ICAN 2025: Detailed Agenda

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Published: 15 September 2025 15 September 2025

ICAN 2025: Building Knowledge, Taking Action

September 30, October 1-2, 2025

1pm-4pm UTC

 

The 2025 International Coastal Atlas Workshop will be held online from September 30 to October 2, 2025, with a series of live and recorded content. The workshop will provide an opportunity to present and discuss recent innovations in atlases, how atlases are answering the Ocean Decade Challenges and it will also investigate synergies with other initiatives around the world.

 

Workshop is FREE and available LIVE in English and Spanish

**NOTE** All times are approximate, as organizers may need to adjust the agenda as circumstances arise.

 

Session I: Sept 30th

Innovative Approaches to Atlas Development

Tuesday September 30, 13:00 UTC

Sharing creative approaches to knowledge production and encouraging action
through atlas development

Co-Hosts:
Kate Sullivan, California State University, Los Angeles
Ned Dwyer, Randbee Consultants

Part I

(90 minutes)

  • 13:00 UTC - Welcome & Housekeeping - Ned Dwyer and Kate Sullivan

  • 13:05 UTC - Alder Keleman Saxena, Keynote
    Thinking through Waterscapes with Feral Atlas

  • 13:35 UTC - Panel Introductions and Discussion

    • Will McClintock
      National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

    • Kate Sullivan
      Anthropology Department, California State University, Los Angeles

  • 14:30 UTC - Break - 15 Minutes

Part II

(75 minutes)

  • 14:45 UTC - Welcome Back

  • 14.46 UTC - Annette Scheffer
    MSPglobal Data Toolboxes as tools for atlas development

  • 15:00 UTC - Kirsten Isensee
    Ocean Oxygen: The Global Ocean Oxygen Decade programme (GOOD and GO2DAT)

  • 15:15 UTC - Rebecca Brushett
    People, Place and the Ocean-The Gros Morne Community-led Marine Atlas 

  • 15:36 UTC Mauricio Villarreal
    Coastal Wetlands Atlas of the Arid Pacific Coast of South America: A cross-boundary tool for knowledge exchange,
    governance, and conservation

  • 15:42 UTC - Genevieve Tremblay
    Humedal Vivo: Interactive Wetland Atlas through Augmented Reality

  •  15:59 UTC Session I Wrap-up 

 

Session II: Oct 1st

Connections to the Ocean Decade

Wednesday October 1, 13:00 UTC

Aiming to explore how Coastal Web Atlases can contribute to and link in with the UN Ocean Decade Challenges

Co-Hosts:
Adam Leadbetter, Decade Coordination Office for Ocean Data Sharing
Margarita López-Velosa, Decade Coordination Office for Ocean Data Sharing

Part I

(90 minutes)

  • 13:00 UTC - Welcome & Housekeeping - Adam Leadbetter & Margarita López-Velosa

  • 13:05 UTC - Adam Leadbetter
    Introduction to the Decade Challenges, and vision for an Atlas for the Decade

  • 13:15 UTC - Jennifer Sletten
    ProtectedSeas Navigator A global regulation-based tool for marine protection assessments
    and planning for 100% of our ocean

  • 13:30 UTC - Joana Akrofi
    Partnership approach to scale up Ocean and Coastal Observation and Monitoring to support
    decision making and sustainable management of ocean and coastal areas. GEMS Ocean

  • 13:45 UTC - Alex Palomino Cadena, IOCaribe
    Ocean Data Applications for Sustainable Development: Generating Knowledge in Support of
    the Decade of Ocean Science

  • 14:00 UTC - Rana Almassmoum
    Making Marine Atlases Visible

  • 14:15 UTC - David Hart
    Enhancing the Wisconsin Coastal Atlas to Address Ocean Decade Challenges Facing the Great Lakes

  • 14:25 UTC - Wrap-up Part I - Adam Leadbetter

  • 14:30 UTC - Break - 15 Minutes

Part II

(80 minutes)

  • 14:45 UTC -Welcome Back - Margarita López-Velosa

  • 14:50 UTC - Panel Introductions

    • Neil van Niekerk, 2DegreesC 
      Lessons learned in advancing the use of low-cost ocean sensors

    • Elizabeth George
      The Coastie Canada Program: a collaborative citizen science photo monitoring program

    • Dr. Jan Newton, NANOOS 
      Backyard Buoys: meeting coastal community needs for wave data through co-design and co-production

  • 15:35 UTC Panel Discussion

  • 16:00 UTC Session II Wrap-up - Margarita López-Velosa

 

Session III: Oct 2nd

Knowledge to Action

Thursday October 2, 13:00 UTC

Aiming to explore how projects can encourage various types of actions around the world

Co-Hosts:
Lucy Scott, ODIS Programme Coordinator
Andy Sherin, ICAN Steering Group

Part I

(80 minutes)

  • 13:00 UTC - Welcome & Housekeeping - Lucy Scott & Andy Sherin

  • 13:05 UTC - Lucy Scott
    Update on the Ocean Data Information System

  • 13:15 UTC - Ayami Sakai-Yamazak and Dr. Parsa Kian
    AOMI Atlas of Ocean Microplastics

  • 13:30 UTC - Mr. M. Arunvel
    GIS-Based Coastal Atlas for Biodiversity Protection and Coastal Hazard Preparedness

  • 13:40 UTC - Dr. Ross O'Connell
    A Techno-Economic Web-GIS for Ocean Energy

  • 13:55 UTC - Manuel Camilo Velandia Díaz
    Coastal Marine Atlas and Marine Spatial Planning, Tools for the Conservation of the Eastern Tropical Pacific

  • 14:10 UTC - Marinez Scherer
    Mapping Ocean Uses in Brazil: An Ocean Use Survey implemented through the SeaSketch platform

  • 14:25 UTC - Wrap-up Part I - Andy Sherin

  • Break - 15 Minutes

 

Part II

(80 minutes)

  • 14:40 UTC - Welcome Back - Andy Sherin

  • 14:40 UTC - Hansen Johnson
    WhaleMap: A system for collating and displaying whale survey results to inform conservation

  • 14:55 UTC - Jeff Herter
    New York Department of State Geographic Information Gateway

  • 15:10 UTC - Fabio Favoretto
    Atlas Aquatica – A Global Movement to Map and Support a Sustainable Non-Extractive Ocean Economy

  • 15:25 UTC - Laura Bliss, West Coast Ocean Alliance
    West Coast Ocean Data Portal and Ocean Health Dashboard 

  • 15:40 UTC - Ben Skinner, Pacific Salmon Foundation
    Building Coastal Resilience through Mapping

  • 15:55 UTC - Session III Wrap-up, Andy Sherin

  • 16:00 UTC - Adjourn - thank you for attending ICAN 2025!