Happy New Year from IAN

From everyone at the Integration & Application Network, we'd like to wish you a happy and productive year ahead. We have a new logo for 2012 and look forward to providing a wide variety of new products and services in the coming year.

Baltimore Harbor Assessment

The Integration & Application Network worked with the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore (WPB) to assess the current health status of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Using six ecological indicators and three human health indicators, the current health of Baltimore's Harbor was evaluated and reported in a baseline report card. An extensive technical report was produced that included additional tidal indicators and watershed (non-tidal) indicators. This project is part of the WPB's larger plan to make the Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. The report card will be updated annually.

Seagrass Calendar 2012

Seagrass calendar 2012Produced in association with the World Seagrass Association, this 2012 calendar features a different seagrass genus every month. Along with fantastic photos from around the globe, the calendar contains detailed illustrations from the IAN symbol libraries.

100 million symbols downloaded

Most downloaded symbolsSince their first public release in 2003, more than 100 million symbols from the IAN symbol libraries have been downloaded by users from 235 countries. Particularly popular has been the new SVG and PNG (raster) versions, facilitating more users with a variety of software packages to utilize the symbols. In the last 18 months since the release of the online conceptual diagram creator, 11,000 symbols have been used by 1,300 people to create diagrams without the need for specialized vector graphics software.

Welcome to Liza Hernandez and Daniel Levey

Liza and Dan

Liza Hernandez has joined UMCES and IAN as the Tidal Monitoring Analyst at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office. Liza received her Master's in Marine Science from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary. Previously, Liza worked as a NOAA trustee on vessels conducting research on the Gulf of Mexico. She looks forward to working closely with colleagues to develop the upcoming Chesapeake Bay report card, to provide assistant to the modeling team at the Bay Program, and to work towards the vision and mission of the Tidal Monitoring & Analysis Workgroup, of which she serves as the coordinator. In her spare time she enjoys the outdoors, going to the beach, traveling and learning, spending time with her dog, Lucy, and photography. Daniel Levey has joined IAN as a Science Communication Intern. He recently graduated high school and plans to attend Catholic University in the fall of 2012. Daniel has been assisting on a number of projects, including the IAN image and symbol libraries, the IAN Barrier Island /Sea-level Rise module, and seminar series videos. In his free time, Daniel enjoys making music and playing sports.