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SECTION IV: GEOSPATIAL TOOLBOX: SPATIAL DATA AND TOOLS DATABASE Greg Hellyer, U.S. EPA New England Regional Lab, North Chelmsford, MA Peter Leinenbach, U.S. EPA Region 10, Portland, OR Jeff Hollister, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH Naomi Detenbeck, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Narraganset, RI Susan Cormier, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH Michael McManus, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH Don Ebert, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Las Vegas, NV and Jan Ciborowski, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Ann Lincoln, Tetra Tech Inc., Owings Mills, MD This extensive compilation includes hundreds of resources for spatial data and analysis tools useful for enhancing protection and restoration or rehabilitation of the nation's water. About half of the listed resources provide access to analytical tools; roughly one-quarter provide point, grid, or vector data; and fewer than 10% point to geographic frameworks or decision support systems (DSS). Information collected for each resource (when available) includes name, website, keywords, description, uses, ecosystems and stressors, related tools, examples, additional information, minimum software requirements, required expertise, technical support, developer, and contact information. The geospatial resources are organized in two ways. The first list is an alphabetical list of all resources. The second is a list of all resources divided into resource types (listed below) and sorted alphabetically within resource type.

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Data sources: providing data in point, vector, grid, or photographic image format.

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Decision support systems: expert systems for planning, interpreting, and synthesizing data.

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Gateways/portals: listing multiple tools within a specific tool category.

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Geodatabase models: referencing spatial information in a database format.

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Models and model gateways: analyzing data or identifying additional models.

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Tools: including analytical, raw, review, and visualization tools.

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Table of Contents (alphabetical) 3DEM—Terrain visualization and flyby animation ......................................................... 24 AEM (Anthropogenic Ecotope Mapping) ....................................................................... 26 AI_Geostats—A web resource for geostatistics and spatial statistics ........................... 27 Aqualand—Massachusetts Aquatic Landscape Characterization Tool ......................... 29 Aquaveo ........................................................................................................................ 30 ArcHydro—GIS for Water Resources ............................................................................ 31 Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software.............................................................. 33 Australian Catchment Modelling Toolkit, The ................................................................ 34 Australian eWater Toolkit .............................................................................................. 35 Bentley—Water and wastewater network analysis and design products....................... 38 Biodiversity Informatics and Conservation Group (software)......................................... 40 CAPS—A spatially explicit neutral model for community development ........................ 42 CEH (Center for Ecology and Hydrology) (UK) ............................................................. 43 Center for Geospatial Data Analysis—Indiana Geological Survey ................................ 44 Classification Framework Data/Tool .............................................................................. 45 CLUZ (Conservation Land-Use Zoning) Software ......................................................... 46 Coastal Adaptation Toolkit ............................................................................................ 47 Community Land Model 3.5 .......................................................................................... 51 Community Land Model 4.0 .......................................................................................... 53 CommunityViz® ............................................................................................................ 55 CORMIX (Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System) ............................................................ 56 CrimeStat ...................................................................................................................... 58 CrimeStat 3.3 ................................................................................................................ 60 CSDMS (Community Surface Dynamics) ...................................................................... 62 CSIRO—Ewater ............................................................................................................ 64 DATA.GOV.................................................................................................................... 66 DHRAM (Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method), The .............................. 68 DHSVM (Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model) 3.0 .......................................... 69 DMIP (Distributed Model Intercomparison Project) 1 & 2 .............................................. 71 Driftwatch™ ................................................................................................................... 73 ELOHA (Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration) ...................................................... 74 Environmental and Water Resource Software .............................................................. 75 EPA AGWA (Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment) Tool .............................. 76 EPA AQUATOX ............................................................................................................ 78 EPA ATTAINS (Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation System) ......................................................................................... 80 EPA ATtILA (Analytical Tools Interface for Landscape Assessments) .......................... 82 EPA BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources) ................................................................................................................. 84 EPA BASINS CAT (Climate Assessment Tool) ............................................................. 85 EPA BASS (Bioaccumulation of Aquatic Systems Simulator) ....................................... 87 EPA BEACON (Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification) ................................. 88 EPA CADDIS (Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System)..................... 90 EPA CEAM (Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling) ............................................ 92 EPA Clean Water Act analytical methods ..................................................................... 94 3

EPA CREM—Environmental models knowledge base .................................................. 96 EPA DFLOW 3.0—A tool for low flow analysis.............................................................. 98 EPA ecoregions map server .......................................................................................... 99 EPA EFDC (Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code) ..................................................... 101 EPA ENVIROFACT—One-stop source for environmental information ........................ 103 EPA Enviromapper for Water ...................................................................................... 105 EPA EPD-RIV1—One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model .................................................................................................................... 107 EPA EXAMS (Exposure Analysis Modeling System) .................................................. 109 EPA exposure assessment models ............................................................................. 111 EPA EXPRESS (EXAMS—PRZM Exposure Simulation Shell) ................................... 113 EPA GCSOLAR .......................................................................................................... 115 EPA GEOPLATFORM................................................................................................. 117 EPA Geospatial Portal................................................................................................. 119 EPA HSCTM (Hydrodynamic, Sediment, and Contaminant Transport Model) 2D ...... 121 EPA HSPF (Hydrological Simulation Program—Fortran) ............................................ 123 EPA HSPF—Java toolkit for BMP modeling applications ............................................ 125 EPA HSPF web-based tools ....................................................................................... 127 EPA LSPC (Loading Simulation Program in C++) ....................................................... 129 EPA Mercury Maps: A Quantitative Spatial Link between Air Deposition and Fish Tissue ................................................................................................................... 131 EPA NDZ (No-Discharge Zones) for Vessel Sewage by State.................................... 133 EPA NLFA (National Listing of Fish Advisories) .......................................................... 135 EPA NLFTS (National Lake Fish Tissue Study) .......................................................... 136 EPA Omernik Ecoregions............................................................................................ 138 EPA PCS—Water discharge permits .......................................................................... 140 EPA PRZM3 ................................................................................................................ 142 EPA QUAL2K—River and stream water quality model ............................................... 144 EPA RAD (Reach Address Database) ........................................................................ 146 EPA ReVA (Regional Vulnerability Assessment) ........................................................ 148 EPA SDWIS (Safe Drinking Water Information System) ............................................. 150 EPA SERAFM ............................................................................................................. 151 EPA STEPL (Spreadsheet Tool for Estimating Pollutant Load) .................................. 152 EPA STORET/WQX (Storage and Retrieval/Water Quality Exchange)....................... 153 EPA SWMM (Stormwater Management Model) .......................................................... 157 EPA SWMM (Stormwater Management Model) 5 ....................................................... 159 EPA Visual Plumes ..................................................................................................... 162 EPA WAM (Watershed Assessment Model) ............................................................... 164 EPA WARMF (Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework) ........................... 166 EPA WASP (Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program) 7 ....................................... 168 EPA Water Quality Economics and Benefits ............................................................... 170 EPA water quality models and tools ............................................................................ 172 EPA WATERS (Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results) ............ 174 EPA Watershed Central .............................................................................................. 176 EPA WCS (Watershed Characterization System) ....................................................... 177

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EPA WhAEM (Wellhead Analytic Element Model) 2000 ............................................. 180 EPA WHATIF (Watershed Health Assessment Tools—Investigating Fisheries) ......... 182 EPA WQSDB (Water Quality Standards Database) .................................................... 184 EPA WWQMTSC (Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center) .................................................................................................................. 186 ESRI ArcHydro for ArcGIS 9.x & 10.x ......................................................................... 188 FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee) ............................................................ 191 FRAGSTATS—Spatial pattern analysis program for categorical maps ....................... 193 Free geography tools .................................................................................................. 195 GAIA Model Base, The................................................................................................ 196 GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation ........................................... 198 Geomorphometry.org .................................................................................................. 200 Geospatial Analysis—A Comprehensive Guide .......................................................... 201 Geospatial Modeling Environment .............................................................................. 203 Geospatial Platform ..................................................................................................... 204 GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) ............................................ 205 Global Enviro Software Gateway/Portal ...................................................................... 207 Globe (Global Collaboration Engine) ........................................................................... 208 Great Lakes Commission ............................................................................................ 210 Great Lakes Commission: Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium ...................... 211 Hawth’s Analysis Tools for ArcGIS .............................................................................. 212 Hydrologic Impacts of Land Use Changes and Practices............................................ 214 HydroSHEDS—Hydrological data and maps based on shuttle elevation derivatives at multiple scales ................................................................................ 215 IFIM (Instream Flow Incremental Methodology) .......................................................... 216 IHA (Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration) ..................................................................... 218 ILWIS (Integrated Land and Water Information System) ............................................. 220 Index of Hydrologic Alteration (v7) .............................................................................. 222 Instream Flow Council ................................................................................................. 224 Integrated geologic map databases for the United States ........................................... 225 IWMI Ecohydrological Gateway .................................................................................. 226 IWMI Environmental Flow Software ............................................................................ 228 IWMI GEFC (Global Environmental Flow Calculator) .................................................. 230 IWMI Global Podium, The—Interactive water and food security scenario planning tool ........................................................................................................................ 231 IWMI OASIS (Options Analysis in Irrigation Systems)................................................. 232 IWMI WATERSIM© ..................................................................................................... 236 IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox)....................................... 237 LANDFIRE—Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project .... 240 LANDIS—Landscape Disturbance and Succession Model ......................................... 242 LANDIS-II—Forest Landscape Simulation Model ....................................................... 244 Landscape Analyst ...................................................................................................... 245 Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ ...................................................... 247 LandSerf...................................................................................................................... 249 Layer Logic for ArcGIS ................................................................................................ 251 Map Comparison Kit .................................................................................................... 252 5

MapCalc—Advanced grid-based map analysis ........................................................... 254 MarineCadastre.gov .................................................................................................... 256 Marxan—A reserve system selection tool ................................................................... 258 MassDEP Habitat of Potential Regional and Statewide Importance ........................... 260 Matlab and Fortran spatial statistics software ............................................................. 262 MERGANSER—Predicting mercury levels in fish and loons in New England lakes ..................................................................................................................... 264 MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity) ................................................................ 265 Multivariate clustering to recognize ecoregion borders ............................................... 267 MWDT (Multi-Watershed Delineation Tool) ................................................................. 269 NAPRA (National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis) (web) ..................................... 271 NASA DAAC (Distributed Active Archive) ................................................................... 273 NASA Earth Observatory ............................................................................................ 275 NASA EOS (Earth Observing System) ........................................................................ 277 NASA ESDIS (Earth Science Data and Information System) Project .......................... 279 NASA GCMD (Global Change Master Directory) ........................................................ 281 NASA MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) ............................. 283 NASA TERRA ............................................................................................................. 285 NASA—Visible Earth ................................................................................................... 286 NASA World Wind 1.4 ................................................................................................. 287 NATHAT (The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool) ................................................ 288 National Atlas .............................................................................................................. 290 National Map, The ....................................................................................................... 291 National Wetland Inventory classification .................................................................... 293 NatureServe EBM (Ecosystem-based Management) Tools Network .......................... 295 NCA (National Coastal Assessment)........................................................................... 297 NCDC (National Climatic Data Center) ....................................................................... 299 NHD (National Hydrography Dataset) ......................................................................... 300 NHDPlus ..................................................................................................................... 302 NLCD (National Land Cover Dataset) 1992 ................................................................ 306 NLCD (National Land Cover Dataset) 2001 ................................................................ 307 NLCD (National Land Cover Dataset) 2006 ................................................................ 308 NOAA Benthic Habitat ................................................................................................. 310 NOAA CanVis Visual Simulation Tool ......................................................................... 312 NOAA Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning ............................................................... 314 NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program Regional Land Cover ................................ 316 NOAA Coastal Inundation Toolkit ................................................................................ 318 NOAA Coastal Inundation Visualization Tool Decision ............................................... 320 NOAA Coastal Services Center Digital Coast ............................................................. 322 NOAA Digital Coast ..................................................................................................... 324 NOAA GeoPlatform ..................................................................................................... 325 NOAA Habitat Priority Planner .................................................................................... 327 NOAA IFSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) ........................................... 329 NOAA ISAT (Impervious Surface Analysis Tool) ......................................................... 331 NOAA Lidar Data Handler ........................................................................................... 333 NOAA NCDC (National Climatic Data Center) ............................................................ 335 6

NOAA NOSA (Observing Systems Architecture) ........................................................ 336 NOAA N-SPECT (Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool) ............ 338 NOAA Remote Sensing for Coastal Management ...................................................... 340 NOAA Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer ..................................... 342 NOAA Shoreline .......................................................................................................... 342 NOAA/TNC CMECS (Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard) 2 (Draft).................................................................................................................... 342 NRCS—Hydrology and Hydraulics .............................................................................. 348 NRCS Soil Geography ................................................................................................ 350 Nutrient Pollution Policy and Data ............................................................................... 351 PANDA (Protected Areas Network Design Application) .............................................. 353 PASSaGE (Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics, and Geographic Exegesis) ............... 354 PDW—A program for rescaling map resolution ........................................................... 356 Penn State Center for Astrostatistics—Spatial Statistics & Image Analysis ................ 357 PEST—Model-independent parameter estimation ...................................................... 358 PRISM Climate Group ................................................................................................. 359 PySAL—Open source Python library for spatial analytical functions ........................... 360 PYSAL (Python Spatial Analysis Library) .................................................................... 361 Qrule—Generation of landscape neutral models ....................................................... .362 R Analysing Spatial Point Patterns .............................................................................. 364 R Analysis of Spatial Data ........................................................................................... 365 R Spatial Projects ........................................................................................................ 367 R Spatial Projects (Sourceforge) ................................................................................. 369 R Spatstat—Open source software for spatial statistics .............................................. 371 R Wiki—Spatial data ................................................................................................... 372 River Tools™ .............................................................................................................. 374 Road............................................................................................................................ 376 SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses)............................................... 378 SaTScan™—Software for Spatial, Temporal and Space-Time Scan Statistics .......... 380 Sleuth Model—Project Gigalopolis: Urban and Land Cover Modeling ........................ 382 Soils—STATSGO and SSURGO ................................................................................ 383 SPARROW (Spatially Referenced Regressions on Watershed Attributes) ................. 385 STARS (Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems).................................................. 386 Stream channel classification ...................................................................................... 388 SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool)................................................................... 389 TAS (Terrain Analysis System) ................................................................................... 390 TauDEM (Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models) ........................................ 392 TauDEM (Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models) 5 ..................................... 393 TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) System .... 395 TIR (Thermal Infrared Imagery) and TMDLs ............................................................... 397 TNC—Aquatic community classification framework .................................................... 398 TNC Freshwater Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin: Development and Application of an Aquatic Community Classification Framework .......................... 399 UCONN ETIS (Estimation Tool for Impervious Surfaces) ........................................... 400 UCONN ISAT (Impervious Surface Analysis Tool) ...................................................... 402 UCONN KML to SHP Tool .......................................................................................... 403 7

UCONN LFT (Landscape Fragmentation Tool) v.2.0 .................................................. 405 UCONN Shape Metrics Tool ....................................................................................... 407 UNH WSAG (Water Systems Analysis Group) ............................................................ 409 USDA AGNPS (Agricultural Nonpoint Source) Pollution Model .................................. 411 USDA NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway ..................................................................... 412 USDA RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) 2............................................ 413 USFS Bailey's Ecoregions........................................................................................... 415 USFS Ecological Subregions: Provinces, Sections, and Subsections of the Conterminous United States ................................................................................. 416 USFS Ecological Units of the Eastern United States: First Approximation .................. 418 USFS Geodata Clearinghouse .................................................................................... 420 USFS Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units......................................... 421 USFS National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units ....................................... 423 USGS Aerial Photographs........................................................................................... 425 USGS Downsizer ........................................................................................................ 426 USGS Earth Explorer .................................................................................................. 427 USGS EROS (Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science) ....................... 429 USGS GAP (Gap Analysis Program) .......................................................................... 431 USGS—GIS Weasel, The ........................................................................................... 433 USGS GloVis (Global Visualization) Viewer ................................................................ 434 USGS GOS (Geospatial One Stop)............................................................................. 436 USGS GTOPO30—A system for topologically coding global drainage basins and stream networks ................................................................................................... 438 USGS HCDN (Hydro-Climatic Data Network) ............................................................. 440 USGS HIP (Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process) ...................................... 442 USGS HUC (Hydrologic Unit Code) ............................................................................ 444 USGS HYDRO1k Elevation Derivative Database ....................................................... 446 USGS Hydrologic Landscape Regions........................................................................ 448 USGS LUCA (Let Us Calibrate) .................................................................................. 450 USGS MIPS (Maps, Imagery & Publications).............................................................. 451 USGS MOWS (Modeling of Watershed Systems) ....................................................... 452 USGS NASA Landsat.................................................................................................. 453 USGS NATHAT (The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool) ..................................... 455 USGS National Map, The ............................................................................................ 457 USGS NED (National Elevation Dataset) .................................................................... 459 USGS New Jersey hydrologic tools (NJHAT and NJSCT) .......................................... 460 USGS NWIS (National Water Information System) ..................................................... 461 USGS OUI (Object User Interface): An Environmental Resource Modeling Framework ............................................................................................................ 463 USGS PRMS (Precipitation Runoff Modeling System) ................................................ 464 USGS SDDS (Seamless Data Distribution System) .................................................... 466 USGS SMIC—Surface Water and Water Quality Models Information Clearinghouse....................................................................................................... 467 USGS SMIG—Surface Water Modeling Interest Group .............................................. 469 USGS Streamstats Version 2 ...................................................................................... 471 USGS TMWB (Thornthwaite Monthly Water Balance) Model ..................................... 473 8

USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports ......................................................... 475 USGS Water Resources of the United States ............................................................. 477 USGS Watershed Processes and Modeling................................................................ 479 VIC (Variable Infiltration Capacity)—Macroscale hydrologic model ............................ 481 Visual PEST—Parameter Estimation Software for Automated Calibration of Groundwater Models............................................................................................. 483 Watershed Analyst™................................................................................................... 485 WBD (Watershed Boundary Dataset).......................................................................... 487 WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning System) ........................................................ 488 Wetland hydrogeomorphic classes ............................................................................. 490 Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools ........................................................................... 491 WIN TR-55 Small Watershed Hydrology ..................................................................... 492 WWQTSC (Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center) ........ 493

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Table of Contents (resource type) TOOLS BY CATEGORY •

Data sources

Providing data in point, vector, grid, or photographic image format.

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Decision support systems

Expert systems for planning, interpreting, and synthesizing data.

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Gateways/Portals

Listing multiple tools within a specific tool category.

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Geodatabase models

Referencing spatial information in a database format.

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Models and model gateways

Analyzing data or identifying additional models.

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Tools

Including analytical, raw, review, and visualization tools.

Data Sources AEM (Anthropogenic Ecotope Mapping) EPA ATTAINS (Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation System) EPA BEACON (Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification) EPA ecoregions map server EPA NDZ (No-Discharge Zones for Vessel Sewage) EPA NLFA (National Listing of Fish Advisories) EPA NLFTS (National Lake Fish Tissue Study) EPA Omernik Ecoregions EPA PCS Water Discharge Permits EPA RAD (Reach Address Database) EPA ReVA (Regional Vulnerability Assessment) EPA SDWIS (Safe Drinking Water Information System) EPA STORET (Storage and Retrieval) EPA WATERS (Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results) EPA WQSDB (Water Quality Standards Database)

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Great Lakes wetland classifications Integrated geologic map databases for the United States IWMI ecohydrological databases LANDFIRE—Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project MassDEP Habitat of Potential Regional and Statewide Importance MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity) Multivariate clustering to recognize ecoregion borders NASA DAAC (Distributed Active Archive) NASA EOS (Earth Observing System) NASA ESDIS (Earth Science Data and Information System) Project NASA GCMD (Global Change Master Directory) NASA MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) National Wetland Inventory classification NCA (National Coastal Assessment) NCDC (National Climatic Data Center) NHD (National Hydrography Dataset) NHDPlus NLCD (National Land Cover Dataset) 1992 NLCD (National Land Cover Dataset) 2001 NLCD (National Land Cover Dataset) 2006 NOAA Benthic Habitat NOAA C-CAP (Coastal Change Analysis Program) NOAA Coastal Services Center Digital Coast NOAA IFSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) NOAA NCDC (National Climatic Data Center) NOAA Shoreline NOAA/TNC CMECS2 (Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard) NRCS Soil Geography

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PRISM (Parameter-Elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model) Road Soils―STATSGO and SSURGO Stream channel classification TIR (Thermal Infrared Imagery) TNC Aquatic Community Classification Framework USFS Bailey's Ecoregions USFS Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units USFS National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units USGS Aerial Photographs USGS EROS (Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science) USGS GAP (Gap Analysis Program) USGS GloVis (Global Visualization Viewer) USGS HUC (Hydrologic Unit Code) USGS Hydrologic Landscape Regions USGS MIPS (Maps, Imagery & Publications) USGS NED (National Elevation Dataset) USGS NWIS (National Water Information System) USGS Streamstats Version 2 USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports USGS Water Resources of the United States USGS/NASA Landsat WBD (Watershed Boundary Dataset) Wetland hydrogeomorphic classes

Decision Support Systems CORMIX (Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System) DMIP (Distributed Model Intercomparison Project) 1 & 2

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EPA Enviromapper for Water EPA WWQTSC (Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center) GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) IFIM (Instream Flow Incremental Methodology) Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ NOAA CanVis Visual Simulation Tool NOAA Coastal Inundation Visualization Tool NOAA Habitat Priority Planner NOAA ISAT (Impervious Surface Analysis Tool) SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses) USGS GAP (Gap Analysis Program)

Gateways/Portals AI_Geostats―A web resource for geostatistics and spatial statistics Aquaveo Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software CEH (Center for Ecology and Hydrology) (UK) Center for Geospatial Data Analysis CSIRO―eWATER EPA ATTAINS (Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation System) EPA BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources) EPA ENVIROFACT—One-stop source for environmental information EPA Enviromapper for Water EPA Geospatial Portal FGDC Clearinghouse Registry GAIA Model Base, The Geomorphometry.org Geospatial Platform 13

GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Global Enviro Software Hydrologic Impacts of Land Use Changes and Practices IWMI Environmental Flow Software IWMI Global Podium, The—Interactive water and food security scenario planning tool IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox) Matlab and Fortran spatial statistics software NASA DAAC (Distributed Active Archive) NASA Earth Observatory NASA ESDIS (Earth Science Data and Information System Project) NASA GCMD (Global Change Master Directory) NASA MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) NASA TERRA NASA—Visible Earth National Atlas National Map, The NHDPlus NOAA Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning NOAA Coastal Services Center Digital Coast NOAA Digital Coast NOAA GeoPlatform NOAA NOSA (Observing Systems Architecture) R Wiki Spatial Data Spatstat―Open source software for spatial statistics USDA/NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway USGS Earth Explorer USGS EROS (Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science) USGS GOS (Geospatial One Stop)

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USGS GTOPO30―A system for topologically coding global drainage basins and stream networks USGS MOWS (Modeling of Watershed Systems) USGS National Map, The USGS SDDS (Seamless Data Distribution System) USGS Watershed Processes and Modeling USGS/NASA Landsat USGS SMIG (Surface Water Modeling Interest Group) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH)

Geodatabase Models NHD (National Hydrography Dataset) USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports

Models and Model Gateways Aqualand—Massachusetts aquatic landscape characterization tool Australian Catchment Modelling Toolkit, The Australian eWater Tooklit Biodiversity Informatics and Conservation Group (software) CAPS―A spatially explicit neutral model for community development CEH (Center for Ecology and Hydrology) (UK) Center for Geospatial Data Analysis Community Land Model 3.5 Community Land Model 4.0 CommunityViz® CORMIX (Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System) CSDMS (Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System) CSIRO―eWATER DHSVM (Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model) 3.0 15

Environmental and Water Resource Software EPA AGWA (Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment) Tool EPA AQUATOX EPA BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources) EPA BASS (Bioaccumulation of Aquatic Systems Simulator) EPA CEAM (Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling) EPA CREM—Environmental models knowledge base EPA EFDC (Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code) EPA EPD-RIV1―One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model EPA EXAMS (Exposure Analysis Modeling System) EPA exposure assessment models EPA EXPRESS—EXAMS―PRZM Exposure Simulation Shell EPA GCSOLAR EPA HSCTM (Hydrodynamic, Sediment, and Contaminant Transport Model) 2D EPA HSPF (Hydrological Simulation Program—FORTRAN) EPA HSPF—Java toolkit for BMP modeling applications EPA LSPC (Loading Simulation Program in C++) EPA PRZM3 EPA QUAL2K—River and stream water quality model EPA SERAFM EPA SWMM (Stormwater Management Model) EPA SWMM (Stormwater Management Model) 5 EPA Visual Plumes EPA WAM (Watershed Assessment Model) EPA WARMF Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework) EPA WASP (Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program) 7 EPA water quality models and tools EPA WhAEM) (Wellhead Analytic Element Model) 2000

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EPA WHATIF (Watershed Health Assessment Tools Investigating Fisheries) EPA WWQMTSC (Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center) ESRI ArcHydro for ArcGIS 9.x & 10.x GAIA Model Base, The GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Global Enviro Software HydroSHEDS—Hydrological data and maps based on shuttle elevation derivatives at multiple scales IWMI Environmental Flow Software IWMI Global Podium, The—Interactive water and food security scenario planning tool IWMI OASIS (Options Analysis in Irrigation Systems) IWMI―WATERSIM© LANDFIRE—Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project LANDIS (Landscape Disturbance and Succession Model) LANDIS II—Forest Landscape Simulation Model MERGANSER—Predicting mercury levels in fish and loons in New England lakes MWDT (Multi-Watershed Delineation Tool) NatureServe EBMTools (Ecosystem-based Management Tools) Network NHDPlus NOAA Coastal Services Center Digital Coast NOAA N-SPECT (Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool) NRCS―Hydraulics and Hydrology Tools and Models PRISM (Parameter-Elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model) PySAL (Python Library for Spatial Analytical Functions) Sleuth Model—Project Gigalopolis: Urban and Land Cover Modeling SPARROW (Spatially Referenced Regressions on Watershed Attributes) SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) TauDEM (Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models) UNH—Water Systems Analysis Group 17

USDA AGNPS (Agricultural Nonpoint Source) Pollution Model USDA RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) 2 USGS GAP (Gap Analysis Program) USGS New Jersey hydrologic tools (NJHAT and NJSCT) USGS PRMS (Precipitation Runoff Modeling System) USGS SMIC (Surface Water and Water Quality Models Information Clearinghouse) USGS Streamstats Version 2 USGS TMWB (Thornthwaite Monthly Water Balance Model) USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports VIC (Variable Infiltration Capacity)―Macroscale hydrologic model WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning System) WIN TR-55 Small Watershed Hydrology WWQTSC (Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center)

Tools 3DEM―Terrain visualization and flyby animation AEM (Anthropogenic Ecotope Mapping) Aqualand―Massachusetts aquatic landscape characterization tool ArcHydro―GIS for Water Resources Biodiversity Informatics and Conservation Group (software) CLUZ (Conservation Land-Use Zoning) Software CrimeStat CrimeStat 3.3 DHRAM (The Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method) DHSVM (Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model) 3.0 DMIP (Distributed Model Intercomparison Project) 1 & 2 ELOHA (Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration) EPA AGWA (Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment) Tool

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EPA ATtILA (Analytical Tools Interface for Landscape Assessments) EPA CADDIS (Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System) EPA DFLOW 3.0―A tool for low flow analysis EPA ecoregions map server EPA Enviromapper for Water EPA Mercury Maps: A Quantitative Spatial Link between Air Deposition and Fish Tissue EPA Omernik Ecoregions EPA ReVA (Regional Vulnerability Assessment) EPA STEPL (Spreadsheet Tool for Estimating Pollutant Load) EPA Water Quality Economics and Benefits EPA water quality models and tools EPA WCS (Watershed Characterization System) EPA WHATIF (Watershed Health Assessment Tools-Investigating Fisheries) EPA WWQMTSC (Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center) FRAGSTATS―Spatial pattern analysis program for categorical maps Free geography tools GeoDa―An introduction to spatial data analysis Geospatial Analysis—A Comprehensive Guide Geospatial Modeling Environment GLOBE—Global Collaboration Engine Great Lakes wetland classifications Hawth's Analysis Tools for ArcGIS IHA (Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration) ILWIS (Integrated Land and Water Information System) Index of Hydrologic Alteration (v7) Instream Flow Science IWMI GEFC (The Global Environmental Flow Calculator) LANDFIRE—Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project

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LANDIS (Landscape Disturbance and Succession Model) LANDIS II Forest Landscape Simulation Model Landscape Analyst Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ LandSerf Layer Logic for ArcGIS Map Comparison Kit MapCalc―Advanced grid-based map analysis Marxan—A reserve system selection tool Matlab and Fortran spatial statistics software Multivariate clustering to recognize ecoregion borders MWDT (Multi-Watershed Delineation Tool) NASA World Wind 1.4 NATHAT (The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool) National Atlas National Wetland Inventory classification NHD (National Hydrography Dataset) NOAA Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning NOAA Coastal Services Center Digital Coast NOAA Habitat Priority Planner NOAA IFSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) NOAA ISAT (Impervious Surface Analysis Tool) NOAA Lidar Data Handler NOAA Remote Sensing for Coastal Management NOAA Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer NOAA TNC CMEC (Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard) S2 NRCS―Hydraulics and hydrology tools and models PANDA (Protected Areas Network Design Application)

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PASSaGE (Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis) PDW―A program for rescaling map resolution PEST—Model-independent parameter estimation PySAL—Open source Python library for spatial analytical functions Qrule―Generation of landscape neutral models R Analysis of Spatial Data R Analyzing Spatial Point Patterns R Spatial Projects R Spatial Projects (Sourceforge) R Spatstat―Open source software for spatial statistics R Wiki―Spatial data River Tools™ SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses) SaTScan™ (Software for Spatial, Temporal and Space-Time Scan Statistics) SPARROW (Spatially Referenced Regressions on Watershed Attributes) STARS (Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems) Stream channel classification TAS (Terrain Analysis System) TauDEM (Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models) TNC—Aquatic community classification framework UCONN ETIS (Estimation Tool for Impervious Surfaces) UCONN ISAT (Impervious Surface Analysis Tool) UCONN KML to SHP Tool UCONN LFT (Landscape Fragmentation Tool) v. 2.0 UCONN Shape Metrics Tool USDA NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway USFS Bailey's Ecoregions USFS Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units

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USFS National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units USGS Downsizer USGS GAP (Gap Analysis Program) USGS HIP (Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process) USGS Hydrologic Landscape Regions USGS NATHAT (The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool) USGS PEST (Parameter Estimation Software for Automated Calibration of Groundwater Models) USGS Streamstats Version 2 USGS—GIS Weasel, The USGS National Map, The USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports Watershed Analyst™ Wetland hydrogeomorphic classes Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools

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Summaries of Geospatial Data Sources, Decision Support Systems, Gateways/Portals, Geodatabase Models, Models and Model Gateways, and Tools

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3DEM - Terrain Visualization and Flyby Animation

Type of Tool

Analytical tool Visualization (mapping) tool

Keywords

Link

http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem.html

Description

3DEM for Win95/98/ME/2000/XP and Windows Vista will produce three dimensional terrain scenes and flyby animations from a wide variety of freely available data sources including: * USGS Digital Elevation Model (ASCII DEM) files * USGS Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS DEM) files * NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) files * LIDAR Point Cloud (LAS) files * USGS Global 30 Arc Second Elevation Data Set (GTOPO30 DEM) files * NOAA Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE DEM) files * NASA Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) files * Any topographic data file organized by rows and columns of elevation data * XYZ scattered point topographic data files Terrain data files can be saved in the following formats for use by other GIS programs * USGS ASCII Digital Elevation Model (*.dem) * GeoTiff Graphics File (*.tif) * GeoTiff Digital Elevation Model (*.tif) * Binary terrain matrix (*.bin) * VRML world (*.wrl) * Terragen terrain (*.ter) While the author of the 3DEM software has ceased development for the application, it is still available for download in it current form. There are no plans for updating the software and this site makes no warranties about the performance of the application.

