Okay.
Well, good morning,
everyone, out in Guam and CNMI.
and good evening for those colleagues here on the East Coast of the U.S.
Thank you all for joining.
So my name is Lieutenant Jen Kraus, and I'm a NOAA Corps officer
with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science or NCCOS and
today we'll be talking about a collaborative effort we are spearheading
to determine agency priorities for mapping the ecosystems in Guam and CNMI.
This project is funded by NOAA's
Coral Reef Conservation Program in collaboration with NCCOS.
A few notes before we begin,
this webinar will be recorded, I'll send out a link once
we get everything uploaded, hopefully in a couple of days.
Please ask questions during the webinar, type in your questions
in the chat and someone from our team will try to answer.
We can also take questions at the end. We’ll likely have time.
Typically these webinars run about 30 or 40 minutes
or so, so we should have plenty of time.
I definitely want, you know, this to be an open discussion.
And if anyone has any questions, I know I definitely want to clarify things
before we move on.
So please feel free to raise your hand or ask questions during the webinar, as well.
So, um,
so for today's agenda,
we will first be going over the project's
objectives just to lay out the groundwork for our goals of this project.
I'll then go over the project areas
and general methods for the prioritization process.
I'll give a demonstration of the web tool, which many of you
will be using to input your coral reef mapping needs and priorities.
So, and then finally, we'll go over the timeline, general next steps.
And of course, like I said, questions at the end,
if there's anything outstanding that we haven't addressed already.
So, this effort is part of CRCP’s
multidisciplinary approach, and is part of CRCP’s cross-cutting approach
that involves many areas of expertise from several NOAA offices.
So this effort will provide the necessary information
and enabling conditions for effective coral reef conservation and management.
By identifying
any gaps in existing data, we can determine high priority locations
and make sound recommendations
on the best places to prioritize for future mapping efforts.
Locations identified during this process will inform future planning,
but funding decisions are not part of this process or project,
so, therefore, mapping efforts or funding is not guaranteed.
This is just providing recommendations to CRCP and future
stakeholders, everyone involved
in this process project.
So, once we receive everyone's input, we’ll then be able to create
a spatial framework that summarizes participating agencies priorities
and we'll share that data with everyone, of course.
So, coupled with an inventory of existing high quality and contemporary
mapping data, we’ll be able to show and provide the necessary information
for coral management organizations to take what we've collected
and make an informed decision on where to allocate funding,
possibly to meet needs not only within the organization
but overlapping needs of partnering agencies that participated in this
in this effort.
So that's kind
of the basics of the objectives and outcomes.
I know we have some representatives from CRCP here,
Dr. Francisco Pagan, I think.
Is there anything else you wanted to I don't mean to put you on the spot, but
is there anything you wanted to add to what I touched on this topic
from the CRCP side?
[Dr. Francisco Pagan answering]
No, no, thank you, Jen.
That was a very good summary.
And I want to thank everybody
for being here today as part of this project.
I just want to add that we have successfully implemented this process
in the Caribbean and in Atlantic basin during the last couple of years.
And CRCP really hopes that
to collect all the stakeholder
feedback that might inform future mapping processes.
Thank you.
[Jen Kraus speaking] Thank you, Francisco.
Great. So
this is just a brief overview.
I wanted to kind of highlight the participating agencies, groups and
coral managers that we've reached out to for this project.
So I’d just like to kind of and do a shout out for everyone here
that's involved and who they are representing.
I always think it's cool to try to find all the logos, too,
for all the different organizations and make this pretty slide.
So you know this
our regional advisory team that helped us
kind of create the list of organizations and people that
are you all involved in this project that we reach out to.
So they, they really helped us to identify these organizations
who are crucial in making the coral reef management decisions.
So, you know, we we definitely lean pretty hard
on our local liaisons within, you know, NOAA and partnering
organizations to make sure that we're engaging with the right people.
This list was created by evaluating many levels.
So from scientists who provide critical scientific information to inform
the management decisions to the stakeholders and managers themselves.
So, thank you, all.
As Francisco said, to everyone that's here today
and who have agreed to participate.
Alright.
