The author of the best short paper will be awarded with flight and accommodation reimbursement for GIslands 2010 Summer School (Receipts of travel and accomodation will be needed for reimbursement).

GIslands 2010 accepted short papers:

• EMPIRICAL MODELLING OF BALEARIC SHEARWATER (PUFFINUS MAURETANICUS) CENSUS DATA FOR THE PORTUGUESE ATLANTIC (Bio, A. Meirinho, I. Ramírez & P. Geraldes)

• GIS-BASED MARINE BIODIVERSITY MAPPING FOR ASSESSMENT OF COASTAL AND MARINE PRIORITY AREAS FOR CONSERVATION (Andrea Z. Botelho, Helena Calado, Ana Cristina Costa)

• ASSESSMENT OF THE SPATIAL USE OF ARTISANAL FISHERIES INTO BENTHIC COMMUNITIES FROM CAP DE CREUS (Ariadna Purroy Albet)

• A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS-USE OF GPS ENABLED CAMERA IN GEOSPATIAL MAPPIN (Ashok Wadwani)

• BUILDING A MARINE SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING IN U.S. WATERS (Cindy Fowler, Brian Smith, and David Stein)

• WORKING TOWARD A MULTIPURPOSE MARINE CADASTRE IN THE U.S. TO SUPPORT MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING (David Stein, Cindy Fowler, Christine Taylor, Brian Smith, Adam Bode)

• IDENTIFICATION OF MARINE IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS IN PORTUGAL (Ramírez, J. Andrade, A. Meirinho, P. Geraldes & B. Lascelles)

• GIS APPLICATIONS IN MARINE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: EXAMPLES OF SPATIAL MANAGEMENT MEASURES FROM BERMUDA (Joanna M. Pitt and Mandy L. Shailer)

• ANALYSIS OF EPI-BENTHOS DISTRIBUTION AND THEIR POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION TO GARY KNOLL’S PINGO-LIKE-FEATURES ON THE CANADIAN BEAUFORT SHELF: A SMALL-SCALE CASE STUDY (Kerstin Jerosch, Vladimir E. Kostylev, Steve M. Blasco)

• DATA REQUIREMENTS AND TOOLS FOR MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING (Kostantinos A. Stamoulis)

• SALMON FARMING IN CHILEAN PATAGONIA: A GROWING THREAT FOR COLD WATER CORALS? (Laura Fillinger, Verena Häussermann and Claudio Richter)

• GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AS A TOOL FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE COAST AREA OF TAZACORTE, lA PALMA (CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN) (Laura Martín García, Carlos Sangil, Laura Concepción, Raúl Fernández de León, Jacinto Barquín Diez & Isabel Y. González Rodríguez)

• EVALUATION OF MODIS DATA FOR MAPPING OIL SLICKS - THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL CASE (2010) (Marco Gianinetto, Pieralberto Maianti, Riccardo Tortini, Francesco Rota Nodari, Giovanmaria Lechi)

• SYSTEM APPROACH FOR COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT: APPLICATION IN SOUTHEAST COAST OF TERCEIRA ISLAND AND GUADIANA ESTUARY (Maria Helena Guimarães, André Mascarenhas, Carlos Sousa, Tomaz Dentinho, Tomasz Boski)

• GOVERNACE ISSUES FOR OCEAN SUSTAINABILITY: APPROACH TO AZOREAN SEA (Luz Paramio)

• SHALLOW HYDROTHERMAL VENTS AND MARINE PROTECTED AREAS WITHIN THE AZORES ARCHIPELAGO (P. Aguiar & A.C. Costa)

• DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY TO EVALUATE THE FLOOD RISK AT THE COASTAL ZONE (Paulo Duarte Raposeiro, Conceição Juana Fortes, Maria Teresa Reis, José Carlos Ferreira)

• GEOTECHNOLOGIES FOR INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT IN COLOMBIA: A NATIONAL EXPERIENCE (Pilar Lozano-Rivera, Carolina García-Valencia, Angela López Rodríguez)

• ASSESSMENT OF WATER-LOGGING EXTENT USING RS AND GIS TECHNIQUES AT THE KOPOTAKSHO BASIN AREA, BANGLADESH (Shahriar Rahman, Syed Hafizur Rahman and Md. Waji Ullah)

• ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF BRINE DISCHARGE INTO SHALLOW BRACKISH BAY - A CASE STUDY OF PUCK BAY, BALTIC SEA (Wochna Agnieszka)