State of the Coast

tosha — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:36:35 +0000

Guest Blog: Susan Holmes

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Aquatic Center

NOAA's National Ocean Service has recently launched an excellent web tool - known as the State of the Coast - allowing users to explore a variety of connections among coastal communities.

Susan Holmes, with the Special Projects Division at NOAA national Ocean Service, has provided the following description of the State of the Coast tool:

Report from 55 N to 60 N

tosha — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:42:52 +0000

Data Basin weekly update: Feb 17, 2011

This week I'm in Juneau attending a Regional Data Integration Workshop hosted by the Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center and Southeast Alaska GIS Library at the University of Alaska Southeast. The organizers are bringing together nearly 40 scientists and practitioners from federal and state agencies, universities, and non-profits to coordinate data and data integration tools built to address issues of regional importance. A bit more on that below, but first here are the week's updates:

Data Basin Ditty

tosha — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:48:21 +0000

What's new this week?

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Front Page

This week's post outlines advancements in Data Basin function, content, and community engagement.

1. Functional Enhancements

Looking Under the Hood

tosha — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:42:05 +0000

Data Basin Weekly Update: Jan 27

Here's is a look under the Data Basin hood this week:

1. Functional Enhancements:

The software develpment team is working toward a deployent of updates later this week. This will include better handling of emails / in-system messages and several other changes described in last week's update (Tiger by the Tail).

Tiger by the Tail

tosha — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:56:18 +0000

Data Basin updates

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Front Page

Working on Data Basin has sometimes felt like "having a tiger by the tail.” As of late, our beloved tiger has been purring, and we've made some advances! With the goal of providing Data Basin users with more regular updates and stimulating feedback, I'll be creating posts to describe and seek input on:

Data Basin Migration: This week!

tosha — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:37:39 +0000

To date, the Data Basin system has been powered in part by a custom, beta version of ESRI's ArcGIS Online. Now that the officially-supported, public version of ArcGIS is available, Data Basin will migrate content over and start using this newer version.

What's New With Data Basin

tosha — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:06:50 +0000

During the development of Data Basin, we reached out to hundreds of scientists and practitioners to ask about their experiences, needs and wants. One thing we heard over and over again, was 'how is this effort any different than other efforts that have failed?'.