Uses

Program Applications

Purposes

Monitoring/Assessment

Predicting flows,loads, and/or concentrations

TMDL

Associating landscape characteristics & ecological condition

Watershed planning

Forecasting

Permitting

Visualization

Community outreach

Condition assessment

Emergency response

Watershed delineation Multiple

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Multiple

Stressors

Related Tools EPA Mercury Maps: A Quantitative Spatial Link Between Air Deposition and Fish Tissue Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2

EPA Geospatial Portal Map Comparison Kit MapCalc - Advanced Grid-based Map Analysis Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Center for Geospatial Data Analysis – Indiana Geological Survey

USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream Examples

http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem/gallery.html

Additional Information

http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem/downloads.html

Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone

Technical Website Support Guidance

Email Required Expertise

Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed

Developer

Visualization Software LLC

Address

Contact

Richard Horne

Phone

Email

[email protected]

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Cost Estimate Free

Anthropogenic Ecotope Mapping (AEM) Analytical tool

Type of Tool

Vector data Grid data Keywords

Ecotope Data, Ecotope Methods

Link

http://www.ecotope.org/aem/

Description

Anthropogenic Ecotope Mapping (AEM) is a standardized open-source mapping & classification system for measuring ecological structure, function and change across managed landscapes. AEM is designed to measure long-term ecological changes at local and regional scales across the full range of anthropogenic landscapes, from rural to urban, from floodplain to mountainous, and from pre-industrial to contemporary.

Uses


Purposes

Associating landscape characteristics & ecological condition Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Multiple

Ecosystems

Stressors Altered habitat

Related Tools Examples

http://ecotope.org/products/default.aspx


AEM is a resource-intensive procedure that requires high-resolution imagery, trained interpreters, and extensive fieldwork. For this reason AEM is best applied to areas smaller than 100 km2,

Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise

Open-source GIS


Extensive scientific training required Extensive computer/GIS/programming skills required

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Erle C. Ellis

Address

Dept of Geography and Environmental Systems

Contact

Erle C. Ellis

Phone

410-455-3078

Email

[email protected]


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AI - Geostats - A Web resource for Geostatistics and Spatial Statistics Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal

Keywords

Link

www.ai-geostats.org

Description

This web server has been promoting communication about geostatistics and spatial statistics (GIS, geostatistics, point statistics, lattice statistics, geoinformatics, sampling strategies,...) between people working in many different fields. A page linking to freeware used for spatial statistics and geostatistics. The tools are all briefly described in order to help you find the most appropriate tools for your work. Commercial packages are not described at the moment but you will find a number of links. Note that only standalone freeware have been listed. Codes requiring Matlab of R for example are described under the "Codes" section. CATEGORIES * Analysing Point Data (clustering level, spatial distribution, ...) * Analysing Geostatistical Data * Analysing Lattice Data * Analysing Landscape Patterns (fragmentation levels, connectivity of categorical data) * Analysing Orientations and Angles (Spherical and Circular statistics) Related resources (links to material that is directly or indirectly related to spatial statistics: maps projections, general statistics, computational geometry) There also FAQs on Geostatistical Software conventions as well as on software for those starting in geostatistics. Also links to books, papers, documentation, conferences, courses, etc.

Uses


Purposes

Multiple Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional Local National

State Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools SAGA - (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses)

ILWIS - Integrated Land and Water Information System Landserf Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ Landscape Analyst

PASSaGE - (Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis) R - Analysis of Spatial Data R - Spatial Projects (Sourceforge) Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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R Spatial Projects

R Wiki STARS - (Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems) SaTScan™ - Software for Spatial, Temporal and Space-Time Scan Statistics CrimeStat 3.3 Examples

http://www.ai-geostats.org/index.php?id=freeware


For more than 15 years, this web server has been promoting communication about geostatistics and spatial statistics (GIS, geostatistics, point statistics, lattice statistics, geoinformatics, sampling strategies,...) between people working in many different fields. As of October 2008, more than 600 people from around 100 countries have joined the mailing list which makes it the biggest list about spatial statistics.


Open-source GIS R MATLAB

Technical Online user community Support Website

Guidance Telephone



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Grégoire A. G. DUBOIS

Address

Joint Research Centre - European Commission Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Environment Monitoring Unit Monitoring Of Natural resources for DEvelopment (MONDE) Via Fermi, TP 440, I-21027 Ispra (VA), ITALY

Contact

Grégoire A. G. DUBOIS

Phone

+39 0332-786360

Email

[email protected]


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Aqualand - Massachusetts Aquatic Landscape Characterization Tool Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Landscape Characterization

Link

http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/caps/reports/aqualand.pdf

Description

This document (pdf) is the final technical report (May 2003) describing Aqualand (completed January 2003), a program developed by the Landscape Ecology Program at the University of Massachusetts, Department of Natural Resources Conservation Amherst, MA in cooperation with the Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program. The software analyzes and characterizes the contribution of upstream aquatic and terrestrial systems to aquatic habitats "aquatic cores" - delineated by NHESP biologists.

Uses


Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Lake

Ecosystems

Purposes

Stressors

Stream/River Related Tools Examples

www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp_temp/land_protection/living_waters/living_waters_home.htm

Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise

ArcView with the Spatial Analyst extensio


Technical Support Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Landscape Ecology Program at UMASS, Department of Natural Resources Conservation in cooperation with the MA Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program

Address

Department of Environmental Conservation University of Massachusetts 304 Holdsworth Natural Resources Center Box 34210, Amherst, MA 01003

Contact

Kevin McGarrigal

Phone

(413) 577-0655

Email

[email protected]


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Aquaveo

Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal Model gateway

Keywords

Link

http://www.aquaveo.com

Description

Aquaveo is a water resources engineering consulting firm that's been developing state of the art environmental modeling software since 1991.

Uses


Purposes

Water resources management Multiple Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

National

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads PEST - Model Independent Parameter Estimation

Center for Geospatial Data Analysis – Indiana Geological Survey (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) EPA - Exposure Assessment Models USGS - SMIG (Surface water modeling interest group) Examples

http://www.surfacewater.com/html/categories.html


Forum - http://forum.aquaveo.com/


Required Expertise

Stand-alone MS Access Image Analysis GIS GIS with raster capability Relational database


Telephone Email


Cost Estimate $500 to $2,000 $2,000 Free

Developer

Global Enviro Software, A Division of Scientific Software Group

Address


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P.O. Box 708188 Sandy, Utah 84070-8188

ArcHydro – GIS for Water Resources

Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

data model; hydrology

Link

http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/giswr/hydro/

Description

The Arc Hydro Data Model can be defined as a geographic database containing a GIS representation of a Hydrological Information System under a case-specific database design which is extensible, flexible, and adaptable to the user requirements.

Uses


Purposes


Associating landscape characteristics & ecological condition Associating in-stream characteristics & ecological condition Water quality standards

Restoration/recovery potential BMP selection and siting Forecasting Prioritization

Watershed delineation

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Stream/River

Wetland Related Tools (NLCD 1992) - National Land Cover Dataset Examples

http://support.esri.com/en/downloads/datamodel/detail/15


Book: http://gis2.esri.com/esripress/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&moduleid=0&websiteid=56


ArcGIS® ArcGIS® Spatial Analyst extension


Guidance Workshops Required Expertise

Some scientific background needed Extensive computer/GIS/programming skills required

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

David Maidment, Univ of Texas

Address

Center for Research in Water Resources;Pickle Research Campus;Bldg 119, MC R8000;University of Texas;Austin, TX 78712

Contact

David Maidment

Phone

(512) 471-0065

Email

[email protected]


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Contact

Aquaveo, LLC

Email

[email protected]

Phone


32

(801) 691-5530

Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software

Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal

Keywords

hydrologic alteration

Link

http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/gis/gishydro06/InstreamFlows/HydrologicAlteration.htm

Description

The project has included: (1) application and evaluation of the IHA and NATHAT tools; (2) characterization of the gaged and naturalized flow regimes at 24 gage sites representing the six priority study basins in the State of Texas (Lower Sabine, Middle Trinity, Middle and Lower Brazos, Lower Guadalupe, Lower San Antonio); (3) evaluation of the impact of flow regulation in the priority basins; and (4) comparison of temporal and spatial patterns in hydrology and hydroclimatology within and between the priority basins. Links to several tools for characterizing flow regimes are included on this site.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Gap and surrogate measure development

Watershed planning

Restoration/recovery potential Forecasting Causal assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Local

Stream/River

Stressors Altered flow Climate change

Related Tools USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process USGS - The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT)

Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM ) Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC)

IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Examples

http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/reports/pdf/2006/rtp06-11.pdf

Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise Developer

Stand-alone

Technical Website Support

General understanding of issues Basic computer skills sufficient University of Texas

Cost Estimate Free

Address

Center for Research in Water Resources University of Texas at Austin

Contact

Eric S. Hersh

Email

[email protected]


Phone

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Name

The Australian Catchment Modelling Toolkit

What is it?

Model gateway

Link

http://www.toolkit.net.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/toolkit

Keywords

Description

The Toolkit is a repository of hydrologic modelling software intended to improve the efficiency and standard of catchment modelling. The Toolkit is a 'one-stop shop' for gaining access to a variety of advanced catchment modelling tools, developed by some of Australia's leading environmental modellers. Access to all Toolkit products is via this web site under an individual licensing arrangement.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning Water resources management

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

National

Local

Multiple Estuary/Coastal Lake

Stressors Multiple Nonpoint source Nutrients

Stream/River

Suspended sediment

Wetland

Temperature Altered flow

Related Tools IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 EPA WebRIT Waters 3.1 USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Center for Geospatial Data Analysis CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream Thursday, July 28, 2011

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Australian eWater Toolkit

Type of Tool

Model gateway

Keywords

Link

http://www.toolkit.net.au/

Description

The Toolkit is a source of software tools and information related to the modelling and management of water resources. The Toolkit is brought to you by Australia‘s leading water-cycle management, research and consulting organisations through the eWater Cooperative Research Centre. Themes are broad subjects or topics relating to water modelling and management. Go to theme areas to search for tools and information relating to these topics, as well as to access dedicated forums. Urban Water-Modelling and decision making for urban water. River Management-River operations, including water allocations, in regulated river systems. Ecology & Restoration-Management and modelling of aquatic ecosystems. Catchment Modelling-Hydrologic modelling of catchments. Monitoring & Assessment-The integrated monitoring and assessment of freshwater and estuarine systems.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

National

Local

Multiple Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple Nonpoint source

Lake

Nutrients

Stream/River

Suspended sediment

Wetland

Temperature Altered flow

Related Tools IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center

EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products

EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Thursday, September 29, 2011

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(CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) IWMI - WATERSIM© Examples

http://www.toolkit.net.au/cgibin/WebObjects/toolkit.woa/2/wa/support?wosid=wM9tt81dxToBuw81gmQTXM


Stand-alone Minimum Software Requirement

Technical Online user community Support Website Guidance Workshops Telephone Email

Required Expertise Developer

Cost Estimate Free

Unspecified Unspecified CRC for Catchment Hydrology

Address Contact

Gary Jones

Email

[email protected]

Phone

Thursday, July 28, 2011

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(02) 6201 5168

Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP)

EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports

EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Center for Geospatial Data Analysis – Indiana Geological Survey CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream

(CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) IWMI - WATERSIM© Examples

http://www.toolkit.net.au/Themes/Default.aspx

Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone


Guidance Workshops Telephone Email Required Expertise

Cost Estimate Free

Unspecified Unspecified

Developer

CRC for Catchment Hydrology

Address

eWater CRC Innovation Centre University of Canberra ACT 2601

Contact

eWater CRC

Phone

1300 5 92837

Email

[email protected]

Thursday, September 29, 2011

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Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products Type of Tool

Keywords

Hydrologic Analysis, Hydraulic Analysis

Link

http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Water+and+Wastewater+Network+Analysis+and+Design/

Description

Integrated Applications for Storm Sewer, Wastewater, and Potable Water Supply Systems Bentley‘s Haestad Methods Solutions continue to advance the technology standard in hydrologic and hydraulics systems analysis, design, and management. The Haestad products have application fully across the design, build, and operate lifecycle of water resources infrastructure dedicated to serving the public‘s safety and health. Importantly, these technologies have been advanced and adapted to integrate with the Bentley technology platform thus unifying this powerful tool suite within a complete desktop and server platform. This integrated system can distribute, manage, and orchestrate the engineering content and analysis and design workflows at any utility or consultant enterprise serving the water, wastewater, and/or stormwater industry. Visit the following Bentley products: Water Distribution * Bentley Water * WaterCAD * WaterGEMS * HAMMER * SCADAConnect Urban Wastewater * Bentley Wastewater * SewerCAD * SewerGEMS Stormwater Management * StormCAD * CivilStorm * PondPack * CulvertMaster * FlowMaster * HEC-Pack Mapping and Geospatial Information Management * Bentley PowerMap Field * Bentley Geospatial Server

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes

Water resources management Multiple Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center


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Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources

EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

Required Expertise

Stand-alone ArcGIS® ArcGIS® Spatial Analyst extension Open-source GIS SAS (Statistical Analysis System Institut Statistical analysis package


Technical Website Support Guidance Telephone

Email

Cost Estimate >$2,000

Developer

Bentley Haestad Methods Water Solutions

Address

685 Stockton Drive Exton, PA 19341 United States

Contact

Bentley

Phone

800-236-8539)

Email

http://www.bentley.com/bentleywebsite/tools/sales_contact.aspx


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Software - Biodiversity Informatics and Conservation Group Type of Tool

Analytical tool Raw tool Model gateway

Keywords

Link

http://cbig.it.helsinki.fi/software/zonation/

Description

We investigate factors that explain the distributions of biodiversity features, including species, communities and ecosystem processes. We are interested in techniques for understanding present distributions and for predicting future distributions of biodiversity features. We develop methods and analyses that use information about biodiversity distribution in conservation decision making. Where to protect? Where and how to maintain and restore habitats? How to minimize negative impacts of landuse decisions? What consequences will our actions have for biodiversity? We collaborate in projects that apply quantitative methods to applied conservation decision making, accounting for the benefits and costs of conservation. Zonation 2.0 - A multi-approach tool for conservation planning is a framework for spatial conservation prioritization. It identifies areas important for retaining habitat quality and connectivity for multiple species, indirectly aiming at species' long-term persistence. Zonation can be used for various purposes such as identification of near-optimal reserve networks, identification of expansions for reserve networks, assessment of proposed reserve networks and priority ranking for conservation decision support. Zonation v. 2.0 has several improvements and new features to facilitate conservation planning . New features include: * Planning units. Zonation can now be run with planning units larger than one cell. With a planning unit layer cells in the grid can be grouped into larger entities, which will be removed as a whole during the landscape ranking process. * Species of special interest (SSI). In addition to traditional maps, species information can now be inputted also as point occurrence data. * New cell removal rule. New generalized benefit function allows flexible forms of functions that describe the relation between representation and conservation value. * Directed (freshwater) connectivity. New feature accounts for connectivity in directed systems such as rivers. * Species interactions. Interactions between species, such as between prey and predator or host and parasitoid, can now be used within the prioritization process. Interactions can also be applied between present and future distributions of a species when accounting for climate change. RSW2 – Reserve Selection with Weights is a program for solving maximum coverage -type reserve selection problems, where one seeks to maximize conservation value obtained with a limited budget. The novelty in this program is that the conservation value of a reserve network is not merely the number of species represented in it, but is derived using several optional features that make conservation planning more realistic. These include differential species weights according to their conservation priority, continuous benefit functions for species representation, refinements for site size based on the species-area relationship and combining quantitatively site value (replacement cost) with urgency of protection (vulnerability). The software calculates replacement costs for sites, which is a type of irreplaceability measure based on the use of continuous benefit functions. This software is designed for non-spatial area prioritization. For spatial applications, use the Zonation software. RSW2 and its documentation has been prepared by Atte Moilanen and Anni Arponen.


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SPOMSIM 1.0 . Software for the analysis of SPOMs, Stochastic Patch Occupancy Models of metapopulation dynamics. Includes e.g SPOM definition, simulation, parameter estimation, patch system editing, reserve network design etc. Uses


Purposes


Multiple

Watershed planning

Water resources management

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple Habitat fragmentation

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Environmental and Water Resource Software Examples

http://www.helsinki.fi/science/metapop/Downloads/spomsetup.exe


Stand-alone


Telephone Required Expertise Developer

Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed Metapopulation Research Group

Contact

Address

Finnish Centre of Excellence in Metapopulation Biology Department of Biosciences PO Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1) FI-00014 University of Helsinki FINLAND

Phone

+358 9 191 57734

Email


Cost Estimate Free

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Name

CAPS - A spatially explicit neutral model for community development

What is it?

Model gateway

Link

http://www.al.umces.edu/CAPS.htm

Keywords

Community Model Development

Description

A spatially explicit neutral model for community development The new features of CAPS (version 3) are: * Simulation of community establishment on islands of various size and distance * Abundance distribution of static mainland metacommunity * Additional data files pfor simulation summary * Complex disturbance regimes defined

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools Qrule - Generation of Landscape Neutral Models Examples Additional Information

Gardner, R. H., Forester, J. D. and Plotnick, R. E., 2007. Determining pattern-process relationships in heterogeneous landscapes. In: Wu, J. and Hobbs, R. J. (Eds.), Key Topics and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology. Cambridge University Press, pp 92-114. Gardner, R. H., and K. A. M. Engelhardt. 2008. Spatial processes that maintain biodiversity in plant communities. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics 9: 211-228. Plotnick, R. E., and R. H. Gardner. 2002. A general model for simulating the effects of landscape heterogeneity and disturbance on community patterns. Ecological Modelling, 147: 171-197


Technical Website Support Guidance Telephone Email

Required Expertise


Developer

RH Gardner

Address

Appalachian Laboratory Center for Environmental Science University of Maryland

Contact

Prof. Robert H Gardner

Email

[email protected]

Friday, July 22, 2011

Phone

42

Cost Estimate Free

301.689.7125

Name

(CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK)

What is it?


Link

http://www.ceh.ac.uk/products/software/water.html

Keywords

Model Gateway

Description

CEH offers a variety of specialist products and services, ranging from software for decision support, modelling and statistics to publications for sale. For many of our software products, we have significantly reduced charges for educational and non-commercial research purposes, in accordance with NERC's charging policy.

Uses


Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global

Regional Local National State

Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) Environmental and Water Resource Software Center for Geospatial Data Analysis CSIRO - eWATER Examples

http://www.ceh.ac.uk/products/software/land.html




Required Expertise


Developer

Center for Ecology and Hydrology

Address

6 research sites

Contact

Center for Ecology and Hydrology

Email

[email protected]

Phone


43

Cost Estimate Free

01491 838800

Center for Geospatial Data Analysis – Indiana Geological Survey Type of Tool


Keywords

Landscape Characteristics, Hydrologic Modeling

Link

http://igs.indiana.edu/cgda/

Description

The mission of the Center for Geospatial Data Analysis is to provide scientifically-based decisionsupport systems to a wide variety of technical and non-technical users, in order to promote the environmentally sound use of land, water, and mineral resources. This mission is accomplished by employing state-of-the-art technology in geographic information systems (GIS), statistical and numerical analysis, and field instrumentation to develop and (or) apply: *GIS database applications to resource evaluation and environmental issues; *statistical and numerical modeling - particularly pertaining to issues of ground- and surface-water hydrology; *real-time monitoring of hydrological conditions; *non-traditional training via internships and apprenticeships.

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes


Geographic Scale

National

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model Watershed Analyst™

EPA Geospatial Portal USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports Environmental and Water Resource Software Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements


Stand-alone ArcGIS® Open-source GIS


Email

Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed Indiana University and Indiana Geological Survey


Address

44

Cost Estimate Free

Indiana University 107 S. Indiana Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405-7000

Name

Classification framework data/tool

What is it?

EPA Estuarine classification

Phone

(812) 855-4848

Email Link

http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/P10051DH.TXT? ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=2000+Thru +2005&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&Q Field=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&Fi le=D%3A\zyfiles\Index%20Data\00thru05\Txt\00000021 \P10051DH.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h|&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/ i425&Display=p|f&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results %20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&SeekPage=x&ZyPURL

Keywords

estuary classification

Description

A classification of U.S. estuaries is presented based on estuarine characteristics that have been identified as important for quantifying stressor-response relationships in coastal systems. Estuaries within a class have similar physical and hydrologic characteristics and would be expected to demonstrate similar biological responses to stressor loads from the adjacent watersheds. Nine classes of estuaries were identified by applying cluster analysis to a database for 138 U.S. estuarine drainage areas.

Uses


Standards Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Transferability

Purposes

Associating landscape characteristics & ecological condition Classifying information prior to analysis Water quality standards

Geographic Scale

National Ecosystems

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple Nutrients

Related Tools National Wetland Inventory classification National Atlas Examples

Suspended sediment

Engle et al. 2006

Additional Information Stand-alone Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise

Technical Guidance Support

General understanding of issues Basic computer skills sufficient

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

US EPA

Address

US EPA Atlantic Ecology Division; 27 Tarzwell Drive; Narragansett, RI 02882

Contact

Naomi Detenbeck

Email

[email protected]

Contact

Dr. Sally Letsinger, Director, Center for

Phone

[email protected] Monday, July 25, 2011

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401-782-3162

Name

(CLUZ) Conservation Land-Use Zoning software

What is it?

Analytical tool

Link

https://anotherbobsmith.wordpress.com/software/cluz/

Keywords

MARXAN interface; conservation planning; optimization

Description

CLUZ is an ArcView GIS interface that allows users to design protected area networks and conservation landscapes. It can be used for on-screen planning and also acts as a link for the MARXAN conservation planning software.

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes

Watershed planning

Prioritization

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Forest Grassland

Stressors Multiple

Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Marxan: A Reserve System Selection Tool (PANDA) Protected Areas Network Design Application Examples

http://www.mosaic-conservation.org/cluz/steps_refs.html


ArcView® 3.x Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, Univ of Kent

Address

Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology;University of Kent;Canterbury;Kent CT2 7NS;United Kingdom

Contact

Bob Smith

Email

[email protected]

Phone


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+44 (0)1227 823455

Coastal Adaptation Toolkit

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://www2.epa.gov/cre/coastal-adaptation-toolkit#vulnerabilityl

Description

The following resources are available to coastal resource managers seeking to assess risks and vulnerabilities in planning for climate change impacts. Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Tools Planning Tools Examples of Vulnerability Assessments for Coastal Areas State Coastal Atlases Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Tools Software, data, and methodologies for assessing the vulnerability of areas to weather and stormrelated stressors will likely prove useful for assessing future climate change impacts. Coastal Communities and Climate Change: Measuring Future Insurability (PDF) (28 pp, 6.3MB) This report looks at the impact of climate change on flood risk at a number of coastal locations around the world, considering sea level rise, the effect of wind speed on storm surges, and changes in land use. FEMA HAZUS Software HAZUS is risk assessment software for analyzing potential losses from floods, hurricane winds and other disasters. In HAZUS, current scientific and engineering knowledge is coupled with the latest geographic information systems (GIS) technology to produce estimates of hazard-related damage before, or after, a disaster occurs. NOAA Coastal Climate Adaptation This site provides state and local officials with a place to share what they are doing in terms of adaptation, to see what others are doing, and to find basic climate change information useful for outreach efforts. The site includes an interactive forum in addition to a wide range of resources on climate change impacts and adaptation. NOAA Coastal Risk Atlas Data provided within the Coastal Risks Atlas include acquired model outputs of hazards such as storm surge, maximum winds, and inland flooding. Demographic data help in locating vulnerable populations. The Atlas also provides mapping, assessment tools, and other information. NOAA Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk This website provides tools and methods to assist in community-based risk and vulnerability assessments. The website provides instruction on how to use the Roadmap, interactive mapping data, a community rating system, and a storm surge visualization tool. NOAA Coastal Inundation Toolkit The Coastal Inundation Toolkit walks communities through an approach for understanding and addressing coastal inundation issues. The Toolkit covers understanding basic information about coastal inundation, identifying and mapping exposure and potential impacts, assessing community risks and vulnerability, and communicating risk strategies to initiate change. The Toolkit also provides case studies of how other communities are addressing this issue. NOAA State of the Coasts The State of the Coasts website is a source for quick facts and more detailed statistics offered through 14 interactive indicator visualizations presented across four themes: Communities,


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Economy, Ecology, and Climate. Collectively, this information highlights the crucial importance of a healthy coastal ecosystem to a robust U.S. economy, a safe population, and a sustainable quality of life for coastal residents. Planning Tools These decision support tools can be used to assess future potential climate changes and their impacts. Coastal Resilience Long Island This project has developed an interactive online Future Scenarios Mapper, a decision support tool that allows users to characterize current conditions and visualize the ecological, social, and economic impacts of reasonable future flooding scenarios. NCAR MAGICC and SCENGEN Tools These coupled, user-friendly interactive software suites allow users to investigate future climate change and its uncertainties at both the global-mean and regional levels. NOAA Climate Attribution Toolbox Climate attribution attempts to explain evolving climate conditions and to assess their impacts at the regional or local levels. NOAA Habitat Priority Planner The Habitat Priority Primer was designed with the local planner, coastal conservation group, and the coastal manager in mind. The Primer is a spatial decision support tool that helps users prioritize important areas in the landscape or seascape for conservation or restoration. This tool generates a range of scenarios and options, as well as pertinent reports, maps, and data tables. Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Network This site provides a database of tools available to support ecosystem-based management, including tools for: decision support; modeling and analysis; data collection, processing and management; stakeholder engagement and outreach; conceptual modeling; visualization; project management; and monitoring and assessment. The site also provides trainings on these tools and webinars for tool demonstration. Examples of Vulnerability Assessments for Coastal Areas Several reports have assessed current and future vulnerabilities to climate change at the regional level. Climate Change and the Delaware Estuary: Three Case Studies in Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning (PDF) (118 pp, 2.4MB) (Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, 2010) The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, with support from EPA‘s Climate Ready Estuaries Program, developed these case studies to assess climate change vulnerability and adaptation options for tidal wetlands, drinking water, and bivalve shellfish. Each chapter provides a list of recommended actions. Climate Change in the Casco Bay Watershed: Past, Present and Future (PDF) (46 pp. 3.3MB) (Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, 2009) This report describes how the climate of Casco Bay watershed in Maine has changed over the past century, and how the future climate of the region is likely to be affected by climate change. Climate Change in Coastal Areas in Florida: Sea Level Rise Estimation and Economic Analysis to Year 2080 (PDF) (87 pp, 3.3MB) This Florida State University study evaluates the effect of sea level rise on six coastal counties in Florida, including estimated storm event return period and cost damages, storm surge, and property values affected as a result of rising sea levels. Coastal Climate Adaptation Workshop Presentations These presentations and videos are from a three-part workshop in Groton, Connecticut, convened by ICLEI–Local Governments for Sustainability in 2010 to help engage representatives from federal, state, and municipal governments in climate adaptation efforts and to begin defining strategies for maximizing resilience to coastal impacts throughout Connecticut and the Northeast. Thursday, September 29, 2011

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Coastal Sensitivity to Sea Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region This report, prepared by EPA in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, discusses the impacts of sea level rise on the physical characteristics of the coast, on coastal communities, and the habitats that depend on them. Gulf Coast Wetland Sustainability in a Changing Climate (PDF) (24 pp, 203K) This Pew Center case study examines the current state of Gulf Coast wetlands, and outlines potential future impacts of climate change on wetland sustainability. The report explains that while wetlands are capable of adapting to climatic changes, development and other human impacts limit this adaptability, making increased management necessary. Marine Climate Change Impacts Annual Report Card 2007–2008 (PDF) (8 pp, 462K) This report card provides a comprehensive assessment of marine climate change impacts in the United Kingdom. Each topic includes a confidence rating for what is happening now and what could happen in the future with respect to marine climate change impacts in the UK. Municipal Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise: City of Satellite Beach, Florida (PDF) (26 pp, 2.7MB) (RWParkinson Consulting, Inc., 2010) This paper describes a project by the City of Satellite Beach to assess municipal vulnerability to rising sea level and to initiate steps to properly plan for anticipated changes to the built and natural environments. Oyster River Culvert Analysis Project: Final Technical Report (PDF) (80 pp, 7.4MB) This study of a coastal watershed in New Hampshire assessed the capacity of present stormwater infrastructure for conveying expected peak flow resulting from climate change and population growth. The project transferred climate model projections to the culvert system in a form understandable to planners, resource managers, and decision-makers, and estimated future required capacities and replacement costs. Regional Impacts of Climate Change: Four Case Studies in the United States (PDF) (80 pp, 901K) This December 2007 report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change examines key impacts of climate change and assesses particular climate vulnerabilities in the Midwest, West, Gulf Coast, and Chesapeake Bay regions. The report provides a general perspective on the types of challenges decision-makers will face in developing responses to climate impacts. Each study also considers non-climatic factors, such as development and management practices that are likely to exacerbate our vulnerability to climate change. Ramifications of Climate Change for Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia (PDF) (20 pp, 251K) This Pew Center case study describes the current problem of hypoxia (depletion of dissolved oxygen) in the Chesapeake Bay and outlines how this problem could be affected by future climate changes. The report finds that the predicted increased temperatures in the region would lead to the expansion of hypoxia in the Bay. Uncertain Future: Climate Change and Its Effects on Puget Sound This report examines the projected impacts of climate change on Puget Sound. Combining a review of current scientific literature and new research, the report provides a detailed assessment of how climate change has affected—and will continue to affect—the Puget Sound environment. Specific areas of focus include changes in regional climate, snowpack, streamflow, sea level rise, water quality, nearshore habitat, and salmon. The importance of planning for climate change is also discussed. State Coastal Atlases State Coastal Atlases provide interactive suites of data and resources for coastal decision makers, professionals, and other interest groups, including customizable maps, GIS data layers and metadata, and figures. New York Coastal Atlas This site contains a series of maps that delineate New York‘s Coastal Area Boundary and identify significant coastal fish and wildlife habitats, scenic areas of statewide significance, federally owned lands, and Native American-owned lands. Oregon Coastal Atlas


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This site includes several decision-support tools that use GIS and simple mathematical models to help coastal managers, planners and scientists manage Oregon's shoreline. Tools include: (1) Potential for Dune Overtopping Tool, which allows a user to project and map extreme ocean water levels—an indicator of wave overtopping; (2) Potential for Dune Undercutting Tool, whichallows a user to project and map foredune retreat—an indicator of the potential for ocean erosion, or waveundercutting; and (3) Potential for Bluff Recession Tool, which allows a user to project and map the potential for bluff recession due to erosion or landslides. Texas Coastal Communities Planning Atlas This is a highly interactive, web-based GIS system that enables a user to examine, visualize, and predict the consequences of development within the coastal zone. Washington Coastal Atlas This site includes aerial photographs of Washington's marine shorelines and the land areas near Puget Sound, the outer coast, and the estuarine portion of the Columbia River, where users can view habitat types and physical features, and see changes in land cover. Program Applications

Uses

Purposes


Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local Stressors Climate change

Ecosystems Related Tools Examples

http://www.epa.gov/climatereadyestuaries/vulnerability.html#risk


Stand-alone

Technical Website Support Telephone


Cost Estimate Free


Developer

EPA - Climate Ready Estuaries

Address

Contact

http://www.epa.gov/climatereadyestuari

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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(202) 343-9871

Name

Community Land Model 3.5

What is it?

Model

Link

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/clm/

Keywords

Description

The Community Land Model is the land model for the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) and the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM). It is a collaborative project between scientists in the Terrestrial Sciences Section (TSS) and the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the CCSM Land Model Working Group. Other principal working groups that also contribute to the CLM are Biogeochemistry, Paleoclimate, and Climate Change and Assessment. The model formalizes and quantifies concepts of ecological climatology. Ecological climatology is an interdisciplinary framework to understand how natural and human changes in vegetation affect climate. It examines the physical, chemical, and biological processes by which terrestrial ecosystems affect and are affected by climate across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. The central theme is that terrestrial ecosystems, through their cycling of energy, water, chemical elements, and trace gases, are important determinants of climate. Model components consist of: biogeophysics, hydrologic cycle, biogeochemistry and dynamic vegetation. Surface data sets: The land surface is represented by 5 primary sub-grid land cover types (glacier, lake, wetland, urban, vegetated) in each grid cell. The vegetated portion of a grid cell is further divided into patches of plant functional types, each with its own leaf and stem area index and canopy height. Each subgrid land cover type and PFT patch is a separate column for energy and water calculations.

Uses


Purposes

Modeling

Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

National Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/clm/distribution/clm3.5/index.html


Model Methodology - http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/clm/design.html

Stand-alone Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise

Technical Website Support Email



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Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Terrestrial Sciences Section (TSS) and the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the CCSM Land Model Working Group

Address

P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000

Contact

CCSM Admin

Email

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/clm/mailt

Phone


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Community Land Model 4.0 Model

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/clm/

Description

The Community Land Model is the land model for the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) and the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM). It is a collaborative project between scientists in the Terrestrial Sciences Section (TSS) and the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the CCSM Land Model Working Group. Other principal working groups that also contribute to the CLM are Biogeochemistry, Paleoclimate, and Climate Change and Assessment. The model formalizes and quantifies concepts of ecological climatology. Ecological climatology is an interdisciplinary framework to understand how natural and human changes in vegetation affect climate. It examines the physical, chemical, and biological processes by which terrestrial ecosystems affect and are affected by climate across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. The central theme is that terrestrial ecosystems, through their cycling of energy, water, chemical elements, and trace gases, are important determinants of climate. Model components consist of: biogeophysics, hydrologic cycle, biogeochemistry and dynamic vegetation. Surface data sets: The land surface is represented by 5 primary sub-grid land cover types (glacier, lake, wetland, urban, vegetated) in each grid cell. The vegetated portion of a grid cell is further divided into patches of plant functional types, each with its own leaf and stem area index and canopy height. Each subgrid land cover type and PFT patch is a separate column for energy and water calculations.

