WWU's Salish Sea Atlas wins award at 2023 ESRI Conference
The “Climate of the Salish Sea Bioregion” chapter of the Salish Sea Atlas was selected as one of the best map series at the 2023 ESRI User Conference! Esri is a leading creator of GIS (geographic information systems) digital mapping and analytics software, and the user conference is one of the biggest GIS conferences in the world.
The “Climate” chapter explores the wind, precipitation, and temperature characteristics of the Salish Sea bioregion using data averaged for the 1991-2020 period. A comprehensive, open-access digital book, the Salish Sea Atlas contains maps, illustrations, interpretive text, and downloadable geospatial datasets.