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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)
Tampa Baywatch, St. Petersburg FL c97. (Tampa Baywatch, 8401 Ninth Street
North Suite 230-B, St. Petersburg, Fl. 33702 tel:(813) 896-5320 Email: TPBAYWATCH@aol.com)
(Alternate URL)
"Tampa BayWatch utilizes a professional staff and citizen volunteers to
support resource monitoring, education, and restoration activities. Time after
time, unintentional or illegal environmental impacts are identified
and reported by individuals like you, people who care about the bay!
Tampa BayWatch is the first organization of its kind in the southeastern
United States, and has proven highly effective in mobilizing the Tampa
Bay community to participate in restoration
and protection activities, so far involving thousands of volunteers.
GIS STATUS: "The addition
of the GIS technology to Tampa BayWatch allowed us immediate access
to many environmental data layers already developed by governmental
entities in the bay area. The next step was to apply the ArcView GIS
technology to our projects, through analyzing and interpreting information
gathered from our environmental activities, monitoring events, and research,
and examining for status and trends. Tampa Bay has lost more than
80 percent of its seagrass meadows during the last 100 years. Only recently
has the water quality improved enough to allow regrowth in areas that
previously held dense meadows. During the summer of 1997, Tampa BayWatch
will be transplanting grass to the impacted areas to accelerate seagrass
regrowth. This will entail a large amount of map work to determine suitable
donor sites and appropriate transplant sites. Reference GIS layers would
consist of current and past seagrass coverage (from aerial photography),
bathymetry, shoreline characteristics, and others. Successful use of
GIS would produce data depicting the number and location of transplant
sites, original seagrass coverage, monitored growth rates of seagrass,
as well as other data....Tampa BayWatch is coordinating the development
of a volunteer program to provide rapid deployment of oil booms in the
event of a material spill at an environmentally sensitive 8,583 acre
Aquatic Preserve. The Florida Marine Research Institute has generated
ArcView data sets for oil spill contingency planning. Tampa BayWatch
will build on the existing information with site-specific oil spill
prevention techniques within the Aquatic Preserve. "
University of California, Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS)
"Established in 1972, the institute now supports a variety of research activities in
many areas. The institute on-campus complex includes the IMS office, faculty
research laboratories; analytical labs for Marine Chemistry; biology and
geology; a computer laboratory; culture room for invertebrates and algae;
portable seagoing analytic labs; and support facilities for the Año Nuevo
Island program. In addition is the Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, an
onshore site located 3 miles from the UCSC campus."
USFWS Gulf of Maine Project (Arnold Banner) Covers the fish and wildlife
of Great Bay, New Hampshire. "We used gis to create grids of bathymetry,
temperature and salinity gradients, and substrate, then used these parameters
to create maps for a number of marine/estuarine organisms. The site includes
the full text, tables, appendixes, and figures of all life stages of all
species modeled and all environmental themes. A wordprocesser version
and all of the gis data may be downloaded as raster (*.bil) files zipped
to include metadata and header information. These can be brought directly
into ArcInfo by the imagegrid command, or viewed as images in ArcView"
White Point Systems, Inc.
(P.O. Box 2989 180 First Street Friday Harbor, WA 98250 USA
Phone: 360-378-7292 Fax: 360-378-7260 Email: napis@wpbm.com.)
NAPIS Lite is available for FREE download
with optional Taxonomy lookup table data and Sample data.
"NAPIS supports researchers at the government, industry, and
university levels by providing a link between the library, laboratory
and field. In addition to sample tracking and bioactivity directed isolation,
NAPIS integrates geographic information system (GIS) technology using
ESRI's Map Objects, which allows text-field database tables to be related
to spatial features on computer-based maps. Researchers can query using
the GIS map and drill down on chemical structures, or vice versa; query
on field database tables to be related to spatial features on computer-based
maps.
Wisconsin
Coastal GIS Applications Project (University of Wisconsin Sea Grant
Institute, 1975 Willow Drive 2nd Floor, Madison, WI 53706 tel:(608) 262-0644
fax:(608) 263-2063 (fax). mailto:dahart@facstaff.wisc.edu) "is a
cooperative venture of the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute
and the Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. The primary goal of the project is to teach the
application of GIS/LIS and related spatial technologies to local government
staff and officials to aid them in moving towards the sustainable management
of Great Lakes coastal resources." See
tutorials & projects.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WWW Server.
(Woods Hole, MA, 02543 Phone: 508/289-2252 or 508/289-2100 Email: information@whoi.edu)
see the Sosik Research Lab's
work on:
Patterns and Scales of Variability in the Optical Properties of Georges Bank
Waters, with Special Reference to Phytoplankton Biomass and Production.
See the Benthic Ecology
and Nearshore Oceanography Lab projects on Biogeography of nearshore
species, Large scale perturbations (global warming) and their effects
on nearshore benthic communities, Population and Community Ecology.
See The Cooperative Institute
for Coastal & Ocean Research: "The research activities
of CICOR will be organized around three themes: the coastal ocean and
near shore processes, the ocean's participation in climate and climate
variability and marine ecosystem processes analysis." See the
WHOI / Data Explorer Site.
All text by the respective organizations/authors
January 2, 1997
Web layout & design: Charles Convis, ESRI Conservation Program
April 2, 1996
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