Water Harvesting Assessment Toolbox

The Water Harvesting Assessment Toolbox is a prototype decision aid designed to help communities in the Southwest US understand the role water harvesting can play in meeting water resource challenges while providing multiple additional benefits. It also introduces water harvesting techniques and suggests ways to implement locally appropriate water harvesting efforts. The Toolbox is intended for a wide range of users. In order to make most effective use of the Toolbox, a local facilitator should convene a varied group of community personnel (water supply management, stormwater management, transportation, planning, engineering, etc.) to go through the water harvesting assessment process together. A separate Facilitator’s...

Categories: Data; Tags: Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Conservation Planning, DLCC, All tags... Data, Data, Data.gov Desert LCC, Decision Support, Decision Support Tool, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Desert Water Harvesting Initiative, Document, EARTH SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, Engineering, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, LCC Network Science Catalog, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Planning, Presentation, Rainwater Harvesting, Report, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, Stormwater Harvesting, Stormwater Management, The University of Arizona, Transportation, U.S. Southwest, United States, United States Bureau of Reclamation, WATER MANAGEMENT, Water Harvesting, Water Supply and Management, Water Use, Website, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Landscape Conservation Design Data Inventory

Data inventories relate to the pilot areas selected by the Desert LCC Steering Committee to be the focus of landscape conservation design in 2016-2017. LCD Area Map Featured Datasets Map within Dos Rios Featured Datasets Map within Eastern Mojave Desert Featured Datasets Map within Madrean Watersheds

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: .sd, ArcGIS, DLCC, LCD, Service Definition

Webinar: Desert Water Harvesting Initiative - Guide to Assessing Rainwater and Stormwater Harvesting

Guide to Assessing Rainwater and Stormwater Harvesting Potential to Meet Multiple Challenges and Provide Multiple Benefits. The Water Resources Research Center established the Desert Water Harvesting Initiative to enhance outreach and communication between utilities, practitioners of water harvesting, academics, and interested citizens. The Initiative includes a two-year WaterSMART research grant to develop a decision guide to rainwater and stormwater harvesting; an online data clearinghouse for research and publications on water harvesting, low-impact development, and green infrastructure; and the Rainwater-Stormwater Professionals Networks (RSPN) that meets semi-annually at the WRRC to keep members abreast of...

Categories: Data; Tags: Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Conservation Planning, DLCC, All tags... Data.gov Desert LCC, Decision Support, Decision Support Tool, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Desert Water Harvesting Initiative, EARTH SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, Engineering, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, LCC Network Science Catalog, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Planning, Presentation, Rainwater Harvesting, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, Stormwater Harvesting, Stormwater Management, The University of Arizona, Transportation, U.S. Southwest, United States, United States Bureau of Reclamation, WATER MANAGEMENT, Water Harvesting, Water Supply and Management, Water Use, Website, Website, completed, environment, presentation, product, Fewer tags

Springs Online Database and Web Services

In September 2013 the Springs Stewardship Institute received funding from the BOR to map springs and springs-dependent species in the DLCC. Since then we have configured our server, migrated our geodatabase to an ArcSDE, and published several WMS and WFS to our domain at https://arcgis.springsdata.org/arcgis/rest/services . This includes a WMS of springs in the DLCC that we have also made available through ArcGIS Online at http://bit.ly/1k6zo7p . We have also migrated our non-spatial survey data to an online application at http://springsdata.org/index.php . This is a user-friendly interface for a MySQL database that includes georeferencing, geomorphology, flow, flora, fauna, water quality, and condition assessment...

Categories: Data, Web Site; Tags: ArcGIS Online, Conservation NGOs, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, All tags... DLCC, Data, Data.gov Desert LCC, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, Fauna, Federal resource managers, Flora, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Geomorphology, Georeferencing, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Mapping, Museum of Northern Arizona, MySQL, Northern Arizona University, Seeps, Sky Island Alliance, Springflow, Springs, Springs Stewardship Institute, The Christensen Fund, United States Bureau of Reclamation, Water Quality, WaterSMART, Web Feature Service, Web Mapping Service, Web Site, Webmap, biota, completed, Fewer tags

Final Report: Data provision and projected impact of climate change on fish biodiversity within the Desert LCC

