Updated Digitizing Tools for SeaSketch

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Updated Digitizing Tools for SeaSketch

As part of the SeaChange Project, the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) and Aukland University of Technology conducted an extensive survey of ocean uses around the Hauraki Gulf. After successfully running the survey with thousands of participants, DOC and the University were able to identify usability issues with SeaSketch's digitizing interface. Together we developed an improved user interface and DOC funded our efforts so that we could create an improved workflow that will benefit all projects starting today.

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What do you want your ocean to look like?

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The Waitt Institute is heading up the Barbuda Blue Halo Initiative, a project that involves a comprehensive ocean plan for sustainable fisheries. SeaSketch is being used to developing the zoning plan that includes no-take sanctuaries, mooring and anchorage zones and no-net zones. Check out this video posted by Ayana Johnson that includes footage of SeaSketch being used in the field.

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Will McClintock

Dr. Will McClintock is a Project Scientist at the University of California Santa Barbara and former Director of the MarineMap Consortium. He received a B.A. in Biology from Earlham College, M.S. in Behavioral Ecology from the University of Cincinnati, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology from the University of California Santa Barbara. He has participated in over a dozen marine spatial planning initiatives around the world.