Dawn J. Wright
Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-5506, USA; dawn@dusk.geo.orst.edu; http://dusk.geo.orst.edu;+1-541- 737-1229 (phone);+1-541-737-1200 (fax)
Dawn first encountered GIS in the early 1990s while working on her Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She became acutely aware of the challenges of applying GIS to deep marine environments when presented with the first such data set collected from the deepsea vehicle Argo I, a few years after it was used to discover the wreck of the Titanic. Dawn has been an assistant professor of Geosciences at Oregon State University since 1995. She has completed oceanographic fieldwork in some of the most geologically active regions of the planet, including the East Pacific Rise, the Mid- Atlantic Ridge, the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the Tonga Trench, and volcanoes under theJapan Sea and Indian Ocean. Her research interests include application and analytical issues in GIS for oceanographic data, particularly data conversion, management, and metadata; the relationships between volcanic, hydrothermal, and tectonic processes at seafloor-spreading centres; the analysis and interpretation of data from deepsea mapping systems; and the geography of Cyberspace.
Darius J. Bartlett
Department of Geography, University College Cork, Cork, IRELAND; djb@ucc.ie; +353- 21-902835 (phone); +353-21-271980 (fax)
Darius first encountered GIS in the early 1980s, while at Edinburgh University, and became aware of the challenges of applying it to the coast while working for Bill Carter at the University of Ulster in 1987-'88. He has been lecturer in GIS at University College Cork since 1989. For many years he was co-ordinator of the project on Coastal GIS for the International Geographical Union's Commission on Coastal Systems; and, with Ron Furness, he was one of the founding organisers of the CoastGIS series of biannual conferences.
Vittorio Barale
Marine Environment Unit, Space Applications Institute, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, ITALY; vittorio.barale@jrc.it; +39-0332-789274 (phone); +39-0332-789034 (fax)
His main professional interest is the applications of remote sensing techniques for the assessment of biogeochemical and physical processes in the coastal and marine environment. He first started to work in the remote-sensing field in the late 1970's at the University of Milan, where he graduated in Physics. In the 1980s, he became involved in coastal and marine issues while at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he also obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. Since 1990 he has been a senior scientist with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He is a member of various professional associations, in particular the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) and the Mediterranean Coastal Environment organization (MEDCOAST).
Andra Bobbitt
Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center, 2115 S.E. Oregon State University Drive, Newport, OR 97365 USA; bobbitt@pmel.noaa.gov;+1-541-867- 0177 (phone); +1-541-867-3907 (fax)
Andra Bobbitt is a Senior Faculty Research Assistant at Oregon State University's Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS). She has been working through CIMRS for the VENTS Program since April 1991. Ms. Bobbitt developed the GIS for the VENTS Program, which began in 1992 and includes the main database and interface, sea-going system and WWW-based applications. Her other responsibilities include managing a multibeam bathymetric database and developing the WWW sites for the VENTS Program. Prior to her work with VENTS, Ms. Bobbitt worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for marine geology and bathymetric mapping programs. She has been participating in research expeditions since 1984.
Bronwyn Cahill
Marine Institute, Irish Marine Data Centre, 80 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2 IRELAND; Bronwyn.Cahill@marine.ie; http://www.marine.ie/datacentre; +353-1-4757100 (phone); +353-1-4784899 (fax)
Bronwyn joined the Marine Institute's Data Centre in 1993 after graduating from the University of Plymouth with a degree in Ocean Science, and has been manager of the Data Centre since 1996. During this time, she has been involved in a number of multidisciplinary data management programmes, most notably within the EU Marine Science and Technology (MAST) programme, and was responsible for the design and implementation of the Marine Data Centre's quality management system accredited to the ISO9002 (EQNET) 1994 standard. Her interest in GIS grew from a need to manipulate spatial and temporal marine data and to develop innovative techniques to manage and visualise marine data.
Órla Ní Cheileachair
Marine Institute, Irish Marine Data Centre, 80 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2 IRELAND; Orla.Ni@marine.ie; http://www.marine.ie/datacentre; +353-1- 4757100 (phone); +353-1-4784988 (fax)
Órla joined the Marine Institute's Data Centre in 1993 with a Masters in Benthic Biology from National University of Galway. Prior to joining the Data Centre, she gained valuable experience working in the field with an environmental consultancy. At the Data Centre she has been active in the area of electronic data publishing and was the project co-ordinator for the Marine Science and Technology (MAST) supporting initiative EDAP (Electronic DAta Publishing), which developed the Guideline on Electronic Publication for Marine Projects. Órla currently leads a development team for multidisciplinary marine data management, and is actively involved in the application of GIS techniques to manage and visualize marine data.
