GLBET GISDSS Core Group

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GLBET GIS/DSS Core Group
Status Report, Accomplishments, and Next Steps
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GLBET Charge for the GIS/DSS Core Group

• The Core Group shall examine the role that
  geospatial data, technologies (GIS and DSS), and
  analyses should play in the implementation of an
  ecosystem approach to management in the Great
  Lakes basin including
• Inventory existing geospatial capabilities,
  including hardware, software, staff time, and
  expertise.
• Identify and summarize Great Lakes Basin issues
  that can be addressed using geogspatial
  technologies.
• Develop recommendations for implementation of
  geospatial technologies to support Great Lakes
  Basin management issues.

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Approach

• Develop a Strategic Plan
• Conduct a Pilot Project to identify obstacles and
  opportunities
• Develop Recommendations for the implementation of
  geospatial technologies to support Great Lakes
  Basin resource management issues

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Team Support

• GLBET TEAM KITTY
• 7.5 K Awarded GIS/DSS Core Group
• 4K for Michigan State University Center for
  Remote Sensing
• Data mining, metadata, and formatting data for
  DSS
• 3.5 K for USGS Upper Midwest Science Center

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Team Support

• REGION 5 FLEX FUNDS
• 30K Awarded GLBET GIS/DSS Core Group to support
  Team GIS/DSS Initiative
• Expand DSS Lake Michigan Basin Wide
• GIS Specialist staff time and travel
• Data mining, building metadata, data acquisition,
  data formatting/preparation
• Training and implementation of DSS use Jump
  Start to Great Lakes GIS/DSS

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Team Support

• REGION 3 FLEX FUNDS - Partnership Match
• 30K Awarded GLBET GIS/DSS Core Group to support
  Team GIS/DSS Initiative
• 2K for facilitating drafting the GLBET Great
  Lakes Islands Strategy Document
• 10K to GLC for GLBET Intranet Clearinghouse
  Working Web Site GIS data acquisition and work
  binational partnership coordination and outreach
  to support Team GIS/DSS and priority conservation
  efforts
• 4K to USGS Great Lakes Science Center for
  additional data mining, building metadata, data
  acquisition, data formatting/preparation
• 14K to USGS Upper Midwest Science Center for DSS
  Product, including hardware and software
  completed and formatted data layers scripting
  query and other DSS capabilities, updating and
  altering per Team input and needs training and
  implementation of GLBET GIS/DSS
• 30K Match by the Great Lakes Commission

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Successes

• Determined existing geospatial capabilities of
  Programs and Field Stations, reported in
  Strategic Plan
• Completed survey and analyses of Team, Island
  Committee, Great Lakes Refuge Island, Regional,
  and Field Station GIS capabilities and needs
• Initiated a Pilot Project to identify obstacles
  and opportunities GLBET GIS Decision Support
  System Lake Michigan Islands Demonstration
• Drafted Team GIS/DSS Implementation Strategy Plan
• Completed preliminary recommendations for the
  implementation of geospatial technologies to
  support Great Lakes Basin resource management
  issues
• Have built the working framework for GLBET
  GIS/DSS
• GLBET intranet clearinghouse/working site
• Finished and presented Lake Michigan Islands DSS
  to TEAM
• Survived loss of Core Group participants
  pregnancies, transfers, and two reassignments
  (one good, one not so good)

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Successes

• Team support through Team Kitty, and Regional
  Flex Funding Proposals three great successes
• Have already built partnership interest and
  support (MWNRDG, USGS, Great Lakes Planning
  Meeting, GLC, GLPF)
• USGS Great Lake Science Center, Mapping Sensitive
  Habitats on Great Lakes Islands with
  Multispectral Satellite Imagery, 48.5 K -
  Eastern Region Partnership Integrated Science
  Funds
• NOAA Coastal Grant for completing TNC Western
  Lake Erie Islands Conservation Planning Process
  150K
• Commitment for GLNPO funded Workshop - 15-20K

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Summary Findings

• GIS capabilities varied widely throughout the
  Service
• Few offices operating proficiently with GIS
  technologies
• Most offices would use GIS technology if they had
• Computer hardware
• GIS software
• Staff time
• Training
• Technical support
• Regional office guidance

