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Model Inputs: Midwest Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
This data release contains the climate change model inputs and Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model outputs from 360 HUC-8 watersheds in the Midwest United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin), that were generated using the HAWQS (Hydrologic and Water Quality System) platform (https://hawqs.tamu.edu). The summarized data for a watershed-based climate change vulnerability assessment for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is also provided, along with the R code used to summarize the raw outputs. Watershed-based Midwest Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool: https://rconnect.usgs.gov/CC_Vulnerabi
This dataset contains the input (temperature and precipitation from climate models) and output from the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model runs using the Hydrologic and Water Quality System (HAWQS) platform (https://hawqs.tamu.edu/). The HAWQS platform is an online tool developed by Texas A&M and US EPA to allow scientists and decision-makers to run large scale watershed simulation models using the Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model without the need to download/install software, gather input data, perform initialization steps, or use up local computer resources. We ran the model at the Hydrologic Unit Code-8 scale over Region 3 of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,...
This file contains five metrics that were selected to collectively represent the adaptive capacity of each of the 360 HUC-8 watersheds in US Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin). The metrics were: percent cultivated, density of dams, projected increase in developed land cover, landscape diversity and local connectedness. Percent cultivated land cover was obtained from the National Agricultural Statistics Services 2018 Cultivated layer and was calculated by dividing the number of cultivated grid cells by the total number of grid cells in each watershed. Density of dams was calculated as the number of dams per area of the watershed using the...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Adaptation Planning,
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment,
Decision-relevant Metrics,
Watershed Model,
biota,
This dataset contains the percent change in means (over 20-year periods) of annual climate change metrics calculated from the climate change inputs and the hydrology outputs from the HAWQS/SWAT model. The metrics are fifteen climate change indicators evenly divided into three categories: temperature, precipitation, and hydrology that were selected by resource managers working in Region 3 of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The projected percent change in each of these indicators from the baseline period (1986-2005) to the future period (2040-2059) in provided at the HUC-8 scale for USFWS Region 3 (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin).These indicators were used...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Adaptation Planning,
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment,
Decision-Relevant Metrics,
Watershed Model,
biota,
This collection of conservation areas consists of the floodplain of the combined streams of the Iowa River and the Cedar River. The study area begins just southeast of Wapello, IA, and continues southeast until the Horseshoe Bend Division, Port Louisa NWR. The area is currently managed to maintain meadow or grassland habitat which requires intensive management due to vegetative succession. In addition, this floodplain area contains a high proportion of managed lands and private lands in the Wetland Reserve Program and is a high priority area for cooperative conservation actions. This project provides a late-summer baseline vegetation inventory to assess future management actions in an adaptive process. Changes in...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Aerial Imagery,
Cedar River,
Color Infrared Imagery,
Floodplain Mapping,
Horseshoe Bend Division,
The aerial imagery contained in this mosaic was collected on July 17, 2014 with an Applanix 439 Digital Sensor System. These missions were flown at 6"/pixel and 8'/pixel resolution. These mosaics complement the land cover land use data by providing an image format to consider. A flight plan was not used and this resulted in incomplete coverage. The area of interest is the Crane Creek estuary in the Ottawa NWR and the mosaic is for the purpose of habitat monitoring.
The color infrared aerial imagery contained in this mosaic was collected on July 17, 2014 with an Applanix 439 Digital Sensor System. The mission was flown at ~4,000 ft. above ground level resulting in a ground sample distance of 0.20 meters (8")/pixel. The area of interest is the Crane Creek estuary in the Ottawa NWR and the mosaic is for the purpose of habitat monitoring.
Due to a gap in information on regeneration of hard-mast trees in the floodplain, interpretation was completed of existing 8“/pixel aerial imagery delineating a detailed hardwood forest spatial dataset within the floodplain forest of the Fish and Wildlife Upper Mississippi National Wildlife & Fish Refuge, McGregor District. The detailed map of bottomland hardwoods will allow for the identification of existing habitat and assess bottomland hardwood tree patterns to enable management of these areas.
