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  • Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions

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    Wright, Dawn J.
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    What affects the oceans affects terra firma. Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions gathers the insights of more than 50 ocean and coastal science researchers exploring ocean components and their relationships, patterns, and trends over time and space. The book's 16 chapters feature geographic information system (GIS) best practices and include additional...
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    OCEAN S O L U T I O N S EARTH S O L U T I O N S Edited by

  • Mapping the course

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    Wright, Dawn J.
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    In opening our eyes to the unseen wonders of the ocean Jacques Cousteau is thought to have said, “People protect what they love.” A variation, perhaps, on the words of the Senegalese poet and naturalist Baba Dioum: “In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love...
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    key way is by embracing the power of whole Earth observation and the data it provides. The term

  • GIScience

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    Wright, Dawn J.
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    GIScience (geographic information science) is a scholarly discipline that addresses fundamental issues surrounding the use of a variety of digital technologies to handle geographic information; namely, information about places, activities, and phenomena on and near the surface of the Earth that are stored in maps or images. GIScience includes the...
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    image data), remote sensing (observation of Earth from space or underwater), and quantitative spatial

  • Swells, soundings, and sustainability, but... here be monsters

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    Wright, Dawn J.
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    The Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture Series was created by the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies in honor of Roger Revelle to highlight the important links between ocean sciences and public policy. Dawn J. Wright, the eighteenth annual lecturer, spoke on April 28, 2017, at the Smithsonian National Museum...
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    collaborating to build the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) in nine Societal Benefit Areas

  • A three-dimensional mapping of the ocean based on environmental data

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    Wright, Dawn J.
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    The existence, sources, distribution, circulation, and physicochemical nature of macroscale oceanic water bodies have long been a focus of oceanographic inquiry. Building on that work, this paper describes an objectively derived and globally comprehensive set of 37 distinct volumetric region units, called ecological marine units (EMUs). They are constructed on...
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    nations 65 seeking to advance earth observation approaches for addressing societal challenges related to

  • Age systematics of two young en echelon Samoan volcanic trails

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    Koppers, Anthony A. P., Russell, Jamie A., Roberts, Jed, Jackson, Matthew G., Konter, Jasper G., Wright, Dawn J., Staudigel, Hubert, and Hart, Stanley R.
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    The volcanic origin of the Samoan archipelago can be explained by one of three models, specifically, by a hot spot forming over a mantle plume, by lithospheric extension resulting from complex subduction tectonics in the region, or by a combination of these two processes, either acting sequentially or synchronously. In...
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    Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University

  • If we want a resilient world, we need to start with resilient data

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    Wright, Dawn J.
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    As we work to build our capacity to cope with global change, let’s make sure the tools we're using can roll with the punches, too.
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    depths of the ocean to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, which provides petabytes of

  • Theory and application in a post-GISystems world

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    Wright, Dawn J.
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    This perspectives paper uses the seminal Goodchild (1992) article as a lens through which to review and reflect upon several longstanding issues that have influenced the field of geographic information science in the past and will continue to be important at least into the next decade. Under the category of...
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    era of Earth observation from air and space, within the 7 ocean, within the solid Earth

  • The Emergence of Spatial Cyberinfrastructure

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    Wright, Dawn J. and Wang, Shaowen
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    Cyberinfrastructure integrates advanced computer, information, and communication technologies to empower computation-based and data-driven scientific practice and improve the synthesis and analysis of scientific data in a collaborative and shared fashion. As such, it now represents a paradigm shift in scientific research that has facilitated easy access to computational utilities and...
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    the traditional modes of scientific research (e.g., experimentation in the lab, observation in the

  • Marine Geomorphology in the Design of Marine Reserve Networks

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    Heyman, William D. and Wright, Dawn J.
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    Marine environments, key life-support systems for the earth, are under severe threat. Issues associated with managing these common property resources are complex and interrelated. Networks of marine reserves can be valuable for mitigating threats to marine systems, yet the successful design and implementation of such networks has been limited. Efficient...
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    GEO Biodiversity Observation Network Concept Document. GEO - Group on Earth Observations, Geneva