Ken Foote
Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1098 USA; k.foote@mail.utexas.edu; +1-512-232-1592 (phone); +1-512- 471-5049 (fax)
Ken is the Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor of Geography and Director of the Environmental Information Systems Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches GIS, computer research techniques, cultural and historical geography, and has led several Web-based instructional development projects. These include the Geographer's Craft Project, completed in 1996, to create one of the very first online textbooks in geography. He is now leading the Virtual Geography Department Project to develop a clearinghouse for instructional materials in the Worldwide Web. His recent publications include the co-edited Re-reading Cultural Geography (1994) and Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (1997) which received the Association of American Geographers J. B. Jackson Prize in 1998.
Cindy Fowler
NOAA Coastal Services Center; 2234 South Hobson Ave., Charleston, SC 29405-2413 USA; cfowler@csc.noaa.gov; http://www.csc.noaa.gov; +1-843-740- 1249 (phone); +1-843-740-1315 (fax)
Cindy Fowler has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Science Degree in Natural Resource Information Systems from the Ohio State University. She has over 19 years experience working with geographic information systems, remote sensing, and other forms of spatial technologies. Cindy has experience in private industry, government service and university settings supporting the fields of forestry, natural resources, cadastres, geodetic science and coastal resource management. Currently, she is a Senior Spatial Data Analyst in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Charleston, South Carolina where she combines her love of the coast with her passion for geospatial technologies. Cindy’s research interests are related to coastal and marine GIS, and especially the data needed to support them. She is particularly interested in the technical and legal implications related to marine cadastral data development.
Christopher Fox
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Newport, OR 97365 USA; fox@pmel.noaa.gov; +1-541-867-0276 (voice);+1-541-867-0356 (fax)
Dr. Chris Fox has served as a principal investigator within the Vents Program of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory since June, 1985 and also holds the rank of associate professor (courtesy) at Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. He leads a diversified research program in marine mapping, geophysics, and underwater acoustics and in recognition of his efforts in developing the U.S. Navy's Sound Surveillance System for environmental applications, was awarded the Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 1994. Prior to his service with NOAA, Dr. Fox worked for the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, where he participated in a wide variety of studies including the numerical modelling of seafloor microtopographic roughness and the development of automated cartographic mapping from multibeam sonar systems. His current interests in GIS applications include multidisciplinary seafloor investigations, marine mammal research, the development of portable GIS systems for use in oceanographic fieldwork, and the development of web-accessible tools for providing data access.
Ron Furness
Australian Hydrographic Office, Locked Bag 8801, South Coast Mail Centre NSW 2521, AUSTRALIA; rfurness@ozemail.com.au
Ron Furness is the Director of Coordination and Development at the Australian Hydrographic Office. A cartographer by training, he has worked in the field of marine charting for the greater part of his career. He has been involved in electronic charting since the early 1970s and served on a number of the early IHO committees, which led to the development of ECDIS. He is a past Federal President of the Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia and chairs the International Cartographic Association's Marine Cartography Commission. .
Christopher Gold
Department of Geomatics, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec G1K 7P4 CANADA; Christopher.Gold@scg.ulaval.ca; +1-418-656-3308 (phone); +1-418-656-7411 (fax)
Chris started out as a geologist, and during his Ph.D. became fascinated by the problems of spatial data. He has been actively involved in the manipulation and display of data in agriculture, geography, geology, water resources and forestry, among others. He strongly believes in the importance of the development of spatial algorithms and data structures in an academic setting, and is active in encouraging collaboration between computer science, especially computational geometry, and geomatics. He currently holds an Industrial Chair in Geomatics Applied to Forestry at Laval University.
Chris Goldfinger
College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, Marine Geology, Active Tectonics Group, 104 Ocean Admin Bldg, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-5503 USA; gold@oce.orst.edu; +1-541- 737-5214 (phone); +1-541-737-2064 (fax)
Chris has been using GIS in marine tectonics research since 1990, when he was impressed with the challenges of trying to integrate a variety of digital and analog marine data. He has been involved and using GIS in a range of projects from gas hydrates to great subduction earthquakes. He developed one of the early GIS based real-time towfish navigation programs for marine surveys. He has been on the research faculty at Oregon State University College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences since 1995.
