International Travel Grant: Transatlantic Workshops to Formalize an International Coastal Atlas Network

近年来，在为决策者、科学家和对海岸感兴趣的公众开发因特网资源方面出现了巨大的势头。沿海测绘在向决策者提供有关国家主权、资源管理、海洋安全和灾害评估等问题的信息方面发挥着重要作用。一个关键的趋势是沿海网络地图集（CWAs）的发展，定义为一个数字地图和数据集的集合，补充表格，插图和信息，系统地说明了海岸，往往与制图和决策支持工具。它们在为沿海治理、减灾、气候变化影响和脆弱性绘图、海洋空间规划等主题的区域决策提供信息方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。虽然定制地图集可以带来多种好处，但从不同的CWA的整合中获得附加值的潜力仍然存在，可以优化各种级别和跨主题的决策。虽然数字数据集继续呈指数级增长，但我们在分析背景下从所有这些数据中获得意义、知识和管理决策的能力仍然很差。为了满足协调海岸水评估的需要，最近建立了国际海岸地图集网络。 该网络由来自10个国家的35个组织组成，并引起了地方和州政府、非政府组织、大学、NOAA、欧洲环境署（EEA）和教科文组织的兴趣。来自俄勒冈州州立大学的Dawn Wright博士将召集两个国际研讨会，汇集来自欧洲、美国、东非和南部非洲以及加勒比地区的主要专家，将（1）最终确定ICAN的治理和战略规划结构;（2）进一步完成ICAN的使命，在CWA发展的重要知识领域中建立科学基础和知识库（地理，计算机科学和沿海资源管理），（3）发展CWA语义互操作性的进步，（4）在美国和欧洲的INSPIRE倡议之间交流空间数据基础设施方面的经验教训，以及（5）准备合作提交给下一个可用的NSF INTEROP和PIRE比赛。这些研讨会将提供一个模型，为其他学者和管理机构可以制定信息学解决方案，以解决我们沿海地区和渔业的危急状况。该项目将提出建议，可能节省数千至数百万美元和欧元，以防止或减轻失败的沿海开发项目。

In recent years significant momentum has occurred in the development of Internet resources for decision makers, scientists and the general public who are interested in the coast. Coastal mapping plays an important role in informing decision makers on issues such as national sovereignty, resource management, maritime safety and hazard assessment. A key trend has been the development of coastal web atlases (CWAs), defined as a collection of digital maps and datasets with supplementary tables, illustrations, and information that systematically illustrate the coast, oftentimes with cartographic and decision support tools. They are playing an increasingly crucial role in informing regional decision- and policy-making across the themes of coastal governance, hazard mitigation, climate change impacts and vulnerability mapping, marine spatial planning, and more. While multiple benefits are derived from tailor-made atlases, the potential exists to derive added value from the integration of disparate CWAs, to optimize decision making at a variety of levels and across themes. And while digital data sets have continued to grow exponentially, our ability to derive meaning, knowledge and management decisions from all of these data in an analytical context remains poor. In response to the need for coordinated CWA, the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) was recently established. This Newtwork consists of 35 organizations from 10 countries, and has garnered the interest of local and state governments, non-governmental organizations, universities, NOAA, the European Environment Agency (EEA), and UNESCO. Dr. Dawn Wright from Oregon State University will convene two international workshops that bring together key experts from Europe, the United States, eastern and southern Africa, and the Caribbean that will (1) finalize the governance and strategic planning structure for ICAN; (2) further ICAN's mission of establishing scientific grounding and knowledge base among the important knowledge domains of CWA development (geography, computer science, and coastal resource management), (3) develop advances in semantic interoperability for CWAs, (4) exchange lessons learned in spatial data infrastructure between the US and Europe's INSPIRE initiative, and (5) prepare collaborative submissions to the next available NSF INTEROP and PIRE competitions.These workshops will provide a model for how other scholars and management agencies might develop informatics solutions to address the critical state of our coastal zones and fisheries. The project will develop recommendations that could potentially save thousands to millions of U.S. dollars and Euros in the prevention or mitigation of failed coastal development projects.