weTable: Data Visualization for Community Planning

August 17, 2015

Maryland Sea Grant

With support and training from Texas Sea Grant, Maryland Sea Grant Extension employs the weTable tool to facilitate decision-making processes in a range of communities. This easy-to-use tool projects images, such as maps, onto walls, tables, and other flat surfaces. This allows users to interact with an array of data visualization and planning applications with no training required.
Maryland Sea Grant Extension experts are available to help local communities to use weTables in planning efforts surrounding land use decisions, sea level rise adaptation, and watershed management. Maryland Sea Grant Extension also works with community partners to apply weTables as outreach tools, collecting data and input during public meetings and workshops.
Among other activities, Maryland Sea Grant Extension has incorporated weTables in a regional workshop on the remote sensing of harmful algal blooms and in the development of a Nutrient Loading Model for the Delmarva Peninsula.

American Lobster

Sea Grant’s American Lobster Initiative awards $5.4 million to further innovative research and outreach in support of the lobster industry and fishing communities

Since 2019, Sea Grant’s American Lobster Initiative has addressed critical knowledge gaps about the American lobster and its fishery facing a dynamic and changing environment. The Initiative supports a regional extension program in the Northeast and a national research competition. Fifteen emerging research projects were selected in 2023 and 2024 for $4.6 million in federal funding by the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program. Coordinated by Maine Sea Grant since 2019, the Northeast lobster extension program was recently renewed with an $840,000 federal award that supports work through 2026.

Sea Grant announces $987, 361 to fund 2024 Young Fishermen’s Career Development projects

Sea Grant announces $987, 361 to fund 2024 Young Fishermen’s Career Development projects Today, NOAA’s National Sea Grant Office is pleased to announce the selection

Sea Grant welcomes 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship finalists

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 class of the Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. This year, for the first time in program history, all eligible Sea Grant programs are represented by a diverse cohort of 88 early-career professionals who will spend the next year working alongside federal agencies or legislative offices in Washington, D.C., applying their academic expertise to critical marine, coastal and Great Lakes policy issues.