Oregon, USA

Documenting Sea Change

“…Ocean data portals span a range of geospatial confi gurations, and that too has generated literature about knowledge-sharing practices that challenge and are challenged by geopolitical territorial boundaries, even as the products themselves remain anchored in geopolitical territories. For example, the collection of digital coastal atlases collected under the auspices of the International Coastal Atlas Network (O'Dea et al 2007), now part of the IODE (Glover et al 2010), emerged out of "human connections" between researchers at Oregon State (a program originally fostered by the ONR), the Oregon Coastal Atlas (2020; Haddad et al 2011), and the people behind the Marine Irish Digital Atlas (2020). In its turn, the IODE is emerging as one of a handful of signifi cant globe-spanning ocean sciences data networks fostering transnational ocean sciences data sharing, and is exemplar of how ocean sciences data sharing practices complicate notions of geopolitically defi ned territoriality (for a similar observation regarding the Global Ocean Observing System, see Lehman 2016), even as data repositories and products, such as the coastal atlases, are built around more traditional notions of geopolitical territoriality.…”