Tidal Marsh Bird Population and Habitat Assessment

This project assessed the potential effects of climate change on tidal marsh habitats and bird populations, identified priority sites for tidal marsh conservation and restoration, and developed a web-based mapping tool for managers to interactively display and query results. Project results can be found at PRBO’s San Francisco Bay Sea-Level Rise Website

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Marine, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay, Science Project, Tidal, Training/Outreach/Workshop, adaptation, birds, completed, conservation, decision support tool, environment, gis, levee, management, mapping, on-line, restoration, salinity, scenario planning, scenarios, sea level rise, sediment, shorebirds, slr, south bay salt ponds, tidal marsh, wetlands, Fewer tags

Regional Climate Response Collaboratives: Multi-Institutional Support for Climate Resilience

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, North Central CASC, Rocky Mountain, All tags... Science Tools For Managers, Social Science, climate resilience, climate variability, decision support tool, Fewer tags

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

Sea-level rise modeling across the California salt marsh gradient

This project uses bottom-up modeling at a parcel scale to measure the effects of sea-level rise (SLR) on coastal ecosystems and tidal salt marshes. At selected tidal marshes, the project team will measure several parameters that will be incorporated into ArcGIS models creating comparable datasets across the Pacific coast tidal gradient with a focus on 2-4 sites in the California LCC (e.g. San Diego, San Francisco Bay Refuges). The ultimate goal is to provide science support tools for local adaptation planning from the bottom-up that may be implemented under a structured decision-making framework.Science Delivery Phase (2013): The objectives are to: (1) Disseminate site-specific baseline data and modeling results,...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2011, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, CA-Northern, All tags... CA-Southern, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, California coast, Coastal, Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Marsh, OR, OR-Northern, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, SF Bay/Delta, Science Project, Tidal, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, WA, WA-Southern, birds, communication, completed, conservation, decision support tool, dem, elevation, environment, gps, invertebrates, lidar, management, marsh, microclimate, model, monitoring, multiple, nerr, nplcc, outreach, risk, rtk, sea level rise, sediment cores, stakeholder, structured decision making, subtidal, tidal, vertebrates, vulnerability, workshop, Fewer tags

Assessment of Pattern Tile Drainage on Wetland Hydrology and Ecosystem Services in the Prairie Pothole Region

The rapid expansion of pattern tile drainage (PTD) to enhance agricultural production in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) has the potential to negatively impact ecosystem services provided by wetlands. To better understand and assess these impacts we will develop a spatial database to provide a regional characterization of areas at risk to PTD. Spatial information in conjunction with existing data and models will be used to make preliminary projections on the effects of PTD on cosystem services such as duck production, water storage and water quality. Spatial information will be used to identify study sites that will be instrumented to quantify and model the effects of PTD systems on wetland hydrology; this information...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2012, 2013, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Datasets/Database, Decision Support Tool, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Prairie Pothole Region, Presentation, Project, Report, State agencies, Wetlands, agriculture, ecosystem services, environment, environment, onGoing, pattern tile drainage, plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, Fewer tags

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

Evaluating Climate change Effects on Sauk-Suiattle Tribal Natural Resource

Categories: Project; Tags: 2012, NWCSC, Other, Other Project, Sauk River, All tags... Sauk-Suiattle Tribe, Stella software, USGS, decision support tool, tribal resources, western Washington, western Washington, Fewer tags

Disturbance Land Cover Types for the Gulf Coast Prairie LCC

The Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GCPLCC) has identified grassland habitats and species as priorities for conservation. The goal of the current effort is to (1) identify landscapes of importance at appropriate scale for further work, (2) develop GIS data and decisions support tools to facilitate further conservation efforts. MoRAP identified and mapped grassland landscapes based on neighborhood analysis of current land cover. This dataset includes urban, cropland, and ruderal land cover in order to attribute grassland patches with landscape context variables that may disturb grassland.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Data, Data.gov Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Oklahoma, State agencies, Texas, completed, decision support tool, decision support tool, environment, Fewer tags

Median Estimates of Impact Potential from Geothermal Energy Production Activities on Greater Sage-Grouse Populations in Nevada and California (2022)

These data are the result of an intersection between a surface representing the delta-finite rate of population change and another surface representing Greater Sage-grouse abundance and space-use. It was used to rank candidate sites according to greatest potential impact to Greater Sage-grouse populations resulting from the presence of geothermal energy activity. In 2022, candidate geothermal sites were identified in Nevada and eastern California, then buffered by 10 kilometers. While the extent of the overall raster layer encompasses a very large swath of the western US, data values are limited to fall within these 10 kilometer buffers. These data support the following publications: Coates, P.S., Prochazka, B.G.,...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Ecology, Great Basin, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, before-after-control-impact, biota, decision support tool, habitat alteration and disturbance, human impacts, land use change, native species, sagebrush ecosystem, shrubland ecosystems, state space model, survival analysis, western United States, Fewer tags

Science-Based Riparian Restoration Planning on the Colorado and Dolores Rivers: A Decision Support Tool and Investigation of Habitat Complexity at Tributary Junctions

Stream flow in the Colorado River and Dolores River corridors has been significantly modified by water management, and continued flow alteration is anticipated in future decades with projected increases in human water demand. Bottomland vegetation has been altered as well, with invasion of non-native species, increases in wildfire and human disturbance, and currently, rapid shifts in riparian communities due to biological and mechanical tamarisk control efforts. In light of these conditions, land managers are in need of scientific information to support management of vegetation communities for values such as healthy populations of sensitive fish and wildlife species and human recreation. We propose to address these...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster; Tags: CO-03, Colorado, Colorado River, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, All tags... Dolores River, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Native Fish, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, Streamflows, UT-03, Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah, Utah, aquatic, aquatic, completed, decision support tool, decision support tool, native species, native species, non-native species, non-native species, riparian, riparian, riparian habitat, riparian habitat, riparian restoration, riparian restoration, streamflows, streamflows, Fewer tags

Decision Support for Adaptive Tidal Wetland Restoration and Management

To be successful, natural resource managers need to synthesize diverse information on the effects of management actions, climate change and other stressors on wildlife populations at appropriate scales. The project team developed a Decision Support Tool (DST) that integrates the results of multi-disciplinary, multi-taxa modeling allowing users to project outcomes of conservation actions, accounting for effects of climate change and other stressors. This DST builds on work to improve a sea level rise tool for adaptive tidal wetland restoration and management. The DST provides information on how restoration can increase population resilience and long-term persistence at multiple scales for multiple species throughout...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2012, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay, Science Project, Southwest CSC, State agencies, Tidal, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Wetland, accretion, birds, completed, decision support tool, demography model, environment, gis, management, plants, restoration, sea level rise, sediment, slr, tidal, vulnerability, wetland, Fewer tags