Michael F. Goodchild
Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 USA; good@ncgia.ucsb.edu; +1-805-893-8049 (phone); +1-805-893- 7095 (fax)
Mike Goodchild holds degrees from Cambridge University (Physics) and McMaster University (Geography) and is currently chair of the Department of Geography, UC-Santa Barbara, as well as chair of the Executive Committee of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). His research interests include GIS, environmental modelling, geographical data modelling, spatial analysis, location theory, accuracy of spatial databases, and statistical geometry.
Gerry Hatcher
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA 95039 USA; gerry@mbari.org; +1- 831-775-1758 (phone); +1-831-775-1620 (fax)
Gerry first became interested in GIS as a graduate student in 1990 while working in the Ocean Mapping Development Group at the University of Rhode Island. While there, he completed a masters of science degree in ocean engineering with a thesis entitled GIS as a Data Management Tool for Seafloor Mapping. Since then he has been employed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) developing GIS applications to assist oceanographic science and marine operations, and has spent many days at sea. His applications have been used on science missions in areas as diverse as Antarctica, Alaska, the Indian Ocean, and the Mariana Trench.
Donald J. Huebner
Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1098 USA; djhuebner@mail.utexas.edu; +1-512-471-5116 (phone); +1-512- 471-5049 (fax)
Don began working in GIS as a research and teaching assistant for Ken Foote at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to developing teaching modules for the Geographer's Craft Project, Don has applied GIS to tracking rabies distribution in coyotes, and range expansion and distribution of feral hogs in Texas. Currently as a doctoral candidate, he is working on a landscape ecology project for a central New Mexico mountain range. This project is using GIS for reconstructing past, present, and future landscape conditions and will model the effects of urban expansion on this locale. Despite the brief foray into coastal GIS, his primary research interests are in landscape history and processes, particularly in the mountain west of North America.
Theresa Kennedy
Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Henry Krumb School of Mines, Columbia University, 500 West 120th St, New York NY 10027 USA; tk346@columbia.edu; +1-212-854-1568 (phone); +1-212-854-7081 (fax)
Theresa became interested in the management and vizualisation of geographic information in 1992 whilst working for the British Geological Survey. Her interest took her into research at the Open University in Milton Keynes where she studied the application of GIS to managing and integrating regional geological datasets and then on to the Irish Marine Data Centre in Ireland where she became involved in all aspects of data management for coastal and oceanographic data. She is currently a Staff Research Associate with Columbia University and the New York-New Jersey Clean Ocean and Shore Trust (C.O.A.S.T) where she is the technical project manager for the Virtual Harbour Estuary Project, an initiative to assimilate and integrate GIS data resources for the Hudson Estuary System.
Rongxing (Ron) Li
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, The Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1275 USA; li.282@osu.edu; see http//: shoreline.eng.ohio-state.edu; +1-614-292-6946 (phone); +1- 614-292-2957 (fax)
Dr. Ron Li is an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science of The Ohio State University. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Surveying Engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai and a Ph.D. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from the Technical University of Berlin. Ron has been a guest editor of three special issues on coastal and marine GIS and an associate editor of the international Journal of Marine Geodesy, published by Taylor & Francis. He was a GIS specialist for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) project "Institutional Strengthening of Malaysian Shoreline Management," 1994-1996. His research interests include digital mapping, spatial data structures, coastal and marine GIS, photogrammetry and remote sensing.
Millington Lockwood (deceased)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of the Coast Survey, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA; millington.lockwood@noaa.gov; +1-301-713-2777 x171 (phone); +1-301-713-4019 (fax)
Millington had nearly 30 years in the field of marine information systems including coastal mapping, navigation, marine geology, surveying, and marine positioning. His recent interests were in the area of digital data dissemination, formatting, and data standards as a chairman of a working group of the US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Specific interests deal with the data quality aspects of shoreline and bathymetric data for the U.S. Coastal and Great Lakes regions. Millington was recently guest editor of a special content volume of the Journal of Surveying and Land Information Systems (Vol 58, No 3) on coastal zone GIS.
Anne Lucas
Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen NORWAY; anne.lucas@nhh.no; +47-55-959-659 (phone); +47-55- 959-393 (fax)
Anne was introduced to GIS through the Canada Land Data System in 1979, when her work with Environment Canada involved the development of methodologies for identifying landscapes sensitive to acid rain. Later she experienced GIS from the business and application development side while at the IBM Bergen Scientific Center. She has been working with coastal and marine applications since then and now lectures in GIS, remote sensing and ocean studies at the University of Bergen.