Uses


Purposes

Modeling

Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

National Multiple

Ecosystems

Stressors Multiple


http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm1.0/clm/


Model Methodology - http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/clm/design.html

Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise Developer

Stand-alone


Extensive scientific training required Extensive computer/GIS/programming skills required Terrestrial Sciences Section (TSS) and


Address

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Cost Estimate Free

P.O. Box 3000

the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the CCSM Land Model Working Group Contact

CCSM Admin

Email

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/clm/mailt


Boulder, CO 80307-3000

Phone

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CommunityViz®

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://placeways.com/communityviz/

Description

CommunityViz tools allow you to envision alternatives and their potential impacts; explore options and share possibilities; examine scenarios from all angles - and feel confident that you've made the best possible decisions. CommunityViz 3.3 includes two complementary components, Scenario 360 and SiteBuilder 3D. Together or separately, these ArcGIS® extensions allow you to create geographic scenarios, analyze their impacts, and view them in photo-realistic 3-D scenes.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Forecasting

Community outreach

Visualization Prioritization Multiple

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland Urban/Suburban/

Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools NOAA Habitat Priority Planner NOAA CanVis Visual Simulation Tool

Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

ArcGIS®



General understanding of issues Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed

Cost Estimate $500 to $2,000

Developer

Placeways LLC & Orton Family Foundation

Address

1722 14th Street, Suite 150 Boulder, Colorado 80302

Contact

Placeways LLC

Phone

866.953.1400

Email

[email protected]


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Name

(CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System

What is it?

Model Decision support system

Link

http://www.cormix.info/

Keywords

Description

CORMIX is a USEPA-supported mixing zone model and decision support system for environmental impact assessment of regulatory mixing zones resulting from continuous point source discharges. The system emphasizes the role of boundary interaction to predict steady-state mixing behavior and plume geometry. The CORMIX methodology contains systems to model single-port, multiport diffuser discharges and surface discharge sources. Effluents considered may be conservative, non-conservative, heated, brine discharges or contain suspended sediments. Advanced information systems provide documented water quality modeling, NPDES regulatory decision support, visualization of regulatory mixing zones, and tools for outfall specification and design. MixZon Inc. is the primary contact for CORMIX information and technical support. CORMIX software is licensed and distributed solely by MixZon Inc. This site contains updated material about CORMIX development at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Portland State University under the guidance of Dr. Robert L. Doneker.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Lake Stream/River Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX Examples

http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/cormix.html



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Minimum Software Requirement

Telephone Email

Required Expertise


Developer

Portland State University

Address

Department Civil and Environmental Engineering Portland State University 1930 SW 4th Ave, Room 201 Portland, OR 97201 USA

Contact

Prof. Robert L Donecker

Email

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~doneker/

Phone


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Cost Estimate Free

(503) 725-8730

Name

CrimeStat

What is it?

Analytical tool Raw tool

Link

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/CRIMESTAT/

Keywords

Description

rimeStat is a spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations, developed by Ned Levine & Associates under the direction of Ned Levine, PhD, that was funded by grants from the National Institute of Justice (grants 1997-IJ-CX-0040, 1999-IJ-CX-0044, 2002-IJ-CX-0007, and 2005-IJ-CX-K037). The program is Windows-based and interfaces with most desktop GIS programs. The purpose is to provide supplemental statistical tools to aid law enforcement agencies and criminal justice researchers in their crime mapping efforts. CrimeStat is being used by many police departments around the country as well as by criminal justice and other researchers. The new version is 3.0 (CrimeStat III). The program inputs incident locations (e.g., robbery locations) in 'dbf', 'shp', ASCII or ODBCcompliant formats using either spherical or projected coordinates. It calculates various spatial statistics and writes graphical objects to ArcViewAE, MapInfoAE, Atlas*GISTM, SurferAE for Windows, and ArcView Spatial Analyst(c). CrimeStat can be applied to spatial statistical analysis of other than criminal data sets.

Uses


Purposes


Multiple

Watershed planning Community outreach

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Urban/Suburban/ Related Tools TAS - Terrain Analysis System SAGA - (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses) Landserf Hawth’s Analysis Tools for ArcGIS Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ Landscape Analyst GeoDa - An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis PASSaGE - (Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis) R - Analysis of Spatial Data R - Spatial Projects (Sourceforge) R Spatial Projects - (R-Geo) R Wiki - Spatial Data STARS - (Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems) SaTScan™ - Software for Spatial, Temporal and Space-Time Scan Statistics Examples Friday, July 22, 2011

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Required Expertise

Technical Website Support Guidance Email


Developer

Ned Levine and Associates

Address

Houston, TX

Contact

Dr. Ned Levine

Email

[email protected]

Phone


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Cost Estimate Free

CrimeStat 3.3

Type of Tool


Keywords

Link

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/CRIMESTAT/

Description

rimeStat is a spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations, developed by Ned Levine & Associates under the direction of Ned Levine, PhD, that was funded by grants from the National Institute of Justice (grants 1997-IJ-CX-0040, 1999-IJ-CX-0044, 2002-IJ-CX-0007, and 2005-IJ-CX-K037). The program is Windows-based and interfaces with most desktop GIS programs. The purpose is to provide supplemental statistical tools to aid law enforcement agencies and criminal justice researchers in their crime mapping efforts. CrimeStat is being used by many police departments around the country as well as by criminal justice and other researchers. The new version is 3.0 (CrimeStat III). The program inputs incident locations (e.g., robbery locations) in 'dbf', 'shp', ASCII or ODBCcompliant formats using either spherical or projected coordinates. It calculates various spatial statistics and writes graphical objects to ArcViewAE, MapInfoAE, Atlas*GISTM, SurferAE for Windows, and ArcView Spatial Analyst(c). CrimeStat can be applied to spatial statistical analysis of other than criminal data sets.

Uses


Purposes


Multiple


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Urban/Suburban/ Related Tools Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools SAGA - (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses)

Landserf Geospatial Modeling Environment

Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ Landscape Analyst GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation PASSaGE - (Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis) R - Analysis of Spatial Data

R - Spatial Projects (Sourceforge) R Spatial Projects R Wiki STARS - (Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems) SaTScan™ - Software for Spatial, Temporal and Space-Time Scan Statistics Examples

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/CrimeStat/workbook.html


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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/gis/index.jsp


Stand-alone


Required Expertise


Developer

Ned Levine and Associates

Address

Contact

Dr. Ned Levine

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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Cost Estimate Free

Houston, TX

CSDMS - Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System Type of Tool

Model gateway

Keywords

Link

http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Main_Page

Description

Science is advanced through mutual cooperation. Community modeling involves the collective efforts of individuals that code, debug, test, document, run, and apply models and modeling frameworks. Community modeling relies on open-source code to address the practical need of contributing developers to examine and modify the code. Open-source code provides complete information transfer. This transparency is important because code is the ultimate statement of the scientific hypotheses embodied in a numerical model, and their implementation. In the world of software, details are important. A scientific article describing code may provide the theoretical equations, but the solution to these equations can take numerous forms, and each solution has its pyramid of assumptions and limitations. Therefore open-source code allows for full peer review and replication of results — the foundation of modern science. Open source code allows for reuse, often in new and clever ways. This certainly reduces redundancy. Open source does not mean that the original developer is not recognized. Developers are recognized with the metadata associated with each model, with GPL2 software license protection, through community exposure, vetting and recognition, and through accelerated citations within peer-reviewed publications. Software Availability In the world of science, software code is often considered ―r esearch grade‖. That means that it is often relatively untested, may contain bugs, and might not be at the standards required for true ― commercial grade‖ or ― operational grade‖ code. Coding glitches in research grade code are often unknown by the original author. With wider community use, such problems are discovered and either rectified by the original author or by the bug discoverer. Research grade code should be widely available to the community of scientists through an appropriate international repository such as the CSDMS Model Repository. Too often code is issued with an open source license but access to the code is restricted to access through the author. Unfortunately this allows the author to decide who they will give the code to. This runs contrary to the transparency needed in science, and we discourage this level of availability. Site provides to Open-Source: Terrestrial models, Coastal Models, Marine Models, Hydrological Models, Carbonate Models, and Climate Models

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools Examples Additional Thursday, September 29, 2011 Information

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Stand-alone Open-source GIS

Technical Website Support Telephone Email

Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

CSDMS Facility, Univ. of Colorado

Address

CSDMS/James Syvitski 1560 30th Street, UCB 450 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80303

Contact

CSDMS Facility

Phone

303-735-5482

Email

[email protected]


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Name

CSIRO - eWATER

What is it?


Link

http://www.ewatercrc.com.au/

Keywords

Description

eWater—building the next generation of tools to support the Australian and international water management industry. Water was established in July 2005, the result of a merger between two former Cooperative Research Centres – the CRC for Catchment Hydrology and the CRC for Freshwater Ecology. Both CRCs had been operating since the early 1990s and provided eWater with a foundation of well-established science and a team of enthusiastic and experienced people. eWater retains strong partnerships established by its predecessor CRCs and incorporates a number of new participant organisations with new skill bases, end-user networks, intellectual property and specialist knowledge. eWater CRC began operations during September 2005, and was officially launched on World Water Day, 22 March 2006. eWater is governed and managed by eWater Limited (ACN 115 422 903), a company established by the eWater CRC participants, with an independent, skills-based board. eWater has head office in Canberra; eWater people also work from participant offices located across eastern Australia. The eWater Participants' Forum, comprising representatives of the CRC's 41 participant organisations, meets regularly to enable the eWater Board and Executive to outline and discuss strategic approaches and operational processes with participant representatives.

Uses


Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global

Global Regional Local National State

Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Agriculture Forest Grassland Urban/Suburban/ Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources Friday, July 22, 2011

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EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Environmental and Water Resource Software Examples

http://www.ewatercrc.com.au/publications/ProjectSummaries.pdf


Stand-alone Minimum Software GIS with raster capability Requirement


Required Expertise


Developer

CSIRO (Australia)

Address

Building 22 University of Canberra ACT 2601

Contact

Dr Nick Marsh or Dr. Ralph Ogden

Email

[email protected]

Phone


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Cost Estimate

(02) 6201 5168

DATA.GOV

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

www.data.gov

Description

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. As a priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama's administration, Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue to grow as datasets are added. Federal, Executive Branch data are included in the first version of Data.gov. Changes made to Data.gov are available in the Release Notes section. Participatory Democracy Public participation and collaboration will be key to the success of Data.gov. Data.gov enables the public to participate in government by providing downloadable Federal datasets to build applications, conduct analyses, and perform research. Data.gov will continue to improve based on feedback, comments, and recommendations from the public and therefore we encourage individuals to suggest datasets they'd like to see, rate and comment on current datasets, and suggest ways to improve the site. We are interested in hearing your ideas and comments about Data.gov. Goal A primary goal of Data.gov is to improve access to Federal data and expand creative use of those data beyond the walls of government by encouraging innovative ideas (e.g., web applications). Data.gov strives to make government more transparent and is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. The openness derived from Data.gov will strengthen our Nation's democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government. As of Sept. 30th, 2011 GEOSPATIAL ONE STOP (www.geodata.gov) will be part of DATA.GOV.

Uses


Transferability

Ecosystems

Purposes

Geographic Scale

Stressors

Related Tools Examples Additional Information Technical Blog Support



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Required Expertise


Cost Estimate

Developer

US Federal Executive Board

Address

Contact

http://www.data.gov/contact

Phone

Email


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Name

(DHRAM) - The Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method

What is it?

Analytical tool

Link

http://toolbox.watersketch.net/index.php?page=211

Keywords

environmental flows

Description

DHRAM (The Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method) is a method for assessing the alterations in the hydrology of the watercourses. The model is a simple MS-Excel application. It calculates several statistical factors from the flow data. The model compares statistical differences between the flow data measured or modelled in an impacted and unimpacted state of the river. The method is only statistical, and does not have any measured biological response of the flow alterations.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Prioritization


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Stream/River

Stressors Altered flow

Related Tools Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM ) Index of Hydrologic Alteration (v7) IWMI Environmental Flow Software IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox (IWRM) Instream Flow Science (ELOHA) - Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) Examples

http://toolbox.watersketch.net/page_view.php?page=272


Black, A.R., Bragg, O.M., Duck, R.W., Jones, A.M., Rowan, J.S. & Werritty, A. 2000. Anthropogenic Impacts upon the Hydrology of Rivers and Lochs: Phase I A User Manual Introducing the Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method. - SNIFFER Report No SR(00)01/2F. 32 s.

Excel Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise Developer



Cost Estimate Free

Black et al. 2000


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(DHSVM) - Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model 3.0 Type of Tool

Raw tool Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.hydro.washington.edu/Lettenmaier/Models/DHSVM/index.shtml

Description

This web site is devoted to the development and documentation of DHSVM, the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model. Originally developed in the early 1990s by Mark Wigmosta while at the University of Washington, the model code has been further developed by a wide cast of characters at the University of Washington and at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. DHSVM is a distributed hydrologic model that explicitly represents the effects of topography and vegetation on water fluxes through the landscape. It is typically applied at high spatial resolutions on the order of 100 m for watersheds of up to 104 km2 and at sub-daily timescales for multi-year simulations. It has been applied predominantly to mountainous watersheds in the Pacific Northwest in the United States. DHSVM is a research model and as such is continuously under development. Only very limited efforts have been paid to make a user-friendly interface. Its source code is available to interested parties (see under code), but be advised that no technical support is available other than these web pages, unless specific arrangements have been made.

Uses


Purposes

Modeling

Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local National State Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland Lake Stream/River

Wetland Related Tools Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) - Macroscale Hydrologic Model Examples

Tutorial - http://www.hydro.washington.edu/Lettenmaier/Models/DHSVM/documentation.shtml


DHSVM Listserve - https://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dhsvm-users


Stand-alone

Technical Online user community Support Email

Training Required Expertise



69

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Mark Wigmosta

Address

Contact

DHSVM Administrator

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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Land Surface Hydrology Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering PO Box 352700 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2700 USA

(DMIP 1 & 2) - Distributed Model Intercomparison Project Raw tool

Type of Tool

Decision support system Keywords

Link

http://www.weather.gov/oh/hrl/dmip/

Description

The Hydrology Laboratory (HL) of the National Weather Service (NWS) has conducted the first, and is conducting the second, Distributed Model Intercomparison Project (DMIP). The intent of DMIP is to invite the academic community and other researchers to help guide the NWS's distributed modeling research by participating in a comparison of distributed models applied to test data sets. HL will provide data sets for several basins. Participants download data sets and run their models in continuous simulation mode. Model simulations are compared to observed streamflow data as well as simulations generated from a lumped application of the Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting (SAC-SMA) model. Participants will be invited to meet in an HL-sponsored workshop to discuss results and future directions. Results of DMIP will be used to guide future HL's distributed modeling research and applications.

Uses


Purposes

Modeling

Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National State

Lake

Ecosystems


Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Examples

http://www.weather.gov/oh/hrl/dmip/2/


Results from DMIP have been published in a Special Issue, Volume 298 of the Journal of Hydrology, October 2004: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00221694/298/1-4


Stand-alone


Guidance Email Required Expertise Developer

Extensive scientific training required Extensive computer/GIS/programming skills required NOAA National Weather Service Hydrology Laboratory


Address

71

Cost Estimate Free

US Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service Office of Hydrologic Development 1325 East West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910

Contact

Michael Smith

Email

[email protected]


Phone

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Driftwatch™

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://www.driftwatch.org/

Description

Registry of Pesticide-sensitive Areas - driftwatch(TM) is a tool to help protect pesticide-sensitive crops and habitats from the drift that sometimes occurs during spray operations in Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois , or Wisconsin.

Uses


Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Purposes

Stressors Pesticides

Ecosystems Related Tools Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise

Stand-alone



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Address

Contact

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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(ELOHA) - Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

environmental flow rules

Link

http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/eloha

Description

The Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA) method provides a timely and scientifically credible means for broadly assessing environmental flow needs when in-depth studies cannot be performed for all rivers. Four steps are outlined by the Nature Conservancy: building a hydrologic database, classify river segments, compute hydrologic alteration, and develop flow-ecology response curves. The scientific process is followed by three steps in a social process leading to implementation of environmental flow management.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Associating in-stream characteristics & ecological condition


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Stream/River


Related Tools Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process

USGS - The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM )

Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox (IWRM)

Instream Flow Council Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) (DHRAM) - The Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method Examples

http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/eloha/documents/template-kyle


Stand-alone


Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed Arthington et al. 2006

Email

Eloise Kendy, Ph.D.

Contact

[email protected]


Cost Estimate Free

Address

Director, Environmental Flows Program

Phone

+1 406 495 9910 The Nature Conservancy Global Freshwater Team 656 N. Ewing Helena, MT 59601 USA

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Name

Environmental and Water Resource Software

What is it?

Model gateway

Link

http://www.scisoftware.com/

Keywords

Description

Extensive number of mostly for profit models.

Uses


Purposes

Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional Local

Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools Examples Additional Information

Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise

Technical Support Unspecified Unspecified

Developer

Scientific Software Group

Address

P.O. Box 708188 Sandy, Utah 84070-8188

Contact

Cost Estimate

Phone

Email


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1.866.620.9214

EPA (AGWA) Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool Type of Tool

Analytical tool Model

Keywords

Hydrologic Model, Watershed Analyisis

Link

http://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa/

Description

The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) tool has been developed under an interagency research agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. AGWA is an assessment tool that uses widely available data to run two hydrologic models (KINEROS2 and SWAT). It was designed to be easily applied by managers and scientists to evaluate likely outcomes of management scenarios and rank different areas in a watershed in terms of likely consequences to change. It was also designed to perform watershed analyses over large areas such as entire basins and to evaluate problem areas at the subwatershed scale to include small communities or rural areas. Planning and assessment in land and water resource management are evolving from simple, localscale problems toward complex, spatially explicit regional ones. Such problems have to be addressed with distributed models that can compute runoff and erosion at different spatial and temporal scales. The extensive data requirements and the difficult task of building input parameter files, however, have long represented an obstacle to the timely and cost-effective use of such complex models by resource managers.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL


Watershed planning

Forecasting

Condition assessment Transferability

Geographic Scale

National Ecosystems

Lake Stream/River


Related Tools Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Examples Additional Information

AGWA is publicly available for download in two different versions: AGWA 2.0 for ArcGIS and AGWA 1.5 for ArcView. Additionally, DotAGWA, an internet version sharing the AGWA 2.0 codebase, is under development. AGWA 2.0 requires ArcGIS 9.x, Spatial Analyst 9.x, and the .Net Framework. AGWA 1.5 requires ArcView 3.1 or later and version 1.1 of the Spatial Analyst extension. Help Forum: http://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa/index.php/forum


ArcGIS® ArcGIS® Spatial Analyst extension ArcView with the Spatial Analyst extensio

Technical Online user community Support Website Guidance

Telephone Email Tuesday, September 27, 2011

76

Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center & U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development Landscape Ecology Branch

Address

USDA - ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center 2000 E. Allen Rd. Tucson, AZ 8571

Contact

David C. Goodrich

Phone

520-670-6381 x 144

Email


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Name

EPA - AQUATOX

What is it?

Model

Link

http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/aquatox/

Keywords

Description

AQUATOX is a simulation model for aquatic systems. AQUATOX predicts the fate of various pollutants, such as nutrients and organic chemicals, and their effects on the ecosystem, including fish, invertebrates, and aquatic plants. This model is a valuable tool for ecologists, biologists, water quality modelers, and anyone involved in performing ecological risk assessments for aquatic ecosystems.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Permitting Integrated reporting (303d/305b)

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Lake

Stressors Multiple

Stream/River Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products Examples Additional Information

Aquatox Contact - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/aquatox/contacts.htm Aquatox Peer Review - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/aquatox/peer.html


Technical Online user community Support Website Webcasts Guidance Workshops Telephone Email

Required Expertise


Developer

EPA - ORD (Athens)


78

Cost Estimate Free

Address

Office of Science and Technology, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (4305T), Washington, DC, 20460

Contact

Marjorie Coombs Wellman

Email

[email protected]

Phone


79

202-566-0407

EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation System Type of Tool

Point data Gateway/Portal Vector data

Keywords

Link

www.epa.gov/waters/ir/index.html

Description

The Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Tracking and Implementation System (ATTAINS) provides information reported by the states to EPA about the conditions in their surface waters. This information is required every two years under Clean Water Act Sections 305(b) and 303(d). Because of differences in state assessment methods, the information in this site should not be used to compare water quality conditions between states or to determine water quality trends.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning

Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional Local State

Ecosystems

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Lake

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS

EPA (STORET/WQX) - STOrage and RETrieval/Water Quality Exchange NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture EPA Enviromapper for Water EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits

EPA (WQSDB) Water Quality Standards Database EPA (SDWIS) Safe Drinking Water Information System EPA Nutrient Criteria Database EPA (BEACON) Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification

EPA (NDZ) No-Discharge Zones for Vessel Sewage by State Examples

GIS Data: www.epa.gov/waterspb/data/downloads.html


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National Assessment Database: www.epa.gov/waters/305b/



Some scientific background needed Basic computer skills sufficient

Cost Estimate Free



USEPA, Office of Water

Address

Contact

http://www.epa.gov/waters/comments.ht

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (ATtILA) - Analytical Tools Interface for Landscape Assessments (ATtILA) Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Landscape Characteristics, Riparian Characteristics, Human Stressors, Physical Characteristics

Link

www.epa.gov/nerlesd1/land-sci/attila/index.htm

Description

ATtILA is an easy to use GIS tool that calculates many commonly used landscape metrics: •Landscape Characteristics: related to land cover proportions and patch metrics (e.g. percent forest cover or number and size of forest patches) •Riparian Characteristics: describe land cover adjacent to and near streams (e.g. percent of crop land within 30 meters of streams) •Human Stressors: concern population, roads, and land use practices (e.g. population change or road/stream crossings) •Physical characteristics: provide statistical summaries of such attributes as elevation and slope By providing an intuitive interface, the extension provides the ability to generate landscape metrics to a wide audience, regardless of their GIS knowledge level. ATtILA is a robust, flexible program. It accepts data from a broad range of sources and is equally suitable across all landscapes, from deserts to rain forests to urban areas.

Uses


Purposes


Prioritization

TMDL



Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools FRAGSTATS - Spatial Pattern Analysis Program for Categorical Maps NOAA (N-SPECT) Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool

NOAA Habitat Priority Planner Geospatial Modeling Environment Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ Landscape Analyst

GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation Examples

www.epa.gov/nerlesd1/landsci/emap_west_browser/EMAP-West_Metric_Browser.htm


Requires ESRI’s ArcView software, with the Spatial Analyst extension. Some ArcView experience is recommended


ArcView with the Spatial Analyst extensio


Telephone Email Required Expertise



82

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USEPA

Address

US - EPA Landscape Ecology Branch 944 East Harmon Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89119

Contact

Donald Ebert

Phone

(702) 798-2158

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources Type of Tool

Model Gateway/Portal

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/basins.html

Description

The current release is BASINS 4. This is an open source, freely distributable GIS tool for watershed analysis and monitoring. BASINS 3.1 continues to be supported until mid-2008. A BASINS User's Manual, system files, documentation, tutorial, and data by 8-digit HUC "watershed" are available on the Web Download page. Note: Less than half of all HUCs are true watersheds.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning

Water resources management Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center Examples

http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins/


ListServe: http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins/listserv.htm Training - BASINS, HSPF, SWAT, AQUATOX, and CORMIX: http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins/training.htm Bacterial Indicator Tool - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/ftp/basins/system/BASINS3/bit.htm


Stand-alone Open-source GIS GIS with raster capability


Webcasts Guidance Workshops Telephone



Developer

EPA - ORD (Athens)

Address

Contact

EPA - Office of Water

Phone

Email

http://water.epa.gov/contactus.cfm?fr


84

Cost Estimate Free

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (4100T) 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20460

EPA BASINS (CAT) - Climate Assessment Tool

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimscomm.getfile?p_download_id=477513

Description

The Office of Research and Development, in partnership with EPA’s Office of Water, recently developed a Climate Assessment Tool (CAT) for the Office of Water’s BASINS 4.0 watershed modeling system. BASINS CAT provides a flexible set of capabilities for modifying historical weather data to create climate change scenarios for assessing the influence of climate variability and change on water quantity and quality using the Hydrologic Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model. This report provides technical information including a discussion of tool capabilities and a set of hands-on tutorials intended to support BASINS users interested in applying the CAT tool.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL

Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional Local National State Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple


Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools (Sleuth Model) Project Gigalopolis: Urban and Land Cover Modeling Examples

http://oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimscomm.getfile?p_download_id=477513


U.S. EPA. BASINS 4.0 Climate Assessment Tool (CAT): Supporting Documentation and User Manual. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-08/088A. BASINS Listserve - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/BASINS/listserv.htm





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Telephone



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA Office of Water

Address


Contact

Thomas Johnson

Phone

703-347-8618

Email

[email protected];


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EPA (BASS) Bioaccumulation of Aquatic Systems Simulator Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/extrmurl/research/bass.html

Description

BASS is a model that simulates the population and bioaccumulation dynamics of age-structured fish communities. Although bass was specifically developed to investigate the bioaccumulation of chemical pollutants within a community or ecosystem context, it can also be used to explore population and community dynamics of fish assemblages that are exposed to a variety of nonchemical stressors such as altered thermal regimes associated with hydrological alterations or industrial activities, commercial or sports fisheries, and introductions of non native or exotic fish species.

Uses


Purposes

Standards



Prioritization

TMDL


Watershed planning

Permitting

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Lake Stream/River

Stressors Nonpoint source Metals

Toxics Pesticides Related Tools EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories EPA (WQSDB) Water Quality Standards Database Examples

http://www.epa.gov/athens/publications/factsheets/BASS_01-14-04.pdf


Stand-alone


Extensive scientific training required Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA ORD - Athens

Address

Ecosystems Research Webmaster 960 College Station Road Athens, GA. 30605

Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (BEACON) Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification Type of Tool

Point data

Keywords

beaches

Link

http://oaspub.epa.gov/waters10/beacon_national_page.main

Description

BEACON is EPA's BEach Advisory and Closing Online Notification system. BEACON is EPA's application to make state beach advisory and closing data available to the public. EPA created BEACON to meet the Agency's Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act requirements. The BEACH Act (section 406(e)) requires EPA to make a national coastal recreation water pollution occurrence database, which contains state reported beach monitoring and notification data available to the public by electronic means. In BEACON, each beach is geographically displayed on a map that links the beach to data. Users select a beach and view the available data for that beach by either first by choosing a state and county or typing the beach name. What kind of information can I find using BEACON? For each beach, there is information on: * contact information * monitoring and notification program information * general beach characteristics * advisories and closings * location data

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes

Community outreach


Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Estuary/Coastal Lake

Stressors Pathogens Temperature

Wetland

Altered flow

Related Tools EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone


Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free


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Developer

USEPA

Address

Contact

EPA - National Beach Program

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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National Beach Program USEPA 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, MC - 4305T Washington DC 20460

EPA (CADDIS) - Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Link

http://cfpub.epa.gov/caddis/index.cfm

Description

The Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System, or CADDIS, is a website developed to help scientists and engineers in the Regions, States, and Tribes conduct causal assessments in aquatic systems. It is organized into five volumes: Volume 1: Stressor Identification provides a step-by-step guide for identifying probable causes of impairment in a particular system, based on the U.S. EPA's Stressor Identification process. If you are interested in conducting a complete causal assessment, learning about different types of evidence, or reviewing a history of causal assessment theory, start with this volume. Volume 2: Sources, Stressors & Responses provides background information on many common sources, stressors, and biotic responses in stream ecosystems. If you are interested in viewing source- and stressor-specific summary information (e.g., for urbanization, physical habitat, nutrients, metals, pH and other stressors), start with this volume. Volume 3: Examples & Applications provides examples illustrating different steps of causal assessments. If you are interested in reading completed causal assessment case studies, seeing how Stressor Identification worksheets are completed, or examining example applications of data analysis techniques, start with this volume. Volume 4: Data Analysis provides guidance on the use of statistical analysis to support causal assessments. If you are interested in learning how to use data in your causal assessment, start with this volume. Volume 5: Causal Databases provides access to literature databases and associated tools for use in causal assessments. If you are interested in applying literature-based evidence to your causal assessment, start with this volume.

Uses


Purposes


Restoration/recovery potential

Watershed planning

BMP selection and siting

Community outreach


Water resources management Causal assessment Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National State Ecosystems

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Examples

http://www.epa.gov/caddis/?Section=27


Stressor Identification - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/biocriteria/stressors/


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Stand-alone R




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USEPA - ORD (NCEA)

Address

Information Management Team (Mailcode 8601P) National Center for Environmental Assessment Office of Research and Development US Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20460

Contact

Information Management Team

Phone

703-347-8561

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (CEAM) - Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling Type of Tool

Model gateway

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/

Description

The EPA Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM) was established in 1987 to meet the scientific and technical exposure assessment needs of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) as well as state environmental and resource management agencies. CEAM provides proven predictive exposure assessment techniques for aquatic, terrestrial, and multimedia pathways for organic chemicals and metals. Groundwater Models - Groundwater models quantify the movement of subsurface water and provide inputs to subsurface contaminant transport models. Simulation provides insight into groundwater and contaminant behavior and quantitative assessments for environmental decision making. Surface Water Models - By modeling contaminant movement and concentration in lakes, streams, estuaries, and marine environments, researchers can better understand how exposure to contaminants affects aquatic environments. Food Chain Models - Contaminated aquatic and terrestrial environments typically result in the bioaccumulation of chemicals within all trophic levels of an ecosystem. Software models provide tools for tracking the movement of contaminants through food chains and for estimating chemical impacts on exposed biota. Multimedia Models - Contaminants may travel through the atmosphere, soil, surface water, and the organisms that inhabit these media. The multimedia approach to exposure modeling quantifies the impacts of contaminants as they travel through more than one of these environments.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple


Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Emergency response Water resources management Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

National

Local

State Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (CREM) - Environmental Models Knowledge Base USGS - SMIG (Surface water modeling interest group) Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Examples

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/tools/index.html


CEAM-USERS listserver - http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/listserv.html


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USEPA - Ecosystems Research Division

Address

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ecosystems Research Division Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM) 960 College Station Road Athens, Georgia 30605-2700

Contact

Center for Exposure Assessment Model

Phone

706/355-8403

Email

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/contact


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Name

EPA Clean Water Act Analytical Methods

What is it? Link

http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/methods/

Keywords

Description

EPA publishes laboratory analytical methods that are used by industries and municipalities to analyze the chemical, physical and biological components of wastewater and other environmental samples that are required by regulations under the authority of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Most of these methods are published as regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at Title 40 Part 136. Legal authority…. EPA's Office of Science and Technology manages the CWA methods program, working with EPA Regions, states, and stakeholders. Approved Methods: * Approved general-purpose methods * Approved industry-specific methods * Recent regulatory activity * Questions and answers Alternate Test Procedures and Method Flexibility: * Alternate Test Procedure Program * Part 136.6 Flexibility to Modify Methods * Questions and answers Other EPA Methods: * Wastewater methods not contained in EPA regulations * Other Agency Methods Special Topics: * Oil & Grease Measurements * Cyanide Measurements * Hexavalent Chromium ("Chromium 6") Measurements * Mercury Measurements * PPCPs Analytical Methods * Microbiological Measurements * Detection and Quantitation Federal Advisory Committe * Effluent Guidelines * Toxic and Priority Pollutants Matrix Effects: * Solutions to Analytical Chemistry Problems with Clean Water Act Methods (PDF) (458 K, 62 pp., About PDF) is a revision of the "Pumpkin Book". FEM: * The Forum on Environmental Measurements (FEM) is a standing committee of senior EPA managers that promotes consistency and consensus on measurement issues. Current Activities: * Addition of Sterols and Hormones to analytical scope of Method 1694 * Holding Time Study for Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products, Sterols and Hormones * Adding updated information on the use of short GC column and temperature-programmed injector in PBDE method 1614

Monday, July 25, 2011

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* Preparing a protocol with which to validate rapid methods for pathogens using qPCR technology Uses


Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global Regional

Local


Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Examples Additional Information

Contact - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/methods/contact.html Legal Authority - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/methods/basic.htm


Minimum Software Requirement

Telephone Email

Required Expertise Developer Address


Cost Estimate Free

EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Mail Code 4301T Washington, DC 20460

Contact

Office of Science and Technology,

Email

[email protected]

Phone


95

202-566-1000

EPA (CREM) - Environmental Models Knowledge Base Type of Tool

Model gateway

Keywords

Environmental Model, Knowledge Base

Link

http://cfpub.epa.gov/crem/knowledge_base/knowbase.cfm

Description

This Models Knowledge Base (KBase) is an inventory of EPA's environmental models, and is intended to provide information about how a model is used and about a model's underlying science. Each model's record in the KBase includes three pages of information. The General Information page includes an overview of the model, contact information, and a link to the model's homepage. The second page, Model Use, provides information that is essential for potential users, including technical requirements (hardware, operating systems, and software), directions for obtaining (downloading) the model, and basic information on using the model (model inputs, model outputs, and the User's Guide). The final page, Model Science, includes sections on the conceptual basis of the model, scientific detail, model framework, and model evaluation. Although many of the models included in this knowledge base do not require GIS (i.e., spatially explicit) data inputs, many of the models do utilize GIS to populate input parameters.

