The Monterey Bay Marine GIS User Group sponsored a Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET) one-day workshop to support GIS training for our members. The workshop was held July 20, 2012 at the CSUMB Chapman Science Academic Center in Seaside, CA.
MGET is a free, open-source collection of geoprocessing tools designed for researchers, resource managers, and conservation practitioners. MGET plugs into ArcGIS and can be invoked from many programming environments as well. The toolbox is modular and diverse, with 300 tools that are useful in a wide variety of scenarios. In this workshop, Jason Roberts, MGET's lead developer, led participants in a habitat modeling exercise that explored some of MGET's most popular tools. Over the course of the day, we covered scenarios such as:
- Efficiently acquiring oceanographic data in GIS-compatible formats, and visualizing it
- Building statistical models that predict species habitat from environmental covariates
- Exploring spatial and temporal patterns in fishery effort and catch data
Links:
Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET)
MGET workshop pictures and brief summary
MGET overview presentation slides (~13 Mb)
Organizers:
Lisa Wedding, Postdoctoral Scholar - Marine Spatial Ecologist
NOAA Fisheries Ecology Division, Habitat Ecology Team &
UCSC Institute of Marine Sciences
110 Shaffer Road Santa Cruz, CA 95060
email: lwedding@ucsc.edu
Nadine Golden, Geographer
U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center
2800 Mission St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060