important web links therein (one with a Dec. 15 th deadline);   The Ocean of Story Maps Collection;   Don’t forget that feedback is still welcome on the National Ocean Exploration Forum discussion thread on GeoNet.   Indeed, we hope to see many, if not all of you, in our Ocean Sciences GeoNet online community in order to CONTINUE the discussions and friendships of the past week.   MARK YOUR CALENDARS for November 6-8, 2018 for next year’s Esri Ocean GIS Forum, site to be determined somewhere in southern California! ... View more

On October 21-22, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NOAA held the 5th Annual National Ocean Exploration Forum (NOEF), "Ocean Exploration in a Sea of Data," at UC-San Diego's Qualcomm Institute (Computer Science and Engineering). This invitation-only forum brought together the data science and ocean exploration communities to discuss how data science analysis and visualization techniques can be applied to contemporary and historical ocean exploration data. Participants considered how relevant data, whether from satellites, ships, autonomous ocean sensors, or deep ocean cores, can be integrated, analyzed, and visualized in order to understand the ocean in new ways. There are natural many ties here to ocean GIS and to our own Esri Ocean GIS Forum. In a plenary panel during the Forum, Dr. Vicki Ferrini of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory expressed how "integrating data across temporal/spatial scales and integrating modern data with legacy data is indeed a fundamental challenge. But in this challenge is a fundamental opportunity.  Most importantly, an ability to work with data across time and space (in all meanings of the words) creates the potential not only for making new and unexpected discoveries, but to do science and engage the data in a completely different way.  Along the way, we demonstrate the value of data management and preservation efforts.  We’re at a watershed moment where challenges, opportunities, and solutions may not be completely understood, but at least seem tractable.  That may not be the case five or ten years from now.  The ocean exploration community clearly needs a closer relationship with the data science, and visualization communities, and the sooner the better." Some important discussion topics that came up and shared here for YOUR consideration as well: Best strategies for integrating/visualizing spatially sparse data? Temporally sparse data? How can we confidently extrapolate data - to compensate for gaps in observations/measurements? Techniques for using sparse data to predict/model with better accuracy? Are there techniques for meaningful integration of data even when veracity (data quality) is highly variable? Related lessons learned Opportunities for cross-domain sharing of tools and techniques? What venues or approaches will help fuse relationships between data scientists/visualization experts and ocean explorers? The Esri Ocean GIS Forum can have a say too! Please use the REPLY button below to respond to any of these topics. I will pass them on the NOEF organizers for possible inclusion in their report! Need help logging into GeoNet? Ultimately the 2017 NOEF will result in recommendations for how data scientists and ocean explorers can collaborate to expand traditional concepts of ocean exploration to drive toward new discoveries, greater access to contemporary and historical data, and better engagement of the public. These will also extend the recommendations from the past 4 forums (attached). ... View more

Here’s how to log in to GeoNet for our Ask Me Anything event for Earth Imagery at Work. We suggest you log in a day or two ahead of time to insure you have the needed credentials. 1) Go to the Ocean Sciences page 2) Click the Log In link at the top right. 3) You’ll see a Welcome page. Log in with your Esri credentials. • If you do not have Esri credentials, enter your name and e-mail address to create an account. After you complete the process, return to the AMA page and log in with your new credentials. • If you have Esri credentials, click the “Sign In here” link at the bottom of the page (see below) and log in with your credentials. You will be logged into GeoNet. • If you are not sure if you have Esri credentials, here’s how to find out. ... View more

Check out the new Sciences Portal in ArcGIS Online at http://science.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html with some nice introductory material about it already posted by Joseph Kerski‌ and some terrific ocean science content. And in support of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Week and the GEO-XIV Plenary, 23-27 October 2017 in Washington, DC, Esri offer Insights for a Changing World: The Complete Platform for Earth Observation with an assortment of links to spatially intelligent ocean scientific apps and additional landing pages. ... View more

Check out the new Sciences Portal in ArcGIS Online at http://science.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html with some nice introductory material about it already posted by Joseph Kerski‌ And in support of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Week and the GEO-XIV Plenary, 23-27 October 2017 in Washington, DC, Esri offer Insights for a Changing World: The Complete Platform for Earth Observation with an assortment of links to spatially intelligent scientific apps and additional landing pages. ... View more

As you prepare for the 2017 Esri Ocean GIS Forum, enjoy the keynote from 2016 by Dr. Nick Hedley of SimOn Fraser University: an exploration of how GIS displays can increasingly serve as portals between worlds, by way of virtual 3D coastal atlases and the coupling gaming engines with GIS for augmented reality in support of a host of scientific applications (i.e., not just eye candy, but for rigorous science and decision support, especially for hazards). Esri Ocean GIS Forum 2016: Keynote Address - YouTube  ... View more

