NCEAS Roundtable: Will McClintock on Supporting Marine Spatial Planning with SeaSketch

[Marty Downs]

Dear NCEAS Community,

Mark your calendar for our May Roundtable!

Our speaker of the month is Will McClintock. He will be presenting on “Supporting Marine Spatial Planning with SeaSketch.”

Will leads SeaSketch and holds a position as a Senior Fellow at NCEAS.

Find more information about Will and his talk in the attached flyer.

When: Thursday, May 30, 2024, 3:30 p.m.

Where: NCEAS (1021 Anacapa Street) 3rd Floor Lounge

Join us virtually by connecting to:

https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/468789779?pwd=aklaUWYrNkNHMDduY2xEWDFyWU03Zz09

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[Marty Downs]

Dear NCEAS Community,

Mark your calendar for our May Roundtable!

Our speaker of the month is Will McClintock. He will be presenting on “Supporting Marine Spatial Planning with SeaSketch.” Will leads SeaSketch and holds a position as a Senior Fellow at NCEAS.

When: Thursday, May 2, 2024, 3:30 p.m.

Where: NCEAS (1021 Anacapa Street) 3rd Floor Lounge

Join us virtually by connecting to:

https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/468789779?pwd=aklaUWYrNkNHMDduY2xEWDFyWU03Zz09

Supporting Marine Spatial Planning with SeaSketch

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is a process of allocating ocean space for sustainable use while protecting vulnerable habitats by establishing zones that regulate human activities. Over the last 20 years it has become increasingly more common to do Marine Spatial Planning in such a way that it maximizes stakeholder involvement. Zoning scenarios that reflect the values and opinions of stakeholders–in addition to meeting science and policy guidelines–are more likely to be accepted by governments and the people who are impacted by new regulations.

SeaSketch is a web-based platform developed in our lab at NCEAS and used to support MSP initiatives all over the world. Specifically, it is used to host and visualize map data, collect new information by way of spatial surveys, sketch and evaluate prospective zones, and collaborate with others to generate zoning plans. I'll demonstrate the essential features of SeaSketch and point to a few examples of where we are actively using SeaSketch. 

As a free and open source tool, I suspect that it could be widely useful to folks in the NCEAS community who wish to engage non-technical audiences (like members of the general public) with maps for planning, research or outreach. Come check it out and see if you might want to employ your geospatial chops, Javascript skills or cartographic wizardry to develop your own SeaSketch project.

About the Speaker: Will McClintock is a Senior Fellow at NCEAS with a background in Biology, Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Counseling Psychology. For the last 17 years he has been working closely with Chad Burt to develop and implement software tools for marine conservation and spatial planning. Together with Abby Meyer and Peter Menzies, the SeaSketch team is currently supporting MSP initiatives in The Maldives, Fiji, Samoa, Micronesia, The Azores, Bermuda, Canada, Belize and Brazil. Will spends a good portion of his time traveling to these exotic places to work directly with government agencies and stakeholders in the use of SeaSketch. It's rough.

Questions, comments, or concerns?
Contact: roundta...@nceas.ucsb.edu

[Thomas Hetmank]

We've recorded our latest Roundtable. You can access both the video and audio-only versions here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lNsPmPCBiLOeD1hsLcv71LDwOTS4E8cW?usp=drive_link

Please be aware that there are two files for each version due to a brief Internet outage at our building right after the session began. Apologies for missing those few minutes in the recordings.

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