SeaSketch user management system updated

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SeaSketch user management system updated

Yesterday we launched version 1.7 of SeaSketch. It's by far our biggest update since SeaSketch's launch in October. The headline feature of this update is of course the Survey Tools, but current administrators of SeaSketch projects will notice that there have been substantial changes made to the Users and Groups tab of the project dashboard. Yesterday we launched version 1.7 of SeaSketch. It's by far our biggest update since SeaSketch's launch in October. The headline feature of this update is of course the Survey Tools, but current administrators of SeaSketch projects will notice that there have been substantial changes made to the Users and Groups tab of the project dashboard. This tab enables administrators to invite users to their project and assign those users to groups that control access to project forums and private datasets.

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Space Monkey

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Space Monkey

Have you used Survey Monkey to create online surveys? Well, SeaSketch is about to have similar capabilities so that you can collect spatial information and generate new datasets. How often have you been a part of a planning process where somebody says, "We don't have data for that." Sometimes, there are experts or locals with knowledge about the environment or human activities but this information is not yet summarized or georeferenced. So, traditionally, we employ a bunch of GIS technicians to interview people, collect this information and then produce a bunch of spatial data layers.

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Designing the Ocean's Future

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An article in the August, 2012, edition of ArcWatch describes how SeaSketch may be used for collaborative geodesign. 

Geospatial technology is now being used to analyze data and weigh various options on how to best manage ocean resources. Quick feedback on designs using geospatial technology is called geodesign, and it's used in many diverse fields, including marine planning. SeaSketch, a new online application developed at the Marine Science Institute and supported by Esri, will give marine spatial planners and ocean resources managers the tools to make decisions related to fisheries, energy development, shipping lanes, and protected marine areas.SeaSketch was developed using Esri's ArcGIS, including ArcGIS Online, which is a cloud-based collaborative content system for maps, applications, data, and other geospatial information. Read the article.

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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.