This webinar originally aired on 25 September 2014.
SeaSketch is a platform for collaborative design of science-based ocean management plans, including marine protected areas, transportation zones, and renewable energy sites. SeaSketch can generate hundreds of alternative proposals and can provide analytical feedback (e.g. habitat protected, potential social or economic costs and benefits) on a given proposal within seconds. Users can share their sketches, discuss their ideas, share views of maps, and post file uploads to discussion forums. This webinar will present how SeaSketch has been used in two projects: the Blue Halo Initiative in Barbuda and the Marine Planning Partnership for the North Pacific Coast (MaPP). The Blue Halo Initiative used SeaSketch to engage nearly every resident of the small island of Barbuda in the collaborative design of a comprehensive zoning plan for the area within Barbuda’s 3 nautical mile boundary. SeaSketch was configured to show how well user-generated zones met science and policy guidelines for ecosystem protection and minimizing economic impacts to fishermen. The Marine Planning Partnership for the North Pacific Coast (MaPP) is a collaborative planning process for four coastal and marine areas in British Columbia. SeaSketch is assisting MaPP by enabling on-line access to MaPPs’ extensive spatial data library and creating analytical tools to support MaPPs’ work including integrating Marxan outputs with SeaSketch visualization tools create and/or compare draft protection management zones. Learn more at www.seasketch.org.
This webinar was co-sponsored by the EBM Tools Network and it was presented by Will McClintock of the University of California at Santa Barbara.