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL


Watershed planning

Water quality standards

Permitting


Community outreach


Forecasting Visualization Prioritization Condition assessment Causal assessment Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local


Forest

Stressors Multiple

Grassland Estuary/Coastal

Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools NatureServe (EBMTools) Ecosystem-based Management Tools Network USGS - (SMIC) Surface Water and Water Quality Models Information Clearinghouse Examples Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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The fact that a model is in the CREM Models KBase does not necessarily mean that EPA endorses the model; conversely, the fact that a model is not included does not mean that it may not be appropriate for a particular use. Technical Website Support Guidance



Developer

USEPA - Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling

Address

Contact

Council for Regulatory Environmental M

Phone

Email

[email protected]


97

Cost Estimate Free

Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (8105R) Office of the Science Advisor 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20460

EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis

Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Link

http://epa.gov/waterscience/dflow/index.htm

Description

DFLOW 3.1 (released March 2006) is a Windows-based tool developed to estimate user selected design stream flows for low flow analysis and water quality standards. DFLOW inputs daily stream flow records (such as those records from the systematic data collection program maintained by the USGS) and calculates user-specified biologically-based design flows, hydrologically-based design flows, harmonic, and percentile flows.

Uses


Purposes

Standards


Watershed planning


Permitting

Water quality standards Causal assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Stream/River

Stressors Multiple Altered flow

Climate change Related Tools Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process

USGS - The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM ) Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA)

IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) IWMI Ecohydrological Databases Examples

http://epa.gov/waterscience/models/dflow/apps.htm


Technical Support - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/dflow/support.htm


Stand-alone


Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

US EPA

Address

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Mail Code 4301T Washington, DC 20460

Contact

Office of Science and Technology

Phone

202-566-0430

Email

[email protected]


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EPA Ecoregions Map Server

Type of Tool


Keywords

ecoregions, map server

Link

http://geodata.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/ORD/USEPA_Ecoregions_Level_III_and_IV/MapServerr

Description

This Map Server provides EPA Level III and IV Ecoregional data in ArcMAP, ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS JavaScript, and Google Earth formats. Support is provided for REST, SOAP and WMS interfaces.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple


Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b)


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions USFS Bailey's Ecoregions Examples

http://geodata.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Level_III_IV_Ecoregions/MapServer/1



ArcGIS® Open-source GIS GIS ArcINFO ArcGIS Explorer ArcGIS Java Google Earth MapWindows


Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed USEPA

Address


99

Cost Estimate Free

Western Ecology Division

Corvallis, OR Contact

Glenn Griffith

Email

[email protected]

Phone


100

541-754-4465

EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

TMDL Toolbox

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/efdc.html

Description

The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC Hydro) is a state-of-the-art hydrodynamic model that can be used to simulate aquatic systems in one, two, and three dimensions. It has evolved over the past two decades to become one of the most widely used and technically defensible hydrodynamic models in the world. EFDC uses stretched or sigma vertical coordinates and Cartesian or curvilinear, orthogonal horizontal coordinates to represent the physical characteristics of a waterbody. It solves three-dimensional, vertically hydrostatic, free surface, turbulent averaged equations of motion for a variable-density fluid. Dynamically-coupled transport equations for turbulent kinetic energy, turbulent length scale, salinity and temperature are also solved. The EFDC model allows for drying and wetting in shallow areas by a mass conservation scheme. The physics of the EFDC model and many aspects of the computational scheme are equivalent to the widely used Blumberg-Mellor model and U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’Chesapeake Bay model. EFDC’s role in the TMDL Toolbox will be to provide necessary hydrodynamic inputs to WASP, the advanced receiving water quality model.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL


Modeling

Associating in-stream characteristics & ecological condition Water quality standards Restoration/recovery potential

BMP selection and siting Forecasting Prioritization Condition assessment Causal assessment Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local


State Ecosystems



Stream/River

Nutrients

Wetland

Suspended sediment Metals Pathogens Dissolved oxygen pH

Ionic strength Pesticides Australian eWater Toolkit Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Related Tools Australian eWater Toolkit EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center

EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX

(CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads

Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Environmental and Water Resource Software

Center for Geospatial Data Analysis – Indiana Geological Survey CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream

(CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) IWMI - WATERSIM© EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model Examples

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/Tech_Center_Fact_Sheet.pdf


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA - ORD (Athens)

Address

Watershed & Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center Website http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/index.html

Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (ENVIROFACTS) - One-stop source for Environmental Information Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index.html

Description

ENVIROFACTS provides an integrated search utility for Air, Waste, Facility, Land, Toxics, Compliance, Water, Radiation, and other data. Data can be retrieved by location, including address, zip, city, county, waterbody, park name, etc. The initial 2010 TRI dataset is now available as of Sept 2011. The dataset is approximately 98% complete; and will be updated again this fall as more facility reports are processed. For more information, visit (http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/preliminarydataset). The TRI Explorer Tool (http://iaspub.epa.gov/triexplorer/tri_release.chemical) is now available in Envirofacts. For more information see the TRI Explorer Background page (http://iaspub.epa.gov/triexplorer/tri_text.background).

Uses


Purposes

Standards


Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Emergency response Water resources management Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


http://www.epa.gov/enviro/facts/datadownloads.html


Stand-alone

Technical Website Support Cost Estimate Free


Developer Thursday, September 29, 2011

Address

103

Developer

EPA

Contact Email

Address Phone

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/facts/ef_feedback.html


104

Name

EPA Enviromapper for Water

What is it?

Decision support system Gateway/Portal Visualization (mapping) tool

Links

http://epadev.induscorp.com/waters/enviromapper/index.html http://www.epa.gov/emefdata/em4ef.home

Keywords

Impaired Waterbody, TMDL, Permitted Facility, Water Quality

Description

EnviroMapper for Water is a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) application that dynamically displays water quality and other environmental information about bodies of water in the United States. This interactive tool allows you to create customized maps that portray the nation's surface waters along with a collection of water quality related data from the national level down to community level. The redesigned tool provides the ability to: * Geographically display a variety of EPA water program data * Pan, zoom, label and print maps * Link to water program web reports after identifying specific features of interest * Generate specific water quality related reports based on an area of interest Have you always wondered about the health of a river near where you live? Now you can find out by creating a map using EnviroMapper for Water.

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes

Community outreach

Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Lake Wetland Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS EPA (STORET) - STOrage and RETrieval EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits EPA (WQSDB) Water Quality Standards Database EPA (SDWIS) Safe Drinking Water Information System EPA (BEACON) Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification EPA (NDZ) No-Discharge Zones for Vessel Sewage Examples

http://www.epa.gov/waters/enviromapper/index.html



105

Stand-alone Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise Developer

Technical Website Support Email Cost Estimate Free

General understanding of issues Basic computer skills sufficient USEPA

Address Contact Email

Phone [email protected]


106

EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/epd-riv1.html

Description

EPD-RIV1 is a system of programs to perform one-dimensional dynamic hydraulic and water quality simulations. The computational model is based upon the CE-QUAL-RIV1 model developed by the U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (WES). This modeling system was developed for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Dr. Roy Burke III, Program Manager and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV, Dr. Jim Greenfield.

Uses


Purposes

Standards


Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Permitting

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional


Stressors Multiple Nutrients

Stream/River

Suspended sediment

Wetland

Metals Toxics Pathogens Temperature

Altered flow Dissolved oxygen pH Ionic strength Pesticides Related Tools Australian eWater Toolkit EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center

EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP)

EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Watershed Analyst™ Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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USGS Streamstats Version 2

USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Environmental and Water Resource Software CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia)

USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) IWMI - WATERSIM© Examples

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/EPDRiv1v1.msi


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA - ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


108

EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/research/modeling/exams.html

Description

EXAMS facilitates the development of aquatic ecosystem models for the rapid evaluation of the fate, transport, and exposure concentrations of synthetic organic chemicals, such as pesticides, industrial materials, and leachates from disposal sites. EXAMS includes an integrated database management system for the storage and management of information required by the software. EXAMS generates and summarizes data critical for ecological risk assessments. EXAMS is linked to the PRZM terrestrial (pesticide) model and the BASS bioaccumulation model.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (BASS) Bioaccumulation of Aquatic Systems Simulator Australian eWater Toolkit

IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products

EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model

EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports

EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Environmental and Water Resource Software CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK)

Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) IWMI - WATERSIM© EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model Tuesday, September 27, 2011

109

EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA- ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

EPA Center for Exposure Assessment

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


110

EPA - Exposure Assessment Models

Type of Tool

Model gateway

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/

Description

The EPA Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM) was established in 1987 to meet the scientific and technical exposure assessment needs of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) as well as state environmental and resource management agencies. CEAM provides proven predictive exposure assessment techniques for aquatic, terrestrial, and multimedia pathways for organic chemicals and metals. Groundwater models quantify the movement of subsurface water and provide inputs to subsurface contaminant transport models. Simulation provides insight into goundwater and contaminant behavior and quantitative assessments for environmental decision making. Surface Water Models - By modeling contaminant movement and concentration in lakes, streams, estuaries, and marine environments, researchers can better understand how exposure to contaminants affects aquatic environments. Food Chain Models - Contaminated aquatic and terrestrial environments typically result in the bioaccumulation of chemicals within all trophic levels of an ecosystem. Software models provide tools for tracking the movement of contaminants through food chains and for estimating chemical impacts on exposed biota.Multimedia Models Multimedia Models Contaminants may travel through the atmosphere, soil, surface water, and the organisms that inhabit these media. The multimedia approach to exposure modeling quantifies the impacts of contaminants as they travel through more than one of these environments. Execution of any CEAM installation program, and modification to system configuration files must be made at the user's own risk. Neither the U.S. EPA nor the program author(s) can assume responsibility for program modification, content, output, interpretation, or usage. CEAM installation programs have been extensively tested and verified. However, as for all complex software, these programs may not be completely free of errors and may not be applicable for all cases. In no event will the U.S. EPA be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of the programs and/or associated documentation.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning Water resources management Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Local Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Tuesday, September 27, 2011

111

Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products


EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads EPA (NLFTS) - National Lake Fish Tissue Study Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports

EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Environmental and Water Resource Software CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream

(CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) IWMI - WATERSIM© EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model

EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone


Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM)

Address


Contact

Center for Exposure Assessment Model

Phone

706/355-8403

Email



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EPA (EXPRESS): EXAMS - PRZM Exposure Simulation Shell Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://glccn.tdgrid.com/tool/express/

Description

EXPRESS (EXAMS - PRZM Exposure Simulation Shell) is designed to facilitate a rapid and consistent assessment of aquatic pesticide exposure on a variety of crops. EXPRESS is a joint project of the USEPA Office of Pesticide Programs' Environmental Fate and Effects Division (OPP/EFED) and the USEPA Office of Research and Development (ORD). This project was undertaken to develop a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to combine regulatory simulation models, their supporting databases, regulatory “scenarios” for major crops, and data input screens for chemical properties into a user-friendly “simulation shell” lending itself to consistent analytical practices and reproducible exposure and risk assessments. The resulting computer software – Express (the EXAMS - PRZM Exposure Simulation Shell) – is a joint project of EFED and ORD. EFED designed and funded an initial draft of the Express software, and retains responsibility for developing and maintaining crop-specific modeling scenarios for regulatory analyses. ORD is responsible for continuing development, quality control, maintenance, and public availability of the software and its constituent models and analytical modules. With the completion of Express, exposure metrics (peak, 4-day, 21-day, 60-day, annual) for ecological and human health risk assessments can be easily and conveniently and, as importantly, reproducibly, developed for any or all of the agronomic scenarios developed by EFED. Probabilistic analyses (Weibull distribution) of these exposure metrics are derived by coupling 30-year timeseries of meteorological data to linked PRZM/EXAMS simulation studies. Express significantly reduces the variability, lack of reproducibility by external analysts, and perceived arbitrariness of EPA’s regulatory processes for determining the safety and appropriate uses of registered pesticides.

Uses


Purposes

Standards


Modeling

Forecasting Causal assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Agriculture


Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System Examples

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/swater/express/ABSTRACT.TXT


EXAMS - http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/swater/exams/index.html PRZM3 - http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/gwater/przm3/index.html Meterological Data - http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/tools/metdata/index.html User Manual for EXPRESS, the "EXAMS-PRZM Exposure Simulation Shell" http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/swater/express/Express.pdf


Stand-alone


Email Some scientific background needed

Free


113

Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA-ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact


Phone

706/355-8403

Email



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EPA - GCSOLAR

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

photolysis

Link

http://www2.epa.gov/exposure-assessment-models/gcsolar

Description

GCSOLAR program is a set of routines that computes direct photolysis rates and half-lives of pollutants in the aquatic environment. The half-lives are calculated as a function of season, latitude, time-of-day, depth in water bodies, and ozone layer thickness. This program operates in an interactive screen mode to facilitate data and program command entry by the user. Input values, with few restrictions, are format free. The user controls program flow by entering program execution commands. This release (1.10 February 1988 and 1.20 July 1999) of the GCSOLAR program differs from earlier versions of the program in that it permits the user to compute photolysis rate constants as a function of elevation above sea level. This is implemented with the GCSOLAR ELEVATION command.

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes

Modeling


Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local


Stressors Nonpoint source Nutrients

Stream/River

Ionic strength

Wetland

Pesticides

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools EPA - AQUATOX

(CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads

USGS Streamstats Version 2 EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System PEST - Model Independent Parameter Estimation EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code

EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System EPA - Exposure Assessment Models EPA (WARMF) - Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework EPA (LSPC) - Loading Simulation Program in C++ EPA (WAM) - Watershed Assessment Model

EPA (SWMM 5) - Stormwater Management Model EPA (EXPRESS): EXAMS - PRZM Exposure Simulation Shell Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Examples Additional Information

For a complete discussion of the chemistry associated with this program, refer to the publication, "Rates of Direct Photolysis in Aquatic Environment", R. G. Zepp and D. M. Cline, Environmental Science and Technology, 11:4, PP 359- 366 (1977). User's Manual - http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/swater/gcsolar/USERMANU.PDF


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA-ORD

Address


Contact

CEAM

Phone

706/355-8403

Email



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EPA GEOPLATFORM

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://www.geoplatform.gov

Description

A self-service storefront that allows users from novice to expert to search, discover, use, and share EPA knowledge in the form of Maps and Apps. Includes instructional videos Featured Maps and Apps, personalized, shareable content and links to ArcGIS Explorer, EPA's Environmental Analyst and more.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple


TMDL Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach

Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Emergency response Water resources management Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools (NLCD 1992) - National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD 2001) - National Land Cover Dataset

USGS Water Resources of the United States National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)

EPA Omernik Ecoregions USFS Bailey's Ecoregions USFS Ecological Subregions: Provinces, Sections, and Subsections of the Conterminous Uni USFS - Ecological Units of the Eastern United States: First Approximation

USGS - Hydrologic Landscape Regions Florida Wetland ecoregions Wetland hydrogeomorphic classes EPA Estuarine Classification National Wetland Inventory classification

Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium DELETE XXX Stream Classification XXX TNC - Freshwater Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin: Development and Application of a Tuesday, September 27, 2011

117

DRAFT NOAA/TNC Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS2)

USGS (NED) - National Elevation Dataset *** DELETE Road *** Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) National Atlas USGS The National Map

National Coastal Assessment (NCA) USDA/NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway USGS (HUC) - Hydrologic Unit Code NRCS Soil Geography Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)

Integrated Geologic Map Databases for the United States USGS (MIPS) Maps, Imagery & Publications EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS EPA (STORET/WQX) - STOrage and RETrieval/Water Quality Exchange EPA Enviromapper for Water

EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits

EPA (WQSDB) Water Quality Standards Database EPA (SDWIS) Safe Drinking Water Information System EPA Nutrient Criteria Database EPA (BEACON) Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification EPA (NDZ) No-Discharge Zones for Vessel Sewage by State

EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools EPA (NLFTS) - National Lake Fish Tissue Study USGS HYDRO1k Elevation Derivative Database

USGS (NWIS) - National Water Information System EPA Watershed Central Examples

http://epageoplatform.esri.com/home/item.html?id=e2b9f8bc2b71460ea36d72d687a022e7




Email Training


USEPA and ESRI

Contact

Email

Cost Estimate Free

General understanding of issues Basic computer skills sufficient Address Phone

[email protected]


118

Name

EPA Geospatial Portal

What is it?

Gateway/Portal

Link

http://www.epa.gov/geospatial/

Keywords

Description

The term "geospatial" refers to anything that has a geographic location on the earth. EPA’s National Geospatial Program coordinates the Agency’s geospatial data, applications, policies and programs. This Web site provides an overview of EPA's National Geospatial Program including: * Applications – These applications will allow you to look at maps that contain information about air quality, water quality, hazardous waste and the environment in your neighborhood. Some of these applications are for technical users. * Data – Most of these publicly available data are for technical users and can only be viewed using desktop mapping software such as ArcGIS. These data show locations of environmental interest such as the air quality in the Northeast United States or Superfund sites across the Nation. * Grants and agreements – Many EPA Grants have geospatial components. This page gives you access to general grant resources as well as information about agreements that EPA has with other Federal Agencies. * Policies and standards – These allow EPA to more easily share information within the Agency as well as with other federal, state and local agencies. * Related Links – These are links that provide additional information and resources on geospatial topics.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Emergency response Transferability

Geographic Scale

National


Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model Monday, July 25, 2011

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EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads EPA Clean Water Act Analytical Methods EPA (NLFTS) - National Lake Fish Tissue Study Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 Examples

http://www.epa.gov/geospatial/tools.html


Contact - http://www.epa.gov/geospatial/contact.html

Stand-alone Minimum Software GIS Requirement


Required Expertise


Developer

EPA - Office of Environmental Information (OEI)

Address

USEPA Office of Environmental Information Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Mail Code: 2823T Washington, DC 20460

Contact

Ana Greene

Email

[email protected]

Phone


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Cost Estimate Free

202-566-2132

EPA (HSCTM2D) - Hydrodynamic, Sediment, and Contaminant Transport Model Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www2.epa.gov/exposure-assessment-models/hsctm2d

Description

(HSCTM2D) is a finite element modeling system for simulating two-dimensional, verticallyintegrated, surface water flow (typically riverine or estuarine hydrodynamics), sediment transport, and contaminant transport. The modeling system consists of two modules, one for hydrodynamic modeling (HYDRO2D) and the other for sediment and contaminant transport modeling (CS2D). One example problem is included. The HSCTM2D modeling system may be used to simulate both short term (less than 1 year) and long term scour and/or sedimentation rates and contaminant transport and fate in vertically well mixed bodies of water.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL


Modeling

Associating in-stream characteristics & ecological condition Water quality standards

Restoration/recovery potential BMP selection and siting Forecasting Prioritization

Condition assessment Causal assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Stream/River Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads

EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System

EPA - Exposure Assessment Models EPA (WARMF) - Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework EPA (LSPC) - Loading Simulation Program in C++ Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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EPA (WAM) - Watershed Assessment Model

EPA (SWMM 5) - Stormwater Management Model EPA (EXPRESS): EXAMS - PRZM Exposure Simulation Shell EPA - GCSOLAR Examples Additional Information

User's Manual - HSCTM-2D, A Finite Element Model for Depth-Averaged Hydrodynamics, Sediment and Contaminant Transport (http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/swater/hsctm2d/USERMANU.PDF)


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA-ORD

Address


Contact


Phone

706/355-8403

Email



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EPA (HSPF) - Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Watershed Model, Hydrology Model, Water Quality Model

Link

http://water.usgs.gov/software/HSPF/

Description

(HSPF) is a comprehensive package for simulation of watershed hydrology and water quality for both conventional and toxic organic pollutants. HSPF incorporates watershed-scale ARM and NPS models into a basin-scale analysis framework that includes fate and transport in one dimensional stream channels. It is the only comprehensive model of watershed hydrology and water quality that allows the integrated simulation of land and soil contaminant runoff processes with In-stream hydraulic and sediment-chemical interactions. The result of this simulation is a time history of the runoff flow rate, sediment load, and nutrient and pesticide concentrations, along with a time history of water quantity and quality at any point in a watershed. HSPF simulates three sediment types (sand, silt, and clay) in addition to a single organic chemical and transformation products of that chemical.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL


Watershed planning

Forecasting

Permitting


Modeling

Causal assessment Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

National Ecosystems



Stream/River

Wetland Related Tools EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA HSPF Web-based Tools Examples

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/swater/hspf/ABSTRACT.TXT


WinHSPF Manual - http://www.epa.gov/athens/research/modeling/ftable/toc_intr.pdf WinHSPF Fact Sheet http://www.aquaterra.com/resources/hspfsupport/index.phphttp://www.aquaterra.com/resources/hspf support/index.php


Stand-alone


Telephone Email Training Required Expertise



123

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA-ORD

Address


Contact


Phone

706/355-8403

Email



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Name

EPA- HSPF Java Toolkit for BMP Modeling Applications

What is it?

Model

Link

http://www.epa.gov/extrmurl/research/ftable http://www.epa.gov/athens/research/modeling/HSPFWebTools/index.html

Keywords

Description

This toolkit enables HSPF users to extend the model's application to urban watersheds with sewer system networks and to areas with (BMPs) such as detention basins. It was developed for low impact development modeling applications. Specifically, the tool simulates BMPs that store stormwater runoff to attenuate flooding and remove pollutants. Presently, the tool is not recommended for simulating infiltration trenches, dry wells or BMPs that require channels which infiltrate. The tool requires some UCI file manipulations, but does not require HSPF code changes. Detailed instructions on how to run the program are given in the tutorial file.

Uses


Purposes

Standards


TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning Community outreach Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Urban/Suburban/

Stressors Multiple

Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA (HSPF) - Hydrological Simulation Program - FORTRAN Examples

http://www.epa.gov/athens/research/modeling/ftable/BMP_TUTORIAL.pdf





Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed EPA-ORD (Athens)


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Cost Estimate Free

Address

Athens, GA

Contact

EPA - ERD (Athens)

Email

http://www.epa.gov/athens/research/

Phone


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EPA HSPF Web-based Tools

Type of Tool


Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/research/modeling/HSPFWebTools/

Description

HSPF Web-based Tool for Simulation of Urban Watersheds with Storm Sewers and Best Management Practices (BMPs) to support Low Impact Development (LID). This web-based HSPF tool extends the model's applications for urban watersheds with storm sewers and best management practices (BMPs). The tool was developed to aid HSPF users in simulating the effectiveness of watershed management alternatives, including low impact development. The tool can be used for the following applications. For each application, the icons below will guide the user to the appropriate calculator: 1. Stage-Storage-Discharge Relationships 2. Storm Sewers 3. Storage BMPs (Photo: Storage Basin) 4. Infiltration BMPs

Uses


Purposes

Standards


TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning Community outreach Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Urban/Suburban/

Stressors Multiple

Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River

Wetland Related Tools EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA (HSPF) - Hydrological Simulation Program - FORTRAN Examples

http://www.epa.gov/athens/research/modeling/ftable/BMP_TUTORIAL.pdf


Stand-alone



Cost Estimate Free

Some scientific background needed


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Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA-ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (LSPC) - Loading Simulation Program in C++

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/lspc.html

Description

LSPC is the Loading Simulation Program in C++, a watershed modeling system that includes streamlined Hydrologic Simulation Program Fortran (HSPF) algorithms for simulating hydrology, sediment, and general water quality on land as well as a simplified stream transport model. LSPC is derived from the Mining Data Analysis System (MDAS), which was developed by EPA Region 3 and has been widely used for mining applications and TMDLs. A key data management feature of this system is that it uses a Microsoft Access database to manage model data and weather text files for driving the simulation. The system also contains a module to assist in TMDL calculation and source allocations. For each model run, it automatically generates comprehensive text-file output by subwatershed for all land-layers, reaches, and simulated modules, which can be expressed on hourly or daily intervals. Output from LSPC has been linked to other model applications such as EFDC, WASP, and CE-QUAL-W2. LSPC has no inherent limitations in terms of modeling size or model operations. The Microsoft Visual C++ programming architecture allows for seamless integration with modern-day, widely available software such as Microsoft Access and Excel.

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL


Watershed planning


Permitting

BMP selection and siting Forecasting Prioritization Condition assessment Causal assessment

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional Local

Ecosystems

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Lake

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources

EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program

Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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EPA (NLFTS) - National Lake Fish Tissue Study

Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 EPA Geospatial Portal USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System

Environmental and Water Resource Software Center for Geospatial Data Analysis – Indiana Geological Survey CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK)

Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System EPA - Exposure Assessment Models

EPA (WARMF) - Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework Examples

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/LSPC.pdf


http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/LSPCSetup.exe LSPC Manual - http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/LSPC_Manual.zip Technical Support Center Fact Sheet http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/Tech_Center_Fact_Sheet.pdf TMDL Fact Sheet - http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/Toolbox-overview.pdf


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA-ORD (Athens

Address


Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


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EPA Mercury Maps: A Quantitative Spatial Link Between Air Deposition and Fish Tissue Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

mercury

Link

http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/maps/

Description

Mercury Maps is a tool that relates changes in mercury air deposition rates to changes in mercury fish tissue concentrations, on a national scale. Mercury Maps can be used to help identify those waterbodies expected to attain state water quality standards as a result of air deposition reductions, or to assist in Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) analyses for individual or multiple watersheds.

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL


Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Transferability

Geographic Scale

National


Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Metals

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP)

EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads EPA Clean Water Act Analytical Methods EPA Water Quality Economics and Benefits Examples Additional Information

Peer Reviewed Final Report—Mercury Maps: A Quantitative Spatial Link Between Air Deposition and Fish Tissue (PDF) (1.6 Mb, 61 pages) http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/maps/report.pdf Fish Tissue Human Health Water Quality Criterion for Methylmercuryhttp://www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/methylmercury/


Stand-alone



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Guidance



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA

Address


Contact


Phone

202-566-0430

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (NDZ) No-Discharge Zones for Vessel Sewage by State Type of Tool

Point data

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/regulatory/vessel_sewage/vsdnozone.html

Description

Significant environmental impacts to coastal and ocean ecosystems occur via direct pollution from vessels, and as a vector for the invasion of non-indigenous species. Pollution from recreational, commercial, and military vessels emanates from a variety of sources, and include: gray water, bilgewater, blackwater (sewage), ballast water, anti-fouling paints (and their leachate), hazardous materials, and municipal and commercial garbage and other wastes. These tables list States where the current no-discharge zones (NDZs) for vessel sewage are located. The tables also include the names of the waterbodies, the type of designation and a link to the Federal Register Notice describing the action. NDZ designation types include: * 312(f)(3) protecting aquatic habitats where pumpout facilities are available; * 312(f)(4)(A) protecting special aquatic habitats or species; and * 312(f)(4)(B) protecting drinking water intake zones to protect human health.. In some cases, more than one State shares a waterbody and NDZ designation. These cases are listed by each State with the other State(s) also listed with it.

Uses


Purposes

Community outreach

Water quality standards Prioritization

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Estuary/Coastal Wetland

Stressors Nutrients Pathogens Dissolved oxygen

Related Tools EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture

EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst Examples

http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/regulatory/vessel_sewage/vsdnozone.html


Stand-alone GIS


Email Required Expertise Developer

Cost Estimate Free


Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Oceans and

Address

Coastal Protection Office

133

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Mail Code 4504T Washington, DC 20460 202-566-1729

Contact

Oceans and Coastal Protection Office

Email

OW_Web_CMS_Administrators@ep

Phone


134

202-566-1729

EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories

Type of Tool

Point data

Keywords

fish advisories,

Link

http://epa.gov/waterscience/fish/

Description

The database includes all available information describing state-, tribal-, and federally-issued fish consumption advisories in the United States for the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. Territories, and in Canada for the 12 provinces and territories. The database contains information provided to EPA by the states, tribes, territories and Canada.

Uses


Purposes



Watershed planning Transferability

Geographic Scale

National


State Ecosystems

Estuary/Coastal Wetland

Stressors Toxics Dissolved oxygen

Related Tools EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS Examples

http://134.67.99.49/scripts/esrimap.dll?name=Listing&Cmd=Map


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USEPA

Address

US EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (4305T), Washington, DC 20460

Contact

Jeff Bigler

Phone

(202) 566-1729

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (NLFTS) - National Lake Fish Tissue Study

Type of Tool

Point data

Keywords

Link

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishstudies/lakefishtissue_index.cfm

Description

A four-year national screening-level study of freshwater fish contamination was conducted as a priority activity under our Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Chemical Initiative. It is the first national fish tissue survey to be based on a probabilistic (random) sampling design, and it will generate data on the largest set of PBT chemicals ever studied in fish. The statistical design of the study will allow us to develop national estimates of the mean concentrations of 268 chemicals in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs of the lower 48 States. We will use the study results to define the first national mean concentrations for the 268 chemicals in lake fish, to provide a national fish contamination baseline to track progress of pollution control activities, and to identify areas where contaminant levels are high enough to warrant further investigation.

Uses


Purposes



Community outreach Transferability

Geographic Scale

National


State Ecosystems

Lake

Stressors Metals Toxics Pesticides


EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products


EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads EPA Clean Water Act Analytical Methods EPA Water Quality Economics and Benefits EPA Mercury Maps: A Quantitative Spatial Link Between Air Deposition and Fish Tissue Examples

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishstudies/results.cfm


Clean Lakes (http://www.epa.gov/owow/lakes/) -Comprising 39.9 million acres, lakes and reservoirs are a major water resource in this country. Freshwater inland lakes and reservoirs provide our


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nation with 70% of its drinking water and supply water for industry, irrigation, and hydropower. Lake ecosystems support complex and important food web interactions and provide habitat needed to support numerous threatened and endangered species. Lakes are also the cornerstone of our nation's 19 billion dollar freshwater fishing industry, form the bacKbone of numerous State tourism industries, and provide countless recreational opportunities. Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) Chemical Program (http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/pbt/) This PBT chemicals program has been established to overcome the remaining challenges in addressing priority PBT pollutants. We are committing, through this program, to create an enduring cross-office system that will address the cross-media issues associated with priority PBT pollutants. Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource. Anglers and Aquatic Resource Protection (http://www.epa.gov/owow/fish/) - We want to provide anglers with information on the condition of our nation's waters, activities that anglers and their families can undertake to improve the health of our valued fisheries, and information on our role in protecting recreational fisheries. Estimated Per Capita Fish Consumption in the United States (August 2002) (PDF) (262 pp., 3.3MB, About PDF) (http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/standards/criteria/health/upload/consumption_report.pdf) This report displays daily average per capita fish consumption estimates that may be used in estimating risk to human health from the consumption of contaminated freshwater and estuarine finfish and shellfish species. Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone


Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer


Address


Contact


Phone

(202) 566-1729

Email

http://water.epa.gov/aboutow/ownews


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EPA Omernik Ecoregions

Type of Tool

Classification framework data/tool Vector data

Keywords

ecoregion

Link

http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/ecoregions.htm

Description

The ecoregions shown here have been derived from Omernik (1987) and from refinements of Omernik's framework that have been made for other projects. These ongoing or recently completed projects, conducted in collaboration with the U.S. EPA regional offices, other federal agencies, state resource management agencies, and groups from neighboring North American countries, involve refining and subdividing ecoregions. Designed to serve as a spatial framework for the research assessment, and monitoring of ecosystems and ecosystem components, ecoregions denote areas within which ecosystems (and the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources) are generally similar. By recognizing the spatial differences in the capacities and potentials of ecosystems, ecoregions stratify the environment by its probable response to disturbance (Bryce et al. 1999). These general purpose regions are critical for structuring and implementing ecosystem management strategies across federal agencies, state agencies, and nongovernmental organizations that are responsible for different types of resources within the same geographical areas (Omernik et al. 2000, McMahon et al. 2001). The approach used to compile these maps is based on the premise that ecological regions can be identified through the analysis of the patterns and the composition of biotic and abiotic phenomena that affect or reflect differences in ecosystem quality and integrity (Wiken 1986; Omernik 1987, 1995). These phenomena include geology, physiography, vegetation, climate, soils, land use, wildlife, and hydrology. The relative importance of each characteristic varies from one ecological region to another regardless of the hierarchical level. Because of possible confusion with other meanings of terms for different levels of ecological regions, a Roman numeral classification scheme has been adopted for this effort. Level I is the coarsest level, dividing North America into 15 ecological regions, whereas at Level II the continent is subdivided into 50 classes (CEC 1997, 2006). Level III is the hierarchical level shown on this map. For most of the United States, the ecoregions have been further subdivided to Level IV. More detailed explanations of the methods used to define the USEPA ecoregions are given in Omernik 1995, 2004, and Omernik et al. 2000. The applications of the ecoregions are explained in Bryce et al. 1999 and in reports and publications from the state and regional projects (e.g., Griffith et al. 2007, Griffith. et al. 1994, and Omernik et al. 2000).

