Does NOAA's Okeanos Explorer recent tour of the Atlantic Coast submarine canyons and seamounts get you excited about data and the ways future planning activities and projects will benefit from it?
If so, join us on Tuesday October 7th at 2pm for our How Tuesday presentation of the Portal's powerful data visualization, reporting and drawing features that have been developed to support ocean planning efforts in the Mid-Atlantic region. This month's webinar's host is Chris Bruce, a GIS specialist and member of the Portal’s technical team.
The Portal currently features a new map layer showing where deep sea coral habitat is most likely to occur based on very limited past coral observations.
The new data being collected by Okeanos Explorer and other NOAA and BOEM funded missions will provide a great leap forward in deep sea coral mapping. By layering in more ecological information at all depths we gain an understanding of how underwater geographies contribute to the health of aquatic communities and environments.