Bottom-up landscape science and visualizationfor wildlife management at Yellowstone NP and Carmel Bay(Systems Integration and Visualization of Yellowstone)
Fred Watson1*,
Collaborators: Bob Garrott2*, PJ White3*, Susan Alexander1*,Rick Wallen3, Wendi Newman1, Thor Anderson1, Tom Thein1, Jon Detka1, Alberto Guzman1,Claire Gower2, Jason Bruggeman2+, Matt Becker2, Sally Plumb3, Chris Geremia3
James Lindholm1*, Rick Starr4, Jessica Watson1
1California State University Monterey Bay, 2Montana State University Bozeman, 3Yellowstone National Park, 4Moss Landing Marine Labs, *Principal Investigators, +Formerly
Presented at NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team MeetingMay 7th 2009, New York, NY
Funding: NASA NCC2-1186 & NCC13-03009,
NSF DEB 0074444 & DEB-0413570, NPS, NOAA (California Sea Grant) EcoViz: Ecosystem Science and Visualization
AppliedSc ienc es
Ec ologic alforec asting
NASA @Yellowstone
N A S A
I& M
Regions
Parks
N P S
W ildlifemanagement
DailyLandsat
Snow model
Broad, Robust, Efficient
But potentially more difficult to identify linkages between specific management environments
and data products (?)
More focused, decisions realized within project timeframe
But difficult to scale up & generalize
Therefore costly
This project
Scale-dependency of interactions betweenecology, administration, and outcomes
Management scale
Agency
Staff
Species
EcosystemEcological
scale
Outcome scale
Decisions
Policies
A
D
C
B
Scale-dependency of interactions betweenecology, administration, and outcomes
Management scale
Agency
Staff
Species
EcosystemEcological
scale
Outcome scale
Decisions
Policies
A
D
C
B
Fie ldwork
W ildlifeoperations
Land scapemo de ls
Re motese n sin ganalyse s
Image ry
Lands at
F ores tc over
G eotherm alheat flux
M O DIS
F oragephenology
G eo the rma lsu rveys
F o restp lo ts
Meadowp lo ts
Anemo -me te rs
Snowmode l
Snowco res
Wildlifemode ls &analyses
Bison bounda ry ope ra tions
W olv esprey a tedges
Visualizatio ns
Datase rv ice s
Snow pac k B is onm igration
F ilm ing
Geys erbas ins
T e leme try
P henologym odel
A S TE R
W olv esnear ly
ex tirpateelk des pite
s now
Elkav o ids now
Bis onav oids now
S nowpac knowc as ts
P rec ipm odel
W indmode l
W ildlifepolicy &planning
Bison road useW o lf re in troduction
D ecades
W ild fires
W eeks to years
W in te r recrea tion
VisitorInterpretation
V is itor c enterk ios k
NP S webs ite
O RNLDA A C
Bis on non-res pons iv e
to roadgrooming
E lk re a l l ya vo id
sn o w wi thwo l ve s
A ICw=1
C lima techange
5 years
So ftw arede v e lop me nt
Te ambu ild ing
16 years
Fie ldwork
W ildlifeoperations
Land scapemo de ls
Re motese n sin ganalyse s
Image ry
Lands at
F ores tc over
G eotherm alheat flux
M O DIS
F oragephenology
G eo the rma lsu rveys
F o restp lo ts
Meadowp lo ts
Anemo -me te rs
Snowmode l
Snowco res
Wildlifemode ls &analyses
Bison bounda ry ope ra tions
W olv esprey a tedges
Visualizatio ns
Datase rv ice s
Snow pac k B is onm igration
F ilm ing
Geys erbas ins
T e leme try
P henologym odel
A S TE R
W olv esnear ly
ex tirpateelk des pite
s now
Elkav o ids now
Bis onav oids now
S nowpac knowc as ts
P rec ipm odel
W indmode l
W ildlifepolicy &planning
Bison road useW o lf re in troduction
D ecades
W ild fires
W eeks to years
W in te r recrea tion
VisitorInterpretation
V is itor c enterk ios k
NP S webs ite
O RNLDA A C
Bis on non-res pons iv e
to roadgrooming
E lk re a l l ya vo id
sn o w wi thwo l ve s
A ICw=1
C lima techange
5 years
So ftw arede v e lop me nt
Te ambu ild ing
16 years
Journalpapers
Bookchapters
Fie ldwork
W ildlifeoperations
Land scapemo de ls
Re motese n sin ganalyse s
Image ry
Lands at
F ores tc over
G eotherm alheat flux
M O DIS
F oragephenology
G eo the rma lsu rveys
F o restp lo ts
Meadowp lo ts
Anemo -me te rs
Snowmode l
Snowco res
Wildlifemode ls &analyses
Bison bounda ry ope ra tions
W olv esprey a tedges
Visualizatio ns
Datase rv ice s
Snow pac k B is onm igration
F ilm ing
Geys erbas ins
T e leme try
P henologym odel
A S TE R
W olv esnear ly
ex tirpateelk des pite
s now
Elkav o ids now
Bis onav oids now
S nowpac knowc as ts
P rec ipm odel
W indmode l
W ildlifepolicy &planning
Bison road useW o lf re in troduction
D ecades
W ild fires
W eeks to years
W in te r recrea tion
VisitorInterpretation
V is itor c enterk ios k
NP S webs ite
O RNLDA A C
Bis on non-res pons iv e
to roadgrooming
E lk re a l l ya vo id
sn o w wi thwo l ve s
A ICw=1
C lima techange
5 years
So ftw arede v e lop me nt
Te ambu ild ing
16 years
Journalpapers
Bookchapters