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Summary Findings

• Discussions revealed most resource management
  issues would benefit from geospatial technologies
• Most offices aware of the technology and its
  potential utility
• Managers responses strongly supported the
  technology
• Frustrations exist due to lack of understanding
  and inability to implement technology
• Pilot DSS developed for Islands Committee to
  demonstrate utility to managers
• Currently, there is no comprehensive inventory of
  existing GIS datasets in either region
• GIS infrastructure is not in place to directly
  support Team efforts at ecosystem level

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Recommendations

• Support infrastructure needs within the Service
  to develop expertise necessary to solve the Team
  management issues including
• Support the creation of a full time GIS
  Coordinator within the Service for the Great
  Lakes Basin. Responsibilities would include data
  warehousing, project implementation, technical
  support, and coordination within the Team. This
  is envisioned as a position that serves
  cross-program, cross-region functions for the
  Team in coordination with Region 3 GIS Needs
  Assessment Team (proposed) and Region 5 GIS
  Coordination Team (active).
• Establish a GIS/DSS Committee composed of the
  Great Lakes GIS Coordinator and those practicing
  or interested in geospatial applications in the
  Great Lakes Basin. The Committee will lead a
  network of GIS users within the Great Lakes Basin
  to identify new geospatial technologies as they
  become available, evaluate the utility of those
  technologies to support Team objectives,
  recommend implementation strategies, and provide
  advisory GIS support for the other Team
  committees.
• Support further development of GIS-related
  infrastructure (e.g., hardware, software) and
  staffing needs in the Service to effectively
  address ecosystem level issues. A coordinated
  approach will increase productivity, minimize
  duplication of effort, and promote communication
  and sharing of information among offices and
  partners.
• Provide Great Lakes Basin workshops and
  conferences for networking and training purposes.
  Increase education opportunities, outreach
  efforts, and information exchange with the
  addition of a GIS/DSS component to the Teams
  website.

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Next Steps

• Final Draft GIS/DSS Strategic Report and
  Recommendations posted on Team Intranet Site for
  Review Period by Team and others May 21 - June
  21, 2002
• The url is http//www.glc.org/GIS/GLBET/index.htm
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• Username glbet
• Password gis/dss
• Based on input, finalize GIS Strategic Report,
  post on Team Intranet Site June 28, 2002
• Request GLBET Executive Committees Approval of
  Strategic Report and Core Groups
  Recommendations June 28, 2002
• Pending Executive Committees approval, present
  Core Groups Findings and Recommendations to both
  Regional Directorates and Program Leaders July
  2002
• GLBET GIS/DSS Core Groups Charge is fulfilled.

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Next Steps

• Meetings with Field Offices and partners, to
  present our Great Lakes Island GIS/DSS
• discuss opportunities for applications
• increase its usefulness
• address any additional GIS/DSS needs
• These meetings could include
• Green Bay for proposed Cat Island Chain
  Restoration Project
• Detroit River for new International Wildlife
  Refuge and Midwest Natural Resource Managers
  Groups Focus Area
• Western Lake Erie Islands Project
• Other opportunities could include Western and
  Eastern Lake Ontario Island/Coastal projects
  Summer - Fall, 2002 (possible Team Kitty Fund
  use)
• Provide outreach materials for Teams display at
  State of Lakes Ecosystem Conference in Cleveland
  October 2002

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Next Steps

• Core Group to meet with TNC Western Lake Erie
  Islands Conservation Planning Process Group to
  discuss NOAA Coastal Grant funding, our GIS/DSS
  capabilities and opportunities June 11 - 12,
  2002
• Participate in Great Lakes Dredging Team meeting
  to discuss opportunities to facilitate Great
  Lakes Islands and coastal habitat restoration
  projects September 2002
• Great Lakes National Program Office funded
  workshop for the GLBET. Can include
• hands on training for our Refuge Managers, Island
  Committee members, and others including partners
• presentation and discussion of our Flex Fund
  supported Great Lakes Basin Wide GIS data
  compilation and analysis (including Flex Fund
  match work provided by Great Lakes Commission)
• opportunities to engage in the new Great Lakes
  Aquatic and Coastal GAP initiative
• Proposed working agenda will be provided on Team
  Intranet Site, Team review and input is
  requested. Workshop to be held Early Fall 2002

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