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Hello GISers. I hope everyone was able to get out and
enjoy the Olympics.
We would like to resume our season with a site visit.
Please join us for a visit to the Oceans Summits visualization lab at
UBC tomorrow night, Wednesday March 10th at 5:30pm. This promises to be a fascinating
evening. There are some minor road
restrictions this week in the run up to the Paralympics. See the link below.
Topic: Ocean Summits - an interactive decision making system for
marine
policy stake holders
Site: the Oceans Summits visualization lab at UBC
Imagine being able to see the future impact of fishery policies from
the viewpoint of a fish. That is what the The Lenfest Ocean Features Project is trying to
accomplish with their Ocean Summit software developed by UBC. Participants
of Ocean Summit will see an underwater view of a marine ecosystem.
Schools of fish swim by while fishing boats float on the surface.
Instead of using a series of graphs to show the simulated impact of decisions,
the changes are visualized by the numbers of fishing boats and abundance
of different species of fish. Participants will be able to visualize the
ecological, economic and social consequences of their decisions, e.g., the
sea bottom impact of an expansion of deep sea trawling, as well as the
ecological consequences of such loss of habitat.
The Oceans Summits visualization lab is designed to allow multiple participants
to jointly explore scenarios in a workshop setting. Each stakeholder will
have a computer screen in front of them and the moderator has a huge
touch screen at the front of the room to make changes to the model
according to participant conversations. The vision is to invite stakeholders
at a fisheries summit use the software to explore different scenarios.
Location: Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main
Mall, UBC
Enter from the West off of Main Mall and meet up in the lobby.
Map:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2202+Main+Mall,+vancouver&sll=49.263562,-123.251636&sspn=0.009984,0.01929&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2202+Main+Mall,+Greater+Vancouver+A,+Greater+Vancouver+Regional+District,+British+Columbia,+Canada&t=h&z=16
Transit: From downtown, take bus #4, #42, #44, #10 or take bus #99 fromCommercial-Broadway Skytrain
station, Broadway - City Hall Skytrain stationor anywhere along Broadway
Olympic and Paralympic Access:
http://www.webcommunications.ubc.ca/ubc2010/commuting/access-routes/
We are cancelling our January and February meetings. With the 2010
Winter Olympics looming large in the windscreen, we find that BC Hydro
needs the Dunsmuir Room as a control centre for coordinating their
support of those Olympics. Making our way to any alternate location while
Vancouver
is hosting the games would prove challenging for most of us. Therefore,
it seems reasonable to put aside our activities for the duration of the
games so that you too can enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime event.
In March we hope to be able to offer a site visit to UBC's new geospatial lab - assuming it is ready to
for visitors by March. Please watch for further announcements about the
March meeting.
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