So, this slide just shows the basic four steps
used in the spatial prioritization process.
This has been used in several efforts,
including, as Francisco said, Florida, Puerto Rico,
U.S. Virgin Islands, and most recently we were completing
we completed the prioritization process for Hawaii, and we're working
on finalizing the report for that, as well.
So just briefly,
going over the four steps in, how you guys are all involved in this.
So the first step is to identify the groups,
as I said, or agencies, everyone that I showed on the previous slide.
So follow everyone
whose input is crucial for meeting the goal of this project, essentially.
So reaching out to all those groups and verifying
their participation and making sure we have the right contacts.
The second step is to identify who within these groups will be participating.
So, this isn't an exhaustive list of folks, but many people who are well connected.
Most of the time it's,
as you know, the person or people who are well connected and able
to collaborate with coral mapping experts within their agencies.
So translating their needs into more of a collective input.
So usually we have like one point of contact, maybe two or three per group.
So those are the people that I've that I've reached out to
within the last week or so.
The third step is for our participants to input their spatial
priorities using an online tool.
So that's kind of kind of the current step we're on right now.
We've already completed steps one and two.
So this method is relatively easy.
I'll give a demo and it's a pretty user friendly
way for our
participants to provide their priorities.
So I'll be describing that more with a live demo.
So that will be more clear.
So once we receive all the participants inputs,
we’ll conduct our analysis, that's for step four.
Here, we'll summarize everyone's input to identify areas of high priority
and overlapping data needs.
So we look at everyone's at once.
The final part of the step is to follow up with participants, review their input
and gather more detailed narrative on their mapping data needs.
So this can be specific reef areas, projects, mandates,
or anything else not captured by what is input into the tool.
Once the spatial priorities are finalized, results and future recommendations will
then be summarized in a report and shared with CRCP and local management agencies.
Everyone here will get an email with a link to the final report,
and so everyone can use this information.
The data results, as well.
Usually, you know, before the report
we have a preliminary results that we'll share with everyone, as well.
So you'll have the data much sooner.
But in terms of finalizing the data and in the report,
that kind of comes later and I'll give a timeline of everything.
So that's kind of the basics of how we do this.
So this project
spans from FY21 to 23, covers all seven of the U.S.
coral reef jurisdictions, the first of which, again, we've completed
Florida back in 2020, 2021.
Puerto Rico and USVI
last year and currently finishing up the results
and report for Hawaii, which was done completed last year.
The data input was completed last year
and we're finishing up the report this spring.
So now we're moving
on to GUAM, CNMI, and American Samoa following in the next few months.
So we're hoping to get all three of these
completed this year.
We're focusing this effort on shallow coral reef areas in depths of
0 to 40 meters.
In this graphic, we're showing the 40 meter depth
contour is the red line, just to show kind of the general bounds
of where we’re going to be asking for your input.
And, just a note for CNMI,
we're focusing on the island chain from Rota to Farallon de Pajaros.
So that's kind of the the range of islands, noting that, you know,
most of the ... we're assuming most input is going to be around Saipan,
but we definitely wanted to include the entire island chain.
So, yeah,
I'll show you what that grid looked like.
Also, a note that everyone participating in this
will have access to both Guam and CNMI regions,
but understanding that many of you will only have input in one region
or your region, but no need to input in both if you don't have
any input for the other.
But just so you know, you have access to both.
Just some basic details of the web tool before I give the demo.
In general, each agency or group of participants
gets a set number of virtual coins, which will be controlled
by the point of contact of the person that we have access to the Web tool.
These are typically, as I said, accessed by one or two representatives
from each group, and those are people I've already contacted.
And these people should have received an email, I think yesterday
and maybe even this morning for a couple of people.
If there's more people you want me to add
to your account that can help input your coins, let me know.
I'm happy to add more people if that kind of helps with coordination
within your group.
So the way this works is these virtual coins are placed
into grid cells to indicate when and where data are needed.
So where spatially obviously in the grid and when
the more
coins you add into a grid cell, the sooner data is needed.
So that's kind of how that ... the general idea behind that.