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL

Classifying information prior to analysis

Watershed planning


Permitting


Community outreach

Forecasting

Prioritization Condition assessment Causal assessment Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional

National State Agriculture

Multiple


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Ecosystems

Agriculture Forest


Grassland

Nutrients

Urban/Suburban/

Suspended sediment

Estuary/Coastal

Ionic strength

Lake

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools USFS Bailey's Ecoregions USFS Ecological Subregions: Provinces, Sections, and Subsections of the Conterminous Uni

USFS - Ecological Units of the Eastern United States: First Approximation EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS EPA (STORET/WQX) - STOrage and RETrieval/Water Quality Exchange EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database

EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits EPA (WQSDB) Water Quality Standards Database EPA (SDWIS) Safe Drinking Water Information System EPA Nutrient Criteria Database Examples

http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/ecoregions/pub_list.htm


Stand-alone GIS



Cost Estimate Free


Developer

US EPA (WED)

Address

U.S. Geological Survey; c/o U.S. EPA; 200 SW 35th Street; Corvallis, OR 97333

Contact

http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/ecoregio

Phone

(541) 754-4465

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits

Type of Tool

Point data

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/pcs/index.html

Description

The Permit Compliance System (PCS) provides information on companies which have been issued permits to discharge waste water into rivers. You can review information on when a permit was issued and expires, how much the company is permitted to discharge, and the actual monitoring data showing what the company has discharged. The PCS Search allows you to retrieve preselected data from the PCS database in Envirofacts. You can narrow your search by selecting various options including facility name, geographic location, facility industrial classification, and chemicals. You may also use the PCS Customized Search to retrieve data and design a search for your particular needs, using any data element available from the Envirofacts Warehouse. Customized searches are primarily geared toward more experienced users.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning Permitting


Geographic Scale

National

Regional Local


Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Urban/Suburban/ Estuary/Coastal

Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS EPA (STORET/WQX) - STOrage and RETrieval/Water Quality Exchange

NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories

EPA (SDWIS) Safe Drinking Water Information System EPA Nutrient Criteria Database EPA (BEACON) Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification EPA (NDZ) No-Discharge Zones for Vessel Sewage by State Examples

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/pcs/pcs_query.html

Additional Information Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Stand-alone GIS

Cost Estimate Free


Contact Email


Address Phone

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/facts/ef_fe


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EPA - PRZM3

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www2.epa.gov/exposure-assessment-models/przm3-version-3123

Description

PRZM3 is the most recent version of a modeling system that links two subordinate models, PRZM and VADOFT, in order to predict pesticide transport and transformation down through the crop root and unsaturated zone. PRZM is a one-dimensional, finite-difference model that accounts for pesticide and nitrogen fate in the crop root zone. PRZM3 includes modeling capabilities for such phenomena as soil temperature simulation, volatilization and vapor phase transport in soils, irrigation simulation, microbial transformation, and a method of characteristics (MOC) algorithm to eliminate numerical dispersion. PRZM is capable of simulating transport and transformation of the parent compound and as many as two daughter species. VADOFT is a one-dimensional, finite-element code that solves the Richard's equation for flow in the unsaturated zone. The user may make use of constitutive relationships between pressure, water content, and hydraulic conductivity to solve the flow equations. VADOFT may also simulate the fate of two parent and two daughter products. The PRZM and VADOFT codes are linked together with the aid of a flexible execution supervisor that allows the user to build loading models that are tailored to site-specific situations. In order to perform probability-based exposure assessments, the code is also equipped with a Monte Carlo pre- and post-processor. The PRZM3 model system with documentation is available for microcomputer (DOS) systems. Enhancements to Release 3.0 include updates to physiochemical processes, increased flexibility in representing agronomic practices, and improved post-processing and data interpretation aids. A major modification includes algorithms that enable modeling of nitrogen cycle soil kinetic processes with the ability to track nitrogen discharges from a septic tank into the soil environment and movement to groundwater.

Uses


Purposes

Modeling


Associating in-stream characteristics & ecological condition Water quality standards Forecasting Condition assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Agriculture


Related Tools EPA (EXPRESS): EXAMS - PRZM Exposure Simulation Shell EPA - GCSOLAR Examples

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/gwater/przm3/przm3123.html

Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Stand-alone


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Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA-ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

CEAM

Phone

706/355-8403

Email



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EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/qual2k.html

Description

QUAL2K (or Q2K) is a river and stream water quality model that is intended to represent a modernized version of the QUAL2E (or Q2E) model (Brown and Barnwell 1987). Q2K is similar to Q2E in the following respects: One dimensional. The channel is well-mixed vertically and laterally. * Steady state hydraulics. Non-uniform, steady flow is simulated. * Diurnal heat budget. The heat budget and temperature are simulated as a function of meteorology on a diurnal time scale. * Diurnal water-quality kinetics. All water quality variables are simulated on a diurnal time scale. * Heat and mass inputs. Point and non-point loads and abstractions are simulated.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Stream/River

Stressors Multiple


EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products

EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) Examples Additional Information

The QUAL2K framework includes the following new elements: Software Environment and Interface. Q2K is implemented within the Microsoft Windows environment. It is programmed in the Windows macro language: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Excel is used as the graphical user interface. * Model segmentation. Q2E segments the system into river reaches comprised of equally spaced elements. In contrast, Q2K uses unequally-spaced reaches. In addition, multiple loadings and abstractions can be input to any reach. * Carbonaceous BOD speciation. Q2K uses two forms of carbonaceous BOD to represent organic carbon. These forms are a slowly oxidizing form (slow CBOD) and a rapidly oxidizing form (fast CBOD). In addition, non-living particulate organic matter (detritus) is simulated. This detrital material is composed of particulate carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in a fixed stoichiometry. * Anoxia. Q2K accommodates anoxia by reducing oxidation reactions to zero at low oxygen levels.


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In addition, denitrification is modeled as a first-order reaction that becomes pronounced at low oxygen concentrations. * Sediment-water interactions. Sediment-water fluxes of dissolved oxygen and nutrients are simulated internally rather than being prescribed. That is, oxygen (SOD) and nutrient fluxes are simulated as a function of settling particulate organic matter, reactions within the sediments, and the concentrations of soluble forms in the overlying waters. * Bottom algae. The model explicitly simulates attached bottom algae. * Light extinction. Light extinction is calculated as a function of algae, detritus and inorganic solids. * pH. Both alkalinity and total inorganic carbon are simulated. The river's pH is then simulated based on these two quantities. * Pathogens. A generic pathogen is simulated. Pathogen removal is determined as a function of temperature, light, and settling. Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA - ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database

Type of Tool

Point data Vector data

Keywords Links

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/reach-address-database-rad http://water.epa.gov/scitech/datait/tools/waters/data/downloads.cfm

Description

The RAD contains the spatial representation for each Water Program Feature and an associated identifier (also, known as the Entity ID) used to relate the spatial representation to descriptive attributes stored in a separate Water Program database. For example, the Assessed Waters Feature identifier can be used to access attribute information stored in the National Assessment Database.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple


Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional Local


Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Estuary/Coastal Wetland Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions ILWIS - Integrated Land and Water Information System

EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS EPA (STORET/WQX) - STOrage and RETrieval/Water Quality Exchange

River Tools™ Landserf NRCS - Hydrology and Hydraulics EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories

EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits EPA Nutrient Criteria Database EPA (BEACON) Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification EPA (NDZ) No-Discharge Zones for Vessel Sewage by State Examples Additional Information Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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GIS



Developer


Address

Contact

http://epamap32.epa.gov/radims/

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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Cost Estimate Free

EPA (ReVA) Regional Vulnerability Assessment

Type of Tool

Analytical tool Classification framework data/tool Vector data Grid data

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/reva/

Description

The Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) program conducts research on innovative approaches to the evaluation and integration of large and complex datasets and models to assess current conditions and likely outcomes of environmental decisions, including alternative futures. ReVA works with select client groups to develop applied research demonstrations that combine and apply current data and appropriate models across a geographic region. The goals are to interpret current conditions, anticipate future issues, set management and ecosystem protection priorities, and proactively assess decisions that may impact multiple outcomes or involve tradeoffs in a transparent, defensible fashion.

Uses


Purposes



Watershed planning


Community outreach


Water resources management Forecasting Modeling

Visualization

Condition assessment Causal assessment Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional State

Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Agriculture Forest Grassland

Urban/Suburban/ Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Examples

http://www.epa.gov/reva/products.htm


http://amethyst.epa.gov/revatoolkit/Welcome.js


Stand-alone



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Guidance Required Expertise

Cost Estimate Free


Developer

US EPA - ORD

Address

USEPA-Research Triangle Park, NC

Contact

Betsy Smith

Phone

919-541-0620

Email

http://www.epa.gov/reva/contact.htm


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EPA (SDWIS) Safe Drinking Water Information System Type of Tool

Point data

Keywords

Safe Drinking Water

Link

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/facts/sdwis/index.html

Description

The Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) contains information about public water systems and their violations of EPA's drinking water regulations. These statutes and accompanying regulations establish maximum contaminant levels, treatment techniques, and monitoring and reporting requirements to ensure that water provided to customers is safe for human consumption.

Uses


Purposes

Standards



Watershed planning Community outreach Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional


Lake Stream/River

Stressors Metals Toxics

Pathogens Related Tools EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis)

EPA Enviromapper for Water EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst Examples

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/sdwis/sdwis_query.html


SDWIS User's Guide: http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/sdwis/sdwis_userguide.html


Stand-alone




Contact Email

Cost Estimate Free

Address Phone

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/sdwis/


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800-426-4791

EPA - SERAFM

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www2.epa.gov/exposure-assessment-models/serafm

Description

SERAFM Conceptual Model - SERAFM is a process-based, steady-state modeling system based in a spreadsheet framework incorporating a series of process modules. SERAFM predicts speciated mercury concentrations (Hg0, HgII, MeHg, HgT) in water (filtered and unfiltered) and sediments, and total mercury concentrations in fish tissue. Using this information exposure risk hazard indices are estimated for a series of exposed wildlife. Three scenarios of historical contamination from contaminated sediments, reference conditions, and feasible remediation concentrations are simultaneously and instantaneously predicted. SERAFM is not a priori predictive, but rather requires site-specific calibration. This is a challenge due to the limits of understanding in mercury process science, and is inherent in any process-based modeling structure. SERAFM was specifically developed to serve as a screening-level tool to investigate mercury cycling and exposure concentrations in water bodies and associated impacted wildlife exposure risk, as well as a research tool to investigate mercury processes within the watershed and water body. Four releases of SERAFM version 1.0.4 are currenly available. SERAFM_v104a runs under Excel2003 and SERAFM_v104b was created for versions of Excel prior to the release of Excel2003 (and for Macintosh users). "Lite" releases of SERAFM (SERAFM_Lite_v104a and SERAFM_Lite_v104b) have the contaminated sediment scenarios removed to produce a mercury cycling aquatic ecosystem model. "Lite" releases can be used as-is to investigate mercury concentrations in a given system or adapted to study systems with different loading scenarios.

Uses


Purposes

Modeling

Predicting flows,loads, and/or concentrations Associating in-stream characteristics & ecological condition Water quality standards

Restoration/recovery potential Forecasting Condition assessment Causal assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Lake

Stressors Metals

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Examples

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/swater/serafm/SERAFM-dl.html


Knightes, C.D. 2007. Development and test application of a screening-level mercury fate model and tool for evaluating wildlife exposure risk for surface waters with mercury-contaminated sediments (SERAFM). Environmental Modelling & Software. 23:495-510. Brown, S., Saito, L., Knightes, C.D., Gustin, M. 2007. Calibration and Evaluation of a Mercury Model for a Western Stream and Constructed Wetland. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 182(1-4):275-290.


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EPA (STEPL) - Spreadsheet Tool for Estimating Pollutant Load Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Link

http://it.tetratech-ffx.com/steplweb/

Description

Spreadsheet Tool for Estimating Pollutant Load (STEPL) employs simple algorithms to calculate nutrient and sediment loads from different land uses and the load reductions that would result from the implementation of various best management practices (BMPs).STEPL provides a user-friendly Visual Basic (VB) interface to create a customized spreadsheet-based model in Microsoft (MS) Excel. It computes watershed surface runoff; nutrient loads, including nitrogen, phosphorus, and 5day biological oxygen demand (BOD5); and sediment delivery based on various land uses and management practices. For each watershed, the annual nutrient loading is calculated based on the runoff volume and the pollutant concentrations in the runoff water as influenced by factors such as the land use distribution and management practices. The annual sediment load (sheet and rill erosion only) is calculated based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and the sediment delivery ratio. The sediment and pollutant load reductions that result from the implementation of BMPs are computed using the known BMP efficiencies. Region 5 Model is an Excel workbook that provides a gross estimate of sediment and nutrient load reductions from the implementation of agricultural and urban BMPs. The algorithms for non-urban BMPs are based on the "Pollutants controlled: Calculation and documentation for Section 319 watersheds training manual" (Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, June 1999). The algorithms for urban BMPs are based on the data and calculations developed by Illinois EPA. Region 5 Model does not estimate pollutant load reductions for dissolved constituents.

Uses


Purposes



TMDL


Watershed planning


Permitting


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors Nonpoint source

Agriculture Forest

Grassland Urban/Suburban/ Estuary/Coastal Lake

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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EPA (STORET/WQX) - STOrage and RETrieval/Water Quality Exchange Type of Tool

Point data

Keywords

water quality data,

Link

www.epa.gov/storet

Description

STORET (short for STOrage and RETrieval) is a repository for water quality, biological, and physical data and is used by state environmental agencies, EPA and other federal agencies, universities, private citizens, and many others. It includes both a Legacy STORET database (pre1999) and Modernized STORET (1999 – present). Groups submit data to the STORET Data Warehouse through a framework called the Water Quality Exchange, or WQX. WQX is not a distributed database that people use, but rather a standard way of sharing data to the STORET Data Warehouse, using the National Environmental Information Exchange Network.

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL


Watershed planning


Permitting


Community outreach

Forecasting Visualization

Prioritization Condition assessment Causal assessment Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional




Wetland

Nutrients Suspended sediment Bedded sediment Metals

Toxics Invasive species Altered habitat Pathogens Temperature

Altered flow Dissolved oxygen pH Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Ionic strength

Pesticides Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS EPA Enviromapper for Water EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst

EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories EPA (SDWIS) Safe Drinking Water Information System EPA Nutrient Criteria Database

EPA (BEACON) Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification EPA (NDZ) No-Discharge Zones for Vessel Sewage by State Examples

http://www.epa.gov/storet/tutorials.html


STORET Database Access: www.epa.gov/storet/dbtop.html STORET Watershed Summary: www.epa.gov/storet/wtshd_summary.html STORET Web Services: www.epa.gov/storet/web_services.html Water Quality Exchange (WQX): http://www.epa.gov/storet/wqx/index.html


Stand-alone GIS


Workshops Telephone Email Required Expertise


Developer


Address

Contact

http://www.epa.gov/storet/contact.html

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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Cost Estimate Free

1-800-424-9067

Examples

http://bering.tetratech-ffx.com/website/stepl/viewer.htm


Models and Documentation - http://it.tetratech-ffx.com/stepl/models$docs.htm


Stand-alone Excel




Developer

TetraTech

Address

Contact

Alvi Khalid

Phone

Email

[email protected];ste


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Cost Estimate Free

(703)385-6000 x335

Knightes, C.D. and R. B. Ambrose. 2006. Development of An Ecological Risk Assessment Methodology for Assessing Wildlife Exposure Risk Associated With Mercury-Contaminated Sediments in Lake and River Systems. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Athens, GA. Publication No. EPA/600/R-06/073. US EPA. 2005. Regulatory Impact Analysis of the Clean Air Mercury Rule. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Air Quality Strategies and Standards Division. Chapter 3: Ecosystem Scale Modeling for Mercury Benefits Analysis and Appendix A: Mercury Load Reduction Analysis and Response. EPA-452/R-05-003. March. Knightes, C.D. SERAFM: An Ecological Risk Assessment Tool for Evaluating Wildlife Exposure Risk Associated with Mercury-Contaminated Sediment in Lake and River Systems. Presented at EPA Science Forum 2005, Washington, DC, May 16 - 18, 2005. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. 2005. Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities. September. Chapter 2: Characterizing Facility Emissions. EPA530-R-05-006. Brown, S. 2006. Modeling Mercury Behavior in a Contaminated Desert Stream and Constructed Wetland. M.S. Thesis. University of Nevada, Reno. February 14. Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone Excel




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA-ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

Chris Knightes

Phone

706/355-8326

Email

[email protected]


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Name

EPA (SWMM) - Stormwater Management Model

What is it? Link

Model http://www.epa.gov/ednnrmrl/models/swmm/index.htm

Keywords

Rainfall-Runoff Model, Water Quality Model

Description

The EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) is a dynamic rainfall-runoff simulation model used for single event or long-term (continuous) simulation of runoff quantity and quality from primarily urban areas. The runoff component of SWMM operates on a collection of subcatchment areas that receive precipitation and generate runoff and pollutant loads. The routing portion of SWMM transports this runoff through a system of pipes, channels, storage/treatment devices, pumps, and regulators. SWMM tracks the quantity and quality of runoff generated within each subcatchment, and the flow rate, flow depth, and quality of water in each pipe and channel during a simulation period comprised of multiple time steps. SWMM was first developed in 1971, and has since undergone several major upgrades since then. It continues to be widely used throughout the world for planning, analysis and design related to stormwater runoff, combined sewers, sanitary sewers, and other drainage systems in urban areas, with many applications in non-urban areas as well. The current edition, Version 5, is a complete rewrite of the previous release. Running under Windows, SWMM 5 provides an integrated environment for editing study area input data, running hydrologic, hydraulic and water quality simulations, and viewing the results in a variety of formats. These include color-coded drainage area and conveyance system maps, time series graphs and tables, profile plots, and statistical frequency analyses.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning Water resources management Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools The Australian Catchment Modelling Toolkit EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2 EPA Geospatial Portal EPA WebRIT Waters 3.1 Monday, July 25, 2011

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USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System PEST: Model Independent Parameter Estimation Environmental and Water Resource Software CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) IWMI - WATERSIM© EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System EPA - Exposure Assessment Models EPA (WARMF) - Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework EPA (LSPC) - Loading Simulation Program in C++ EPA (WAM) - Watershed Assessment Model Examples

http://www.epa.gov/ednnrmrl/models/swmm/index.htm#Applications


There is no formal support offered for EPA SWMM. A SWMM Users Listserve, established by the University of Guelph, allows subscribers to ask questions and exchange information. To subscribe, send an email message to [email protected] with the words "subscribe swmm-users" (without the quotes) in the body followed by your name.


Technical Online user community Support Website Guidance Telephone Email



Cost Estimate Free

EPA-ORD (Cincinnati)

Address Contact

Lewis Rossman

Email

[email protected]

Phone


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513-569-7603

EPA (SWMM 5) - Stormwater Management Model

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/wswrd/wq/models/swmm/

Description

The EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) is a dynamic rainfall-runoff simulation model used for single event or long-term (continuous) simulation of runoff quantity and quality from primarily urban areas. The runoff component of SWMM operates on a collection of subcatchment areas that receive precipitation and generate runoff and pollutant loads. The routing portion of SWMM transports this runoff through a system of pipes, channels, storage/treatment devices, pumps, and regulators. SWMM tracks the quantity and quality of runoff generated within each subcatchment, and the flow rate, flow depth, and quality of water in each pipe and channel during a simulation period comprised of multiple time steps. SWMM was first developed in 1971, and has since undergone several major upgrades since then. It continues to be widely used throughout the world for planning, analysis and design related to stormwater runoff, combined sewers, sanitary sewers, and other drainage systems in urban areas, with many applications in non-urban areas as well. The current edition, Version 5, is a complete rewrite of the previous release. Running under Windows, SWMM 5 provides an integrated environment for editing study area input data, running hydrologic, hydraulic and water quality simulations, and viewing the results in a variety of formats. These include color-coded drainage area and conveyance system maps, time series graphs and tables, profile plots, and statistical frequency analyses. EPA has recently extended SWMM 5 to explicitly model the hydrologic performance of specific types of low impact development (LID) controls, such as porous pavement, bio-retention areas (e.g., rain gardens, green roofs, and street planters), rain barrels, infiltration trenches, and vegetative swales. The updated model allows engineers and planners to accurately represent any combination of LID controls within a study area to determine their effectiveness in managing stormwater and combined sewer overflows. SWMM 5 was produced in a joint development effort with CDM, Inc., a global consulting, engineering, construction, and operations firm.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program

Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2

EPA Geospatial Portal USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System PEST - Model Independent Parameter Estimation Environmental and Water Resource Software

CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH)

IWMI - WATERSIM© EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System

EPA - Exposure Assessment Models EPA (WARMF) - Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework EPA (LSPC) - Loading Simulation Program in C++ EPA (WAM) - Watershed Assessment Model Examples

http://www.epa.gov/ednnrmrl/models/swmm/index.htm#Applications


There is no formal support offered for EPA SWMM. A SWMM Users Listserve, established by the University of Guelph, allows subscribers to ask questions and exchange information. To subscribe, send an email message to [email protected] with the words "subscribe swmm-users" (without the quotes) in the body followed by your name. SWMM 5 Users Manual:http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/wswrd/wq/models/swmm/epaswmm5_user_manual.pdf SWMM 5 Applications Manual: http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/wswrd/wq/models/swmm/epaswmm5_apps_manual.zip


Stand-alone


Guidance Telephone Email Required Expertise Developer

Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed EPA-ORD (Cincinnati)

Address


160

Cost Estimate Free

U.S. EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center Water Supply and Water Resources Division 26 West Martin Luther King Drive Mail Code: MLK 693

Cincinnati, OH 45268 Contact

Lewis Rossman

Email

[email protected]

Phone


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513-569-7603

EPA - Visual Plumes

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www2.epa.gov/exposure-assessment-models/visual-plumes

Description

The Visual Plumes model system is a Windows-based software application for simulating surface water jets and plumes. It also assists in the preparation of mixing zone analyses, Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), and other water quality applications. A demonstration of how Visual Plumes was applied to Lake Pontchartrain flood water discharge after Hurricane Katrina is available below.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL


Modeling

Water quality standards BMP selection and siting Forecasting Visualization

Prioritization Condition assessment Causal assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local



Stream/River

Suspended sediment Metals

Toxics Pathogens Dissolved oxygen pH Ionic strength

Pesticides Related Tools (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System Examples

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/swater/vplume/KatrinaModelingDemo.exe


Hurricane Katrina Modeling Demonstration (http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/swater/vplume/KatrinaModelingDemo.exe) In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent repair of dikes protecting New Orleans, water was pumped from flooded sections of the city into Lake Pontchartrain and other water bodies as part of the drying of the city. Under an ongoing CRADA collaboration between EPA and Battelle, a decision was made to contribute to post-Katrina recovery efforts by applying collective experience to the Lake Pontchartrain discharge. Simulations of expected tidal movements and associated salinity, using the Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model, a public domain model adopted for another modeling application, are the product of this work. In this demonstration, a 48-hour simulation traces the impact of polluted water and suspended sediment discharged during pumping from Lake


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Pontchartrain into the Mississippi Sound. The distribution of sea salt is the first step to assessing how well a modeling study reproduces actual water transport and dispersion. Indirectly, the movement of the discharged brackish water can be used to help evaluate the impact of these contaminant flows on the wetlands and ecosystems along the coast of Gulf of Mexico. Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA - ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

CEAM

Phone

706/355-8403

Email



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EPA (WAM) - Watershed Assessment Model

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/wamview.html

Description

WAM is a tool that has been shown to be useful in the assessment of watershed-related properties. WAM was developed to allow engineers and planners to assess the water quality of both surface water and groundwater based on land use, soils, climate, and other factors. The model simulates the primary physical processes important for watershed hydrologic and pollutant transport. The WAM GIS-based coverages including: * Land use, * Soils, * Topography, * Hydrography, * Basin and sub-basin boundaries, * Point sources and service area coverages, * Climate data, and * Land use and soils description files. The coverages are used to develop data that can be used in the simulation of a variety of physical and chemical processes. The advantage of this model over others is its ability to: * Use a grid-based system to assess the spatial impact of existing and modified land uses on water quality and quantity for tributaries within the Lake Okeechobee watershed; * Develop phosphorus (P) load allocations for total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) that will be acceptable to Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP); * Identify P and flow “hot spots”; * Rank P loadings by source, subbasin, and sub-watersheds

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Permitting

Community outreach

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Local

Regional

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products

EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP)

EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads EPA (NLFTS) - National Lake Fish Tissue Study Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2

USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System PEST - Model Independent Parameter Estimation Environmental and Water Resource Software CSIRO - eWATER

CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code

EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System EPA - Exposure Assessment Models EPA (WARMF) - Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework EPA (LSPC) - Loading Simulation Program in C++ Examples

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/WAMView.pdf


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA-ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (WARMF) - Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/warmf.html

Description

To facilitate TMDL analysis and watershed planning, WARMF was developed under sponsorship from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) as a decision support system for watershed management. The system provides a road map to calculate TMDLs for most conventional pollutants (coliform, TSS, BOD, nutrients). It also provides a road map to guide stakeholders to reach consensus on an implementation plan. The scientific basis of the model and the consensus process have undergone several peer reviews by independent experts under EPA guidelines. WARMF is now compatible with the data extraction and watershed delineation tools of EPA BASINS. WARMF is organized into five (5) linked modules under one, GIS-based graphical user interface (GUI). It is a very user friendly tool suitable for expert modelers as well as general stakeholders.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple

Watershed planning Permitting

Community outreach

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools Australian eWater Toolkit IWMI Ecohydrological Databases

EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources

EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program

Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads EPA Water Quality Economics and Benefits Watershed Analyst™

USGS Streamstats Version 2 EPA Geospatial Portal EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Environmental and Water Resource Software

Center for Geospatial Data Analysis – Indiana Geological Survey CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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IWMI -The Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC)

USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) IWMI - The Global Podium - Interactive water and food security scenario planning tool IWMI - WATERSIM©

IWMI - OASIS (Options AnalysiS in Irrigation Systems) EPA (EPD-RIV1) - One Dimensional Riverine Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model EPA (EFDC) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code EPA (EXAMS) - Exposure Analysis Modeling System EPA - Exposure Assessment Models Examples

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/WARMFFactSheet.pdf




Telephone Email Training Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA - ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


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EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/wasp.html

Description

The Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program. (WASP7), an enhancement of the original WASP (Di Toro et al., 1983; Connolly and Winfield, 1984; Ambrose, R.B. et al., 1988). This model helps users interpret and predict water quality responses to natural phenomena and manmade pollution for various pollution management decisions. WASP is a dynamic compartment-modeling program for aquatic systems, including both the water column and the underlying benthos. WASP allows the user to investigate 1, 2, and 3 dimensional systems, and a variety of pollutant types. The state variables for the given modules are given in the table below. The time varying processes of advection, dispersion, point and diffuse mass loading and boundary exchange are represented in the model. WASP also can be linked with hydrodynamic and sediment transport models that can provide flows, depths velocities, temperature, salinity and sediment fluxes. WASP has been used to examine eutrophication of Tampa Bay, FL; phosphorus loading to Lake Okeechobee, FL; eutrophication of the Neuse River Estuary, NC; eutrophication Coosa River and Reservoirs, AL; PCB pollution of the Great Lakes, eutrophication of the Potomac Estuary, kepone pollution of the James River Estuary, volatile organic pollution of the Delaware Estuary, and heavy metal pollution of the Deep River, North Carolina, mercury in the Savannah River, GA.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple


TMDL Watershed planning Permitting

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Lake Stream/River Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources

EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX

(CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System Examples

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/WASP.pdf


WASP 7 Course - http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/courses/wasp7/index.html


Stand-alone


Free Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA - ORD (Athens)

Address


Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


169

Name

EPA Water Quality Economics and Benefits

What is it?

Analytical tool

Link

http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/economics/

Keywords

Description

Uses

Estimating the benefits of water quality programs instituted under the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA) is one of the requirements faced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It is also an integral part of the Agency’s ongoing process to evaluate the contribution of its water quality programs to society. As a result, estimating the benefits of environmental regulation is one of the many procedural methods EPA uses to determine how it can be more effective in addressing the needs of society. To support these objectives, EPA has initiated a program to improve the data and methods used for estimating the benefits of its water quality programs. Program Applications

Purposes

Standards TMDL Watershed planning Permitting

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

National

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products EPA - AQUATOX (CORMIX) - Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Examples Additional Information

http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/economics/assessment.pdf http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/economics/benefits.pdf http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/economics/costs.pdf


Technical Support Cost Estimate Free


Developer

EPA

Address

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW


170

Mail Code 4301T Washington, DC 20460 Contact


Email

[email protected]

Phone


171

202-566-0430

Name

EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

What is it?

Analytical tool Raw tool Model gateway

Link

http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/

Keywords

water quality models; water quality tools

Description

Water quality models are tools for simulating the movement of precipitation and pollutants from the ground surface through pipe and channel networks, storage treatment units and finally to receiving waters. Both single-event and continuous simulation may be performed on catchments having storm sewers and natural drainage, for prediction of flows, stages and pollutant concentrations. Each water quality model has its own unique purpose and simulation characteristics and the reader is advised to thoroughly review downloading and data input instructions for each model. * AQUATOX: A Simulation Model for Aquatic Ecosystems AQUATOX (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/aquatox/) is a freshwater ecosystem simulation model. It predicts the fate of various pollutants, such as nutrients and organic toxicants, and their effects on the ecosystem, including fish, invertebrates, and aquatic plants * CORMIX for Mixing Zones (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/cormix.html) A mixing zone model that can be used to assess water quality impacts from point source discharges at surface or sub-surface levels. * WASP7 (http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/wasp.html) WASP7 is an enhanced version of the Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program (WASP). This version includes kinetic algorithms for 1. eutrophication/conventional pollutants, 2. organic chemicals/metals, 3. mercury, and 4. temperation, fecal coliform, and conservative pollutants. * QUAL2K model (http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/qual2k.html) A river and stream water quality model, intended to represent a modernized version of the QUAL2E (or Q2E) model (Brown and Barnwell 1987) Water quality tools include maps and methods. * Allocating Loads and Wasteloads—Use this tool for TMDL development (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/allocation/) * Analytical Methods (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/methods/) Methods used by industries and municipalities to analyze the chemical and biological components of wastewater, drinking water, sediment, and other environmental samples. * BASINS: A Powerful Tool for Managing Watersheds (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/BASINS/) A multi-purpose environmental analysis system that integrates a geographical information system (GIS), national watershed data, and environmental assessment and modeling tools into one convenient package. * DFLOW: A Tool for Low Flow Analysis (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/dflow/) A tool to calculate design flow statistics. It also includes several pages explaining how to use the tool and provides detailed background information. * Economics & Benefits (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/economics/) Estimating the benefits of our water quality programs. * Mercury Maps: A Quantitative Spatial Link Between Air Deposition and Fish Tissue (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/maps/) Mercury Maps is a tool that relates changes in mercury air deposition rates to changes in mercury fish tissue concentrations, on a national scale. Mercury Maps can be used to help identify those waterbodies expected to attain state water quality standards


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(http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/standards/) as a result of air deposition reductions, or to assist in Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) analyses for individual or multiple watersheds. * National Lake Fish Tissue Study (http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fishstudy/) A screening-level study has been conducted to estimate the national distribution of selected persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemical residues in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs of the continental United States. Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple


Geographic Scale

Global

Regional Local

Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources Examples Additional Information

Comments - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/comments.htm

Stand-alone Minimum Software GIS Requirement

Technical Online user community Support Website Webcasts Guidance Workshops Telephone Email

Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA (OST) - Office of Science and Technology (www.epa.gov/waterscience)

Address


Contact

EPA Office of Science and Technolo

Email

[email protected]

Phone


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202-566-0430

EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS Type of Tool


Keywords

Link

www.epa.gov/waters/

Description

WATERS is an integrated information system for the nation's surface waters. The EPA Office of Water manages numerous programs in support of the Agency's water quality efforts. Many of these programs collect and store water quality related data in databases. These databases are managed by the individual Water Programs and this separation often inhibits the integrated application of the data they contain. Under WATERS, the Water Program databases are connected to a larger framework. This framework is a digital network of surface water features, known as the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). WATERS is based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation. Based on the guiding principles of SOA, WATERS provides a suite of interoperable services that expose components that perform complex analysis and supporting strategic datasets, such as NHD, NHDPlus, and WBD. The WATERS Web and Database services provide open interfaces to complex analyses. These services make extensive use of the NHD and referenced program data in the RAD, and also integrate other WATERS program data. Designed as loosely coupled modular units, the services are developed in a common architecture. WATERS mapping services provide access to feature layers via ESRI and Open Geospatial Consortium service formats. Users can consume WATERS datasets using client applications such as ArcGIS Desktop, Bing Maps, Google Maps, OpenLayers, Google Earth and/or ArcGIS Explorer. Developers can utilize these services to incorporate WATERS feature layers into their own mapping applications. Specific information about the mapping services are documented on the WATERS Mapping Services web page. Additionally, the WATERS mapping services are listed on the OneStop Geospatial Gateway.