Did you know that the fall season can be ALMOST as busy as pre-UC for Esri staff in terms of important science conferences? Here is the road ahead from my perspective.   October 17-19 – It will be great to have the Esri Health and Human Services GIS Conference here in Redlands this year, where Jack himself will speak, as well as Director of Sales Chris Cappelli, our own Chief Medical Officer Dr. Este Geraghty, spatial stats queen Lauren Bennett and spatial epidemiologist Dr. Linda Beale (of Insights fame). They will be joined by a host of distinguished plenary speakers including the COO of Kaiser Permanente and the Chief Medical Officer of Inland Empire Health Plan. Science-of-Where approaches toward stemming the opioid epidemic are sure to be among the many important timely and topics.   October 31-November 2 – The Esri Ocean GIS Forum here in Redlands moves into its fifth offering and is on track for its largest attendance ever. It has become more than just a small esoteric, specialist meeting. It is in fact a very important community-building event cutting horizontally across many business sectors, especially national govt, state/local govt, natural resources, nonprofit, education, defense. And did you know that it is often at the FORUM that new tech is demoed or introduced even BEFORE the Dev Summit or UC (e.g., dry run of VR/AR, launch of the SciPy Stack, advancements in multidimensional sci analysis, etc.). This year’s keynote will be given by former astronaut & NOAA administrator Kathryn Sullivan. And we will again be honored by Chris Cappelli’s plenary participation.   November 7-10 – ACM SIGSPATIAL in Redondo Beach. Esri plays a large and significant role in ACM SIGSPATIAL, one of the best academic conferences directly relating to key topics being addressed by Esri software development. Esri is a corporate sponsor for this event along with Google, Lyft, Facebook, Oracle, nVidia, Microsoft, IBM, and Ordnance Survey). With Esri's Erik Hoel at the helm as conference co-chair, Esri Dev staff serve as conference officers and members of the program committee. And Esri Dev staff have had two full papers accepted for presentation and publication (one on spatio-temporal join in Apache Spark and one on a new utility-centric graph information model). This is quite an achievement given the highly selective 17% acceptance rate (~40 papers out of ~230 were accepted). Esri had 2 of the top 7 ranked papers by numerical evaluation score!   November 9-10 – Imagery Education Summit here in Redlands - This one-time-only, invitation-only event will host 75-100 remote sensing/imagery faculty members from top universities across the country to discuss Esri’s technical advancements in imagery, drive platform adoption at these top universities and help them transform their imagery curricula. Conceived and convened by Imagery Director Lawrie Jordan, and co-sponsored by NASA and Oak Ridge National Lab.   December 11-15 – American Geophysical (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans. AGU is the world largest, more pre-eminent Earth science conference. It dwarfs our UC with an annual attendance of over 25,000. AGU is a meeting that we not only serve as exhibitors, but co-organize sessions with scientists, present papers and posters, participate in science communication and career/education workshops. Dan Rather is speaking at this year’s event. In the past, keynoters have included Elon Musk and Al Gore.   ... View more

Stay tuned for more info from the Esri team on new workflows to produce local, higher-resolution 3D meshes and ultimately EMUs from NOAA data or your own data. Watch this space and the Esri Ocean GIS Forum recaps for more! We also have a growing list of exciting use cases of the EMUs for a range of scientific and resource management applications (NOAA Animal Telemetry Network, the Chesapeake Bay Program, the Orange County Sanitation District, the University of South Florida and Woods Hole as part of GEO’s Marine Biodiversity Observation Network, SCCWRP, and more). ... View more

http://www.esri.com/events/ocean The Esri Ocean GIS Forum brings together thought leaders from the ocean GIS community in an interactive environment that fosters exploration, collaboration, learning, and innovation. This year's forum will focus on new, innovative GIS tools and forward-thinking solutions built to provide a deeper understanding of our oceans. When you join your colleagues and Esri subject matter experts at the Esri campus in Redlands, California, on October 31, you will have a front-row seat to shaping the future of ocean and maritime GIS design. Share your ideas and successes with industry colleagues and help shape the future of GIS design through one-on-one collaboration. Learn how GIS serves as a powerful tool for scientific understanding, by improving analyses, insights, efficiencies, communication, and maritime workflows in government and commercial communities. Discover the ways in which multi-dimensional data and web apps can help you put cutting-edge scientific information to work in your organization at Technical Workshops. Learn how to extract more value from your marine and coastal data when it is filtered, analyzed, and viewed on a smart map - producing better informed decisions. Explore and test-drive ArcGIS 10.5 with free, expert-led training at the Hands-On Learning Lab. Attend dynamic presentations from Esri staff, partners, and customers at the Plenary Session, Lightning Talks, and User Presentations. Return to your campus, organization, or institution with a deeper understanding of how GIS technology serves as a powerful tool in the areas of ocean science research and analysis, ocean use planning, marine resilience management, conservation and restoration, and much more! You can't afford to miss this unique opportunity to learn proven best practices firsthand from ocean and maritime industry thought leaders, grow your professional network, expand your GIS skill set, and implement new approaches to success in 2017 and beyond! Don't wait to sign-up. The early-bird registration deadline is August 31, 2017. ... View more