So within the tool there will also be dropdown lists
to indicate the intended coral reef management use and the specific
mapping requirements that this new data could potentially fulfill.
So I'll provide more information on what those dropdown options are
and it's also in the instructions that we provide.
So each participating group or agency
will be given the same number of coins.
The number of coins is determined by the number of cells in the region.
So there's kind of a formula we follow.
So you can see the breakdown in the table here between Guam and CNMI.
This is just for reference.
You will have all of this information, as well,
and we'll track your coin input for you. You don’t have to do the math or anything.
So just as an
example for Guam, each group will get 50 coins and
will only be allowed to input a maximum of five coins into a single cell.
So this limit or this max coins per cell
is just set to encourage people to select more than one area or one cell.
So, you know, kind of spread things out a little bit, as well.
So additionally to, you know, basically to indicate
how quickly data is needed, the more coins
you input into a cell, the higher the data needs are.
So, for example, in CNMI
if you input the max 11 coins into a cell, that means you need data
as soon as possible or within the next year or two.
And, again, instructions will be provided
on how to use the tool,
definitions, and other useful information.
And if you have any questions at any point or need help,
I'd be happy to do a Google Hangout and walk through anything.
I know there's a crazy time difference between
people in Guam and CNMI and here on the east coast of the U.S.,
but I am usually free and can definitely, definitely work something out.
Or if you have specific questions or need another demo,
maybe I can record something and send it your way.
But you know, definitely, definitely don’t hesitate to reach out
and even coordinate something.
So just wanted to give a perspective of the grid cell size.
This is using Upper Harbor in Guam as an example.
Although the grid size may seem large compared to specific reef features or
colonies, in order to get an overall idea of spatial priorities,
we need to kind of take a step back and look at slightly larger resolution.
So we went with this
hexagon grid.
Each side is a kilometer, and the area is about,
you know, a square nautical mile, square mile.
We also recognize that only a portion of this cell
may be of interest, such as specific reefs, as I said.
Our objective is to become aware of the important areas that are data poor.
And this is just, again,
one piece that will help us start to focus on these priority areas.
And of course, you know, if there's specific reefs or mandates, as I said,
we'll follow up in and try to get that more specific information from you.
But this is kind of just the first step to hone in on specific areas.
There's also cells containing a lot of land.
But because just the way the grids fit together and actually, you know,
to capture the coastal edge, we need to keep these cells.
Alright.
So like I said,
here is the list of dropdown options that we're providing in the tool.
These will be input
with the coins into the selected cells, and I'll show how everything works.
The first option is the management use, which tells us how you will use this data
and to inform coral reef management decisions and you can select up to two.
And the second dropdown option is map product requirement.
So this tells us what kind of product is needed.
What are your product requirements you're trying to achieve.
So hopefully there's options in here that you're able
to relate to what your needs are.
But if there's something in here that you just really want, you know,
that's really important to you that you don't see on this
list, just email me and we can try to work something out.
But in order to kind of look at everyone's data the same, you know, we
we have these lists that we're hoping you can choose from.
In the instructions, you can find
more detailed descriptions for each of these options,
if it's not clear what they are.
The list of map product requirements
is also listed in order from large scale resolution,
so, more regional data, coarser imagery,
to fine scale, such as digital elevation models,
photo mosaics, and other higher resolution products.
That's kind of how that's ordered there.
Ultimately, this type of information is crucial
in understanding exactly what kind of data and products are needed, why
they're needed to really help with collaborations and
project planning.
In addition to everything in the web tool, we also provided an inventory
of mapping data to help participants with their decision making.
So this is a big part of
this effort was compiling
existing data and representing planned data
just to help with participants who are, you know,
inputting their data needs, to know what is existing and what is planned
for helping to make your decision.
So this shows up as background information in the Web tool,
but is also available for everyone to view on our hub page.
And I'll show you in a minute where that can be found.
It's all publicly available.
Anyone can access.
You don't have to sign in to see.
So this data inventory
includes existing high quality benthic mapping data.
So things from like early 1900s
we didn't include
more of the contemporary, more recent usable stuff.
So other relevant data sets are also in here
that can help with input.
