Using Geographic Information Systems to Keep Our Ocean Blue
| Hours: | 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Lectures/Discussions |
Brooke Wikgren, Assistant Scientist/GIS Specialist,
John H. Prescott Marine Laboratory, New England Aquarium
As human population increases, our reliance on the ocean and its resources is continuously expanding.
Our coastal waters are an urbanized mecca of activity.
These uses are often overlapping and competing for space with each other, as well as competing with the uses of the natural environment.
Through the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we can determine how these different uses interact and overlap in space and use that information to find ways to meet our human needs, while minimizing our impacts in the natural environment.
This lecture is a brief introduction to GIS and how we use it at the New England Aquarium to advance our live blue™ mission, highlighting a case study about how we help protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from entanglement in fishing gear.
| COST | ↑ top |
The Aquarium Lecture Series is presented free to the public through the generosity of the Lowell Institute, which has been providing funding for free public lectures at universities and museums since 1836.
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.neaq.org/education_and_activities/programs_and_classes/aquarium_lecture_series/index.php
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1 Central Wharf, Boston, MA, 02110 map
Phone: 617-973-6596
Harborside Learning Lab at the New England Aquarium
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