ICAN 2025:Virtual Workshop

ICAN 2025: Building Knowledge, Taking Action

September 30, October 1-2 2025 
Time: 10am-1pm EST, 2pm-5pm UTC, 4pm-7pm CEST

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.

The Organizing Committee of ICAN 2025 invites abstracts for online live or recorded presentations for:

  • Session I – Innovated Approaches to Atlas Development: Sharing creative approaches to knowledge production and encouraging action through atlas development

  • Session II – Connections to the Ocean Decade: aiming to explore how our Atlases are answering to the Ocean Decade Challenges 

  • Session III – Knowledge to Action: exploring how projects can encourage various types of actions around the worlds

The workshop is free and open to all with pre-registration. We welcome submissions that may fit the above themes, and can accomodate both live and pre-recorded presentations.

Submit your Abstract here

(Registration link for the conference coming soon)

Vol, 8, Nr 2 - Now Available!

We are now entering our 9th year publishing the ICAN newsletter. Many thanks to our Editor Andy Sherin!

Please consider preparing an article for the next newsletter that will likely be published in the spring of this year.

Happy New Year!

Photos from CoastGIS 2018

Our friends from CoastGIS 2018 have posted a wonderful gallery of photos, including the recent ICAN mini-workshop:

See how many ICAN members you can spot!