So, again, we focused on data from about the year 2000 or later
and mainly provided the data in form of footprint and outlines
and with links to the original data, as well,
if you wanted to download and use it.
And I'll
briefly go over how these layers, how to view these layers in the demo.
So this also includes many of you
probably are aware of the RICHARD campaign that was done last year.
The data is still being processed, I'm sure, and has not been made public yet
to our knowledge, but we did include a footprint of it
so you can at least spatially see where it is
and maybe that'll help you with your decision making.
So just a couple examples of some data that we included there
so you can kind of see what it looks like.
So, I'm going to start off
with a demo
with a quick run through of our project, how the site ... so, there’s a couple of ways
that you can access this data, but we wanted to create this
this site just
so that it can maybe be easier to have everything in one spot.
So I'm going to actually back up for a second.
I'm going to cut and paste this into the chat.
If anyone wants to open it, follow along, click around, take a look.
It's a
pretty cool site that
hopefully makes things easier and more accessible.
So I'm just going to open it up here.
So this is just the main front page,
just information on the project on this this front page.
You know, a lot of things we went through.
There's also links and upcoming dates here, so I'll try to keep this updated.
We’ll also send out emails with links to everything
so you know you don't have to keep tracking this.
I'll keep you all informed with any big updates like reports
coming out and the link to this webinar will be on here as well
and I'll email it, too. So, general information just here.
Up at the top, there's a few pages.
So the first one is the mapping inventory page.
So we'll have the most recent at the top and this is how you can view
all the inventory items, mapping data that we've compiled for this effort.
You can view it all through this widget here on this page.
If you also wanted to view it on ArcGIS online,
you can click this view and webmap and you'll have to
actually, I don't think you'd have to sign in because it is public, but
it might ask you to sign into your ArcGIS online account to view this.
But all the layers are here.
And so, you know, if you wanted to view it that way, you can.
So a couple of different ways.
You don't have to sign into ArcGIS online to view this page here.
This is all publicly available. So, you can go down and there's Hawaii,
Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, as well.
It might take a second to load.
There's a lot of data there.
So everything is here on this page for the mapping inventories.
If you want to view results from previous efforts,
that is here on this results page.
So this dashboard is pretty cool.
We'll create one for Puerto Rico.
Sorry, we'll create one for Guam and CNMI, as well.
I'm not going to go through the dashboard today,
but when the results come out for this new effort, I'll do a web,
a webinar and a demo of how to
how to view the data.
But feel free to click through this.
Again, this is all public, so you shouldn't have to sign in.
You can just click on these links to download the data or view
view the dashboard.
So all that is on here on the results page
from previous efforts.
And then last, but certainly not least, is this web tool link.
So this is for participants.
The folks that I said that I emailed the last couple of days with
with your NOAA Geo Platform
account information.
So everyone should be able to view this click on the web tool link.
But there's certain functions within the web tool
or website that is restricted
to only people that have account access to our NOAA Geo Platform.
So that's where all this is hosted.
Certain functions aren't public, so
so you can come here, if you click on this web
tool link, I'll just open up both just to show what they look like.
So again, there's a separate tool for Guam and a separate tool for CNMI.
They’re essentially identical, except for the grid
that comes up in the general area.
But so when I go through the demo, I'll just demo one of the two
and not both. But
when you first open up the page,
there is this splash page that comes up with just a bunch
of just general instructions and information.
So you can either click, don't show this again,
or it'll come up every time you open up this page.
So you just click, okay.
So this is the general region, this is for CNMI.
So it'll be kind of zoomed out depending on the
if you're looking at on your laptop versus a larger screen,
you know, it might look a little different.
So if you hit control
plus or minus, it'll kind of zoom in and out the page for you.
So it might like look, be a little easier for you to see
that way. But
this is in
general, you know, we tried to zoom out to represent the entire CNMI, there.
And then, for Guam, you know, this should be
what you see, it would be zoomed in.
So, again, this part
everyone can click on, this is all public.
There's just this one button here in the top left,
the prioritization tool itself that only certain people have access to.
But before we get to the Web tool itself, I want to show
a few other functions that might be helpful.
