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(ECP and CTSP grantees, reports, and other sites of interest for conservation
geography, mapping and GIS. Grantees are coded by program and year of
grant at the end of their name/state, i.e. e91 means ECP grant in 1991.
c=cstp, cm=ctsp-mac, cs=ctsp-software)
CommEn Space, Wa e98. (1305
4th Ave. #303 Seattle WA 98101 tel:206-749-0112 email:info@commenspace.org
GIS contact: Chris Davis, Eugene Martin) "CommEn Space is a nonprofit
organization that provides affordable mapping and geographic information
technologies to environmental and community organizations in the Pacific
Northwest...We serve as both a community education resource and a research
lab that supports the institutional goals of client and partner organizations.
We use GIS to assist groups in our network of partners to address their
spatial analysis problems. In furthering this goal, CommEn Space will
develop, maintain and distribute data resources of use to the environmental
community. When required, spatial analysis and visualization will be supported
by the development of software tools." GIS
PROJECTS: Puget
Sound Environmental Learning Center We have been working with the
Brainerd Foundation to construct a GIS of their Environmental Learning
Center. This includes tracking changes in land cover and land use, and
developing a "viewshed" for the property on Bainbridge Island." Don't
MIss their Interactive
IMS Map of the site: "Welcome to the Environmental
Learning Center's Interactive Site Map! Clicking on the 'Launch' button
below will open a new window that displays a schematic map of the ELC
Site on Bainbridge Island. Clicking anywhere on the map will display an
aerial photograph of that location."
Strait
of Juan de Fuca Oil Spill Study Marking the 10th Anniversary of the
Exxon Valdez tragedy in Prince William Sound, we collaborated with People
for Puget Sound to develop an application illustrating the potential effects
of an oil spill in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Student
Conservation Association's EarthWork Northwest Every year the Student
Conservation Association has an Earth Work Day. This year they used our
services to create a map showing all the sites where they had volunteers
doing restoration work.. Bellevue Community College Student Mapping Project:
As the Community College was going through major administrative changes,
administrators wanted to know where students were living in relation to
the school. We worked with them to see how these changes affected their
student body.. City of Seattle Urban Watershed Characterization: This
was a project to map the major landscape features in the Seattle area
and identify key factors such as non-point pollution which impact the
watershed. Rapid Hazard
Assessment for Critical Habitats in the Puget Sound Basin Working
with The Nature Conservancy, we helped them to locate hazardous sites
in the Puget Sound region and conduct watershed analyses to track the
flow and direction of runoff.. Don't miss their Excellent MAP
& ANALYSIS GALLERY. see: Data
Download Page. Free ArcView
Software Tools page.
Conservation
Fund, Southeast Regional Office, Chapel Hill NC c96. (The Conservation
Fund, North Carolina Office, P.O. Box 271, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Phone:
(919) 967-2223 Fax: (919) 967-9702 Contact: Will
Allen, GIS Director. email: will@tcf.arcana.com). The Conservation
Fund seeks sustainable conservation solutions for the 21st century, emphasizing
the integration of economic and environmental goals. Through real estate
transactions, demonstration projects, education, and community-based activities,
the Fund seeks innovative long-term measures to conserve land and water....The
Conservation Fund and its partners have protected more than 1.4 million
acres of the nations natural and cultural heritage."
GIS PROJECTS:
"As a decision support tool, GIS integrates conservation
science and human values through interactive, real time comparisons of
alternative land use scenarios in order to develop consensus-based planning
solutions. Using this powerful GIS technology, coupled with the Fund's
technical expertise - sustainable community development, economic capacity
building and land use planning - The Conservation Fund supports efforts
of urban and rural communities to protect their cultural, historic, and
natural resources through community-driven efforts such as the following:
Albemarle-Pamlico Bioregional Greenway Plan,
Chattooga Watershed Conservation Plan,
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie,
Roanoke River Greenway Project. ...In March 1996, The Conservation Fund received
a grant from the Conservation Technology Support Program (CTSP) from Hewlett-Packard
(HP), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), and the Smithsonian's
Conservation Research Center (CRC). The Fund received an HP UNIX Workstation
and DesignJet plotter, ESRI's ArcInfo and ArcView software, and training
from HP in UNIX system administration, ESRI in using ArcInfo and ArcView,
and CRC in conservation applications of GIS. This GIS system, located
in the Fund's Research Triangle, NC office, will greatly enhance the Fund's
ability to provide conservation GIS technical assistance to the corporate,
government, academic, and nonprofit sectors for years to come. In addition,
the Fund has received a commitment from ESRI to donate GIS software to
the U.S. Department of the Interior's
National Conservation Training Center
(NCTC) in Shepherdstown, WV. ESRI's donation will enhance the NCTC's conservation
GIS training program allow the Fund to collaboratively develop conservation GIS
curriculum for the nation's land and water conservation professionals.
ConservationGIS.com - A Resource
for Conservation GIS Professionals. (The Conservation Fund, North
Carolina Office, P.O. Box 271, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Phone: (919) 967-2223
Fax: (919) 967-9702 Contact: Will Allen,
GIS Director. email: will@tcf.arcana.com) "dedicated to providing
you with relevant, timely information on the use of geographic information
systems (GIS) mapping tools for the conservation community." Check out:
GIS Strategic Planning.
GIS User Needs Assessment.
