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Background Founded in 1930, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is a world-class, independent, non-profit organization based on Cape Cod, Mass., dedicated to research, engineering and higher education at the frontiers of ocean science. Its primary mission is to develop and effectively communicate a fundamental understanding of the ocean and its interaction with the Earth system for the benefit of society. As the world’s largest non-profit oceanographic research institution with more than 1000 employees and 150 graduate students, WHOI achieves its leadership position in ocean science research and higher education by nurturing inventive minds in an independent, creative atmosphere. The Institution’s funding comes from a combination of government grants, foundations, and private donations. impact the sea scallop fishery, and the dashboard is used to illustrate what the long term trends might look like. Climate change scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were used to estimate how the physical environment experienced by scallops will change. Helen and Jennie were looking for technology that allowed them to visualize a series of possible impacts of climate change on sea scallops. They looked at a bunch of different products and landed on Panopticon because of its customizability and lack of coding. Solution Using Panopticon, researchers at WHOI on Cape Cod are able to showcase data visualizations on the impacts of ocean acidification and climate change on the $500 million scallop industry in the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions. Challenge Helen and Jennie are able to take model output Jennie Rheuban, a research associate at on key biological and economic indicators such WHOI, led the development of a model to forecast the impacts of climate change and as scallop biomass, landings, and industry revenues and use Panopticon to display how ocean acidification on the US Atlantic Sea these indicators will change in the future based Scallop fishery. Helen Gordon, an on different levels of global climate policy. The information specialist at WHOI, and Jennie were looking for a flexible, user-friendly tool combination of biology, chemistry, and socioeconomics for the sea scallop industry was the that could extract and visualize large most important aspect of the study. The datasets of model output quickly, over the web, and across multiple browser platforms. visualizations created using Panopticon are now Several requirements included the ability for serving as the foundation for future education researchers to develop, modify, and deploy and outreach, and additional scientific research on how ocean acidification and climate change the dashboard independently in order to can affect one of the top-grossing fisheries in display on a website that was open to the the United States. public and did not require login to view the model. The dashboard they had in mind was In addition to providing valuable insights on needed to visualize future possible ocean acidification and climate change, the outcomes of the New England sea scallop fishery as an education and outreach tool for visualizations and PDF outputs from WHOI can serve as important assets for determining the fisheries managers, industry economic outlook and business plans for the representatives, and the general public. Ocean acidification, the ongoing decrease in scallop fishing industry into the future. New England fisheries can use this information to the pH of the ocean due to rising create effective long-term business models. atmospheric CO2, is likely to negatively 978.441.2200 twitter.com/datawatch 4 Crosby Drive Bedford, MA 01730 www.datawatch.com