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Floodplain Forest,
Forest Restoration,
Hardwoods,
Illinois,
Iowa,
This is a shiny application for an online dashboard that allows users to weight the importance of climate change indicators, along with metrics of adaptive capacity, to create a custom climate change vulnerability assessment at the hydrologic unit code-8 scale. This dashboard was requested by, and developed with input from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service managers to aid in regional assessments of climate change vulnerability.
The 25-mile stretch of the Yellow River adjacent to the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Central Wisconsin provides valuable habitat to numerous species of concern including the Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus), the Cerulean warbler (Dendroica cerulea), the Eastern massasaugua rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus), and the Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis). Since very little data exist regarding the location and composition of these habitats, a detailed land cover/land use (LCU) map is needed to better define and more effectively manage these areas of concern.
Categories: Data,
Image;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Necedah National Wildlife Refuge,
Wisconsin,
Yellow River,
aerial photo
The true color aerial imagery contained in this mosaic was collected on July 17, 2014 with an Applanix 439 Digital Sensor System. The mission was flown at ~3,000 ft. above ground level resulting in a ground sample distance of 0.15 meters (6")/pixel. This true color mosaic was intended to complement the color infrared image classification by providing an additional image format to consider. A flight plan was not used and this resulted in incomplete coverage. The area of interest is the Crane Creek estuary in the Ottawa NWR and the mosaic is for the purpose of habitat monitoring.
In order to better understand the combined impacts of climate change and spatially identify where changes are anticipated to be most extreme, we developed a climate change vulnerability map for the Midwest Region. The vulnerability map is watershed-based (Hydrologic Unit Code-8) and combines fifteen climate change indicators evenly divided into three categories: temperature, precipitation, and hydrology that were selected by resource managers working in Region 3 of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The projected change in each of these indicators from the baseline period (1986-2005) to the future period (2040-2059) was aggregated into a composite score for each watershed. Landscape-scale metrics reflective...
This dataset contains the means (over 20-year periods) of annual climate change metrics calculated from the climate change inputs and the hydrology outputs from the HAWQS/SWAT model. The metrics are fifteen climate change indicators evenly divided into three categories: temperature, precipitation, and hydrology that were selected by resource managers working in Region 3 of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The projected change in each of these indicators from the baseline period (1986-2005) to the future period (2040-2059) in terms of difference between the periods and the percent change. The percent change was converted to min-max normalization. This dataset represents the exposure component of the vulnerability...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Adaptation Planning,
Climate Change Vulnerabilty Assessment,
Decision-Relevant Metrics,
Watershed Model,
biota,
Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is a 50,000 acre refuge overlaid on portions of the former Jefferson Proving Ground (JPG) in Jefferson, Jennings, and Ripley counties, Indiana. Beginning in 1996, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) began managing the area. Big Oaks NWR was established in June 2000 as an “overlay” Refuge through a 25-year real estate permit from the U.S. Army. As an overlay refuge, the U.S. Army retains ownership and the USFWS manages the property as Big Oaks NWR. Big Oaks NWR hosts a variety of different habitat types, providing for a diversity of wildlife species. The refuge is unique in that it contains one of the largest contiguous forest blocks and grassland complexes in southeast...
Crane Creek is a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative-funded coastal wetland restoration project that seeks to reconnect the diked coastal marsh to Crane Creek and improve water quality and fish habitat. Vegetation sampling data and previously completed vegetation maps exist for this study area and will be used to assist in the interpretation of the 2014 imagery.
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Aerial Imagery,
Color Infrared,
Color Infrared Aerial Imagery,
LC/LU,
LCU,
Script 1: This R script takes in the model outputs and climate inputs used for each model run performed in, and downloaded from, HAWQS to summarize 15 climate change exposure indicators. Script 2: This script takes the summarized climate change exposure indicators created using Script 1 and calculates the percent difference between the future and baseline period for each of the climate models. Script 3: This script was used to calculate metrics that represent the adaptive capacity of each watershed using existing datasets. See sources for each adaptive capacity dataset below. Script 4: This script takes the exposure indicators and the adaptive capacity indicators created in scripts 1-3 and applies weights that...
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