ArcView Map Making Tricks
Conservation International, Wash
DC e91. (2501 M Street, NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20037 1-202-429-5660
GIS contact: John Musinsky tel: 1-202-429-5660 email: j.musinsky@conservation.org)
"Conservation International promotes biodiversity conservation in
rain forests and other endangered ecosystems worldwide." Their long
history with spatial
analysis tools is evident in their extensive list of Information
and Decision Support Tools. "The Information Distribution Program
expands on CI's eight years of work compiling and analyzing data for conservation
research and planning; our efforts to develop appropriate decision support
tools and provide training to analyze data; and our work to get the information
and tools into the hands of researchers and conservationists in the field."
Condor:
is CD-ROM containing a GIS-based planning tool that permits the integration
of biodiversity, social, and economic variables in infrastructure project
planning for the Andean region of South America.
CISIG
is a computer tool that integrates and displays maps showing biological,
social, and economic data for conservation analysis. Capacity-Building
in Science and Technology. "One of the primary objectives of
the Conservation Planning department is enhancing technical capacity of
conservation groups in the developing world. ...using a "tool-box" approach
of appropriate technologies and analytical methodologies" including GIS.
Remote
Sensing for Regional Scale Monitoring: is a CI methodology for using
satellite imagery and aerial photography and videography to map and monitor
natural resources. The
CI-UNESCO
Biosphere Reserves Partnership describes a large number of GIS-based
collaborative planning workshops operated by CI around the globe.. CI's
Conservation Priority-Setting Workshops are a model for collaborative
Regional Conservation GIS Analysis, completed in 14 countries and regions worldwide,
see the example
MAP."
CI pioneered the use of Conservation Priority Setting Workshops
(CPWs) to build consensus and focus limited resources on biodiversity
conservation. These workshops have looked at different geographical units,
including large ecosystems encompassing several nations (biomes, e.g.
Amazonia), regional subsets of ecosystems (e.g. the northeastern Atlantic
Forest region in Brazil), and discrete countries (e.g. Papua New Guinea).
The method begins with a thorough process of pulling together the available
biological and socio-economical data, cartographic information and satellite
imagery. This information is then reviewed and refined in a workshop format,
involving the leading experts on that particular region." See also
the Center for
Applied Biodiversity Science.
CONSGIS Mailing List WWW Gateway.
Biological Conservation and GIS ListServer and Discussion Group Archives.
Corvallis Environmental Center,
Or, c98. (POB 2189 Corvallis OR 97330 USA Tel: 541-753-9211 Fax:
541-753-4507 email: ecenter@peak.org. Director:Nancy Sieglitz. Gis
Contact: Christopher Beatty) "The Corvallis Environmental Center
was founded in 1994 and is a local center for environmental education
and awareness...In late 1996, we embarked on a program to raise awareness
about the status of the Willamette River in order to motivate clean-up
and restoration of this precious resource...The primary output of the
first phase of the project was the Willamette
Water Quality Map. This tool consolidates a large amount of existing
information about the watershed. The map and the data behind it represent
the kernel upon which our GIS system would be started. We have invested
heavily in the past year in the "people" and "data" portions of the GIS
system described in the tutorial. In lieu of actual GIS tools, we downloaded
USGS data for the Willamette and created the map using Freehand. The Water
Quality Map has been well-received as a teaching and awareness tool throughout
the valley (copies are available if there is interest). A primary conclusion
from studies conducted to date is that agricultural runoff is the number
one problem in this basin. A GIS system would be used to help understand
the consequences of various agricultural practices and help devise policy
to minimize the impact on the environment." See also
Green Community Data Project:
"The goal is the development of a region-wide ecological data base to
assist in local park and land use management."
Creative Environmental Conservation, Seaside CA
cm96. (100 Campus Center, Seaside, CA, 93955, USA, tel 408-582-3685
fax 408-582-3691 email watershed@monterey.edu)
Defenders of Wildlife
Pacific Northwest Office, Lake Oswego OR e96. (Defenders of Wildlife-West
Coast Office 1637 Laurel St. Lake Oswego, OR 97034 (503) 697-3222, defender@teleport.com)
."Welcome to NatureMapping, a wildlife education project involving
Oregon citizens of all ages in collecting data on amphibians, reptiles,
birds and mammals. If you have a love of nature, if you enjoy observing
and identifying wildlife, and if you want to contribute useful information
to our collective knowledge of Oregon's wildlife, then NatureMapping is
for you... NatureMapping is about being proactive. The reports you submit
provide valuable information on the distribution of Oregon's wildlife.
Alone, your data may or may not be especially useful. But when combined
with data collected by other NatureMappers, your collective data can be
very useful to students, land use planners, and resource managers, to
name just a few."
Defenders of Wildlife (1101 14th
Street NW #1400, Washington, D.C. 20005 tel:202-682-9400 webmaster@defenders.org)
Their On-Line Library
lists many useful publications: Dont miss their excellent report:
Saving
Biodiversity: A Status Report on State Laws, Policies and Programs
Including a State by State review of Biodiversity GIS and data programs:
"We believe this report makes two significant advances on behalf
of environmental law and policy. First, it continues the effort of establishing
biodiversity conservation as a central indicator of overall environmental
protection by creating a matrix of key biodiversity legal components.
Second, for the first time ever, this report compiles the extremely varied
laws and programs of the 50 states to help government officials and non-government
advocates better protect biodiversity." See also:
The
Citizen's Wildlife Refuge Planning Handbook Charting the Future of Conservation
on the National Wildlife Refuge Near You "The Citizen's Wildlife
Refuge Planning Handbook is designed to guide you through the important
role you can play in helping your local refuge plan for the future. The
ground-breaking National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997
(Public Law 105-57, USC668dd) requires all refuges to create 15-year comprehensive
conservation plans (CCPs) for refuge management and to involve the public
in the planning process." Their Biodiversity
Center publishes: The
Case for a Constitutional Amendment for Biodiversity.
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