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL


Watershed planning


Permitting


Community outreach

BMP selection and siting Forecasting Visualization Prioritization Condition assessment

Causal assessment Transferability

Geographic Scale

National


State Ecosystems




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Wetland

Nutrients

Suspended sediment Bedded sediment Metals Toxics Invasive species

Altered habitat Pathogens Temperature Altered flow Dissolved oxygen

pH Ionic strength Pesticides Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions EPA (STORET/WQX) - STOrage and RETrieval/Water Quality Exchange

EPA Enviromapper for Water EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories

EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits EPA (SDWIS) Safe Drinking Water Information System EPA (BEACON) Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification EPA (NDZ) No-Discharge Zones for Vessel Sewage by State Examples

WATERS Expert Query Tool: www.epa.gov/waters/tmdl/expert_query.html


WATERS Web, Mapping, and Database Services: www.epa.gov/waters/geoservices/index.html; Consolidated Assessment and Listing Methodology–Toward a Compendium of Best Practices http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/calm.html


Stand-alone GIS


Guidance Email Required Expertise


Developer

USEPA, Office of Water (OW) (http://www.epa.gov/ow/)

Address

Contact

www.epa.gov/waters/comments.html

Phone

Email

[email protected]


175

Cost Estimate Free

EPA Watershed Central

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

https://wiki.epa.gov/watershed2/index.php/Main_Page

Description

Watershed Central has been designed to assist users to develop and implement effective watershed management programs. The site includes guidance, tools, case studies, and data sets to help you share information, analyze data, and identify opportunities to initiate or strengthen your watershed efforts. Watershed Central is meant for sharing information and resources among: Local watershed groups Regulated wastewater and runoff sources Offices in federal agencies, such as EPA, NOAA, Department of Interior, USDA, and the Army Corps of Engineers EPA Regional Offices and states, tribes, and local governments And the interested public. Watershed Central includes a feature called a wiki, which is web site that allows the user to submit and edit content so that the information is constantly updated by the watershed community (just like Wikipedia). The wiki includes case studies, information on watershed organizations and various watershed management tools. Please submit your content (case studies, watershed management plans, best management practices, tools, lessons learned, and success stories) by registering to be a Wiki editor. Also please join our wiki to see what others have contributed and submit content that way yourself: WATERSHED CENTRAL WIKI. Submitted content will be reviewed each week and edited as necessary by wiki managers (Gardeners). The wiki contains the following information: Tools, models, and other resources for every step in the watershed management process Partners! Articles on other watershed organizations & their lessons learned Map locations for watershed research centers, watershed organizations, and local data sources around the country Spatial Data! Land use, impaired streams, water quality monitoring station locations and information, permitted facility locations, watershed boundaries, and much more Events Calendar for workshops and training around the country Information resources on regulations, guidance, funding sources

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL


Watershed planning


Permitting


Community outreach


Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Restoration/recovery potential Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System

Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Link

http://earth1.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/WCS-toolbox.pdf

Description

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4, has developed the Watershed Characterization System (WCS), a state-of-the-art tool to assist the process of characterizing watersheds. WCS is a version of EPA’s BASINS system customized for EPA Region 4. WCS provides users an initial set of watershed data along with analysis and reporting tools to process the data.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL


Watershed planning


Modeling

Forecasting Prioritization Watershed delineation Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional Local

Ecosystems

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources EPA (LSPC) - Loading Simulation Program in C++

EPA (SWMM 5) - Stormwater Management Model Examples

http://earth1.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/WCS-toolbox.pdf


A suite of modeling extensions of WCS were developed to expand the system’s use from solely a watershed characterization system into a framework for running specific models that can be used for TMDL development.


Stand-alone



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

US EPA Region 4

Address


Contact

Tim Rowan

Phone

706-355-8080

Email

[email protected]


177

Emergency response


Water resources management Forecasting Modeling

Visualization Prioritization Condition assessment Causal assessment

Watershed delineation Multiple Low flow

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple


Nutrients Suspended sediment Bedded sediment Metals

Toxics Invasive species Altered habitat Pathogens Temperature

Altered flow Dissolved oxygen pH Ionic strength

Pesticides Climate change Weather Habitat fragmentation Altered hydrology

Natural disturbances Urbanization Related Tools Examples Additional Information

[email protected]


ArcGIS® ArcGIS® Spatial Analyst extension ArcGIS® 3D Analyst extension Open-source GIS


Blog WIKI Free


178


USEPA

Contact Email

Cost Estimate Free

Some scientific background needed Basic computer skills sufficient Address



179


EPA (WhAEM2000) - Wellhead Analytic Element Model Model

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/software/whaem/index.html

Description

WhAEM2000 is a public domain and open source general purpose ground-water flow modeling system, with strengths in representing regional flow systems, and ground water/surface water interactions. It was initially designed to facilitate capture zone delineation and protection area mapping in support of the State's Wellhead Protection Programs (WHPP) and Source Water Assessment Planning (SWAP) for public water supply wells in the United States. WhAEM2000 runs on personal computers running Windows (98,2000,NT,XP). WhAEM2000 provides an interactive computer environment for design of protection areas based on radius methods, well in uniform flow solutions, and geohydrologic modeling methods. Geohydrologic modeling for steady pumping wells, including the influence of hydrological boundaries, such as rivers, recharge, and noflow contacts, is accomplished using the analytic element method. Protection areas are designed and overlaid upon US Geological Survey Digital Line Graph (DLG) or other electronic base maps. Base maps for a project can be selected from a graphical index map for the State on the EPA webserver. Program operation and modeling practice is documented in the EPA report "Working with WhAEM2000" using Vincennes, Indiana as a case study. The computational engine in the modeling system is the Fortran code GFLOW1 by Dr. Henk Haitjema. The standard windows graphical user interface is written in Visual Basic and designed by Dr. Vic Kelson of Wittman Hydro Planning Associates.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Forecasting

Water resources management Visualization Modeling

Low flow

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Lake

Ecosystems

Stream/River

Stressors Altered flow Altered hydrology

Wetland Related Tools Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

Stand-alone



Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed USEPA - ORD (Athens)

Address


180

Cost Estimate Free

Ecosystems Research Webmaster 960 College Station Road

Athens, GA. 30605 Contact

Tim Rowan

Email

[email protected]

Phone


181

706-355-8080

EPA (WHATIF) - Watershed Health Assessment Tools-Investigating Fisheries Type of Tool


Keywords

Link

http://www2.epa.gov/exposure-assessment-models/whatif-watershed-health-assessment-tools-investigatingfisheries

Description

WHATIF is software that integrates a number of calculators, tools, and models for assessing the health of watersheds and streams with an emphasis on fish communities in the Mid-Atlantic Highland region. The tool set consists of hydrologic and stream geometry calculators, a fish assemblage predictor, a fish habitat suitability calculator, macro-invertebrate biodiversity calculators, and a process-based model to predict biomass dynamics of stream biota (the BASS model). The tools can be used to assess conditions and associated stressors in aquatic ecosystems, to examine causes of impairment, and to forecast ecological outcomes of habitat alterations and fisheries management actions. WHATIF also supports screening analysis, such as prioritization of areas for restoration and comparison of alternative watershed and habitat management scenarios. The toolkit was developed for the Mid-Atlantic Highlands region of the United States in order to support Canaan Valley Institute.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Multiple

Community outreach Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Local

Estuary/Coastal

Stressors Multiple

Lake Stream/River Related Tools Australian eWater Toolkit EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools

Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA Geospatial Portal Environmental and Water Resource Software

EPA - Exposure Assessment Models Aquaveo USGS - SMIG (Surface water modeling interest group) Examples

http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/fchain/whatif/WHATIF-dl.html


http://www.iemss.org/iemss2006/papers/s3/369_rashleigh_0.pdf http://www.epa.gov/athens/publications/reports/Johnston600R06109WatershedHealthAssessment.p df http://www.epa.gov/athens/publications/reports/Rashleigh_600_R04_190_Population_Models.pdf http://www.epa.gov/ATHENS/staff/members/barbermahlonc/bass21_manual.pdf


Stand-alone


Telephone Tuesday, September 27, 2011

182



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

EPA and Canaan Valley Institute (CVI)

Address


Contact

John M Johnston

Phone

706/355-8403

Email

[email protected]


183

Name

EPA (WQSDB) Water Quality Standards Database

What is it?


Link

http://www.epa.gov/wqsdatabase/index.html

Keywords

Description

Uses

The National Water Quality Standards Database (WQSDB) provides access to EPA and state water quality standards (WQS) information in text, tables, and maps. This update is the ninth since April 2001This is the final release of the WQSDB—it will not be updated. Program Applications

Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Transferability

Geographic Scale

National


Ecosystems



Stream/River Wetland

Suspended sediment Bedded sediment Metals Toxics Invasive species Pathogens Temperature Altered flow Dissolved oxygen pH Ionic strength Pesticides

Related Tools EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS EPA (STORET) - STOrage and RETrieval EPA Enviromapper for Water EPA (ATTAINS) - Assessment Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation Syst EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits Monday, July 25, 2011

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Examples

http://www.epa.gov/wqsdatabase/reports.html



Required Expertise



Developer

USEPA

Address

U.S. EPA 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Mail Code 4305T Washington, DC 20460

Contact

Office of Science and Technology, St

Email

[email protected]

Phone


185

Cost Estimate Free

202-566-0400

Name

EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center

What is it?

Analytical tool Decision support system Model gateway

Link

http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/

Keywords

watershed models, water quality models, hydrodynamic models

Description

The mission of the Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center is to provide assistance to EPA Regions, State and Local Governments, and their contractors in the implementation of the Clean Water Act. The Center which is part of EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) is committed to providing access to technically defensible tools and approaches that can be used in the development of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL), waste load allocations, and watershed protection plans. The Center will reach out to experts throughout EPA and States to bring technical expertise to the Center. Watershed Models - Watershed models play an important role in linking sources of pollutants to receiving waterbodies as nonpoint source loads. Watershed models are driven by precipitation, landuse, imprevious areas, slope, soil types and drainage area. GIS programs like BASINS and WCS provide the data that is needed for waterhd models to predict both water and pollutant runoff from a watershed. Select a watershed model for additional information or to download. * Basins * LSPC * WAMView * SWMM * WARMF Water Quality Models - Water quality models simulate the fate of pollutants and the state of selected water quality variables in water bodies. They incorporate a variety of physical, chemical, and biological processes that control the transport and transformation of these variables. Water quality models are driven by hydrodynamics, point and nonpoint source loadings, and key environmental forcing functions, such as temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, pH, and light attenuation coefficients. The external drivers may be specified from observed data bases, or simulated using specialized models describing, for example, the water body hydrodynamics or the watershed pollutant loading. The internal forcing functions may also be specified from databases, or calculated within the water quality model using a range of empirical to mechanistic process formulations. Examples include temperature, pH, and light attenuation. Some water quality models focus on particular problem contexts, such as dissolved oxygen depletion or organic chemical fate. Other models are more general, and can be used to simulate different water quality problems. Similarly, some water quality models specialize in particular water body types, such as lakes or streams. Others are more general, and can be applied to several types of water bodies. Each water quality model has its own set of characteristics and requirements. The reader should thoroughly review the documentation and consider its strengths, limitations, and data requirements prior to application. Select a Water Quality model for additional information or to download. * WASP * QUAL2K * Aquatox


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* EPD-RIV1 Hydronamic Models - Hydrodynamic models are typically used in complex aquatic systems to represent detailed transport patterns. Hydrodynamic models are also used to predict sediment transport which includes chemicals or metals that are sorbed to the sediments. Select a Hydrodynamic Model for additional information or to download. * EFDC * EPD-RIV1 Uses


Purposes

TMDL

Multiple


Geographic Scale

Global

Regional Local

Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/tools.html


Contact - Bob Ambrose ([email protected]) 706-355-8334

Stand-alone Minimum Software GIS with raster capability Requirement Relational database

Technical Online user community Support Website Guidance Telephone Email

Required Expertise

Cost Estimate Free


Developer

EPA (ORD) - Ecosystems Research Division (Athens)

Address

EPA - ORD (Athens) 960 College Station Road Athens, GA. 30605

Contact

Tim Wool or Bob Ambrose (see additi

Email

[email protected];

Phone


187

404-562-9260;

ESRI ArcHydro for ArcGIS 9.x & 10.x

Type of Tool

Model gateway

Keywords

Link

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/hydro/01vn00000010000000.htm

Description

The ESRI FTP site has previous and Beta versions of water resources software developed by the ESRI Professional Services group. Notably versions of ArcHydro for ArcGIs 9.x and 10.x and supporting documentation and training materials are freely downloadable. The username and password for the site: ftp://ftp.esri.com are RiverHydraulics river.1114 as of Sept. 24, 2011. Check the ESRI ArcHydro Forum for a new password. The moderators will know it. Use an FTP utility such as FileZilla or SMARTFTP to access the site. Particularly read the most current version of the README document which describes how to install and update the ESRI hydrologic software.

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL


Watershed planning


Permitting


Community outreach


Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Restoration/recovery potential Emergency response


Water resources management Forecasting

Modeling

Visualization Prioritization Condition assessment Causal assessment Watershed delineation

Multiple Low flow Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Regional

Local


Multiple


Nutrients Altered flow Altered hydrology

Urbanization Related Tools (NLCD 2001) - National Land Cover Dataset USGS Water Resources of the United States Tuesday, September 27, 2011

188

National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)

ArcHydro – GIS for Water Resources Hydrologic Impacts of Land Use Changes and Practices USGS - Hydrologic Landscape Regions Florida Wetland ecoregions Wetland hydrogeomorphic classes

DELETE XXX Stream Classification XXX USGS (NED) - National Elevation Dataset USGS (HUC) - Hydrologic Unit Code Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) NOAA (N-SPECT) Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool

USGS - (SMIC) Surface Water and Water Quality Models Information Clearinghouse SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes) EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS EPA (STORET/WQX) - STOrage and RETrieval/Water Quality Exchange River Tools™

WIN TR-55 Small Watershed Hydrology NRCS - Hydrology and Hydraulics EPA Enviromapper for Water EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database

EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits EPA (WQSDB) Water Quality Standards Database EPA (SDWIS) Safe Drinking Water Information System EPA Nutrient Criteria Database

NOAA (ISAT) Impervious Surface Analysis Tool Aqualand - Massachusetts Aquatic Landscape Characterization Tool Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process USGS - The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT)

Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM ) Australian eWater Toolkit Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC)

IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox (IWRM) Instream Flow Council (ELOHA) - Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration

Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) (DHRAM) - The Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center (WWQTSC) EPA (AGWA) Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool Examples Additional Information Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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ArcGIS®


Training Blog Required Expertise Developer

General understanding of issues Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed ESRI Professional Services

Contact

Address Phone

Email


190

Cost Estimate Free

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)

Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal

Keywords

Geospatial One Stop (GOS), National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, metadata

Link

http://www.fgdc.gov

Description

The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is an interagency committee that promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis. This nationwide data publishing effort is known as the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI is a physical, organizational, and virtual network designed to enable the development and sharing of this nation's digital geographic information resources. FGDC activities are administered through the FGDC Secretariat, hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established the FGDC in 1990 and rechartered the committee in its August 2002 revision of Circular A-16, "Coordination of Geographic Information and Related Spatial Data Activities." The FGDC is a 19 member interagency committee composed of representatives from the Executive Office of the President, and Cabinet level and independent Federal agencies. The Secretary of the Department of the Interior chairs the FGDC, with the Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as Vice-Chair. Numerous stakeholder organizations participate in FGDC activities representing the interests of state and local government, industry, and professional organizations.

Uses


Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Global

Purposes


Forest

Stressors

Grassland Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River

Wetland Related Tools Examples Additional Information

The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is an interagency committee that promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis.


GIS GIS with raster capability



Cost Estimate Free


191

Developer

FGDC

Address

Federal Geographic Data Committee 590 National Center Reston, Virginia 20192

Contact

FGDC

Phone

703-648-5752

Email

[email protected]


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Name

FRAGSTATS - Spatial Pattern Analysis Program for Categorical Maps

What is it?

Analytical tool

Link

http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/fragstats/ fragstats.html

Keywords

Patch Metrics, Pattern Metrics, Area Metrics

Description

FRAGSTATS is a computer software program designed to compute a wide variety of landscape metrics for categorical map patterns.The original software (version 2) was released in the public domain during 1995 in association with the publication of a USDA Forest Service General Technical Report (McGarigal and Marks 1995). The purpose of this web site is to facilitate dissemination of the new software (version 3) and to facilitate communication among FRAGSTATS users. FRAGSTATS (Version 3) is a stand-along program written in Microsoft Visual C++ for use in the Windows Operating System environment.

Uses


Purposes



Watershed planning

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Forest Grassland

Stressors Habitat fragmentation

Estuary/Coastal Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA (ATtILA) - Analytical Tools Interface for Landscape Assessments (ATtILA) Examples Additional Information

Two versions of the tool are available.


Technical Online user community Support Website Workshops Telephone Email

Required Expertise


Developer

Dr. Kevin McGarigal

Address

Department of Natural Resources Conservation University of Massachusetts 304 Holdsworth Natural Resources Center Box 34210


193

Cost Estimate Free

Amherst, MA 01003 Contact

Dr. Kevin McGarigal

Email

[email protected]

Phone


194

(413) 577-0655

Free Geography Tools

Type of Tool

Review tool

Keywords

Tools, GIS, GPS

Link

http://freegeographytools.com/

Description

This blog covers a wide range of free (and cheap) tools for handling geographic data, including GIS, GPS, Google Earth and Maps, neogeography, free data resources, and whatever else I feel like talking about. The range of post topics will be wide because my interests cover a wide range as well. I welcome any and all comments concerning this blog and the topics it covers, as well as your suggestions for what you‘d like to see. There‘s no adequate and complete substitute for a good commercial GIS program like those from ESRI or MapInfo, especially in the hands of a well-trained user. But COTS GIS software can be expensive and cumbersome, and requires someone with extensive (and expensive) training to use it to its full advantage. There‘s a lot of GIS work that doesn‘t require such an expensive solution, and for those simpler tasks, it makes sense to use free tools that can do the job. One analogy is that if all you want to do is tighten some screws, you don‘t need a fully-stocked machine shop with a highly-trained machinist, just a screwdriver; this blog covers free screwdrivers. Program Applications

Uses

Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Ecosystems

Stressors


http://freegeographytools.com/downloads


Stand-alone

Technical Website Support Blog


Developer

Leszek Pawlowicz

Address

Contact

Leszek Pawlowicz

Phone

Email

[email protected]


195

Cost Estimate Free

The GAIA Model Base

Type of Tool


Keywords

Link

http://www.ess.co.at/GAIA/gaia_intro.html

Description

Most of the models quoted in this section are public domain. The correspondent software may be downloaded from various sites on the web. This modelbase covers in different degrees the domain of environmental problems and tries to complement what is already available on the web. Each model description is complemented by a set of references, which indicate both the relevant literature for the development of the model and studies in which the model has been applied. These represent the best indications to understand if the model can also be applied in other situations. Comments and additions are welcome. Available topics Air quality Ground water Dynamics of natural ecosystems Hydrology List of models and descriptions at the Univ. of Kassel Over 300 models on all environmental fields with a short description and (sometimes) the possibility of downloading the software http://dino.wiz.uni-kassel.de/model_db/models.html

Uses


Purposes

TMDL


Watershed planning


Community outreach

Forecasting Prioritization

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Local Ecosystems

Lake Stream/River

Stressors Multiple Nutrients Suspended sediment Toxics

Dissolved oxygen Related Tools Examples

http://www.ess.co.at/GAIA/CASES/cases.html


Environmental and economic mapsets have been compiled for the United States of America and South East Asia. Thematic overlays of a number of global raster and vector maps can be interactively created using GAIA GIS server software.


Stand-alone

196

Website


Stand-alone



Developer

Environmental Software and Services

Address

Contact

Envtl Software and Services

Phone

Email

[email protected]


197

Cost Estimate Free

GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation Type of Tool


Keywords

Link

http://geodacenter.asu.edu/

Description

GeoDa is a free software program that serves as an introduction to spatial data analysis. OpenGeoDa is the cross-platform, open source version of Legacy GeoDa. While Legacy GeoDa only runs on Windows XP, OpenGeoDa runs on different versions of Windows (including XP, Vista and 7), Mac OS, and Linux. GeoDa is the flagship program of the GeoDa Center, following a long line of software tools developed by Dr. Luc Anselin. It is designed to implement techniques for exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) on lattice data (points and polygons). The free program provides a user friendly and graphical interface to methods of descriptive spatial data analysis, such as spatial autocorrelation statistics, as well as basic spatial regression functionality. The latest version contains several new features such as a cartogram, a refined map movie, parallel coordinate plot, 3D visualization, conditional plots (and maps) and spatial regression. GeoDa is written in C++ and no longer relies on ESRI's MapObjects library (it uses wxwidgets instead). We are working towards releasing OpenGeoDa as an open source program. PySAL: Open Source Python Library for Spatial Analytical Functions: ASU’s GeoDa Center for GeoSpatial Analysis and Computation, a research unit closely affiliated with the school, has just released PySAL 1.2, an open source library of tools for spatial analysis. PySAL grew out of a collaborative effort spearheaded by Professor Sergio Rey and Luc Anselin, Walter Isard Chair and Director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. The project integrates two analytical tools, STARS and PySpace, that were developed separately by the two researchers prior to their arrival at ASU. PySAL provides a suite of spatial analytical methods that developers can incorporate into their own application development, and that spatial analysts may customize to further their research. The PySAL tools are programmed in the Python language, which is increasingly used in geographic information systems.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Visualization

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global


Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland Urban/Suburban/ Lake

Stream/River Wetland NOAA Habitat Priority Planner


198

Related Tools NOAA Habitat Priority Planner Geospatial Modeling Environment

Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ Landscape Analyst Examples

http://geodacenter.asu.edu/projects/opengeoda


OpenSpace Mailing List: http://geodacenter.asu.edu/support/community


Stand-alone


Webcasts Workshops Email Required Expertise


Developer

Spatial Analysis Lab, University of Illinois

Address

Contact

Dr. Luc Anselin

Phone

Email

[email protected]


199

Cost Estimate Free

Geomorphometry.org Gateway/Portal

Type of Tool

Keywords http://www.geomorphometry.org/

Link Description


Uses

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Ecosystems

Purposes

Stressors


http://www.geomorphometry.org/content/data-sets


Required Expertise

ArcGIS® Open-source GIS ArcINFO ArcGIS Explorer ArcGIS Java Google Earth MapWindows BASINS

Technical Online user community Support Website Workshops

Email


Developer

T. Hengl

Address

Contact

T. Hengl

Phone

Email

[email protected]


200

Cost Estimate Free

Wageningen University, Netherlands

Geospatial Analysis - A comprehensive guide

Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Geospatial Analysis

Link

http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/

Description

The full text of "Geospatial Analysis - A comprehensive guide" is provided on this website. It covers the full spectrum of analytical techniques that are provided within modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related software products.Click on link in Example application for a PDF extract (first 55 pages).Topics covered in detail include: - Geospatial analysis concepts - Core components of geospatial analysis, including distance and directional analysis, geometrical processing, map algebra, and grid models - Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) and spatial statistics, including spatial autocorrelation and spatial regression - Surface analysis, including surface form and flow analysis, gridding and interpolation methods, and visibility analysis - Network and locational analysis, including shortest path calculation, travelling salesman problems, facility location and arc routing - Geocomputational methods, including agent-based modelling, artifical neural networks and evolutionary computing Powerpoints of Chapters, datasets and an application to noise mapping are provided as Educational Resources. "Written in an engaging and accessible manner, this book does a marvelous job of balancing its coverage on principles, techniques, and software tools for spatial analysis. ... It is truly a tour de force of geospatial analysis and is likely to become a classic ...I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about the latest developments in geospatial analysis and modeling." Prof D Z Sui, Review in: Annals, Association of American Geographers, April 2009

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes

Multiple

Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/HandbookExtractV3.pdf


Geospatial Software - http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/software.html Educational Resources - http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/resources.html Concepts and Methods in Modern Geography Booklets - http://qmrg.org.uk/catmog/

Minimum Software Requirements Thursday, September 29, 2011

Stand-alone ArcView® 3.x


201

ArcGIS® ArcGIS® Spatial Analyst extension ArcGIS® 3D Analyst extension Open-source GIS GIS GIS with raster capability ArcINFO ArcGIS Explorer ArcGIS Java MapWindows BASINS Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Michael J. de Smith, Michael Goodchild & Paul Longley

Address

Contact

Geospatial Analysis

Phone

Email

[email protected]


Email

202

University College of London

Geospatial Modeling Environment

Type of Tool


Keywords

Link

http://www.spatialecology.com

Description

GME is an analysis and modelling environment for geospatial analysis that is designed to facilitate rigorous analysis of geospatial data. It combines the power of the statistical software R with the geographic processing functionality of ESRI ArcGIS to drive geospatial analyses. The purpose of GME is to help users obtain better answers to geospatial questions.

Uses


Purposes


Multiple


Geographic Scale

Global

Global Regional Local


Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland

Urban/Suburban/ Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools NOAA Habitat Priority Planner Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise

ArcGIS®



Developer

Hawthorne Beyer

Address

Contact

Hawthorne Beyer

Phone

Email

[email protected]


203

Cost Estimate Free

Geospatial Platform Gateway/Portal

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://www.geoplatform.gov/

Description

The partner agencies of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) are developing a Geospatial Platform to more effectively provide place-based products and services to the American public. The Geospatial Platform will be a managed portfolio of common geospatial data, services, and applications contributed and administered by authoritative sources and hosted on a shared infrastructure, for use by government agencies and partners to meet their mission needs and the broader needs of the Nation.

Uses


Purposes


Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Ecosystems

Stressors Multiple


http://geoplatform.ideascale.com/



Stand-alone ArcGIS® Open-source GIS ArcINFO ArcGIS Explorer ArcGIS Java Google Earth MapWindows BASINS

WIKI

Cost Estimate Free

General understanding of issues Basic computer skills sufficient U.S. Government

Contact Email


Address Phone

[email protected]


204

Name

Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

What is it?

Decision support system Gateway/Portal Model gateway

Link

http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.shtml

Keywords

Description

The Global Earth Observation System of Systems will provide decision-support tools to a wide variety of users. As with the Internet, GEOSS will be a global and fl exible network of content providers allowing decision makers to access an extraordinary range of information at their desk. This ‘system of systems’ will proactively link together existing and planned observing systems around the world and support the development of new systems where gaps currently exist. It will promote common technical standards so that data from the thousands of different instruments can be combined into coherent data sets. The ‘GEOPortal’ offers a single Internet access point for users seeking data, imagery and analytical software packages relevant to all parts of the globe. It connects users to existing data bases and portals and provides reliable, up-to-date and user friendly information – vital for the work of decision makers, planners and emergency managers. For users with limited or no access to the Internet, similar information is available via the ‘GEONETCast’ network of telecommunication satellites.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global


Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Examples

GEOSS GeoPortal - http://www.earthobservations.org/gci_gp.shtml


What is GEOSS? - http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.shtml; EPA GEOSS http://www.epa.gov/geoss/; EPA GEOSS Tools - http://www.epa.gov/geoss/eos/text_tool.html; EPA


205

GEOSS Related Links -http://www.epa.gov/geoss/links.html; GIS Minimum Software GIS with raster capability Requirement Required Expertise



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Group on Earth Observations (http://www.earthobservations.org/)

Address

GEO Secretariat 7 bis, avenue de la Paix Case postale 2300 CH-1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland

Contact

GEO Secretariat

Email

[email protected]

Phone


206

+41 22 730 8505

Name

Global Enviro Software Gateway/Portal

What is it?

Model gateway

Link

http://globalenvironmentalconsulting.com/solutions/

Keywords

Description

Commercial vendor/reseller of a broad range of free and for-profit environmental software including software for: * air pollution * environmental databases * geotechnical software * public domain software * groundwater software * surface water software * visualization software

Uses


Purposes

Water resources management Multiple Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

National

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads PEST: Model Independent Parameter Estimation Center for Geospatial Data Analysis (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) EPA - Exposure Assessment Models USGS - SMIG (Surface water modeling interest group) Examples

http://www.surfacewater.com/html/categories.html


Educational Institutions - BYU Environmental Modeling Research Library (http://www.surfacewater.com/sw/links.php?LID=64&URL=http://www.emrl.byu.edu/) in cooperation with EMS-I develops the SMS, GMS and WMS software seen on this web site. BYU prof's 3-D software helps predict deluge (http://www.surfacewater.com/sw/links.php?LID=68&URL=http://sltrib.com/ci_2781607/) - The WMS team at BYU continues to advance WMS. BYU licenses this software and distributes it through EMS-I. FEMA - FEMA researched some of the available tools and applications that utilize automated H&H techniques. U.S.G.S. - This is a link to the U.S.G.S. commercial model archive.


207

(Globe) Global Collaboration Engine Raw tool

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://ecotope.org/projects/globe/

Description

Evolving New Global Workflows for Land Change Science - GLOBE aims to transform land change science by creating new global scientific workflows that integrate local-, regional- and global-scale researchers, expertise and data based their global relevance using an online collaboration environment leveraging social-computational algorithms and real-time quantitative global and statistical visualization.

Uses


Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Ecosystems

Purposes

Stressors


http://ecotope.org/products/default.aspx


Stand-alone

Technical Support

Unspecified Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Erle C. Ellis

Address

Geography and Environmental Systems

Contact

Erle C. Ellis

Phone

410-455-3078

Email

[email protected]


208

Private Institutions We partner with many private institutions. If you would like us to link to your corporate web site, please contact us. Bush and Gudgell - Utah Civil Engineering - Utah Civil Engineering Firm specializing in land development with offices St. George, Utah and Salt Lake City, Utah. EMS-I - EMS-I is the head distributor of Groundwater Modeling System (GMS Software), Surfacewater Modeling System (SMS Software), and Watershed Modeling System (WMS Software). Stand-alone Minimum Software MS Access Requirement Image Analysis GIS GIS with raster capability Relational database Required Expertise



Cost Estimate $500 to $2,000 $2,000 Free

Developer

Global Enviro Software, A Division of Scientific Software Group

Address

P.O. Box 708188 Sandy, Utah 84070-8188

Contact

Global Enviro Software

Email

[email protected]

Phone


209

1.866.620.9214

Great Lakes Commission Type of Tool


Keywords

wetland inventory; Great Lakes

Link

http://glc.org/projects/habitat/coastal-wetlands/cwc-inventory/

Description

As part of Phase II of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium program, a binational team completed a comprehensive Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Inventory. (See links to inventory data and metadata below.) Built upon the best coastal wetland data currently available and incorporating a standard classification process, the binational inventory provides a standard reference for the Great Lakes wetland community. The Inventory consists of wetland polygons and points, along with extensive attribute data, compiled from the best existing data sets throughout the basin. All the data have been standardized and the polygons have been stitched together into one seamless GIS coverage (see coverage metadata below for technical details). Links to Inventory and Metadata: This seamless inventory is now available to download. The Inventory is posted here in five components. The first three are coverages in ESRI export format. These are the original format. The inventory has also been converted to a shapefile and compressed to a zipfile, for those using earlier ESRI products. You will need to save these to your local computer before opening. The metadata can be viewed online and it is also part of the export package.

