Inventory Overview

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Inventory Overview

• Annual
• Vital Signs Monitoring Meeting
• August 2003

Lisa Nelson IM Program
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Natural Resource Inventories

• Air Quality
• (AQ Estimates, AQ Related Values)
• Base Cartography
• Natural Resource Bibliography
• Biological Inventories
• (Species Lists, Abundance and Distribution)
• Climate Information
• Geologic Resources
• Soil Resources
• Vegetation Mapping
• Water Quality
• (Baseline WQ Data, Waterbody Classification,
  Designated Use)

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Air Quality InventoriesContact John D. Ray, Air
Resources Division

• AQ Estimates
• National Averages (interpolated maps)
• Ozone (1995-1999), Wet Deposition (1995-2000),
  Dry Deposition (1995-1999), Visibility and
  Particulates
• Tabular Data Park Estimates (Ozone and Deposits)
• Products/Status
• Data Downloads
• GIS (ArcView) Maps for Downloading (coming soon)
• AirWeb - http//www2.nature.nps.gov/ard/
• AQ Related Values (AQRVs)
• Pollutant Impacts on Resources (26 complete)
• http//www2.nature.nps.gov82/
• AirAtlas Interactive GIS
• http//www2.nature.nps.gov/ard/gas/airatlas-du/vie
  wer_index.htm

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Base CartographyContact Joe Gregson, IM Branch

• GIS Layers and Imagery
• Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) TRN, HYD, HYP, BDY
• Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and National
  Elevation Dataset (NED), National Hydrography
  Dataset (NHD)
• Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs)
• Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quads (DOQQs)
• Status/Availability - digital products (90)
• Digital Data Archive (CD/DVD) IM, TIC, offsite
• NR FTP Site (http//science.nature.nps.gov/nrftp)
• ArcView and GIS ThemeManager ready

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Bibliographic InventoryNatural Resource
Bibliography (aka NatureBib)Contact Wendy
Schumacher, IM Branch

• Comprehensive bibliographic references for NR and
  some cultural resource citations
• Status and products
• IM field effort baseline inventory of each park
  complete
• Parks/networks effort data mining, adding new
  records and data clean-up
• NatureBib Application
• Master web-enabled and Access desktop
  applications
• Links to NPSpecies, NR/GIS Metadata (planned) and
  Investigators Annual Report bibliography
  (planned)
• Next release ASCII downloads and formatted
  reports (e.g., Chicago Manual of Style, Council
  of Biology Editors, Turabian)
• Future plans public access version of NatureBib
  or public access through ANSI Z39.50 compliant
  NPS Focus

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Biological InventoriesContact Mark Wotawa, IM
Branch

• Species Lists and Abundance/Distribution
• Scientifically credible occurrence documentation
  of 90 of vertebrate and vascular plant species
• Distribution and abundance of high-priority
  species (exotics, TE, etc.)
• On-going projects funding through FY2005
• Tools NPSpecies, Database Template, GIS Theme
  Manager, ArcView2Access, others
• NPSpecies Application
• Master web-enabled and desktop database capturing
  species occurrence
• Active data-entry initiating data QA and
  certification
• Integrates with NatureBib, NR/GIS Metadata
  (planned) and ANCS

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Climate InventoryContacts Gary Williams, Joe
Gregson

• Climate Atlas of the Contiguous U.S.
• Monthly Annual Average Maps (1961-1990)
• 69 elements with 724 ArcView Themes
• Available on NRFTP site
• Weather Stations and Data
• Weather Station Location Maps
• Historical Tabular Weather Data
• Data Distribution/Analyses
• Summaries and Downloads via the WWW
• Historical Averages and Trends

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Geologic Resources InventoryContacts Tim
Connors and Bruce Heise, Geologic Resource Div.

• Park/Network Scoping Meetings
• Digital Geologic Maps
• Geologic Resources Reports
• Geologic Bibliographies
• Collaborative effort (USGS, states, universities)
• Status
• 95 scoped 30 digitally mapped 13 reports
• Geology/GIS Digital Data Model (themes, etc.)
• GIS ThemeManager datasets
• Coastal Landform Mapping prototype

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Soil Resources InventoryContact Pete Biggam,
IM Branch

• Park-based Soil Surveys
• Digital and hardcopy maps of soil
  locations/attributes plus FGDC metadata
• Physical, chemical, and biological soil
  properties and Ecological Site Descriptions
• Survey Manuscript, including Use and Management
  sections
• Soils Fact Sheets
• Complete 58 parks In-progress 31 parks
• Soil Data Viewer and GIS Theme Manager integration

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Vegetation MappingContact Mike Story, IM
Branch

• Collaborative project with USGS BRD (Karl Brown)
• Applies National Vegetation Classification
  Standards, plus additional attributes
• Digital maps, aerial photos/DOQQs, field data
• Products/Status
• Maps completed for 30 parks / 8 in AK
• Maps in progress for 79 parks / 3 in AK
• Fire Fuels prototype
• http//biology.usgs.gov/npsveg

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Water Resource InventoriesContacts Dean Tucker
Gary Rosenlieb, WRD

• Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and
  Analysis Reports
• EPA databases summaries (esp. STORET)
• Summary data, statistics, and trends
• 1100K GIS Data Available (Atlas AV GIS)
• Horizon Reports completed for 236 parks
• STORET data collection for 36 parks Level 1
  inventories in process for 56 parks
• Water Body Classifications
• National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) 6 parks
• Water Quality Designated Use Class
• National Summary and Park DUI Reports

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NR Inventories Data Distribution

• Online http//science.nature.nps.gov/nrftp
• Air Quality Maps (coming soon)
• Base Cartographic Data (DLG, DRG, DEM)
• Climate Atlas Maps (69 elements)
• Geology Project (All)
• Soils Project (TBD)
• Vegetation Project (All)
• Water Quality Reports and GIS Data
• National Hydrography Dataset (Planned)
• Data Discovery http//science.nature.nps.gov/meta
  data
• NPSpecies and NatureBib by request