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to Related GIS Projects in the Great Lakes Region
Lake-Wide Management Plans (LaMPS)
Links to Projects
Wetland
Inventory Research and Education- The
Great Lakes Aquatic GAP Program - Ecological
Classification of Rivers for Environmental Assessment
- Great Lakes Environmental
Indicators Project - The
Digital Water Atlas - Michigan
Rivers Inventory - Integrated
Coastal Management Tool - The
Great Lakes Observing System - Great
Lakes CoastWatch Node - International
Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Study - Lake
Superior Decision Support System - Keweenaw
Interdisciplinary Transport Experiment in Superior - The
Wisconsin Coastal GIS Applications Project - International
Field Years on Lake Erie - Lake
Huron-Erie Corridor Initiative - Great
Lakes Ecosystems Information Node
Additional Links
Great
Lakes Information Network
Lake-wide
Management Plans
Lake-wide
Management Plans (LaMPS) (go
to site)
US Environmental Protection Agency
A
Lake-wide Management Plan, or "LaMP," is a
plan of action to assess, restore, protect, and monitor
the ecosystem health of a Great Lake. It is used to
coordinate the work of all the government, tribal, and
non-government partners working to improve the lake
ecosystem.
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Links
to Projects
WIRE NET: the Wetland Inventory for Research and Education
(go
to site)
McMaster University, Hamilton, CA
The
heart of WIRE Net is a centralized, binational GIS database
with a focus on nearshore and wetland habitats. Examples
of what you can find on the WIRE Net are: wetland maps
for most Canadian wetlands, "eco-reach" delineations
(i.e., functional shoreline units based on geomorphology,
ecological characteristics, and wetland development),
and historic fish distributions.
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The Great Lakes Aquatic GAP Program (go
to site)
US Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Center Ann
Arbor, MI
The
goal of the Great Lakes Aquatic GAP Program is to evaluate
the biological diversity of aquatic species and their
habitats and to identify gaps in the distribution and
protection of these species and their habitats. Specifically,
the project objectives are to: develop maps of ecoregional
drainage units in a GIS framework, provide hierarchical
habitat classification schemes for riverine and coastal
habitat, and collect and build aquatic biological databases.
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Ecological Classification of Rivers for Environmental
Assessment (go
to site)
Michigan DNR, Institute for Fisheries Research, Ann Arbor,
MI
The
goal is to couple landscape-based modeling from large,
regional datasets and regional land transformation models
with a valley segment ecological classification approach
already being employed in several Midwestern states.
Specific objectives include the completion of a GIS-based
river segment classification and a provision of a comprehensive
status and risk assessment of river systems across the
upper Midwestern states of Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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Great
Lakes Environmental Indicators Project (GLEI) (go
to site)
Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota
Duluth, MN
The
goal of this project is to develop an integrated set
of environmental indicators that can be used to assess
the condition of the coastal margins of all five Great
Lakes. Researchers are collecting data on habitat, amphibians,
fish, invertebrates, vegetation, algae, and water quality
in coastal wetlands and coastal margins of the U.S.
Great Lakes.
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The Digital Water Atlas (DWA) (go
to site)
Michigan DNR, Institute for Fisheries Research, Ann
Arbor, MI
The
Digital Water Atlas Project involves development of
both comprehensive, spatially explicit information describing
the natural resources of Michigan inland waters and
applications to support assessment of resource status
and management options. The main objective of this project
is to provide resource managers and other agencies with
desktop access to such information and applications.
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Michigan Rivers Inventory
(MRI) (go
to site)
Michigan DNR (Institute for Fisheries
Research) and the University of Michigan (School of
Natural Resources and Environment), Ann Arbor, MI
The
Michigan Rivers Inventory database currently includes
site- and catchment-level data for 700+ study locations
linked by an extensive geographic information system.
The combination of a GIS and an extensive field inventory
database is designed to provide the ability to both
describe and model key features of the biology, hydrology,
and water quality of the Michigan's major rivers systems.