So let's see.
I just want to make sure I'm hitting everything
so the grid won't pop up immediately before
that.
That'll come up once we open up the Web tool.
So, this should be what everyone sees.
Many of you will be opening this.
I already talked about the
zooming in and out,
so I'll start here on the top left.
So there's a search tool.
So this is just to search like general,
you know, city names or
like if I put in Opera Harbor
that will kind of come up with some just suggestions.
So this is just built into the base map itself.
So if you just need help, like navigating to specific
locations, you know, kind of treat it maybe like Google Maps.
I'm not sure if it has every single location that like Google Maps has, but
you get the idea.
So you can use that.
There is also a few buttons underneath it and to the left.
So this zooms in and out.
There's this big house is just the default extent.
So if you feel like you get lost or
you know, you're you end up somewhere in the U.S. Caribbean
if you just hit the home button, it'll take you back to
this default extent.
I'll skip the prioritization tool, for now.
We included a few widgets that we thought maybe would be helpful.
So there's a measurement tool so you can measure area
and so you can pick your units here,
you can click around, double click to end,
and it'll give you the area of the polygon that you just created
similar to, you know, distance
can measure the distance between two locations if,
if that would be helpful to you.
The next button is the just to the right of that is the
base map gallery.
So this is all of ESRI’s basic base maps,
if you're familiar with ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Pro
so you should have access to all of these you know feel free to
to select one that you know, helps you orient spatially a little bit better.
Sometimes I find the NOAA charts one is helpful.
It does take a while to load, but
it does give you a lot more details. And the default is oceans.
So, you know, if you want to get back to the one that you see now,
that's the one we're using.
So you have access to all of those. And then we've also created some bookmarks.
This again is just kind of to help you
kind of get to certain
certain spots on the map or view certain islands without having to like, scroll
through the maps if you wanted to go to, you know, this is Guam.
If you wanted to see just Guam and Saipan, just overview there.
If I wanted to go to the island of Rota, if I click that, it'll, you know,
get you there a little bit faster.
So, hopefully those are helpful.
And you can also add your own if you really want to,
but those are there.
Let's see.
So next is the background layers.
So in the top right, on this dark blue bar,
this is all the inventory items that
you can access through our hub page as well.
We just kind of organized it here in the widget as
just a little differently, but it's all the same layers
so, you’ve got bathymetry, habitat maps,
boundaries, and just a few others.
You can collapse these if,
if it's easier to, to view just like one category at a time.
But in general,
you know, this is where all your inventory items are
that you can turn on as background layers.
So I'll just turn on maybe a habitat map
in Guam, just as an example.
So just brought that up.
If you want to see the legend for it to the left of the bookmark layers button,
there's the legend
that shows active layers only. So
here's the legend for this habitat
map that I just turned on.
So yeah, feel free to click around.
There's also pop ups available.
So if the pop ups are available,
I'll show you an example.
So let's see,
I'll do this
multibeam collection.
So if you click on this polygon, it'll come up with a pop up.
And so this shows the name of the project
and some of them will have a link if the data is available for download online.
This RICHARD data isn't available yet.
The year and the general resolution,
sometimes it's variable, but we tried to kind of give you a good estimate.
So click around and
let me know if you have any questions,
or if you see any data sets that were missing,
especially if it's already publicly available?
We definitely want to include that
if it's important here. So
and then
one last thing before I get to the tool itself
is this instructions link here at the top in the dark blue bar.
If you click on that, it'll open up the instructions on a separate tab
so you can have that open
if this helps to
it walks you through the tool, everything
I'll go over it today, as well.
So that's hopefully useful.
It's got links to the web tools, as well.
But, yeah.
So everything you need should be in there
and hopefully that'll answer any, anymore questions that you have.
And just, just so you see, this is ... there's also the definitions
for the management uses, the dropdown options that we have in the map product
requirements should look kind of familiar,
but more detailed descriptions are there if you need it.
Okay, it's quiet, so
I'm hoping everyone's following me so far, as there are no questions.
