Place Matters: Geospatial Tools for Marine Science, Conservation, and Management in the Pacific Northwest
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Edited by Dawn J. Wright and Astrid J. Scholz
Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle
2005. 272 pages. Full-color maps. Tables. Index.
Companion Web site.
ISBN 0-87071-057-5. Paperback, $29.95.
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Although the ocean provides living space for about 97 percent of life on Earth,
less than 5 percent of the ocean below the surface has actually been seen, let alone
explored. Now, using the geographic information system (GIS), marine scientists are
gaining new insights into a once-mysterious world. A technologically sophisticated
information-management and analysis system, GIS holds tremendous potential for mapping,
interpreting, and managing ocean environments- from the seafloor to the shoreline.
Place Matters explores how marine GIS is contributing to the understanding,
management, and conservation of the shores and ocean of the Pacific Northwest, where
scientists, resource managers, and conservationists- often in collaboration- are making
advances in the way that data are collected, documented, used, shared, and saved.
The contributors to
Place Matters show how together they are using GIS to handle
and exploit present and future data streams from observatories, experiments, numerical
models, simulations, and other sources, yielding fresh insights into oceanographic,
ecological, and socioeconomic conditions of the marine environment.
The book includes a conceptual framework that lays out selected methods and models
for conservation-based marine GIS, working examples of marine GIS tools and large-scale
implementations, and a section on the use of GIS by environmental advocacy and local
citizens' organizations. A
companion website
includes GIS maps and databases, as well as extensive Web-based resources. With its unique focus
on the use of GIS to solve marine conservation problems,
Place Matters offers an
important new resource for all who study and work to protect the world's oceans.
About the Editors
Dawn J. Wright is Professor of Geography and Oceanography at Oregon State University
and a leading expert in the use of GIS as applied to marine and coastal regions.
She is the editor of
Undersea with GIS and co-editor of
Marine and Coastal Geographical Information Systems.
Astrid J. Scholz is Ecological Economist and Vice President of Knowledge Systems for
Ecotrust in Portland, Oregon.
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