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Integrated Coastal Management Tool (go
to site)
Great Lakes Commission, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental
Research Lab, and Michigan Natural Features Inventory
The
Integrated Coastal Management Tool is a software program
designed to assess or estimate coastal habitat change
and thereby promote more informed coastal resource management
decision-making. Existing datasets for coastal Lake
St.Clair are available with the tool, which can be used
to: inventory habitats, assess land and water habitat
conditions, identify and rank potential restoration
and conservation sites ,analyze "what if"
scenarios for proposed changes in land use or land cover,
and create maps, reports, and data tables.
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The Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) (go
to site)
The
Great Lakes Observing System is being developed to provide
critical real-time and historical data for multiple
users, including, among others, resource managers, researchers,
homeland security interests, the commercial shipping
industr,y and the recreational boating community.
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Great
Lakes Coast Watch Node (go
to site)
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory,
Ann Arbor, MI
The
Great Lakes Coast Watch Node provide access to near
real-time and retrospective satellite observations and
in-situ Great Lakes data. CoastWatch data are used in
a variety of ways, including near real-time observation
and tracking of algal blooms, plumes, ice cover, wind,
water intake temperatures at fish hatcheries; two and
three dimensional modeling of Great Lakes physical parameters,
such as wave height and currents damage assessment modeling
research; and educational and recreational activities.
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International Lake Ontario - St. Lawrence River Study
(go
to site)
International
Joint Commission, Windsor, ON
The
Lake Ontario - St. Lawrence Study provides new information
management tools to promote access to a wide array of
information for researchers, managers, and interested
individuals within the public. A web-based mapping tool
can be found on this site.
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Lake Superior Decision Support Project
(LSDSS) (go
to site)
Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota,
Duluth, MN
The
Lake Superior Decision Support Project is an effort
to develop GIS-based decision support applications focused
on the Lake Superior Basin. The primary goal of the
project is to provide users with practical tools they
can apply to local land and resource decisions in a
context of basin-wide objectives for long-term sustainability
and stewardship.
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Keweenaw
Interdisciplinary Transport Experiment in Superior (KITES)
(go
to site)
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
KITES
is a 5-year study, begining in 1997, of the Keweenaw
Peninsula on the south shore of Lake Superior.
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The Wisconsin Coastal GIS Applications Project
(go
to site)
Land Information and Computer Graphic Facility University
of Wisconsin and WI Sea Grant Madison, WI
The
primary goal of the project is to teach the application
of GIS/LIS and related spatial technologies to local
government staff and officials to aid them in moving
toward the sustainable management of Great Lakes coastal
resources.
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The
Lake Huron-Erie Corridor (HEC) Initiative (go
to site)
US Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center
Goals
of the HEC initiative are to: 1) identify key aquatic
research issues in the HEC using a consensus building
and adaptive management approach; 2) develop a research
strategy to address resource management issues in teh
HEC that are identified; 3) create relevant new science
to better address the needs of fisheries and aquatic
resource managers in the HEC; and 4) provide managers
with the scientific information they need to address
aquatic resource issues in the HEC.
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International
Field Years on Lake Erie (IFYLE) (go
to site)
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory,
Ann Arbor, MI
The
three primary objectives of IFYLE are to: 1) quantify
the spatial extent of hypoxia across Lake Erie, and
gather information that can help forecast its timing,
duration, and extent; 2) assess the ecological consequences
of hypoxia to the Lake Erie food web, and; 3) identify
factors that control the timing, extent, and duration
of HAB (including toxin) formation in Lake Erie, as
well as enhance our ability to use remote sensing as
a tool to rapidly map HAB distributions in the lake.
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The
Great Lakes Ecosystems Information Node (GLEIN) (go
to site)
US Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center, and
Institute for Fisheries Research, Ann Arbor, MI
The
Great Lakes Ecosystems Information Node aims to be a
gateway to biological information and data in the Great
Lakes region. Currently , the site hosts links to information
sources, as well as an Internet Map Server featuring
the Great Lakes Spawning Atlas.
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Additional
Links
The Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN) (go
to site)
The Great Lakes Commission, Ann Arbor, MI
Please
visit GLIN for additional links to regional, federal,
state and provincial, and independent agencies serving
the Great Lakes region. In addition, GLIN provides information
and maps for the Great Lakes region.
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