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Land transformations occurring from energy development and agrarian use have altered the natural connectivity of fish communities inhabiting prairie waterways. The nation’s prairie waterways are obstructed by thousands of barriers that include road culverts, irrigation diversions, and dams. Connectivity is essential for the long term viability of aquatic species. One of the most promising adaptive management strategies for addressing impacts to aquatic systems by climate change and other landscape stressors is increasing connectivity. The purpose of this research is to characterize swimming abilities of three northern plains fish species; the sauger, the longnose dace, and the fathead minnow. The results of the...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2011,
2012,
2012,
Data Acquisition and Development,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags...
Federal resource managers,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives,
Monitoring,
Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Presentation,
Project,
Regional & county planners,
Report,
State agencies,
Tribes,
completed,
environment,
environment,
fish passage,
monitoring,
native fish,
plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, Fewer tags
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The current information available for the Genesee River and watershed is insufficient to assess if the Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) delisting criteria for the Rochester Embayment Area of Concern (AOC) can or have been met. With on-going and future projects that are implementing best practices to control soil erosion and the reduction of nutrients that reach the Rochester Embayment, the river and the watershed, it becomes a necessity to: 1.) collect more frequent Total Suspended Sediment (TSS) data for the Genesee River both within and outside of the AOC; and 2.) to have a study design capable of evaluating the impact/success of the current and proposed GLRI projects in the watershed. This project is envisioned...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: BMP,
Best-Management Practices,
Best-Management Practices,
Best-Management Practices,
CAFO, All tags...
Climate Change,
Climate Change,
Climate Impacts,
Climate Impacts,
Climate impacts,
ClimateChange,
Contaminants, Organic,
Contaminants, Organic,
Contaminants, organic,
Cooperative Water Program,
Ecosystem Health,
Ecosystem Health,
Genesee River Watershed,
Groundwater and Streamflow Information,
Groundwater and Streamflow Information,
Land Use Effects,
Land Use Effects,
Land use effects,
New York,
Rochester AOC,
Surface-Water Monitoring,
Surface-Water Monitoring,
Surface-Water Monitoring,
USGS New York Water Science Center,
WSC,
Water Quality,
Water Quality,
Water quality, Fewer tags
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Completion of the National Wildlife Inventory has been identified as a top science priority for the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes-LCC (UMGL). Some areas of Minnesota and Wisconsin still have not been mapped to NWI standards. Completion of NWI is integral to developing geospatial models based on landscape-level land use. Completion of NWI will also aid in monitoring of wetlands to assess effects of climate change. Funding for this project has been leveraged with several other larger projects to improve digital wetland mapping infrastructure for Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. This project is targeting a portions of Wisconsin, at least six counties, for digital conversion and updating of Wetland Inventory maps....
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
Conservation NGOs,
Conservation Planning,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Federal resource managers, All tags...
Great Lakes,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Map,
Project,
Regional & county planners,
State agencies,
Tribes,
Wetlands,
completed,
environment,
environment,
maps,
minnesota,
upper midwest,
wisconsin, Fewer tags
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Online decision support tools are proliferating to serve the needs of environmental managers and conservation practitioners, but most are static after their creation. Aging software components and datasets can lead to rapid obsolescence or inoperable tools. In the Great Lakes basin, the Fishwerks webtool represents years of investment in database, website, and analytical development to support decisions about site selection for removing barriers to fish migrations. The website is approaching a critical juncture where usability assessments and long-term planning are needed to ensure its continued value to the user community. There are also technical needs for website refinement, database customization and management,...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
Applications and Tools,
Conservation NGOs,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Federal resource managers, All tags...
Hunters & anglers,
Informing Conservation Delivery,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Project,
aquatic,
connectivity,
environment,
environment,
onGoing, Fewer tags
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An experienced team of wetland ecologists, geographers, and software engineers used a geodesign process to develop and host a web-based geospatial application that will support the identification and restoration of potential coastal wetlands (i.e., areas that could be restored to coastal wetlands if hydrologically connected to the Great Lakes) along the U.S. coast of the Great Lakes. Techniques, data types, and analysis approaches used in the recent Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessment (WLERA) model are being extended to include other priority coastal areas of the Great Lakes. The first phase of the work produced three restoration assessments for the pilot area identified by the LCC Coastal Working Group (U.S....
Categories: Data,
Project;
Tags: Applications and Tools,
Conservation NGOs,
Decision Support,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Federal resource managers, All tags...
Great Lakes,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Project,
State agencies,
Tribes,
coastal wetlands,
completed,
environment,
environment,
geodesign,
restoration,
wetlands, Fewer tags
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