Uses


Purposes



Watershed planning

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Wetland


Related Tools USFS - Ecological Units of the Eastern United States: First Approximation National Wetland Inventory classification

DRAFT NOAA/TNC Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS2) Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise

Stand-alone



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Great Lakes Commission

Address

Great Lakes Commission; Eisenhower Corporate Park;2805 S. Industrial Hwy, Suite 100; Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Contact

Ric Lawson

Phone

734-971-9135

Email

[email protected]


210

Name

Great Lakes Commission: Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium

What is it?


Link

http://glc.org/projects/habitat/coastal-wetlands/cwc-inventory/

Keywords

wetland inventory; Great Lakes

Description

The Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Inventory was developed through the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Consortium (GLCWC) as a bi-national initiative to create a single, hydrogeomorphically classified inventory of all coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes Basin. This inventory is built upon the most comprehensive coastal wetland data currently available for the Great Lakes and connecting channels. For the U.S., National Wetlands Inventory (NWI); Wisconsin Wetland Inventory (WWI); Ohio Wetland Inventory (OWI); and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reports and corresponding topographic maps by Charles E. Herdendorf which describe coastal wetlands in the Great Lakes Basin (Herdendorf Wetland Inventory, HWI); are the major datasets included.

Uses


Purposes



Watershed planning

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Wetland


Related Tools USFS Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units Hydrogeoclimatic zones National Wetland Inventory classification NOAA/TNC Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS2) Examples Additional Information




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Great Lakes Commission

Address

Great Lakes Commission; Eisenhower Corporate Park;2805 S. Industrial Hwy, Suite 100; Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Contact

Ric Lawson

Email

[email protected]

Phone


211

734-971-9135

Name

Hawth’s Analysis Tools for ArcGIS

What is it?


Link

http://www.spatialecology.com/htools/overview.php

Keywords

Description

Hawth's Analysis Tools is an extension for ESRI's ArcGIS (specifically ArcMap). It is designed to perform spatial analysis and functions that cannot be conveniently accomplished with out-of-the-box ArcGIS. Most of these analysis tools have been written within the context of the ecological applications I am involved in (movement analysis, resource selection, predator prey interactions and trophic cascades). However, they have been created in such a way as to be as broadly applicable as possible such that I hope people from many disciplines will find use in this set of tools. There are three types of tools in this kit. First, there are simple tools that automate mundane tasks (e.g. deleting many fields at once from a table). These will likely be useful to anyone. Second, there are tools that are designed to be part of an analysis workflow. For instance, random point (or stratified random point) generation, minimum convex polygon delineation, summarizing raster layers in various ways, etc. These too are likely to be useful to many people. Finally, there are tools that target specific, ecology related analyses (for instance, various movement model applications). These will likely only be of interest to ecologists.

Uses


Purposes


Multiple


Geographic Scale

Global


Ecosystems

Agriculture Forest

Stressors Multiple

Grassland Urban/Suburban/ Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools NOAA Habitat Priority Planner Examples Additional Information Monday, July 25, 2011

212

ArcGIS® Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise Developer


Extensive scientific training required Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed Hawthorne Beyer

Address Contact

Hawthorne Beyer

Email

[email protected]

Phone


213

Cost Estimate Free

Hydrologic Impacts of Land Use Changes and Practices Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal

Keywords

development impacts

Link

https://engineering.purdue.edu/mapserve/LTHIA7/

Description

Site describes 4 hydrologic models: L-THIA, SedSpec, LDC, WHAT The Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment (L-THIA) model was developed as an accessible online tool to assess the water quality impacts of land use change. Based on community-specific climate data, L-THIA estimates changes in recharge, runoff, and nonpoint source pollution resulting from past or proposed development. SedSpec is an expert system that will assist you in analyzing runoff and erosion problems on your site by determining the peak rate of runoff from the area. The analysis will provide information about different types of runoff and erosion control structures. LDC - Web-based Load Duration Curves WHAT - Web-based Hydrograph Analysis Tool

Uses


Purposes

TMDL


Watershed planning

Associating landscape characteristics & ecological condition Prioritization

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional Local

Stream/River

Ecosystems


Nutrients Suspended sediment Altered flow Related Tools Examples

http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/runoff/lthianew/cases.htm


ArcGIS®

Technical Guidance Support Cost Estimate Free


Developer

Purdue University

Address

Contact

Bernie Engel or Larry Theller

Phone

Email

[email protected] or theller@p


214

Name

(HydroSHEDS) - Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales

What is it?

Model gateway

Link

http://hydrosheds.cr.usgs.gov/

Keywords

Description

HydroSHEDS is a mapping product that provides hydrographic information for regional and globalscale applications in a consistent format. It offers a suite of geo-referenced data sets (vector and raster) at various scales, including river networks, watershed boundaries, drainage directions, and flow accumulations. HydroSHEDS is based on high-resolution elevation data obtained during a Space Shuttle flight for NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). HydroSHEDS has been developed by the Conservation Science Program of World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Please visit their website at http://www.worldwildlife.org/hydrosheds for general information.

Uses


Purposes


Multiple

Watershed planning Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Regional National

Regional National

Estuary/Coastal



http://www.worldwildlife.org/hydrosheds


Hydrosheds ArcView 3.x Tools - http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/data/WWFBinaryitem6780.zip Lehner, B., Verdin, K., Jarvis, A. (2008): New global hydrography derived from spaceborne elevation data. Eos, Transactions, AGU, 89(10): 93-94.

Open-source GIS Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise Developer


Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed Conservation Science Program- WWF




215

Cost Estimate Free

Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM )

Type of Tool

Decision support system

Keywords

Link

http://www.fort.usgs.gov/Products/Software/IFIM/

Description

Instream flow methods have been developed by biologists and hydrologists working for agencies having regulatory responsibility related to water development. Such efforts since the late 1960's have provided the impetus for ecological studies leading to a growth in the understanding of the relations between stream flow and aquatic habitats. Most of the evidence gathered to date has focused on fish and macro-invertebrate habitat requirements, with recent emphasis on the relation between stream flow and woody riparian vegetation and recreation. Water management problem solving has matured from setting fixed minimum flows with no linkage to a specific aquatic habitat benefit to incremental methods in which aquatic habitats are quantified as a function of discharge. IFIM unfolded against the backdrop of minimum flow standards, quantitative impact analyses, water budgets, and interdisciplinary analyses. IFIM was developed by an interdisciplinary team approach and was founded on a basic understanding and description of the water supply and habitats within stream reaches of concern. Historical analysis of the flow regime using a monthly, weekly, or other appropriate timestep to describe the baseline hydrologic conditions was considered essential because this type of analysis was normal practice within the water resource profession. Looking at streamflow through time allows one to compare the frequency and duration of wet and dry periods, to examine the difference between snow-melt and rain-driven systems, and to determine the intensity and duration of short-term events such as cloud bursts and peaking cycles. To influence operating decisions within large-scale water development settings, a tool was needed that illuminated conflicts and complementary water uses, considered and evaluated each user's needs, and was understandable, acceptable, and easy to use by a broad clientele. Such decision arenas involve a diversity of disciplines, including engineers, hydrologists, biologists, recreation planners, lawyers, and political scientists. This interdisciplinary effort led to the conclusion that an analytical methodology should handle a variety of instream flow problems, from simple diversions to complex storage and release schemes involving hydropeaking schedules, and a network of interconnected reservoirs. For such a methodology to be suitable for evaluating alternatives, it had to be useful in identifying, evaluating, and comparing potential solutions, be capable of being tailored to a specific stream reach, and be expandable such that reach information could be applied throughout a river basin. With this general charter, IFIM was developed over a period of 15 years into a river network and decision arena analysis that incorporates fish habitat, recreational opportunity, and woody vegetation response to alternative water management schemes. Information is presented as a time series of flow and habitat at selected points within a river system for various existing and proposed water system operation alternatives. The Instream Flow Incremental Methodlogy is meant to be implemented in sequential phases: problem identification, study planning, study implementation, alternatives analysis, and problem resolution. The process includes a Legal and Instituional Analysis Model, Micro and Macro-habitat models, and alternative analysis.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning


Permitting

Forecasting

Water resources management Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Stream/River

Altered flow


216

Ecosystems

Stream/River


Related Tools Hydrologic Impacts of Land Use Changes and Practices Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software

USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process USGS - The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA)

IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Instream Flow Council

(ELOHA) - Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration IWMI -The Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) Examples

http://www.fort.usgs.gov/Products/Software/ifim/5phases.asp


Instream Flow Links - http://www.fort.usgs.gov/products/software/ifim/ifim_links.asp


Stand-alone



Cost Estimate Free


Developer

USGS - Fort Collins Science Center

Address

USGS Fort Collins Science Center

Contact

Terry Waddle

Phone

970.226.9386

Email

[email protected]


217

Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA)

Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

hydrologic alteration; flow statistics

Link

http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/iha

Description

The Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) is a software program that provides useful information for those trying to understand the hydrologic impacts of human activities or trying to develop environmental flow recommendations for water managers. This software program assesses 67 ecologically-relevant statistics derived from daily hydrologic data. Comparative analysis can then help statistically describe how these patterns have changed for a particular river or lake, due to abrupt impacts such as dam construction, or more gradual trends associated with land- and wateruse changes.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL


Watershed planning


Permitting


Water resources management Causal assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Estuary/Coastal Stream/River



USGS - The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM ) IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC)

IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Examples

http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/iha/documents/papers/view.html


Stand-alone


Workshops Email Required Expertise Developer

Some scientific background needed Basic computer skills sufficient Nature Conservancy

Cost Estimate Free

Address


218

Global Freshwater Team; The Nature Conservancy; 2424 Spruce Street, Suite 100; Boulder, CO 80302

Contact

Brian Richter

Email

[email protected]

Phone


219

(303) 541-0344

ILWIS - Integrated Land and Water Information System Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Image analysis, open source, raster, vector, geostatistical analysis, spatial analysis

Link

http://www.ilwis.org/

Description

ILWIS, is user-friendly, open source integrated software for raster processing remotely sensed satellite images and making vector maps. Its fully integrated approach makes it particularly suitable for natural resources managers, field scientists, biologists, ecologists, etc., as well as for educators. Key features: • Integrated raster and vector design • Import and export of widely used data formats • On-screen and tablet digitizing • Comprehensive set of image processing tools • Orthophoto, image georeferencing, transformation and mosaicing • Advanced modeling and spatial data analysis • 3D visualization with interactive editing for optimal view findings • Rich projection and coordinate system library • Geo-statisitical analyses, with Kriging for improved interpolation • Production and visualization of stereo image pairs • Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation

Uses


Purposes


Multiple

TMDL

Watershed planning

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Forest

Stressors Multiple

Grassland

Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions EPA (WATERS) Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS

EPA (STORET/WQX) - STOrage and RETrieval/Water Quality Exchange River Tools™

NRCS - Hydrology and Hydraulics NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) USGS (EROS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science EPA (RAD) Reach Address Database

EPA (NLFA) National Listing of Fish Advisories EPA (PCS) Water Discharge Permits EPA Nutrient Criteria Database Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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USGS Earth Explorer Examples

http://www.itc.nl/Pub/WRS/WRS-GEONETCast


Stand-alone



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Martin Schouwenburg

Address

Martin-Luther-King-Weg 24 48155 Münster, Germany

Contact

Martin L. Schouwenburg

Phone

+49.251.7474 520

Email

[email protected]


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Name

Index of Hydrologic Alteration (v7)

What is it?

Analytical tool

Link

http://www.nature.org/initiatives/freshwater/conserva tiontools

Keywords

hydrologic alteration; flow statistics

Description

The Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) is a software program that provides useful information for those trying to understand the hydrologic impacts of human activities or trying to develop environmental flow recommendations for water managers. This software program assesses 67 ecologically-relevant statistics derived from daily hydrologic data. Comparative analysis can then help statistically describe how these patterns have changed for a particular river or lake, due to abrupt impacts such as dam construction, or more gradual trends associated with land- and wateruse changes.

Uses


Purposes

TMDL Watershed planning

Associating landscape characteristics & ecological condition Classifying information prior to analysis

Permitting



Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Estuary/Coastal Stream/River


Related Tools Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM ) IWMI Environmental Flow Software IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Examples

http://www.nature.org/initiatives/freshwater/files/iha_apps.pdf



Technical Online user community Support Website Guidance Workshops Email

Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free


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Developer

Nature Conservancy

Address

Global Freshwater Team; The Nature Conservancy; 2424 Spruce Street, Suite 100; Boulder, CO 80302

Contact

Brian Richter

Email

[email protected]

Phone


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(303) 541-0344

Instream Flow Council

Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal

Keywords

instream flow

Link

http://www.instreamflowcouncil.org/

Description

The Instream Flow Council (IFC) is an organization that represents the interests of state and provincial fish and wildlife management agencies in the United States and Canada dedicated to improving the effectiveness of their instream flow programs. It consists of a Governing Council of appointed instream flow representatives of these agencies.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning


Water resources management Restoration/recovery potential

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Stream/River




IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox (IWRM) (ELOHA) - Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration

Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) (DHRAM) - The Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method Examples

http://www.instreamflowcouncil.org/node/69


Instream Flow Resources - http://www.instreamflowcouncil.org/resources


Stand-alone


General understanding of issues Unspecified

Cost Estimate Free

Developer


Address

Contact

K. Williams, Executive Director

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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Integrated Geologic Map Databases for the United States Type of Tool

Vector data

Keywords

Geology, Lithology

Link

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1305/index_map.htm

Description

The primary activity of this project was to compile a national digital geologic map database, utilizing state geologic maps, to support studies in the range of 1:250,000- to 1:1,000,000-scale. State databases were prepared using a common standard for the database structure, fields, attribution, and data dictionaries. The data products of the project consist of two main parts, the spatial databases and a set of supplemental tables relating to map units, which collectively serve as a data resource to generate a variety of stratigraphic, age, and lithologic maps. Results of this effort is be downloaded by state boundaries (excluding Alaska, which is multiple region download). NOTE: This Open-File Report represents one preliminary part of a larger planned series of integrated geologic databases that will ultimately be available for the entire United States. This interim version is being released now in order to provide ready access to standardized geologic data for use in regional analyses and to meet product distribution goals. The final compilation of these state databases will allow integration of the data that are found on state-scale geologic maps, presented in a uniform database structure. This Open-File Report is similar to but will not be identical to the final version of these data.

Uses


Purposes



Watershed planning


Geographic Scale

National

Regional National State

Forest

Ecosystems

Stressors

Grassland Related Tools Examples

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1325/documents/CONUSdocumentation.pdf


GIS



Developer

USGS

Address

Contact

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1305/index

Phone

Email

See Contacts by Region


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Cost Estimate Free

International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Ecohydrological Gateway Type of Tool

Point data Gateway/Portal Model gateway

Keywords

environmental flows; methods; database

Link

http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/issues/wetlands/

Description

Eco-Hydrological Databases on this site contain specific information pertaining to various aspects of functioning, requirements and management of freshwater ecosystems. The information is extracted from formally published papers and reports, unpublished documents, Internet sites and experts’ opinions. Three databases are available at present Estimates of environmental flow requirements in world river basins. (http://dw.iwmi.org/ehdb/efr/wetlandvisitor/information.aspx) Database is a collection of actual estimates of environmental flows made by various methods, together with hydrological characteristics of respective rivers and associated environmental management objectives. It is being developed by IWMI in collaboration with TNC and UNEP GEMS/Water as part of the activities of UNESCO Task Force on Eco-Hydrology. Environmental flow assessment for aquatic ecosystems: a database of methodologies (http://dw.iwmi.org/ehdb/efm/efm.asp). Various techniques have been developed to date to estimate the environmental flow requirements of aquatic ecosystems. This database includes brief description of each methodology, it origin, input data requirements, strengths and deficiencies, references to case studies, etc. Quantification of hydrological functions of inland wetlands (http://dw.iwmi.org/ehdb/wetland/wetlands.asp) It is generally agreed that wetlands may attenuate floods, sustain baseflow during dry periods and recharge aquifers. However, little is known about the quantitative side of these functions. This database is intended as a systematic collection of available quantitative and semi-quantitative information (e.g. "yes" or "no" type of statements) is envisaged to serve as an additional tool in wetland research, complimenting and supporting other approaches like modeling or field surveying of wetland ecosystems Development of eco-hydrological databases is seen as a continuous process rather then once-off exercise. In this sense, none of the presented databases is complete. Each database welcomes new entries. On-line input of new entries in pre-defined formats is allowed for. Interested specialists worldwide can make their direct contributions to database development. The developers will be grateful for such contributions. The intention is to make databases "internationally owned". IWMI provides general maintenance of this web site as well as the maintenance of individual databases. To submit an entry, please go to the database of your interest and click "submit your entry". You will be asked to fill an entry form. Once you have submitted your entry, it goes to the Moderator of this specific database. The job of the Moderator is to ensure that the entry is full, not duplicated, etc. Moderator edits new entries and places them into the database. Moderator also deals with comments and suggestions and has the password to his/her page. All databases are fully searchable.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning


Permitting

Forecasting



Geographic Scale

Global

Global


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Ecosystems

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State



Stream/River

Climate change

Wetland Related Tools Hydrologic Impacts of Land Use Changes and Practices Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software

USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process USGS - The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM ) Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC)

EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Instream Flow Council (ELOHA) - Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration IWMI -The Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) Examples

See Description for Links


* Estimates of environmental flow requirements in world river basins (http://dw.iwmi.org/ehdb/efr/wetlandvisitor/information.aspx)


Stand-alone



Cost Estimate Free


Developer

International Water Management Institute

Address

127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelwatte, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka

Contact

Vladimir Smakhtin

Phone

+94-11 2880000

Email

[email protected]


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Name

IWMI Environmental Flow Software

What is it?


Link

http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/resources/models-and-software/environmental-flow-calculators/

Keywords

environmental flow requirements

Description

Access to four models for evaluating environmental flows is provided. The Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) is a software package for desktop rapid assessment of Environmental Flows (EFs). The EF estimation technique in GEFC is using monthly time step series reflecting “natural” / unregulated flow conditions and its corresponding Flow Duration Curve (FDC)- a cumulative distribution function of flows. The IWMI Global Policy Dialogue Model (PODIUM) is a interactive policy planning and scenario analysis tool which explores the trade-offs and future demands on water resources on a national scale. WATERSIM is an integrated hydrologic and economic model designed to better understand the key linkages between water, food security, and environment and to develop scenarios for exploring key questions for food water, food, and environmental security, at the global, national and basin scales. (Options AnalysiS in Irrigation Systems) is a model that simulates irrigation interventions in medium to large-scale irrigation systems (thousands of ha), describes return flows and integrates recycling. The model performs simulations over an irrigation season or a year to evaluate the impacts of alternative land uses, infrastructure improvements and alternative water management practices on water use, crop production and overall irrigation performance.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning


Permitting


Water resources management Restoration/recovery potential Forecasting Causal assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Agriculture Stream/River


Related Tools Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM ) Index of Hydrologic Alteration (v7) IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Examples Additional Information

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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Technical Website Support Guidance Email Cost Estimate Free

General understanding of issues Basic computer skills sufficient International Waste Management Institute (IWMI)

Address Contact

varies by model - see url

Phone

Email


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IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) Type of Tool


Keywords

environmental flow requirements

Link

http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/resources/models-and-software/environmental-flow-calculators/#Global

Description

The Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) is a software package for desktop rapid assessment of Environmental Flows (EFs). The EF estimation technique in GEFC is using monthly time step series reflecting “natural” / unregulated flow conditions and its corresponding Flow Duration Curve (FDC)- a cumulative distribution function of flows. The FDC is represented by 17 percentage points on the probability (X) axis. EFs aim to maintain an ecosystem in, or upgrade it to some prescribed or negotiated condition - “Environmental Management Class (EMC).” The higher the EMC, the more water is needed for ecosystem maintenance and more flow variability needs to be preserved. Six EMCs are used in GEFC, ranging from “Unmodified” to “Critically Modified.” Each EMC is represented by its unique FDC. The FDC for each class is determined by the lateral shift of the original reference FDC to the left along the probability (X) axis by one percentage point. Each EMC is effectively an EF scenario. The EMC best suited for the river in question may be selectedbased on expert judgment. A FDC established for each EMC can be converted into an EF time series.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning


Permitting


Water resources management Restoration/recovery potential Forecasting

Causal assessment

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local

Agriculture Stream/River



USGS - The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM )

Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Examples

http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/IWMI_Research_Reports/PDF/PUB107/RR107.pdf


A free copy of the software (on DVD, which also includes the simulated global flow database) may be obtained from Mrs Nishadi Eriyagama ([email protected])


Stand-alone


Email Free Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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IWMI - The Global Podium - Interactive water and food security scenario planning tool Type of Tool


Keywords

Link

http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/resources/models-and-software/podiumsim/

Description

The IWMI Global Policy Dialogue Model (PODIUM) is a interactive policy planning and scenario analysis tool which explores the trade-offs and future demands on water resources on a national scale. It is intended to foster dialog and stakeholder participation, and provide a basis for multisectoral planning and analysis. It is not intended to be used as a quantitatively reliable predictive tool, but is provided as an awareness raising exercise useful to explore the complex interactions of water scarcity, food security, and environment needs, in light of increasing populations and changing national diets. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in countries or regions facing absolute water scarcity. Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa can be classified as being water scarce today. By 2025, these countries will be joined by Pakistan, South Africa, and large parts of India and China. This means that they will not have sufficient water resources to maintain their current level of per capita food production from irrigated agriculture—even at high levels of irrigation efficiency—and also to meet reasonable water needs for domestic, industrial, and environmental purposes. To sustain their needs, water will have to be transferred out of agriculture into other sectors, making these countries or regions increasingly dependent on imported food.

Uses


Purposes

Water resources management Multiple

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

National

National

Agriculture Urban/Suburban/

Stressors Multiple Altered hydrology

Estuary/Coastal

Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources


EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads Watershed Analyst™

USGS Streamstats Version 2 EPA Geospatial Portal USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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IWMI - OASIS (Options AnalysiS in Irrigation Systems) Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/resources/models-and-software/oasis/

Description

OASIS (Options AnalysiS in Irrigation Systems) is a planning model for medium to large-scale canal irrigation systems (typically several thousand hectares). It specifically takes account of surfacegroundwater interactions to assess the impacts on water use, depletion and productivity of a broad range of interventions in irrigated agriculture. Examples of such interventions include: lining of canals, development of storage, and introduction of alternative cropping patterns, water deliveries and on-farm irrigation practices. The model can thus be used to provide guidance to irrigation system managers and water policy-makers to make a more efficient and productive use of limited water resources in agriculture in the context of rising food demand, competitive water use from other sectors and the uncertainties brought about by climate change. OASIS is based on water balance and includes a strong management component. The main innovation of the model lies in its capacity to capture irrigation return flows and integrate recycling of water through conjunctive drainage and groundwater use. OASIS also factors in non-irrigated areas, such as natural vegetation and fallow lands. These features distinguish the model from previous ‘integrated’ irrigation simulation models, which largely focus on canal delivery scheduling and incorporate only parts of the water balance within irrigation projects. OASIS relies on a conceptual representation based on three nested levels: system, irrigation unit (IU) and field (Fig. 1). IUs are basic subdivisions of an irrigation system. They are described in a lumped fashion, without considering the spatial distribution of features within their boundaries. IUs thus define the actual spatial resolution of the model. Fields are 1-dimensional entities used to represent the various combinations of soil, land use and water management within each IU. They do not have any spatial identity within an IU. A network of main irrigation and drainage canals provides hydrological connections among IUs, and a variety of management rules can be defined to control key aspects of the water delivery, application, use and reuse processes.

Uses


Purposes


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Multiple

Stressors Multiple



EPA (WASP7) - Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA (QUAL2K) River and Stream Water Quality Model EPA - Allocating Loads and Wasteloads

Watershed Analyst™ USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Software - Biodiversity Informatics and Conservation Group

CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) IWMI -The Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK)

Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) IWMI - The Global Podium - Interactive water and food security scenario planning tool IWMI - WATERSIM© Examples Additional Information

Roost, N., Cai, X.L., Turral, H., Molden, D., Cui, Y.L., 2008. Adapting to intersectoral transfers in the Zhanghe Irrigation System, China. Part II: Impacts of in-system storage on water balance and productivity. Agricultural Water Management 95, 685-697.


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer


Address


Contact

Dr. Xueliang Cai or Dr. Dennis Wichelns

Phone

+94-11 2880000

Email

[email protected] or d.wichelns@cgiar


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EPA (WCS) - Watershed Characterization System

Environmental and Water Resource Software Center for Geospatial Data Analysis – Indiana Geological Survey CSIRO - eWATER CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) IWMI -The Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC)

USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH) Examples

http://podium.iwmi.org/podium/scare.asp


Seckler et al, 1998. Water Supply and Demand 1990-2025: Scenarios and Issues, IWMI Research Report 19, International Water Management Institue, Colombo, Sri Lanka. World Water Supply and Demand: 1995-2025 (http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/pubs/WWVisn/WWSDHtml.htm) gives a detailed description of the the PODIUM model and how it was used to calculate water supply and demand for 44 countries.


Stand-alone


Telephone Email

Training Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer


Address


Contact

International Water Management Institut

Phone

+94-11 2880000

Email

[email protected]


234

Cost Estimate Free

Required Expertise


Developer

IWMI and the Water Systems Analysis Group of the University of New Hampshire (UNH http://www.wsag.unh.edu/)

Address

127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelawatte, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka.

Contact

Dr. Vladimir Smakhtin

Phone

+94-11 2880000

Email

[email protected]


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IWMI - WATERSIM©

Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/assessment/files_new/research_projects/ICID_WATERSIM.pdf

Description

WATERSIM is an integrated hydrologic and economic model designed to: * better understand the key linkages between water, food security, and environment. * develop scenarios for exploring key questions for food water, food, and environmental security, at the global, national and basin scales Model structure -Broadly speaking the model consists of two integrated modules: the ‘food demand and supply’ module, which is adapted from IMPACT model (Rosegrant, Cai and Cline 2002); and the ‘water supply and demand’ module which uses a water balance based on the Water Accounting framework (Molden 1997, Fraiture 2007) underlying PODIUM combined with elements from the IMPACT-WATER model (Cai and Rosegrant 2003). The schematic model structure is given in figure 1. The model estimates food demand as a function of population, income and food prices. Crop production depends on economic variables such as crop prices, inputs and subsidies on one hand and climate, crop technology, production mode (rain fed versus irrigated) and water availability on the other. Irrigation water demand is a function of the food production requirement and management practices, but constrained by the amount of available water. Water demand for irrigation, domestic purposes, industrial sectors, livestock and the environment are estimated at basin scale. Water supply for each basin is expressed as a function of climate, hydrology and infrastructure. At basin level, hydrologic components (water supply, usage and outflow) must balance. At the global level food demand and supply are leveled out by international trade and changes in commodity stocks. The model iterates between basin, region and globe until the conditions of economic equilibrium and hydrologic water balance are met.

Uses


Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global

Global National

Ecosystems

Multiple


Related Tools EPA (WWQMTSC) - Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools Bentley - Water and Wastewater Network Analysis and Design Products

Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) EPA Water Quality Economics and Benefits Watershed Analyst™ USGS Streamstats Version 2

USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports Environmental and Water Resource Software Center for Geospatial Data Analysis – Indiana Geological Survey Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox (IWRM) Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal

Keywords

water resources management

Link

http://www.gwptoolbox.org/

Description

The ToolBox is a free and open database with a library of case studies and references that can be used by anyone who is interested in implementing better approaches for the management of water or learning more about improving water management on a local, national, regional or global level. The ToolBox is also an excellent tool for you to engage with a broader community of interested professionals around the world and to share your experiences. We hope that the ToolBox will increase your knowledge, improve your network of contacts, and help you in implementing ideas and solutions for water related problems. The GWP ToolBox comprises an organized collection of case studies, reference documents, external web sites and other supporting materials in water resources management, which have been submitted by various contributors and have been peer reviewed. The GWP Toolbox is intended to be an information exchange – experiences shared help to develop the body of knowledge which can enable all those engaged in water issues to work together to build water security and sustainable water for all. GWP has developed the ToolBox as a free access source of knowledge. The ToolBox allows water related professionals to discuss and analyze the various elements of the IWRM process, and facilitates the prioritization of actions aimed at improving water governance and management. It aims to facilitate those professionals and specialists engage with a broader community for the solution of (water related) problems

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Prioritization


Geographic Scale

Global


Ecosystems

Estuary/Coastal


Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software USGS (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process


IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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(ELOHA) - Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) (DHRAM) - The Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise

Stand-alone

Technical Website Support Cost Estimate Free


Developer

Global Water Partnership

Address

Contact

Danka J. Thalmeinerova

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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CSIRO - eWATER

CSIRO - CatchSIM (USA and Australia) IWMI -The Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) Water Systems Analysis Group (UNH)

IWMI - The Global Podium - Interactive water and food security scenario planning tool Examples Additional Information

Cai, X.; Rosegrant, M. 2002. Global water demand and supply projections. Part 1: A modeling approach. Water International 27(3):159–169. Fraiture, C. de. 2007. Integrated water and food analysis at the global and basin level. An application of WATERSIM. Water Resources Management 21: 185-198 Molden, D. 1997. Accounting for water use and productivity. System-wide Initiative on Water Management (SWIM) Paper No.1. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute. Rosegrant, M., X. Cai, and S. Cline. 2002. World Water and Food to 2025. Dealing with Scarcity. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute.


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Developer


Address

127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelwatte, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka.

Contact

Charlotte de Fraiture

Phone

+94-11 2880000

Email

[email protected]


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Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (LANDFIRE) Type of Tool

Analytical tool Model Grid data

Keywords

Forest Disturbance, Forest Fire, Forest Ecology, Forest Modeling, Historical Reference Conditions

Link

www.landfire.gov

Description

With LANDFIRE, you can view and download geospatial layers and data products that depict the nation's major ecosystems, wildlife habitat, vegetation or canopy characteristics, landscape features, and wildland fire behavior, effects, and regimes. These data layers traverse jurisdictional land boundaries and provide the public free data products for numerous applications, including wildland fire management and landscape conservation. LANDFIRE is a shared effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior. LANDFIRE data products are designed to facilitate national- and regional-level strategic planning and reporting of management activities. Data products are created at a 30-meter grid spatial resolution raster data set; however, the applicability of data products varies by location and specific use. Users are advised to evaluate the data carefully for their applications. The principal purposes of the data products are: - Provide national-level, landscape-scale geospatial products to support fire and fuels management planning - Provide consistent fuels data to support fire planning, analysis, and budgeting to evaluate fire management alternatives - Provide landscape–scale, cross-boundary strategic products for fire and land management activities - Supplement planning and management activities, including monitoring, that require consistent vegetation data - Supplement strategic and tactical planning for fire operations

Uses


Purposes


Forecasting

TMDL



Geographic Scale

National

Regional


Forest

Stressors Natural disturbances

Grassland Related Tools Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) LANDIS - Landscape Disturbance and Succession Model Examples

www.landfire.gov/products_applications.php


Several GIS tools and ecological models are available from the website which are intended to support processing and analysis of the various datasets associated with this project. Many LANDFIRE products incorporate disturbances other than fire (such as flooding and windthrow) and include basic ecological and management information relevant to non-fire-adapted ecosystems.