But again, if anybody has any questions, please
raise your hand or unmute yourself. I’m happy to answer any questions,
but, if not, I'm going to get to the prioritization tool itself. So
clicking on
this button was the three people on it up here on the top left.
It'll prompt you to sign into ArcGIS online.
So, I’m going to hit okay.
You might see something different depending on
if you're already logged in or not.
I am.
So I'm just going to hit the allow button.
Again,
make sure you're using your NOAA Geo Platform account.
So, it should be your email with underscore NOAA at the end.
If you have another enterprise account through your own
organization or a personal account, it won't work for this.
It has to be the NOAA account.
And if you have any questions or problems with that, getting access
or you didn't get the notification yet, let me know and I'll make
sure we get that to you.
So, immediately
you can see the the grid is now populated here.
I'm going to zoom out just on my screen.
There's some cells down here that weren't showing.
So, now, this is the entire region for Guam.
And I'll just pop on over here and kind of show what it looks like for
CNMI.
Now, because we’re zoomed out so far, it's kind of hard to see.
But this is where.
Yeah, so this is the grid.
I’ll just kind of scroll up
all the way up there.
Yeah.
So that's a grid for CNMI.
You can see that there's already some cells that have colors in them.
So when you're inputting your coins, it'll save it into your database
and so it'll save it if you close out and come back later,
or if you're sharing this account with someone else,
you'll be able
to see their inputs as well, because it's saving to the same grid.
So there's already, you know, this is the test version.
So you can see that there is already some cells populated.
And so over here on the left there's a widget.
I'm going to just kind of drag and drop
and make it a little bit bigger, so hopefully it's easier to see.
So if I want to make a selection, I'm ready to input priorities,
I've talked to my colleagues,
we've come up with this general game plan,
I'm going to hit this big green select button.
So this now activates the kind of the grid selecting tool.
If you hit this
dropdown, you can select by different shapes, whatever is easiest.
If you're more privy in ArcGIS, you’ll kind of know what these are, but
in general, it'll just default to rectangle, which should work for the most part.
So I want to select just a couple cells. Let's do here in Upper Harbor.
So I’ll select those two cells. So, now I want to move down
and select my primary uses, or my management uses.
So if you click this dropdown, it's
got all of them here.
We ask that you select at least one option,
and if you have two that are applicable to your
the cells that you selected, you can select the second option, as well.
So we just gave everyone the opportunity to select a couple
if those are ... if you have more than one management need in those areas.
So please select one.
And if you want to select a second, you can.
I'm going to skip clicking this Apply Only Management Use button.
I'm just going to do everything at once.
So next I'll select same with the Map Product Requirements.
Click from this dropdown list again.
There's a primary that we ask everyone to input,
and then if you have a secondary, you can do that, as well.
So down here you can see the coins assigned.
I might try to make that a little bit bigger so it's a little easier to see.
So like I said, this web tool will track all your coin inputs.
So I already have 11 coins assigned.
So those are those colored grids you already see.
I have 39 coins available
and I have two cells selected.
Here,
this is how many coins
I will be inputting into these two grid cells.
The max, it always defaults to the max that you can input
based on both the maximum that's allowed, which is five for Guam,
but also based on how many coins you have left.
So if you only have one coin left, it will only let you input one coin.
So you can
select the max of five.
And then that is the last thing, last thing you have to do.
And then when you're ready to input all of this into those grid cells,
you hit Apply All. So, you'll get this pop up that says cool, it worked.
Hit Okay.
So these two blue, you know, it's still selected.
So we can't see
the color, we can't see it populated yet, but it's there.
If you hit Clear that deselects those cells and now you can see
that's, you know, the data is in there
if you want to see what
if you want to double check, there's a pop up.
So if you deselect the Select button, it's no longer dark green.
So you see this is dark green, so you want to unselect it
so it’s a lighter green.
Now, I can click on these grids
and a pop up comes up and it tells me what was input into that cell.
So if you come back later and you forget
what you input there or you want to reference it or see
what somebody else input, this is a good way to do that.
So you can view the pop ups that way.
Now, let's say you wanted to change your selection.
You come back in and you want to put coins somewhere else.
You can do that by returning those coins.
