The 2017 Esri Ocean GIS Forum Proceedings is a compilation of professional papers regarding a diverse collection of GIS applications. The conference was held October 31–November 2, 2017 at the Esri Conference Center in Redlands, California. Esri users made a fundamental contribution to the conference by submitting and delivering presentations.
Note: If a user presentation is not listed, permission to publish was not granted.
| Title | Paper | Author | Session |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drones and Open Data to Understand Development and Conservation Challenges | Presentation Video |
Nicholas Altizer, Timothy Hawthorne | Drones and Imagery |
| Use of Drone Technology in Ocean Research of the Saco River Estuary Supporting Student Research | Presentation Video |
Michael Esty | Drones and Imagery |
| Flood Inundation Mapping Using GIS Techniques | Meera Sahibu Mohamed Rizwan | Drones and Imagery | |
| Mapping Deformation: Combined Tomographic and Morphometric Analysis, Gulf of Alaska | Presentation Video |
Wes Clary, Lindsay Worthington, Louis Scuderi | Drones and Imagery |
| Adapting to Rising Tides: Bay Area Sea Level Rise Analysis and Mapping Project: Using Esri Story Maps to Inform Regional Adaptation Planning | Presentation | Heather Dennis, Todd Hallenbeck | Planning and Coastal Protection |
| Keeping it Simple One Coastal GIS Project at a Time | Alexandra Carvalho, Ph.D, GISP, Kathy Fitzpatrick | Planning and Coastal Protection | |
| Planning for Floating Offshore WindEnergy in California | Frank Pendleton | Planning and Coastal Protection | |
| Integrating Local Knowledge: Assessing Disaster Preparedness in Hopkins, Belize | Presentation | Kate Brandt, Julia Jeanty, Brenner Burkholder, Monica Lemus, Andrew Castillo, Timothy Hawthorne, Christy Visaggi, Lain Graham, Christine Munisteri | Planning and Coastal Protection |
| Priority Areas for Marine Biodiversity Conservation in the Coral Triangle | Presentation Video |
Irawan Asaad, Carolyn Lundquist, Mark Erdmann, Mark Costello | Lightning Talks |
| Olympic Coast Seafloor Ecological Marine Unit Mapping | Presentation Video |
Kathleen Goodin | Lightning Talks |
| Drainage Shape Classification in the Pamplona Zone, SE Alaska | Presentation Video |
Wes Clary | Lightning Talks |
| California's Coastal Zoning: Social and Legal Considerations for Coastal Adaptation | Presentation Video |
Sierra Killian, Lisa Wedding, Eric Hartge, Greg Verutes | Lightning Talks |
| Boating Use Patterns on the Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys | Presentation Video |
Maria Cooksey | Lightning Talks |
| Microplastics in the Oceania Region | Presentation Video |
Bill Robberson | Lightning Talks |
| Leveraging the Living Atlas Ocean Data For GIS Analysis of the Oceans | Presentation Video |
Frank Roberts | Lightning Talks |
| Operational Search for MH370 2014-2017 | Presentation Video |
Megan McCabe | Lightning Talks |
| Utilization of Visualization Tools in the Processing, Analysis & Fusion of Seafloor Information | Video | Chris Malzone | Lightning Talks |
| Modeling Threat of Runoff to Coastal Ocean Environments | Video | Paige Hoel | Lightning Talks |
| Using GIS to Identify Strategically Important British Columbian Wave Energy Sites | Presentation Video |
Xinxin Xu | Lightning Talks |
| Visualizing Chesapeake Bay Water Quality in 3D | John Wolf | Lightning Talks | |
| Mapping Underwater Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) using AUV-mounted Sensors, ROV Videos and ArcGIS in a Complex Seabed Environment | Presentation Video |
Nate Novak | Lightning Talks |
| An Arctic Perspective- NCEI's Arctic Data Viewer | Presentation Video |
Kate Rose | Lightning Talks |
| Linking Marine Geography and GIScience in an Advanced University Course | Video | Dr. Thomas R. Allen | Lightning Talks |
| Citizen Science GIS: Collaborating with Communities to Investigate Marine Debris in Belize | Presentation Video |
Michelle Chang, Rachel Layko, Chinonso Uzowihe, Erin Butler, Rigoberto Garcia Von Saqui, Lain Graham, and Christine Munisteri | ArcGIS in Community Engagement |
| Using ArcGIS Online to Bring Hope to Ocean Conservation | Graham Stickler | ArcGIS in Community Engagement | |
| Protecting Communities and Open Space Through the Community Rating System | Presentation | Laura Flessner, Melissa Rosa | ArcGIS in Community Engagement |
| Project Badweyn: Mapping Somali Coastal Resources | Presentation Video |
Paige Roberts | ArcGIS in Community Engagement |
| Exhibiting the Interconnections between Inuit, Narwhals, and Climate Change | Presentation | Daniel Cole | Supporting People and Animals |
| Analyzing Sea Turtle Entrainment Risk (ASTER) Decision Support Tool | Cherie Jarvis | Supporting People and Animals | |
| A Web AppBuilder Widget for Spatial Prioritization | Presentation Video |
Ken Buja | Seafloor and Coral Reefs |
| A Web-Based Geodatabase Tool for Seabed Mineral Exploration | Presentation Video |
Peggy Myre, Grace Peven, Sandar Muslow | Seafloor and Coral Reefs |
| Using ArcGIS to Analyze Ephemeral Nearshore Hardbottom for Mitigation Requirements | Video | Heather Vollmer | Seafloor and Coral Reefs |
| Deep-sea Corals of the USA: Surveys, Maps, Models, and Visualization | Presentation Video |
Heather Coleman, Robert McGuinn, Dan Dorfman, Matt Dornback, Renee King, Daniel Wagner | Seafloor and Coral Reefs |
| A Spatially and Ecologically Balanced Approach to Artificial Reef Placement | Presentation Video |
Stan Bosarge, Crystal Hightower, Sean Powers | Seafloor and Coral Reefs |
| GeoNet, The Esri Community | Presentation Video |
Chris Catania | Special Presentation |
| Your Knowledge, Our Community, The Ocean's Resilience | Presentation | Dawn Wright | Plenary Session |
| Bringing Together Ocean Leaders in Science, Business and Education | Presentation | Sandra Whitehouse | Plenary Session |
| Global Ecological Coastal Units (ECUs) | Presentation Video |
Roger Sayre, Dawn Wright, Sean Breyer | Plenary Session |
| Technical Plenary Session | Video | Esri Staff | Plenary Session |
| Coastal Management—Automatic Shoreline Delineation and Change Detection Analysis | Video | Keith VanGraafeiland | Plenary Session |
| Marine Biology—Modeling Telemetry-based Animal Tracks and Home Ranges with GIS | Video | Kevin Butler | Plenary Session |
| Marine Geomorphology -- Automated Seafloor Feature Extraction | Video | Vinay Viswambharan | Plenary Session |
| Marine Biology—Predicting Seagrass Abundance | Video | Marjean Pobuda | Plenary Session |
| Atmospheric Science—Automated Regression-based Statistical Downscaling of Climate Models | Video | Orhun Aydin | Plenary Session |