2018 Esri Ocean GIS Forum, Nov 6-8, Redlands, CA, www.esri.com/events/ocean

This year's theme: "Why and How We Map the Ocean." The Forum focuses on multi-dimensional data and web apps to help put ocean scientific information to work in a wide range of organizations, and lighting up the potential for sharing knowledge across disciplines and collaborating with multiple stakeholders. 178 registrants took advantage of the great opportunity to network within the ocean GIS community as it forged new concepts in ocean analytics and applications (including in 6 technical workshops filled to capacity). Chief Scientist's plenary slide deck downloadable from http://esriurl.com/forum18chiefsci.