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• anyWare Polling
  anyWare polling is a decision support tool commonly used in public meetings to obtain anonymous feedback from participants at key decision points.
• ARIES - ARtificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services
  ARIES is a web-based technology offered to users worldwide to assist rapid ecosystem service assessment and valuation (ESAV).
• Coastal Climate Adaptation Website
  Developed for states and communities wondering what others are doing to address climate change and looking for guidance on how to approach the topic. This NOAA Coastal Services Center website focuses on adaptation-related resources, such as local and state plans, new policies, case studies, risk and vulnerability assessments, and decision-support tools. It also provides access to basic climate resources and has a forum where users can suggest new resources, submit questions or engage in dialog.
• CommunityViz - Visualization and Analysis Software for Planners
  CommunityViz is advanced yet easy-to-use GIS software designed to help people visualize, analyze and communicate about important land-use decisions.
• CTAM- Coastal Transects Analysis Model
  CTAM is a simple visualization and decision-support tool that helps coastal managers, policy makers, coastal communities and other stakeholders in addressing multiple present and future demands in coastal areas. CTAM describes and analyzes, in a simplified fashion, the complex interactions between natural and human systems. The current emphasis of the tool is on the interaction between fishing and other coastal activities on fisheries and aquatic ecosystems.
• Cumulative Impacts Model
  The Cumulative Impacts Model estimates and visualizes the impact humans are having on the ocean's ecosystems. Maps are created of all types of human activities that directly or indirectly have an impact on the ecological communities in chosen ecosystems.
• Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Network
  The EBM Tools Network is an alliance of EBM tool users, providers, and researchers to develop EBM tools and support their use in EBM implementation in coastal and marine environments and the terrestrial environments that affect them (watersheds).
• Forest Service Issues in the News
  Forest Service Issues in the News is a Web-based system for monitoring the public discussion and debate expressed in the news media about policy issues.
• IMPLAN
  IMPLAN is an economic impact assessment modeling system. It allows the user to easily build economic models to estimate the impacts of economic changes in their states, counties, or communities. Full description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMPLAN
• INDEX Planning Support Software
  INDEX is an integrated suite of interactive GIS planning support tools for: -Assessing community conditions. -Designing future scenarios in real time. -Measuring scenarios with performance indicators.Ranking scenarios by goal achievement. -Monitoring implementation of adopted plans.
• InVEST
  InVEST is a tool that can model and map the delivery, distribution, and economic value of life-support systems (ecosystem services), well into the future. The tool will help users visualize the impacts of potential decisions, identifying tradeoffs and compatibilities between environmental, economic, and social benefits.
• Keypad Polling
  Keypad polling is an audience response system software that provides a number of key polling and meeting support tools used to enhance training and decision making.
• Legislative Atlas
  The Legislative Atlas supports regional ocean and coastal management efforts by displaying spatial data for state and federal laws and jurisdictional boundaries.
• LUPM- The Land Use Portfolio Model
  The Land Use Portfolio Model (LUPM) is a tool for modeling, mapping, and communicating risk. It is designed to help public agencies and communities understand and reduce their vulnerability to, and risk of, natural hazards.
• Marine Conservation Agreements - A Practitioner's Toolkit
  The Practitioner's Toolkit for Marine Conservation Agreements (MCAs) provides information for local, national, and international organizations regarding a promising strategy to protect ocean and coastal biodiversity from degradation and depletion.
• Marine Reserves and Local Fisheries - An Interactive Simulation
  This simulation-based educational tool allows users to experiment with the use of marine reserves as tools in fisheries management and to explore various biological and economic factors that influence population viability and fisheries sustainability.
• MarineMap - Marine Protected Areas Decision Support Tool
  MarineMap is a web-based application used for designing marine protected areas (MPAs).
• MetroQuest
  The integrated modeling system at the heart of MetroQuest allows stakeholders to instantly see the connections between choices and consequences as they explore alternative future scenarios. Its userfriendly, visually engaging interface allows stakeholders and citizens to make sense of the complex inter-relationships and the trade-offs required to create a clean, prosperous and livable future.
• MINOE
  MINOE is a new tool to help navigate existing laws and regulations (and associated agencies) in an ecosystem context.
• Open OceanMap
  Open OceanMap is a data collection tool used to effectively collect local expert knowledge in support of marine conservation planning processes.
• SimCoast
  SimCoast is a fuzzy logic rule-based expert system designed to enable researchers, managers and decision-makers to create and evaluate different policy scenarios for coastal zone management. It is interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral. It aims to combine traditional and advanced specialist knowledge about coastal zones with a set of reasoning and analytical tools.
• STICS: Mapping Census 2000 Tool
  Census 2000 Mapping is an ArcIMS site that allows users to access and query an extended set of 2000 Census variables by geographies such as blocks in Coastal Zone Areas, Block Group, Places, Zip Code Tabulation Area, Voting Districts, Counties, States, and Watersheds through an interactive map.
• TownSquare
  Townsquare connects people, planning and ideas. It's an easy and cost-effective suite of web-based tools to coordinate staff; expand collaboration, data sharing and analysis; and engage communities in understanding and participating in complex planning concepts and processes.