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GEORGE HOSTCENTER FOR WATER AND THE ENVIRONMENTNATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
MAY 20, 2009
Collaborative Research and Data Delivery
at the NRRI GIS Laboratory
Outline
Recent and ongoing collaborative research Lake Superior Streams Amphibian/Atrazine relationships Breeding Bird monitoring Horticultural peat mining
Data delivery and analysis tools Lake Trends: Google Map Visualization of Historic Lake Data Great Lakes Environmental Indicators– Great Lakes Basin Lake Superior Decision Support – Lake Superior Basin CoastalGIS – LS North Shore LCCMR Data Portal – Minnesota – statewide aquatic and
terrestrial North Shore Data Consortium
LakeSuperiorStreams.org and the Regional Stormwater Protection Team
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District
Why focus on Lake Superior Streams?
• Hundreds of vulnerable trout streams on North and South Shores –some ImpairedImpaired
• Sensitive to temp, flow, O2, sediment, turbidity, nutrients
• Lake Superior is the ultimate receiving body of water
• Many smaller communities (MS4s) now need stormwater plans and permits
“..protect and enhance the region's shared water resources through stormwater pollution prevention by providing coordinated educational programs and technical assistance”
Initiate watershed and stormwater projects Share information, ideas, resources, grant
writing, technical expertise and more.
Western Lake Superior Regional Stormwater Protection Team (co-evolved with LSS.org ; now >26 organizations)
Lester-Amity WatershedStressors
Stream Scale Study
Potential stress levels summed
by subwatershed
Upstream stressors
accumulate downstream
LUCINDA B. JOHNSON, PATRICK K. SCHOFF, JENNIFER H. OLKER, TOM HOLLENHORST, ANGELA K. ROHWEDER
Effects of Hydrology and Land Use on Amphibians in the Prairie Pothole Region
RD-83087901-0
Glenn R. Guntenspergen
W. Carter Johnson
Intensive2004
2005
PPR Atrazine
Scale: 0.01 – 0.62 μg/LSurvey 2: mid-May – mid-June
Wetland density (seasonal and semi-permanent) across with Prairie Pothole Region with examples of density and distance to all wetlands within 2 km of study sites.
Distance (m) to wetlands within 2 km
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Songbird monitoring plotsSample NW ¼ of every township over 3 years – 540 maps/yr
Horticultural Peat Mining
Map serves to delineate areas for
• Guide to reclamation
•Leasing land to another operation
•Release from permit (reclamation completed)
•Collaborators:
• MN DNR• Army Corps of Engineers• Michigan Peat Co.• Peat Inc.
•Allow accurate assessment of site for reclamation, permitting, and continued mining
Data delivery and analysis tools
Lake Trend Visualization Tool - MinnesotaGreat Lakes Environmental Indicators– Great Lakes
BasinLake Superior Decision Support – Lake Superior
BasinCoastalGIS – Lake Superior North ShoreLCCMR Data Portal – Minnesota – statewide North Shore Data Consortium
LakeTrends – Google map-based search for historic lake water
quality dataNear surface temperature
Secchi depth
Great Lakes Environmental Indicators
2002-2006
27 investigators across 10 collaborating institutions
GIS analysis of ‘segmentsheds’ and stressors provided a means to direct field crews to sample sites
GIS matched with web-based data entry and retrieval system
Lake Superior Decision Support SystemsEPA GLNPO, Lake Superior Lakewide Mgt Plan (LaMP), state
agencies
Watershed Stressors for the Lake Superior Basin
Watershed Stressors for the Lake Superior Basin
Integrated stessors(road density, NPDES permit density, % agriculture, % urban)
Summarized by high rest watershed
Watershed health visualization tool
www.nrri.umn.edu/coastalgis/
Extent: variable – Coastal Program Boundary, watersheds, counties
Statewide Conservation Plan Data Portal
Democratizing access to Minnesota’s data assets: a user friendly data integration and visualization tool
Online resource to access data from contemporary diverse sources
Emphasis on data integration - allow web based analysis, rather than just visualization, of GIS data sets. How many townships in the Arrowhead? Trout streams in Hennepin County? Private / Public land by zipcode in St. Louis Co.?http://gisdata.nrri.umn.edu/MNConserve
Upcoming: North Shore Data Consortium
Motivation: strong interest in high res spatial data for land use planning and environmental assessment, LiDAR in particular
Issue: Interagency strategies for data prioritization and funding are needed
Upcoming: North Shore Data Consortium
Coastal Program Proposal: Create the North Shore Data
Consortium as a vehicle for bringing interested parties together
Acquire LiDAR for a segment of Lake Superior’s North Shore to demonstrate capabilities of data
Potential collaborators: Agency, academic, tribal, NGO, and industrial partners
Status: recommended to NOAA for funding by Gov. Council on MN Coastal Program
Take-home points
All natural resources have some sort of spatial context
GIS can play a role through the full analytic process Forming the question How and where to sample A factor level in data analysis Delivering results
Take-home points
Interagency collaborations This land is your land This land is my land
How about OUR land?
Democratizing data is a key to successful planning and management!
NRRI GIS web sites
Great Lakes Environmental Indicators http://glei.nrri.umn.edu
Lake Superior Streams www.LakeSuperiorStreams.org
Lake Superior Decision Support Systems www.nrri.umn.edu/lsgis2
Statewide Plan – interactive collaboration site http://Gisdata.nrri.umn.edu/MNConserve