Brian McAdoo
Department of Geology and Geography,Vassar College, Box 735, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 USA; brmcadoo@vassar.edu, +1-914-437-7703 (phone); +1-914- 437-7577 (fax)
Brian is a marine geologist who gets seasick in the bathtub. He found that by using submarine bathymetry in a GIS framework, he could explore the world's oceans from the comfort of his office. Brian received a B.S. in Geology from Duke University, a Dip. Sci. Geology from the University of Otago (New Zealand), and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Currently, he is an assistant professor at Vassar College, where he teaches coastal and marine geology in a hands-on and affordable (compared to the cost of oceanographic research) GIS framework.
Norman Maher
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, P.O. Box 628, Moss Landing, CA 95039;nmaher@mbari.org; 831-775-1714 (phone); 831-775-1620 (fax)
Norman, a Humboldt State University graduate, began using a GIS while at the U.S. Geological Survey in 1990 for mapping continental shelf sediments offshore San Francisco. For the past nine years he has been using GIS for display and analysis of multibeam bathymetry, sonar imagery, and geologic data. His current focus at MBARI is on mass wasting and canyon formation processes in the Monterey Bay region.
Geoff Meaden
Department of Geography, Canterbury Christ Church College, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU, UNITED KINGDOM; g.j.meaden@cant.ac.uk
Geoff is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Canterbury Christ Church University College in the UK. In the early 1980s his Ph.D. research made use of GIS techniques to establish the best locations for trout farming in England and Wales. From this work Geoff developed his main teaching and research interests, which are in biogeography and GIS, though he is now also the Director of a Marine Fisheries GIS Unit. The unit is currently engaged in several projects including zoning for mariculture in Sri Lanka, mapping hydrodynamics and fish relationships in the Straits of Dover and in developing a fisheries electronic log book which is integrated to a GIS. He carries out regular GIS and fisheries related assignments for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, for whom he has co- authored the two major works written to date on GIS applications to fisheries, and he has helped in the development of a digital fisheries atlas. He has presented numerous papers on this subject, and was the invited keynote speaker at the 1st International Symposium on GIS in Fisheries Science, held in Seattle in March, 1999.
Hal Palmer
MRJ Technology Solutions, 10560 Arrowhead Drive, Fairfax, VA, USA 22030-7305; hpalmer@mrj.com; +1-703-277-1239 (phone); +1-703-385-4637 (fax)
Hal is a marine geologist who earned his B.S. in Geology from Oregon State University. Following Army service, he completed an M.S. and Ph.D. in Marine Geology at the University of Southern California. Although he has conducted diving and geophysical surveys around the world, his first encounter with GIS was as a consultant engaged in environmental studies for MRJ's clients in various maritime industries. He has applied GIS to studies ranging from terrain analyses for amphibious landings to pipeline and telecommunications cable route selection. Recent work involves the development of a global maritime boundaries database as a commercial product.
Lorin Pruett
MRJ Technology Solutions, 10560 Arrowhead Drive, Fairfax, VA, USA 22030-7305; MaritimeBoundaries@mrj.com or Lpruett@mrj.com; +1-703-277- 1879 (phone); +1-703-385-4637 (fax); +1-703-385-0700 (switchboard)
Lorin has a B.S. in Geology and an M.A. in GIS. He has been designing, developing and maintaining large geographic database systems since the mid-1980s. Lorin started out consulting in the oil and gas industry where he was responsible for the redesign and maintenance of the Eastern Gas Devonian Shales Database for the Gas Research Institute. Since 1989 he has been at MRJ using ESRI’s ARC/INFO GIS software to build global environmental databases including The Global Maritime Boundaries Database reference featured in this book. In 1995, Lorin won the Outstanding Masters Degree Project in Technology award for the Circum-Atlantic Project prototype CDROM he developed for a startup USGS/IGU project. Lorin has been editor for, contributed to, or authored numerous contract related documents.
Jonathan Raper
Department of Information Science, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB UK; raper@soi.city.ac.uk; +44-171-477-8415 (phone); +44-171- 477-8584 (fax)
A geographer and geomorphologist by training, Jonathan Raper has been on the faculty of Information Science at City University since 1998. His research interests geographical information science are in the following areas: the handling and analysis of environmental information, the incorporation of multimedia data into geographical information systems and digital libraries, analysis of geographical data policy, and the philosophy of spatial and temporal representation.
