Latest Contributions by DawnWright

See our new Esri Ecological Marine Units story map with material from our many talks introducing the project, as well as from our peer-reviewed journal article in Oceanography. Thanks to KVanGraafeiland-esristaff for creating this great resource!   Visit the story map at esriurl.com/emustory or click on the image below.  ... View more

Wednesday, May 17, 2 pm US EDT/11 am US PDT/6 pm UTC Ecological Marine Units: A 3-D Mapping of the Ocean Based on NOAA’s World Ocean Atlas (Tools Included) by Dawn Wright of Esri. This webinar reports progress on the Ecological Marine Units (EMU) project, a new undertaking commissioned by the Group on Earth Observations, to develop a standardized and practical global ecosystems classification and map for the oceans. The EMU is comprised of a global point mesh framework, created from 52,487,233 points from the NOAA World Ocean Atlas. Each point has x, y, z, as well as six attributes of chemical and physical oceanographic structure (temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, silicate, phosphate) that are likely drivers of many ecosystem responses. We identify and map 37 environmentally distinct 3D regions (candidate ‘ecosystems’) within the water column. These units can be attributed according to their productivity, direction and velocity of currents, species abundance, global seafloor geomorphology, and more. A series of data products for open access will share the 3D point mesh and EMU clusters at the surface, bottom, and within the water column, as well as 2D and 3D web apps for exploration of the EMUs and the original World Ocean Atlas data. This webinar will provide an overview of the EMU project and cover recent developments and future plans for the EMUs. Webinar co-sponsored by the EBM Tools Network (co-coordinated by NatureServe and OpenChannels.org) and MEAM.  Presented today to 140 attendees, over 300 total registrants. The (Coastal-Marine) Ecosystem Based Management Tools Network is co-coordinated by NatureServe and OpenChannels. The recording is posted at https://www.openchannels.org/webinars/2017/ecological-marine-units-3-d-mapping-ocean-based-noaas-world-ocean-atlas, which includes slides and notes. ... View more

My colleagues and I are pleased to share the lineup of Esri short courses and presentations to be presented this April at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017 in Vienna, Austria. Many know of EGU as the premier Earth, space, and planetary sciences scholarly organization of Europe, with over 12,500 members from around the world. It is a sister organization of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). EGU's annual assembly is the largest, most prominent geosciences event in Europe, attracting over 11,000 attendees from all over the world, of which more than 25% are students.  You’ll see in the list below of short courses and papers or posters that Esri is leading or contributing on the SCIENCE of WHERE in a number of areas. This showcases how we are an organization that not only enables great understanding of the world with our products and services, but also performs good science, and contributes well as a member of the scientific community. In addition, we will have an exhibit booth presence (led by Frank Holsmuller) with messaging and a daily schedule of demos featuring: Imagery/Drone2Map the ArcGIS Python API and the R-ArcGIS Bridge Open Data, The Living Atlas, and Story Maps Ecological Marine Units and Hydrology Insights and GeoAnalytical Server I thank the many colleagues who have worked so hard to make all of this happen, especially Frank, Michael Gould, Guenter Doerffel (Synergis, Esri Austrian distributor), Ionut Sandric and Alexandru Vasile (Esri Romania), and Daniela Wingert and Melanie Brandmeier (Esri Germany).  EGU Short Courses led by Esri Wed, 17:30-19:00, Room -2.16 SC83 - Integrating Multidimensional Scientific Data with ArcGIS Convener: Ionut Cosmin Sandric  | Co-Convener: Sudhir Shrestha   Thu, 17:30-19:00, Room -2.16 SC84 - Visualizing and Analyzing Imagery with ArcGIS Convener: Alexandru Vasile  | Co-Convener: Ionut Cosmin Sandric EGU Papers/Posters/PICO with Esri Participation EGU2017-19126 Sentinel-2 ArcGIS Tool for Environmental Monitoring by Alin Plesoianu et al. Session GI2.3/ESSI2.11/G5.4/NH6.7 Scientific Exploitation of Copernicus Sentinels (co-organized) Thursday, 27 April 2017, 17:30-19:00, Hall X4   EGU2017-18959 Processing UAV data for Digital Terrain Model generation and tree detection by Alin Plesioanu et al. Session SSS12.6/GI2.13/GM3.9 Unmanned Aerial Systems: Platforms, Sensors and Applications in Soil, Agriculture and Geosciences  Friday, 28 April 2017, 13:46-13:58, PICO spot 5b   EGU2017-18724 Space-time analysis of snow cover change in the Romanian Carpathians (2001-2016) by Dana Micu and Ionut Cosmin Sandric Session CL4.07/AS1.14/BG9.18/CR1.7/HS11.3 Mountain climates: processes, change and related impacts  Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 17:30-19:00, Hall X5   EGU2017-6051 The Ecological Marine Units Project as a Framework for Collaborative Data Exploration, Distribution, and Knowledge Building by Dawn Wright et al. Session ESSI1.1 Informatics in Oceanography and Ocean Science Monday, 24 April 2017, 09:15-09:30, Room L1   EGU2017-1729 Space-time patterns in ignimbrite compositions revealed by GIS and R based statistical analysis by Melanie Brandmeier and Gerhard Wörner Session IE3.2/NP4.3 Big data and machine learning in geosciences (co-organized) Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 17:30-19:00, Hall X4 ... View more

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