So again, I want to activate the Select button.
I'm going to select those two grid cells.
So those are now populated. Those are now selected.
And then at the bottom here, there's this button that says Return Coins.
So if I click on that, it'll say Coins returned.
You'll see them back into your your coins available, your bank.
And then if you clear those buttons,
those cells aren't, you don't have any input in them anymore.
So, that's the
general gist of how the web tool works.
But we understand sometimes people still get caught up in it.
So, if anybody has any questions or needs help
kind of navigating the tool, just let me know.
I'm happy to walk people,
walk people through it.
I think there is a question.
Yeah, yeah,
go ahead, Jason.
[Jason talking] Hi, can you hear me? Okay. So.
Alright, this is Jason Biggs, Assistant Chief from DAR (Guam Department of Agriculture)
I was wondering if our
coins can only be spent within
0 to 3 nautical miles or the territorial waters of Guam?
Much of this area is actually mapped,
Apra Harbor being mapped,
with a current resolution of one-meter square,
The rest is at five-meter resolution.
There's only one data gap, per se,
within the maps that I created from this,
and that's on the northeast side.
And I was told that the reason why
those weren't filled in 2014 I believe was the mapping effort
for much of that
was because the
the depth for the ship was too
small, was too shallow
for the Oscar city to make it in there
and do the mapping. I’m probably mixing up the ships and whatnot.
However, there's a bunch of data that's been gathered by the Falcor
for much of the completely unmapped
portions of our EEZ,
which include most of the outer banks.
And just as a
little tidbit
label of Galvez Banks is incorrect.
One my staff pointed out that that's actually 11 Mile Reef
and Galvez is the one with the polygons to the south of that.
[Jen Kraus talking] Gotcha.
Yeah, this is actually from the base map itself.
So it might be ...
so if you can ...
Yeah, that's not our label, but understood, yeah,
that that’s a ...
[Jason Biggs talking] And if you can picture that that base map is basically our working map
of much of ... I’m just kind of ...
is that the polygons are here when that's not entirely encompassing
all of the uncharted or
un-GIS-charted regions in our EEZ. Thanks.
[Jen Kraus talking] Yeah. Yes. Thank you Dr. Biggs
for bringing that up.
So to answer, I think your first question of
if you can input coins outside of the,
you know, 30 or 40 meter contour.
So for this effort we are focusing just on shallow coral reef areas
and in the bounds of this grid that you see here.
So there's no way to input coins outside of that.
Understood that most of this has been mapped
with either LIDAR or
or multibeam.
I think, you know, part of this effort is also understanding,
you know, if there is gaps in, you know, habitat maps,
for example, you know, ways that this data can be used
to create more products that you need for your management use.
So, you know, not necessarily like where are there acoustic data gaps,
but where there's gaps in other kind of knowledge and data.
Does that make sense?
So but yeah, thank you for, for bringing that, that point up.
Does that kind of answer your question? Yeah.
[Jason Biggs talking] Yes it answers my questions. Thank you for that.
I just wanted to point out, too ... I'm not sure if you're familiar with
Dr. Romina King's
ongoing project with NASA.
I think it's funded through the space grant for
I think it’s 0 to 20 meters of ultra high resolution
mapping of our coral reef ecosystems, using
high resolution GIS drone footage
and converting it using NASA’s special AI
that's was previously used to search for life on other planets.
[Jen Kraus talking] Wow! That's really cool. Yeah.
Dr. King is actually a participant in this effort, as well.
So yeah, I'm definitely curious to learn more about that.
You know, we ... NCCOS itself has been doing some habitat
mapping and drone work, as well.
Not specifically drone work in CNMI or Guam.
But, you know, we definitely like to learn about new efforts like that.
So that's really, that's really cool.
Awesome.
Yeah. And this is, you know, this is perfect.
This is the kind of information and stuff that
that we're definitely looking to
collaborate with or include.
And just for general knowledge, you know, we ...
I'm not an expert in what's, you know, what's going on out in the West Pacific.
But I know a lot of people, or pretty much everyone here in this room,
you know, is looking to collaborate on projects like this.
