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

近年来，为决策者、科学家和对海岸感兴趣的公众开发互联网资源方面出现了显著的势头。沿海测绘在向决策者提供国家主权、资源管理、海洋安全和危险评估等问题方面发挥着重要作用。一个主要趋势是开发沿海网络地图集，其定义是一组数字地图和数据集，带有补充表格、插图和信息，系统地说明海岸情况，往往还包括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测绘、海洋空间规划等主题的区域决策和决策提供信息方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。虽然量身定做的地图集带来了多种好处，但也有可能从整合不同的CWA中获得附加值，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，但我们从所有这些数据中分析得出意义、知识和管理决策的能力仍然很差。为了应对协调一致的海洋地图集的需要，最近建立了国际沿海地图集网络。这项新工作由来自10个国家的35个组织组成，引起了地方和州政府、非政府组织、大学、NOAA、欧洲环境局(EEA)和教科文组织的兴趣。俄勒冈州立大学的道恩·赖特博士将召开两次国际研讨会，汇聚来自欧洲、美国、东部和南部非洲以及加勒比地区的主要专家，这将(1)最终确定ICAN的治理和战略规划结构；(2)进一步推动ICAN的使命，即在CWA发展的重要知识领域(地理、计算机科学和沿海资源管理)中建立科学基础和知识库，(3)为CWA发展语义互操作性方面的进展，(4)在美国和欧洲的INSPIRE倡议之间交流在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届可用的NSF Interop和IRE竞赛。这些研讨会将为其他学者和管理机构如何开发信息学解决方案来解决我们海岸带和渔业的关键状况提供一个模型。该项目将提出一些建议，可能会在预防或缓解失败的沿海开发项目方面节省数千至数百万美元和欧元。

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.