Chris Roberts
Australian Hydrographic Office, Locked Bag 8801, South Coast Mail Centre NSW 2521, AUSTRALIA
Chris Roberts is a senior cartographer in the Australian Hydrographic Office. He has over 20 years experience in all aspects of manual and digital nautical chart production. Mr Roberts represents Australia on several international Working Groups concerned with the preparation and maintenance of the standards and specifications relating to ECDIS.
Andy Sherin
Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 4A2 CANADA; sherin@agc.bio.ns.ca; +1-902-426-7582 (phone); +1- 902-426-1466 (fax)
Andy was a late comer to GIS after being the first curator of the Geological Survey of Canada’s marine sample collection in1974 and for twenty years developing information systems for marine geoscience in a data base management system environment. His interest in the display and analysis of marine geoscience data led him to explore the use of GIS tools and to the development of his first major GIS application in 1994, a coastal information system based upon dynamic segmentation. He has also applied GIS to marine applications including preliminary mapping of marine geological surveys using dynamic segmentation, 3D visualisation of high-resolution seismic interpretations and the integration of geoscience data for environmental planning. Andy is also interested in interorganizational cooperation for data exchange to support integrated coastal management. He has pursued this interest since 1991 by representing the Geological Survey of Canada on the Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee, an intergovernmental and intersectoral organization providing a forum for the development and coordination of a coastal zone information infrastructure for Atlantic Canada.
Yafang Su
Office of Academic Computing, University of California, Los Angeles, 5931 Math Sciences Addition, Box 951557, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1557 USA; yafang@ucla.edu; http://www.oac.ucla.edu/people/yafang_su/; +1-310-825-7418 (phone), +1-310-206-7025 (fax)
Yafang is currently a senior GIS analyst and consultant in the High Performance Computing and Visualization Group of the UCLA Office of Academic Computing. She also serves as an Editorial Board member for the GIS journal Geo-Information-Systeme. Her current research interests are Internet GIS, GIS system integration, and scientific visualisation. She was first interested in applying GIS and scientific visualisation in oceanography during her post doctorate research in 1996- 1997 at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, California. Before then, she was an associate professor in GIS at the State Key Lab of Resources and Environment Information System (LREIS), Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. She was the first person to apply GIS to study the investment environment in China.
Nancy von Meyer
Fairview Industries, Blue Mounds WI 53517 USA; nancy@fairview-industries.com; +1-608-437- 6701 (phone); +1-608-437-6702 (fax)
Nancy became interested in GIS at the University of Wisconsin Engineering College while working on projects related to parcel mapping and surveying for Dane County. Through work on cadastral data standards, she became familiar with offshore legal boundaries, and rights and interests from the Mineral Management Service. In 1997 Nancy started a GIS and cadastral related project with the Coastal Services Center (CSC) in Charleston, South Carolina. Working with the knowledgeable and enthusiastic CSC staff, she is continuing to learn more about shoreline and coastal boundary, rights, and regulation topics.
Herman Varma
Canadian Hydrographic Service, Maritime Region, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Dr., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 4A2 CANADA; hvarma@helical.ns.ca; +1-902-426-5376 (phone)
Herman Varma is currently the Head of Cartographic Research at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. He is a graduate of Dalhousie University and has been working on projects such as dolphin robot vehicles, and dense data aquisition systems such as laser infrared digital airborne radar (LIDAR), and multibeam/sweep systems. His last project resulted in the formulation of an Oracle spatial data option (SDO) product through the use of helical hyperspatial codes (HHcodes). Oracle's SDO is the first extension to standard relational database management system technology to support spatial data handling. Herman is currently involved in building a very, very large spatio/temporal databases for the Canadian Hydrographic Service.
Robert Ward
Australian Hydrographic Office, Locked Bag 8801, South Coast Mail Centre NSW 2521, AUSTRALIA
Commander Robert Ward is a naval officer and hydrographic surveyor who has served both afloat and ashore in a wide variety of appointments associated with navigational chart making and surveying. He has served on the teaching staff at the Royal Navy School of Hydrographic Surveying in England and was Officer in Charge of the Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic School in Sydney. Operational postings have included Officer in Charge of the RAN Detached Survey Unit, Executive Officer of the oceanographic research vessel HMAS Cook and command of the Australian Navy’s largest and most capable survey ship, HMAS Moresby. Commander Ward is currently employed in the Australian Hydrographic Office dealing with national and international policy concerning the use and implementation of digital charting technology.