18th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture, National Academy of Sciences Ocean Studies Board, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 28, 2017, Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
From the stick charts of the ancient Marshall Islanders to the SONAR of World War II, humankind continues to devise ways to map the ocean. The newest maps, which are global, 3D, and increasingly intelligent, hold great promise for improving science and decision-making related to our oceans, but “here be monsters” to conquer data challenges. Join Dr. Dawn Wright, chief scientist at the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University, to learn about the past and present of ocean mapping and what must be done to overcome the challenges of “big data,” “dark data,” and the need to make data more resilient and more accessible to users.
The Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture is presented by the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in cooperation with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The lecture was created in honor of Dr. Revelle’s contributions to the ocean sciences and his dedication to making scientific knowledge available to policymakers.
Swells, Soundings, and Sustainability, but "Here be Monsters"
1. Dawn J. Wright, Ph.D.
Environmental Systems Research Institute
and Oregon State University
Swells, Soundings, and
Sustainability…But
“Here be Monsters”
Mapping Oceans of Data for
a Sustainable Sea
18th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture
Ocean Studies Board, National Academy of Sciences
April 28, 2017
3. Swells….
Ancient Marshall Islands Stick Chart
By Cullen328 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
4. Soundings …
Single Beam Multibeam
Image courtesy of NOAA and UNH
Heinrich Berann, 1968
International Cartographic Association, Ken Field Image courtesy of NOAA and UNH
29. 52 Million Points and Counting:
A New Stratification Approach for Mapping Global
Marine Ecosystems
AGU Fall Meeting, 16 December 2016
IN53E-02 (Invited)
Dawn Wright, Chief Scientist, Environmental Systems Research Institute (aka Esri)
Affiliated Professor, Oregon State University
dwright@esri.com
Roger Sayre (USGS), Sean Breyer, Kevin A. Butler, Keith VanGraafeiland (Esri), Kathy
Goodin (NatureServe), Maria Kavanaugh (WHOI), Mark Costello (U. of Auckland), Noel
Cressie (U. of Wollongong), Zeenatul Basher (USGS), Peter T. Harris (GRID-Arendal),
John M. Guinotte (USFWS)
30. Based on NOAA’s World Ocean Atlas 2013 v. 2
Nitrate
Silicate
Phosphate
Temperature*
Salinity
Dissolved Oxygen
e.g., *Locarnini, R.A., A.V. Mishonov, J.I. Antonov, T.P. Boyer, H.E. Garcia, O.K. Baranova, and others. 2013. World Ocean Atlas 2013
version 2 (WOA13 V2), Volume 1: Temperature. In: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information S. Levitus, ed, and A.
Mishonov, technical ed, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 73, doi:10.7289/V55X26VD, www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/woa13/
0 m
5500 m 100 m
100 m
5 m
10 m
25 m
31. EMU 3D Point Mesh Framework
UnitTop
SurfaceArea
5500 m
100 m
100 m
5 m
10 m
25 m
0 m
5500 m
Feature Attributes
Depth_Level
Temperature
Salinity
Dissolved Oxygen
Nitrate
Silicate
Phosphate
MODIS Ocean Color
PointID
QuarterID
UnitTop (m)
UnitMiddle (m)
UnitBottom (m)
Thickness (m)
ThicknessPos (m)
EMUID
EMU Name
GeomorphologyBase
GeomorphologyFeatures
SurfaceArea
Volume, SpecialCases
0 m
UnitBottom
Unit Middle
Thickness
Volume
World Ocean Atlas EMUPoints
• K-means statistical clustering
• Backwards stepwise discriminant analysis
• Pseudo F-statistic 37 clusters
• Canonical discriminant analysis
32. EMU 13 Summary
Technical Name:
• Bathypelagic
• Very Cold
• Euhaline
• Hypoxic
• High Nitrate
• Medium Phosphate
• High Silicate
Common Name:
• Deep
• Very Cold
• Normal Salinity
• Low Oxygen
• High Nitrate
• Medium Phosphate
• High Silicate
37. “Yer off the edge of the map, mate.
Here there be monsters!”
-- Captain Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
38.
39. Thanks to Carthage Smith (Org for Economic Cooperation & Development), Heidi Laine (U. Helsinki)
Research Data Alliance Plenary 7
The Challenge of “Open Science”
Providing a Platform for Open and Effective Access
Research
Data,
Materials
Scientific
Pubs
Access for
Scientists,
Companies,
the Public
Digital
Applications
Source
Code
Re-Asserting
Science as a
Global Public
Good
40. The Challenge of “Open Science”
Providing a Platform for Open and Effective Access
Research
Data,
Materials
Scientific
Pubs
Access for
Scientists,
Companies,
the Public
Digital
Applications
Source
Code
Re-Asserting
Science as a
Global Public
Good
dusk.geo.orst.edu/ec-story
43. Grounding of USS San Francisco on Uncharted Guyot
1 Sailor Killed, 115 Injured, January 2005
Image courtesy of Dave Sandwell, Scripps
www.gebco.net
Picard et al., Eos, March 2017
48. …deal with changes, threats
Re•sil•ience [n.]
…absorb disturbance, stress, catastrophe
…recover quickly to a prior desired state
49. …deal with changes, threats
Re•sil•ience [n.]
…absorb disturbance, stress, catastrophe
…recover quickly to a prior desired state
3 ideas
esriurl.com/resilientdata
50. Inspired by Mark Gahegan, U. of Auckland, RDA 5th Plenary
(1) Making Data & Code “Available” is NOT ENOUGH
We need to be more open about what we do WITH them!
51. (1) Making Data & Code “Available” is NOT ENOUGH
We need to be more open about what we do WITH them!
esriurl.com/workflows
esriurl.com/3dfences
52. (2) To Make it Reproducible, Make it Virtual.
Digital Object Identifiers, “Containers,” and more . . .
62. UN Sustainable Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources
Estimate of Plastic Pollution in the World’s Oceans (km2)
63. Biodiversity
Philippines
River Discharge,
Pollution Outflow
Mexico
Reef Health
Cook Islands
Coral Habitats and
Fishing Density
Southern California
Tsunami Inundation
Modeling
Pacific Northwest
Australia
Marine Reserve Planning
Coral Reef
Monitoring
Martinique
South Carolina
Sea Level Rise
Siting Offshore Aquaculture
Gulf of Mexico
Marine Debris Tracking
Gulf of Mexico, Loop Current
64. Throughout a Geographic “Nervous System”
of Planet Ocean...
Planning and
Policy
Prediction
(where appropriate)
Decision Making
Analysis and
Modeling
Action
Ocean
Observations
For the “Science of Where”TM in the Oceans
“Smart Maps” Provide a Framework and Process
65. Best wishes to you
in your work
Dawn Wright
Email: dwright@esri.com
Twitter: @deepseadawn
esriurl.com/revelle
esriurl.com/scicomm