| Session 12 | 
|  | GIS Applications Part I | 
|  | Organizers: Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions, Upper Marlboro, MD 
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|  | 8:30 AM | 12.1 | The Roles of GIS in Building the Earth Information System    May Yuan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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|  | 8:45 AM | 12.2 | Implementing Marine XML for NOAA Observing Data and GIS integration    Nazila Merati, PMEL and JISAO, Seattle, WA; and E. F. Burger and C. Sun
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|  | 9:00 AM | 12.3 | Using Open GIS web services to serve environmental data Daryl Herzmann, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and R. Arritt
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|  | 9:15 AM | 12.4 | NOS’ nowCOAST: A Web mapping portal to real-time coastal observations and NOAA forecasts    Micah Wengren, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and J. G. W. Kelley and M. Westington
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