The four primary objectives of this project were to: (1) compile a dataset of fish occurrence records for the entirety of the Rio Grande drainage in the US and Mexico; (2) improve that dataset by reformatting dates, synonymizing species names to a modern taxonomy, georeferencing localities, and flagging geographic outliers; (3) for those species with sufficient data for modeling, create species distribution models (SDMs); (4) use the environmental conditions determined via those models to project the species distributions into the future under two climate scenarios. To accomplish those objectives, we compiled 495,101 fish occurrence records mined from 122 original sources into a single database. We then, on the...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alligator gar, American eel, Anguilla rostrata, Aquatic resource management, All tags... Armored catfish, Astyanax mexicanus, Atractosteus spatula, Awaous banana, Big Bend gambusia, Bigscale logperch, Blotched gambusia, Blue catfish, Blue sucker, Blue tilapia, Bluntnose shiner, Catostomus plebeius, Chihuahua catfish, Chihuahua shiner, Climate Change, Climate change projections, Colorado, Comanche Springs pupfish, Common carp, Conchos pupfish, Creek chub, Ctenogobius claytonii, Cuatro Ciénegas, Cycleptus elongatus, Cyprinella lutrensis blairi, Cyprinella proserpina, Cyprinodon bovinus, Cyprinodon elegans, Cyprinodon eximius, Cyprinodon pecosensis, Cyprinus carpio, DLCC, Data.gov Desert LCC, Datasets/Database, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Devils river minnow, Dionda argentosa, Dionda diaboli, Dionda episcopa, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH, Endangered fish, Etheostoma grahami, Etheostoma lepidum, Federal resource managers, Fish conservation, Fishbase, Fishes of Texas, Fishnet2, Flathead chub, Freshwater fish, GPLCC, Gambusia clarkhubbsi, Gambusia gaigei, Gambusia nobilis, Gambusia senilis, Gambusia speciosa, Gila pandora, Global Biodiversity information Facility, Gray red horse, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Green throat darter, Headwater catfish, Hybognathus amarus, Hybognathus placitus, Hypostomus sp., Ictalurus furcatus, Ictalurus lupus, Ictalurus sp., Ictiobus bubalus, LCC Network Science Catalog, Leon Springs pupfish, Lepisosteus osseus, Lepomis auritus, Longlip jumprock, Longnose dace, Longnose gar, Lucania parva, MX06 = Chihuahua, MX07 = Coahuila de Zaragoza, MX19 = Nuevo Leon, MX28 = Tamaulipas, Macrhybopsis aestivalis, Manantial roundnose minnow, Map, Maravillas red shiner, Maxent, Mexican goby, Mexican redhorse, Mexican tetra, Mexico, Micropterus dolomieu, Morone chrysops, Morone saxatilis, Morone saxatilis, Moxostoma albidum, Moxostoma austrinum, Moxostoma congestum, Museum Occurrence Records, New Mexico, New Mexico Biodiversity collections consortium, Notropis amabilis, Notropis braytoni, Notropis chihuahua, Notropis jemezanus, Notropis orca, Notropis orca, Notropis simus pecosensis, Notropis simus simus, Oncorhynchus clarki virginialis, Oreochromis aureus, Pecos bluntnose shiner, Pecos gambusia, Pecos pupfish, Percina macrolepida, Phantom shiner, Phenacobius mirabilis, Plains minnow, Platygobio gracilis, Proserpine shiner, Rainwater killifish, Redbreast sunfish, Report, Report, Rhinichthys cataractae, Rio Conchos, Rio Grande, Rio Grande chub, Rio Grande cutthroat, Rio Grande darter, Rio Grande shiner, Rio Grande silvery minnow, Rio Grande sucker, Rio Salado, Rio Salinas, Rio San Juan, River goby, Roundnose minnow, San Felipe gambusia, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, Semotilus atromaculatus, Shovelnose sturgeon, Smallmouth bass, Smallmouth buffalo, Speckled chub, Striped bass, Suckermouth minnow, Tamaulipas shiner, Tex-Mex gambusia, Texas, Texas Natural History Collection, Texas shiner, Threatened fish, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, University of Alabama Ichthyology Collection, University of Michigan Icthyology Collection, White bass, biota, completed, historic fish occurrence, product, species distribution models, Fewer tags

Jornada Bibliography

Chihuahuan Desert landscapes exemplify the ecological conditions, vulnerability, and management challenges in arid and semi-arid regions around the world. The goal of the Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research program (JRN LTER) established in 1982 is to understand and quantify the key factors and processes controlling ecosystem dynamics and patterns in Chihuahuan Desert landscapes. In collaboration with the Jornada Experimental Range (USDA ARS), studies initiated in 1915 have been incorporated into the JRN LTER program. Previous research focused on desertification, a state change from perennial grasslands to woody plant dominance that occurs globally. Based on findings from growing long-term databases, the...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CMQ3, Chihuahuan Desert, DLCC, Desert LCC, English, All tags... Mojave Desert, New Mexico, OHV, Sonoran Desert, US, agriculture, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, condition, connectivity, development, ecoregion, elevation, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, fossil fuel, geology, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, inventory, invertebrate, land use, landscape, mammal, management, mining, model, monitoring, ownership, plan, plant, priority, program, protected area, recreation, reptile, research, resilience, restoration, riparian, river, road, runoff, scrub, shrubland, slope, soil, stream, target, terrestrial, threat, threatened, transportation, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, wind, Fewer tags

Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative Conservation Planning Atlas

The Desert LCC Conservation Planning Atlas is a platform for data discovery, sharing and collaboration for stakeholders throughout the Desert LCC area. With the CPA you can search for spatial datasets, visualize LCC supported projects, and learn more about conservation science and design in the region.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, DLCC, English, GIS, Mexico, All tags... Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, US, bird, development, ecoregion, energy, grassland, groundwater, land cover, map, ownership, plan, priority, protected area, rare, remote sensing, reservoir, river, road, soil, spring, stream, threat, vegetation, water, watershed, wetland, Fewer tags

Sustainability and Vulnerability of Colorado River Delta Riparian Habitat Under Different Climate Change, Environmental Flow, and Agricultural Water Management Scenarios

Despite the lack of surface flows, the Colorado River riparian corridor in Mexico has proven to be ecologically resilient. Floods in the 1980s and 90s in the region brought back large swaths of native riparian habitat, which still persist today in some areas along the river. Because the historic floodplain is extremely important for agricultural production and therefore the local economy, habitat maintenance must be integrated with continued utilization of lands and water for this purpose.The riparian, marsh, and open-water areas found in Reach 4 provide critical habitat for both migratory and resident riparian bird species. Due to its ecological importance, the riparian corridor and Reach 4 in particular have been...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, Applications and Tools, Baja California, Colorado River Delta, DLCC, All tags... DLCC, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS > RIVERS/STREAM, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Laguna Grande Restoration Site, Map, Mexico, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Sonora, agriculture, aquatic, biota, climate change, completed, dam/reservoir, economic, environmental flows, groundwater, hydrology, model, native, outreach, riparian, river, vegetation, vulnerability, water availability, water management, watershed, Fewer tags