The WCODP ACT met today and were joined by the West Coast Regional Planning Body (RPB) coordinator John Hansen who provided an update on West Coast RPB activities and progress. The WCODP ACT and Network will be focusing attention on supporting regional and subregional marine planning over the next year. This work is enabled by an award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support data coordination and synthesis of priority data and other foundational marine planning activities. The WCODP discussed the best way to
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We are pleased to announce that there are a number of new California Seafloor and Coastal Mapping Program layers and map services now available through the WCODP and USGS Data Portal. This work was undertaken by 25 essential co-authors. Each release includes the catalog of GIS layers, web services, 10 thematic map sheets in pdf format, and an explanatory pamphlet. There are now 19 of these map and data sets available, covering approximately 24% of California’s mainland State Waters. Three more map and data publications should be released
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The WCODP ACT met today to discuss outcomes from the West Coast Ocean Partnership Strategic Planning meeting, provide input on two funding opportunities, and review recent Portal enhancements. You can read the full call notes here.
The IT Working Group met to discuss recent portal enhancements, including new features to filter the data catalog by link type, more intuitive filtering by category, and better link type recognition. Additionally, the group discussed re-prioritizing remaining bugs and enhancements through our Github page. Finally, the group discussed and made plans for our server migration. You can read the full call notes here. If you have suggestions for improvements or notice bugs with the Portal or data you are contributing, please let us know at Portal@westcoastoceans.org.
Please join us on Tuesday July 28th at 10am for the next installment of the West Coast Ocean Data Network Technical Training webinar series. This webinar will provide an overview, review, and demonstration of several desktop and web-based geospatial metadata creation tools. There are tools for creating both for ISO 19115 and FGDC CSDGM metadata standard documents. We will describe pros and cons of the tools, as well as specific tips and tricks as they relate to creating metadata for the West Coast Ocean Data
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The WCODP ACT met yesterday and was able to provide feedback and make decisions related to our regional data development project (including our kelp, fishery closures, and littoral cells layers), discuss two funding opportunities, develop and refine messaging for the West Coast Ocean Partnership Strategic Planning Meeting, and solicit a new working group leader. You can read call notes here.
The Data Working Group had their monthly call yesterday to discuss current data development activities of the Network. We got some great feedback on the closed and restricted fishery areas, kelp, and littoral cell data being developed by SoundGIS that will greatly increase the value of these data products. You can read the full call notes here. If you are interested in participating on this exciting work group, please contact todd.r.hallenbeck@westcoastoceans.org for more information.
The WCODP ACT met today to discuss the development of the Portal and Network. There were a lot of updates related to the emerging regional ocean partnership and regional planning body, discussion about funding contingencies and opportunities, and updates on grant work. You can read the call notes here.
You can now view the WCODP webinar at Open Channels. This hour long video highlights the background and context for the WCODP, the WCODP components, our marine debris use case, a live demonstration, lessons leanred and a Q&A. The webinar will be archived at Open Channels.
