Marine/Coastal GIS | Books, Journals and Bibliographies

Books/Bibliographies | Journals

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Arc Marine: GIS for a Blue Planet (Wright, Blongewicz, Halpin, Breman, published by ESRI Press)
Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems: Applying the Technology to the Environment (Green and King, published by Kluwer)
ESRI Map Book Online, 2009 (vol. 24, and use "Search Map Book" also)
ESRI Map Book Online, 2004 (vol. 19, and use "Search Map Book" also)
ESRI Map Book Online, 2003 (vol. 18, go to "Search", "Global Search", and enter "Oceans")
ESRI Map Book Online, 2001 (vol. 16)
Geographic Information Systems in Fisheries (Fisher and Rahel, published by the American Fisheries Society)
Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries (Valavanis, published by Taylor & Francis)
GIS for the Coastal Zone (Woodroffe et al., Proceedings of Conference held at the University of Wollongong, 13-16 July 2006, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong, Australia)
GIS for Coastal Zone Management (Bartlett and Smith, published by CRC Press)
GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences (Vol. 2) (published by Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group, Saitama, Japan)
Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat Characterization (the GEOHAB Book, edited by Todd and Green, 2008)
     Special GEOHAB issue in the journal Continental Shelf Research in the works (edited by Andrew Heap and Peter Harris of Geoscience Australia)
     Special GEOHAB Atlas of Seafloor Geomorphology as Habitat in the works (Peter Harris of Geoscience Australia)
Marine and Coastal Geographical Information Systems (Wright and Bartlett, published by Taylor & Francis)
Marine Geography (Breman, published by ESRI Press)
National Geographic's Blue Frontier: Oceans for Life
NOAA Coastal Services Center Library
Place Matters: Geospatial Tools for Marine Science, Conservation, and Management (Wright and Scholz, published by OSU Press)
Undersea with GIS (Wright, published by ESRI Press)

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Journals in Marine GIS, Ocean Informatics (including those welcoming articles and readers interested in marine data and metadata publishing, discovery, documentation and accessibility)

Coastal Management- domain specific - moderate but growing informatics readership
Computers & Geosciences - domain specific - moderate oceanographic readership
Deep-Sea Research II - domain specific with growing informatics readership

Example: Baker, K.S. and Chandler, C.L., Enabling long-term oceanographic research: Changing data practices, information management strategies and informatics. Deep Sea Res. II, 55, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.05.009, 2008.

Example: Stocks, K. I., Condit, C., Qian, X., Brewin, P. E., and Gupta, A., Bringing together an ocean of information: An extensible data integration framework for biological oceanography. Deep Sea Res. II, 56 (19-20): 1804-1811, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.05.022, 2009.

Earth Science Informatics
Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union - peer-reviewed newsletter for very short articles
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (aka "G-Cubed") - domain specific, with papers welcomed as technical briefs or data briefs as well - huge oceanographic readership

Example: Helly, J., H. Staudigel, and A. Koppers, Scalable models of data sharing in Earth sciences, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4 (1), 1010, doi:10.1029/2002GC000318, 2003.

Example: Spear, F.S., Hallett, B., Pyle, J.M., Adali, S., Szymanski, K., Waters, A., Linder, Z., Pearce, S.O., Fyffe, M., Goldfarb, D., Glickenhouse, N., and Buletti, H., MetPetDB: A database for metamorphic geochemistry, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12 (12), 1010, doi:10.1029/2009GC002766, 2009.

GEOConnexion - non-peer-reviewed trade journal series with interests in marine data (UK and Europe, Middle East, Africa)
GEOInformatics - non-peer-reviewed trade journal, 2008 special issue on marine data (Europe)
International Journal of Digital Earth - domain specific but with a poor oceanographic readership (reprint or DOI would have to be distributed to ocean community)
International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research
International Ocean Systems - non-peer-reviewed trade journal (Europe)
Limnology & Oceanography
Marine Geodesy - would welcome a special issue on marine metadata or informatics
Ocean & Coastal Management - domain specific - moderate but growing informatics readership
Sea Technology - non-peer-reviewed trade journal (U.S.)
Transactions in GIS - domain specific but with a poor oceanographic readership (reprint or DOI would have to be distributed to ocean community)

See also:
Citations - They're Not Just for Publications Anymore
and
Lowry, R., Urban, E., Pissierssens, P., A new approach to data publication in ocean sciences, Eos, Trans. AGU, 90(15): 484, 2009.

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