So this is kind of the first step to get people talking about all these
cool efforts.
Cool.
Any other questions about the Web tool at this point?
Or anything that I may have missed for the NCCOSers
or people from my team? If there's any functionalities that
I think I hit all
the all the buttons, everything that's available.
But if there's anything I missed,
let me know.
Cool.
If there's nothing else, I'm going to spend just the last few minutes
going over just the timeline and next steps, and then we'll be
we'll be done.
So, what happens next?
So like I said, most of the participants received an email from me yesterday
or today with a link to the web tool,
the hub that I just showed you, and instructions.
So if you're not sure,
you know, a lot of people in this
this webinar that were invited are part of that group.
So if you
if you're not sure what group you fall under
or who your POC was that we contacted,
you know, who's inputting coins for your group, just let me know.
And I'm happy to, to kind of put
put the pieces together. So,
for those
just a reminder, for those participants who I've contacted
that would be inputting their coins
who are non-NOAA, which I think is most of our participants,
you should have received an email from notifications@ESRI.com
I think I've emailed everyone with the heads up.
Sometimes the notification
goes in the spam, so if you don't see it, maybe check there.
And if you still don't see it, let me know.
We can definitely work with you in getting that figured out.
Just a heads up that
the link expires in two weeks. I think you have 14 days to
set up a password, basically.
Then ... like the instructions
are to set up a password and then you're good to go.
So it's pretty quick
if for some reason you can't get to it in two weeks, let us know
and we'll resend the link. We’ll reactivate it for you.
But once you have your password set, you should be good to go to log
into the NOAA Geo Platform and then access the web tool.
So we're giving
giving everyone about three weeks to input their priorities.
So that puts us at a deadline of March 15th.
So past participants have told us it takes anywhere from like
1 to 3 hours total to complete this input.
But we want to give people plenty of time work around leave, field work
schedules, coordinating with colleagues, and all that stuff.
So I'll send out reminders as we get closer to the due date
and just check in with people and make sure you don’t have any questions
or issues.
But yeah, I just wanted to give people
plenty of time in and please reach out to me
if you have any questions or issues
with this deadline especially, we can definitely work with you. So
once we receive everyone's.
Oh, and just a reminder to also
for those for those of you inputting coins,
please input all of your coins.
So, one hundred percent of your coins. So, for Guam I think it's 50.
Please input put all 50 coins.
That's just on the analysis side of things.
We just need, you know, every, every coin to be allocated. So,
you know, again, we'll follow up and remind people
if we see something that's kind of off, we'll let you know
and work with you on how to get all those coins up.
So once we receive everyone's input,
we’ll analyze the data and produce a draft results.
So that'll probably happen between March and April.
We usually get that out pretty fast and we'll set up a webinar
probably around April and present the results.
Yeah, sometime in April, May we’ll present the results
and we'll invite everyone here to that again
and show you kind of how to view that and answer any questions to get feedback.
And so, last but certainly not least,
we're hoping to have final reports which will include American Samoa
done sometime in ... hopefully by December 2023.
So like I said, American Samoa is the the next jurisdiction
we're doing after Guam and CNMI and we're hoping to kind of roll that out,
you know, get access to the Web tool and everything to participants
late spring, early summer. So
that so that concludes this webinar.
Again, if anyone has any questions at this point,
feel free to unmute yourself,
raise your hands.
If not, I'll stay on for a few minutes anyway, if you wanted to ask something, but
yeah.
Are there any other questions?
Anything else I can go back and go over or
demonstrate?
Easy.
Well, thank you all again for joining.
I know it's early in the morning for most of you, but
I'll email everyone once this webinar recording goes out.
If you have any questions, please, please don't hesitate to reach out, work
something out and you know, if you need any help navigating the Web tool.
And we really, really, really appreciate all your inputs and participation on this.
You know, this input is crucial in helping us,
you know, understand data needs in these areas.
So these efforts have always led to a lot of really good collaboration and
and inputs.
So, awesome!
Well, everyone, have a great day, a great Thursday or a great Wednesday evening,
and I look forward to
speaking with you further.
Take care.
I'm going to stop the recording.