240

Data Viewer - http://landfire.cr.usgs.gov/viewer Data Products - http://www.landfire.gov/version_comparison.php Associated Websites - http://www.landfire.gov/awebsites.php Minimum Software Requirements

ArcGIS® Spatial Analyst extension GIS with raster capability

Technical Website Support Workshops



Developer

US DOI and USFS

Address

Contact

http://www.landfire.gov/contactus.php

Phone

Email

[email protected]


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Cost Estimate Free

LANDIS - Landscape Disturbance and Succession Model Type of Tool


Keywords

Forest Succession, Forest Disturbance

Link

http://nrs.fs.fed.us/tools/landis/

Description

LANDIS is designed to model forest succession, disturbance (including fire, wind, harvesting, insects, global change), and seed dispersal across large (>1 million ha) landscapes. LANDIS represents landscapes as a grid of cells and tracks age cohorts of each species (presence/absence or biomass) rather than individual trees. LANDIS simulates distinct ecological processes, allowing complex interactions to play out as emergent properties of the simulation. Background LANDIS development began in the early 1990s under the direction of Dr. David Mladenoff, with partial funding from the Northern Research Station, Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Dr. Hong He joined the team in the late 1990s followed by Dr. Robert Scheller several years later. There are two currently supported versions of LANDIS which were developed with primary funding from the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service. LANDIS 4.0 is a fully modular software product with improved fire simulation and new capabilities for simulating fuel accumulation and decomposition and disturbance by biological agents such as insects and disease. Dr. He led the development of this version at the University of Missouri in collaboration with the Northern Research Station in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. LANDIS-II is a completely re-engineered version developed at the Forest Landscape Ecology Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in collaboration with the Northern Research Station in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. LANDIS-II was designed to advance forest landscape simulation modeling in many respects. Most significantly, LANDIS-II allows for the incorporation of ecosystem processes and states (e.g., live biomass accumulation) at broad spatial scales has flexible time steps for every process, and uses an advanced architecture that will significantly increase collaborative potential. Some LANDIS-II Features: Variable time steps (1 - 40 years) for each extension (disturbance, succession, and output), to be determined by the user. Users can mix-and-match time steps. For example: succession could be decadal and fire annual or both succession and fire could run at an annual time step. Calculation of aboveground live and dead biomass will be encapsulated within an optional extension. An extension that is logically consistent with the original LANDIS cohort structure (species-age) will remain available. A re-organized and simplified user interface. This includes new formats for inputting initial landscape data, new file formats for managing scenarios, and new file formats for user input data. Input data will be extensively and automatically checked for errors. A graphical user interface will be provided in 2007. An on-line database of extensions will be available for download. Browse for new or updated extensions, share your extensions, etc. Programmed natively as separate modules, allowing rapid development of new or alternative extensions (modules) for disturbance, reproduction/seed dispersal, succession, and output. Extensions are dynamically loadable (aka Plug-and-Play). Compilation is not necessary to use new or different extensions. Nor is compilation necessary to add new variables to the landscape, new species variables, or new ecoregion variables. Developed using a standardized development method (Unified Process) and rigorous unit testing. LANDIS-II is open source.


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Documentation and Downloads Software Availability LANDIS 4.0 Software is available from the School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri at http://web.missouri.edu/~umcsnrlandis/ LANDIS II Software is available from the Forest Ecology Laboratory, University of Wisconsin at http://www.landis-ii.org/ Uses


Purposes


Forecasting

TMDL


Watershed planning

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional

Forest

Stressors Weather Natural disturbances

Related Tools Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (LANDFIRE) Examples

http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/3603


LANDIS-II was developed at the Forest Landscape Ecology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the USFS Northern Research Station, and the Conservation Biology Institute.


Stand-alone


Workshops Email Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USFS - Northern Research Station

Address

Northern Research Station 5985 Highway K Rhinelander, WI 54501-9128

Contact

Brian Sturtevant

Phone

715-362-1105

Email

http://nrs.fs.fed.us/people/contact/Stu


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Name

LANDIS-II Forest Landscape Simulation Model

What is it?


Link

http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/4153/landis/default.asp and http://www.landis-ii.org/

Keywords

Forest Succession, Forest Disturbance

Description

LANDIS-II simulates forest succession, disturbance (including fire, wind, harvesting, insects), climate change, and seed dispersal across large (typically 10,000 - 10,000,000 ha) landscapes. LANDIS-II tracks the spatial distribution of discrete tree and shrub species and has flexible spatial and temporal resolutions. LANDIS-II, 1) has flexible time steps for every ecological process, 2) optionally allows for the incorporation of ecosystem processes and states (e.g., live biomass accumulation, soil decomposition) 3) uses an advanced architecture that allows rapid model development and easy distribution and installation of model components. LANDIS-II manages and executes discrete extensions (modules or plug-ins). Each ecological process is programmed as an independent extension that interacts with the landscape through an explicit interface with the core LANDIS-II program. The user specifies which extensions will be used to best simulate the forest dynamics of interest. LANDIS-II allows scientists to easily develop and share their own extensions.

Uses


Purposes


Forecasting



Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional

Forest

Stressors Weather Natural disturbances

Related Tools Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (LANDFIRE) Examples Additional Information

LANDIS-II was developed at the Forest Landscape Ecology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the USFS Northern Research Station, and the Conservation Biology Institute.


Technical Online user community Support Website Guidance Workshops Email

Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer Address Contact

Dr. Robert Scheller


Phone Email

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RMSCHELLER @ consbio.org

Landscape Analyst

Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Link

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b925643897a840d8bf0e22587977786e

Description

The Landscape Analyst is an ArcView GIS (version 3.x) 3rd party extension. ArcView extensions add more functionality to the core software. The Landscape Analyst allows users to assess the current conditions of watersheds, counties and/or regions both visually and quantitatively. It also allows users to simulate potential impacts of future changes to the landscape. The Landscape Analyst depends on users of ArcView having the ESRI created Spatial Analyst Extension loaded on their system. Many of the tools, models and processes in the Landscape Analyst can be performed using the core ArcView software with the Spatial Analyst extension alone but the expertise, time and complexity required to perform such actions would be prohibitive. The Landscape Analyst simplifies and organizes such specialized functions into an interface that can be used by the intermediate ArcView users to make policy decisions regarding the Earth's landscape.

Uses


Purposes



Watershed planning


Community outreach

Forecasting Visualization

Prioritization Condition assessment Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional Local

Ecosystems

Agriculture Forest


Grassland

Altered habitat

Urban/Suburban/

Temperature

Lake

Habitat fragmentation

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools NOAA Habitat Priority Planner Geospatial Modeling Environment

Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ CommunityViz® MassDEP Habitat of Potential Regional and Statewide Importance Examples

http://www.canaanvi.org/canaanvi_web/community.aspx?collection=Landscape_Analyst&id=263

Additional Information Tuesday, September 27, 2011

ArcView® 3.x

Website

245


ArcView® 3.x ArcView Spatial Analyst extension


Technical Website Support Telephone Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Canaan Valley Institute & West Virginia University

Address

Canaan Valley Institute 494 RiverStone Road Davis, WV 26260

Contact

Sarah Deacon

Phone

(304) 259-4739

Email

[email protected]


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Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™

Type of Tool

Analytical tool Decision support system

Keywords

roads

Link

http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/lft/lft2/

Description

A geoprocessing tool that allows communities, researchers and others to chart the impact of development on forest resources to measure the impact of new roads, buildings and other development on the natural landscape. Placeways and the University of Connecticut Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR) have collaborated to create a new computer tool to measure the impact of new roads, buildings and other development on the natural landscape. Fragmentation - the breaking up of the natural landscape into ever-smaller pieces - is widely considered by researchers to have negative impacts on ecosystem health, wildlife, and water quality. In much of the country, the landscape being fragmented is forest. "Forest fragmentation not only has a direct impact on wildlife through its altering of habitat," notes UConn Extension Forester Tom Worthley, "but it affects the critical 'ecological services' that healthy forests provide, such as clean air and clean water." Over the years, the scientific literature has outlined many different methods to measure fragmentation. The UConn-Placeways effort focused on creating a tool that could be easily used within the context of the computerized mapping technology known as a geographic information system, or GIS, and applied to widely-available land cover data, derived from satellite-based information.

Uses


Purposes



TMDL


Watershed planning


Community outreach

Forecasting

Visualization Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional Local

State Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Habitat fragmentation


Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools NASA (GCMD) - Global Change Master Directory NASA (EOS) Earth Observing System

NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture USGS/NASA Landsat Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis)

USGS (EROS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science USGS Earth Explorer NASA (ESDIS) Earth Science Data and Information System Project NASA (MODIS) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer NASA Earth Observatory

NOAA Habitat Priority Planner NOAA (ISAT) Impervious Surface Analysis Tool NOAA Remote Sensing for Coastal Management NOAA Shoreline Geospatial Modeling Environment Examples

clear.uconn.edu


Tool Download - http://placeways.com/downloads/LandFragToolSetup.zip


ArcGIS®




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

UConn Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR) & Placeways LLC

Address

1722 14th Street, Suite 150 Boulder, Colorado 80302

Contact

Placeways, LLC

Phone

866.953.1400

Email

[email protected]


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Landserf

Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Land Management, Land Surface, Landscape Patterns, GIS, Data Analysis, Visualization, Image Processing

Link

http://www.landserf.org/

Description

LandSerf is a freely available Geographical Information System (GIS) for the visualisation and analysis of surfaces. Applications include visualisation of landscapes; geomorphological analysis; gaming development; GIS file conversion; map output; archaeological mapping and analysis; surface modelling and many others. It runs on any platform that supports the Java Runtime Environment (Windows, MacOSX, Unix, Linux etc.) * Handles multiple surface models - raster digital elevation models (DEMs), vector Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs), contours and metric surface networks (MSNs). * Interactive 3D viewing and 'flythrough' of surfaces on platforms that support OpenGL. * A range of powerful and interactive visualisation techniques including lighting/shade models, multiple image blending and dynamic graphical query. * Raster and vector transformation including image rectification and map projection. * Multi-scale surface processing based on quadratic regression. * Fractal and polynomial surface generation for modelling and simulation. * Multi-scale parameter and feature extraction (slope, aspect, curvature etc.). * Import and export of common raster and vector formats. * Integration with Garmin GPS receivers.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global


Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland Estuary/Coastal Lake

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools SAGA - (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses)

ILWIS - Integrated Land and Water Information System USGS/NASA Landsat Examples

http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~jwo/landserf/landserf230/doc/landserfManual.pdf


Stand-alone

Website


249


Stand-alone



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Jo Wood

Address

Department of Information Science, City University, London EC1V 0HB, UK

Contact

Jo Wood

Phone

+44 20 7040 0146

Email

[email protected]


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Layer Logic for ArcGIS

Raw tool

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://www.layerlogic.com/company/

Description

LayerLogic is a powerful extension to ArcGIS. Formula–driven field values that update themselves. Its graphical, drag-and-drop interface lets you create Smart Fields in layer attribute tables. Smart Field values use self-updating field formulas that become part of your map document. Almost 100 analysis functions are available for creating everything from on-the-spot calculations like “name of closest city” to sophisticated geospatial models. Beyond Field Calculator and spreadsheets. Complementary to Model Builder and geoprocessing tools. LayerLogic allows you to easily create your own GIS formulas.

Uses


Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Purposes

Regional


Stressors

Related Tools Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

ArcGIS®




Cost Estimate $2,000

Developer

Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality

Address

Oregon Dept of Envtl. Quality 811 SW Sixth Ave., Portland, OR 97204-1390

Contact

Gene Foster

Phone

503-229-5696

Email

[email protected]


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Name

TNC Aquatic community classification framework

What is it?


Link

http://conserveonline.org/library/glreppub.zip/view.ht ml

Keywords

conservation planning; GAP analysis

Description

This report details a major component of this Freshwater Initiative, the development of a model to classify freshwater biological habitats and communities and the pilot application of this model to identify priority aquatic conservation sites across the Great Lakes basin. The goal was to identify places that together represent the diversity of biological communities in the Great Lakes basin.

Uses


Purposes



Watershed planning

Associating in-stream characteristics & ecological condition Restoration/recovery potential Prioritization

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Local

Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River

Stressors Multiple Nonpoint source Altered habitat

Wetland

Altered flow Ionic strength

Related Tools Florida Wetland ecoregions NOAA/TNC Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS2) Examples

http://conserveonline.org/library/glreppub.zip/view.html


Stand-alone Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise Developer

Technical Website Support Guidance Cost Estimate Free

General understanding of issues Basic computer skills sufficient Nature Conservancy

Address Contact

Jonathan Higgins

Email

[email protected]

Phone


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TNC - Freshwater Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin: Development and Application of an Aquatic Community Classification Framework Type of Tool


Keywords

conservation planning; GAP analysis

Link


Description

This report details a major component of this Freshwater Initiative, the development of a model to classify freshwater biological habitats and communities and the pilot application of this model to identify priority aquatic conservation sites across the Great Lakes basin. The goal was to identify places that together represent the diversity of biological communities in the Great Lakes basin.

Uses


Purposes



Watershed planning

Associating in-stream characteristics & ecological condition Restoration/recovery potential Prioritization

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Local



Stream/River

Altered habitat

Wetland

Altered flow Ionic strength

Related Tools Florida Wetland ecoregions DRAFT NOAA/TNC Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS2) Examples



Stand-alone



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

Nature Conservancy

Address

Contact

Jonathan Higgins

Phone

Email

[email protected]


399

UCONN Estimation Tool for Impervious Surfaces (ETIS) Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Link

http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/is/etis/index.htm

Description

The Estimation Tool for Impervious Surface (ETIS) allows to calculate the amount of imperviousness for specified area based on land cover and population density data. It was developed using linear regression equation and a set of coefficients based on the classes of the land cover map used. There are several sets of coefficients included with the Toolbox for Connecticut Land Cover (CCL) and National Land Cover Data (NLCD) 2001, but ETIS also allows to import custom sets and to demonstrate the effect of change in land cover on the amount of imperviousness. ETIS can estimate percent impervious cover for future land cover scenarios allowing for comparison to current conditions.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple


Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Water resources management


Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local


Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools NOAA (ISAT) Impervious Surface Analysis Tool UCONN Landscape Fragmentation Tool (LFT) v. 2.0

UCONN KML to SHP Tool UCONN Shape Metrics Tool Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements


ArcView® 3.x ArcGIS® GIS ArcINFO ArcGIS Explorer


Email

400

ArcGIS Java MapWindows BASINS Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

UCONN - CLEAR

Address

Laboratory for Earth Resources Information Systems Center for Land use Education and Research Dept. of Natural Resources Management and Engineering University of Connecticut

Contact

Dan Civco and Jason Parent

Phone

(860) 486-4610

Email

[email protected] or [email protected]


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UCONN Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (ISAT) Analytical tool

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://nemo.uconn.edu/tools/impervious_surfaces/measure/isat.htm

Description

The Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (ISAT), an ArcView 3.x extension, is used to calculate the percentage of impervious surface area of user-selected geographic areas (e.g. watersheds, municipalities, subdivisions). ISAT was developed as a partnership between NEMO and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center, based on a prototype created by NEMO. ISAT can be downloaded free of charge from the Coastal Services Center Digital Coast website. ISAT was developed using detailed IS data from several states, but the long term goal of NEMO, CSC and the National NEMO Network is to develop a set of state or region-specific coefficients. Shown in the photo are UConn‘s Sandy Prisloe and CSC‘s Dave Eslinger leading an ISAT workshop during the summer of 2002. Participants were both town officials from CT, and NEMO Network staff from around the country. Program Applications

Uses

Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National State Multiple

Ecosystems

Stressors Multiple


ArcView® 3.x




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

UCONN - CLEAR

Address

Middlesex County Extension Center UConn, Department of Extension 1066 Saybrook Rd. BOX 70 Haddam, CT 06438

Contact

Michael Dietz

Phone

860-345-5225

Email

[email protected]


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UCONN KML to SHP Tool

Type of Tool

Raw tool

Keywords

Link

http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/kml_to_shp/index.htm

Description

Google Earth is a 3D image viewer that provides free access to a rich resource of satellite imagery. Features can be digitized from the imagery and saved as a kml file. Kml files must be converted to a feature class (i.e. shapefile) before it can be used in ArcGIS. The KML to SHP tool converts the kml files, from Google Earth (version 4.2 or 4.3), to an ESRI shapefile. The shapefile retains the feature names and descriptions. The tool is run from ArcToolbox and requires ArcGIS 9.2 or 9.3. The KML to SHP tool was designed to read kml files generated by Google Earth (GE) v4.2. Kml files generated by earlier versions of Google Earth or other software may have different formats and will be unreadable by the tool. If you have kml files that may have older formats, then you can load the file into Google Earth 4.2 and then resave it as a kml file. This should create a kml file in a format that can be read by the tool. The tool cannot read kmz files. Kml files can be created from any features digitized in Google Earth. For convenience, all features should be contained in the same folder in the Google Earth table of contents. The entire folder can then be saved as a kml file. The KML to SHP tool will create a shapefile from features of the specified type (polygon, line, point) extracted from the kml file. The shapefile will be in geographic coordinates and can be projected to the desired coordinate system using the Data Management Tools > Projections and Transformations > Feature > Project tool in ArcToolbox. Before running the KML to SHP tool, you must first add the KML_to_Shp.tbx to ArcToolbox. The tool documentation gives details on how to use it - see the help column of the tool dialog window. The Importing Google Earth Data into a GIS PowerPoint presentation provides a detailed overview of the tool as well as tips for using Google Earth screen captures as reference imagery in ArcGIS.

Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


Publications - http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/kml_to_shp/pubs.htm



ArcView® 3.x ArcGIS® Open-source GIS GIS ArcINFO


Email

403

ArcGIS Explorer ArcGIS Java Google Earth MapWindows BASINS Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

UCONN - CLEAR

Address


Contact

Jason Parent

Phone

(860) 486-4610

Email

[email protected]


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UCONN Landscape Fragmentation Tool (LFT) v. 2.0 Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Link

http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/lft/lft2/

Description

The Landscape Fragmentation Tool (LFT v2.0) maps the types of fragmentation present in a specified land cover type (i.e. forest). This land cover type is classified into 4 main categories patch, edge, perforated,and core - based on a specified edge width. The edge width indicates the distance over which other land covers (i.e. urban) can degrade the land cover type of interest (i.e. forest). The core pixels are outside the "edge effect" and thus are not degraded from proximity to other land cover types. Core pixels are subclassified into 3 categories - small core, medium core, and large core - based on the area of a given core patch. Edge and perforated pixels occur along the periphery of tracts containing core pixels. Edge pixels make up the exterior peripheries of the tracts whereas perforated pixels make up the interior edges along small gaps in the tracts. Patch pixels make up small fragments that are completely degraded by the edge effect. While the LFT tool was designed to analyze fragmentation in forest, it can be used to map fragmentation in any land cover of interest. The Landscape Fragmentation Tool v2.0 is a python script that runs out of ArcToolbox and requires ArcGIS 9.3. Two versions of the v2.0 are available - one requires the Spatial Analyst extension, the other does not. The tool is based on research done by Vogt et al (2007) (see link on website).

Uses


Transferability

Purposes

Geographic Scale

Ecosystems

Stressors

Related Tools FRAGSTATS - Spatial Pattern Analysis Program for Categorical Maps Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™

Landscape Analyst GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation UCONN KML to SHP Tool Examples

Method - http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/lft/lft2/method.htm


Links and Publications - http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/lft/lft2/pubs.htm


Technical Support

Unspecified Unspecified UCONN - Center for Land Use Education and Research

Jason ContactSeptember Thursday, 29,Parent 2011

or James Hurd

Cost Estimate

Address


Phone

(860) 486-4610

405

Contact

Jason Parent or James Hurd

Email



Phone

406

(860) 486-4610

UCONN Shape Metrics Tool

Type of Tool

Analytical tool

Keywords

Link

http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/Shape_Metrics/index.htm

Description

Metrics that quantitatively measure the various aspects of a feature's shape have applications in fields ranging from landscape ecology to geography. Hundreds of metrcis exist for measuring characteristics of shapes but the relevance of these metrics to a particular analysis is often unclear. The Shape Metrics Tool calculates more than a dozen metrics that quantify specific characteristics of a patch's shape. Descriptions of these metrics as well as a rationale for their use can be found in the Shape Metrics PowerPoint. The appropriate metric to use depends on what the patch represents and on the issue being studied - the selected metric(s) should make logical sense for the analysis. The tool is a Python script that runs out of ArcToolbox in ArcGIS 9.3. No extensions are required. The tool requires a polygon feature class as the input. Method The tool can calculate up to 12 different metrics that each measure a particular aspect of a polygon's shape. Each metric has a normalized and unnormalized version. The normalized version is not affected by the polygon's area and provide a measure of the shape's compactness. The unnormalized versions of the metrics are affected by the polygon's area. The metric(s) used should make logical sense for the analysis. The Shape Metrics PowerPoint provides detailed descriptions of each metric along with example of their application. Brief descriptions of each metric follow... Cohesion: the average Euclidean distance between all pairs of interior points. Proximity: the average Euclidean distance from all interior points to the centroid. Exchange: the area of the shape contained within a circle with an area equal to that of the polygon and centered on the polygon's centroid. Spin: the average of the square of the Euclidean distances between all interior points and the centroid. This metric is more sensitive to the outlying regions of the polygon. Perimeter: the perimeter of the shape. Depth: the average distance from the shape‘s interior points to the nearest point on the perimeter. Girth: the radius of the largest circle that can be inscribed in the shape. Dispersion: the average distance from the centroid to all points on the perimeter. The metric is unaffected by gaps within the polygon. Range: the maximum distance separating two points on the shape perimeter. Detour: the perimeter of the shape‘s convex hull.The convex hull is the convex polygon with the shortest possible perimeter that fully encompasses the shape. Traversal: the average distances of the shortest interior paths connecting any two points on the shape perimeter.


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Viable Interior: the area of the shape that is beyond the depth of the edge-effect. Requires an edge-width distance to be known. Uses

Ecosystems


Purposes


Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors

Related Tools EPA (ATtILA) - Analytical Tools Interface for Landscape Assessments (ATtILA) FRAGSTATS - Spatial Pattern Analysis Program for Categorical Maps

Landscape Fragmentation Geoprocessing Tool™ Landscape Analyst

GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation R - Spatstat - Open source software for spatial statistics UCONN Landscape Fragmentation Tool (LFT) v. 2.0 UCONN KML to SHP Tool Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

Required Expertise

ArcView® 3.x ArcGIS® Open-source GIS GIS ArcINFO ArcGIS Explorer ArcGIS Java Google Earth MapWindows BASINS


Email


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

UCONN - CLEAR

Address


Contact

Jason Parent

Phone

(860) 486-4610

Email

[email protected]


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UNH Water Systems Analysis Group (WSAG)

Type of Tool


Keywords

Link

http://www.wsag.unh.edu/

Description

The fundamental goal of the Water Systems Analysis Group (WSAG) is to act as a formal, active research and advanced training unit within the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire. The group is dedicated to analysis of the critical global change issue of water systems and their alteration by anthropogenic activities. Creation of the Water Systems Analysis Group reflects a rapidly emerging scientific field which pursues integrative studies of hydrology, biogeochemistry, and human-water interactions that is necessary to analyze the full dimension of anthropogenic change at local, regional, and global scales. The structure of WSAG is built around a set of "pillars" or research and training initiatives. There are four pillars defining the thematic content of the Water Systems Analysis Group, along with a pillar to represent our largest regional component, Arctic hydrology: Arctic hydrology Humans and the global water cycle Monitoring the status of inland and coastal waters Land-river-coastal systems International training program for water studies WSAG is located within the UNH Institute for Study of Earth, Ocean and Space.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Multiple


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors Temperature Altered flow

Climate change Weather Altered hydrology

Urbanization Related Tools National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) ArcHydro – GIS for Water Resources Hydrologic Impacts of Land Use Changes and Practices

Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software (ELOHA) - Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (DHRAM) - The Dundee Hydrological Regime Assessment Method Thursday, September 29, 2011

409

EPA (BASINS) - Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources

EPA - Water Quality Models and Tools (CEH) Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) (DMIP 1 & 2) - Distributed Model Intercomparison Project (DHSVM) - Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model 3.0 (HydroSHEDS) - Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multi Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements

Required Expertise

Stand-alone ArcGIS® Open-source GIS ArcGIS Explorer MapWindows BASINS


Email


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

UNH - WSAG

Address

Water Systems Analysis Group Earth Systems Research Center Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space University of New Hampshire 211 Morse Hall, 8 College Road Durham, New Hampshire 03824 (USA)

Contact

Wil Wollheim or Richard Lammers

Phone

603-862-0812

Email



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USDA - (AGNPS) - AGricultural Non-Point Source Pollution Model Model

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://go.usa.gov/KFO

Description

AGNPS is a tool for use in evaluating the effect of management decisions impacting a watershed system. The AGNPS system is a direct update of the AGNPS 98 & 2001 system of modules containing many enhancements. The term "AGNPS" now refers to the system of modeling components instead of the single event AGNPS, which was discontinued in the mid-1990's. These enhancements have been included to improve the capability of the program and to automate many of the input data preparation steps needed for use with large watershed systems.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning


Water resources management Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Local


State Agriculture

Ecosystems

Stressors Nonpoint source


AGNPS References - ftp://solar1.msaoxford.ars.usda.gov/pub/outgoing/AGNPS/AGNPS_Web_Files/pdf_files/AGNPS_References.pdf


Stand-alone



Developer

USDA - ARS

Address

Contact

Ron Bingner

Phone

Email


411

Cost Estimate Free

662-232-2966

USDA/NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway

Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal Visualization (mapping) tool

Keywords

Geospatial, Data, Gateway

Link

http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov

Description

The Geospatial Data Gateway (GDG) is the One Stop Source for environmental and natural resources data, at anytime, from anywhere, to anyone. The Gateway allows you to choose your area of interest, browse and select data from our catalog, customize the format, and have it downloaded or shipped on CD or DVD. This service is made available through a close partnership between the three Service Center Agencies (SCA); Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Farm Service Agency (FSA), and Rural Development (RD).

Uses


Purposes


Visualization

Watershed planning



Geographic Scale

National


Ecosystems

Forest

Stressors Multiple

Grassland Estuary/Coastal Lake

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools National Atlas USGS The National Map Examples Additional Information

Available data includes orthophoto imagery, soils, Common Land Units (CLU), cultural and demographic data, governmental units and place names, land ownership data, transportation (roads), elevation, hydrography, USGS topo quads, land cover/vegetation/plants, 10-12 digit hydrologic units, wetlands, wetland and floodplain easements, climate (precipitation and temperature), flood hazards, applied conservation practices, water control infrastructure and National Inventory of Dams.


GIS GIS with raster capability

Technical Website Support Email Cost Estimate Free



Address

412

USDA (RUSLE ) - Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation 2 Model

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://fargo.nserl.purdue.edu/rusle2_dataweb/RUSLE2_Index.htm

Description

This site contains the official NRCS version of RUSLE2. It is the only version of RUSLE2 to be used for official purposes by NRCS field offices. The NRCS developed and maintains the database components on this site. These components comprise the Official NRCS RUSLE2 Database. The official NRCS RUSLE2 database is the only database to be used for official purposes by NRCS field office employees. RUSLE2 is an upgrade of the text-based RUSLE DOS version 1. It is a computer model containing both empirical and process-based science in a Windows environment that predicts rill and interrill erosion by rainfall and runoff. The USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the lead agency for developing the RUSLE2 model. The ARS, through university and private contractors, is responsible for developing the science in the model and the model interface. Program Applications

Uses

Purposes



Geographic Scale

Global


State Agriculture

Ecosystems

Grassland

Stressors Multiple Suspended sediment

Urban/Suburban/

Bedded sediment


http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=6010


http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/rusle2/


Stand-alone GIS with raster capability

Technical Website Support Guidance Email Training

Required Expertise


Developer

USDA-ARS

Address

Contact

Linda Scheffe

Phone

Email

[email protected]


413

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USDA/NRCS

Contact Email

Address Phone

[email protected]


414

USFS Bailey's Ecoregions

Type of Tool


Keywords

ecoregion

Link

http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/analytics/publications/ecoregionsindex.html

Description

Ecoregions are large areas of similar climate where ecosystems recur in predictable patterns. We provide resources and education on the origins of these patterns and their relevance to sustainable design and planning. Who's Using Ecoregions Many federal agencies and private organizations use a system of land classification based on the ecoregion concept. Some of these include USDA Forest Service, U.S Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy, and The Sierra Club. Projects include biodiversity analysis, landscape and regional level forest planning, and the study of mechanisms of forest disease.

Uses


Purposes



Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global Regional National State

Ecosystems

Forest

Stressors Multiple

Grassland Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions USFS Ecological Subregions: Provinces, Sections, and Subsections of the Conterminous Uni

USFS - Ecological Units of the Eastern United States: First Approximation Florida Wetland ecoregions Examples

http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/analytics/publications/ecoregionsindex.html


Open-source GIS



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USFS (Bailey)

Address

Rocky Mountain Research Station;U.S. Forest Service;240 W Prospect Rd;Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA

Contact

Robert Bailey

Phone

(970) 498-2617

Email

[email protected]


415

USFS Ecological Subregions: Provinces, Sections, and Subsections of the Conterminous United States Type of Tool


Keywords

ecoregion

Link

http://svinetfc4.fs.fed.us/clearinghouse/other_resources/ecosubregions.html

Description

This data set includes polygons for ecological sections and subsections within Subregions within the conterminous United States. The purpose is to provide a baseline map of the ecological boundaries and to support ecological analysis of resource distribution patterns and associations among different ecological land units.

Uses


Purposes

Standards


Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional


Forest Grassland


Lake

Nutrients

Stream/River

Suspended sediment

Wetland

Bedded sediment Altered habitat

Temperature Altered flow Dissolved oxygen Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions USFS Bailey's Ecoregions

USFS - Ecological Units of the Eastern United States: First Approximation TNC - Freshwater Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin: Development and Application of a Examples

http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/gla/reports/hierarchy.htm


Stand-alone




Cost Estimate Free

Address

416

Developer

USFS

Address

USDA Forest Service;Eastern Regional Office and Southern Research Station;Federal Building, 68 S. Stevens Street;Rhinelander, WI 54501

Contact

David T. Cleland

Phone

(715) 365-1003

Email

[email protected]


417

USFS - Ecological Units of the Eastern United States: First Approximation Type of Tool


Keywords

ecoregion; ecological units

Link

http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/keys/

Description

The following datasets were published in 1995 on CD-ROM by the USDA Forest Service and have been superceded by a 2007 version of ecoregions. Users are urged to use the newer version. However, the 1995 version is provided here in the event that the older version is needed to recreate analyses conducted using the older definitions. The original 1995 CD-ROM also contained another 65 MB of high resolution TIFF images. Aside from these images, the contents of the original CDROM are all available here.

Uses


Purposes

Standards



Geographic Scale

National


Ecosystems

Forest

Grassland


Lake

Nutrients

Stream/River

Suspended sediment

Wetland

Bedded sediment Altered habitat

Altered flow Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions USFS Bailey's Ecoregions USFS Ecological Subregions: Provinces, Sections, and Subsections of the Conterminous Uni

TNC - Freshwater Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin: Development and Application of a Examples

http://www.epa.gov/med/Res_Summaries/lake_superior_comparative_watershed_framework.pdf; http://www.islandpress.org/bookstore/details.php?isbn=9781597260442


Stand-alone


General understanding of issues Basic computer skills sufficient Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units


Cost Estimate Free

Address

418

USDA Forest Service; Southern Region; Atlanta, GA

Contact

James Keys

Phone

Email


419

(404-347-7223)

USFS - Geodata Clearinghouse

Type of Tool

Keywords http://svinetfc4.fs.fed.us/clearinghouse/index.html

Link Description


Uses

Transferability

Purposes

Geographic Scale

Ecosystems

Stressors

Related Tools Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise

Technical Support


Cost Estimate

Developer

USFS

Address

Geospatial Service and Technology Center 2222 West 2300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84119

Contact

Michael Hadley

Phone

801)-975-3472

Email

[email protected]


420

Name

USFS Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units

What is it?


Link

http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/keys/

Keywords

ecoregion; ecological units

Description

The U.S. Forest Service, in participation with numerous individuals of federal and state agencies and non-government organizations, is preparing an ecological map and characterization data of the eastern United States. Ecological mapping and description follow the Forest Service's National Framework for Ecological Units (ECOMAP, 1993).

Uses


Purposes

Standards



Geographic Scale

National


Ecosystems

Forest Grassland


Lake

Nutrients

Stream/River

Suspended sediment

Wetland

Bedded sediment Altered habitat Altered flow

Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions USFS Bailey's Ecoregions USFS National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units Multivariate Clustering to Recognize Ecoregion Borders TNC Aquatic community classification framework Examples

http://www.epa.gov/med/Res_Summaries/lake_superior_comparative_watershed_framework.pdf; http://www.islandpress.org/bookstore/details.php?isbn=9781597260442





Cost Estimate Free


421

Developer

Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units

Address

USDA Forest Service; Southern Region; Atlanta, GA

Contact

James Keys

Phone

Email


422

(404-347-7223)

Name

USFS National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units

What is it?


Link

http://svinetfc4.fs.fed.us/research/section/index.html

Keywords

ecoregion

Description

This data set includes polygons for ecological sections and subsections within Subregions within the conterminous United States. The purpose is to provide a baseline map of the ecological boundaries and to support ecological analysis of resource distribution patterns and associations among different ecological land units.

Uses


Purposes

Standards



Geographic Scale

National


Ecosystems

Forest Grassland


Lake

Nutrients

Stream/River Wetland

Suspended sediment Bedded sediment Altered habitat Temperature Altered flow Dissolved oxygen

Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions USFS Bailey's Ecoregions USFS Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units TNC Aquatic community classification framework Examples

http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/gla/reports/hierarchy.htm





423

Required Expertise

Cost Estimate Free


Developer

USFS

Address

USDA Forest Service;Eastern Regional Office and Southern Research Station;Federal Building, 68 S. Stevens Street;Rhinelander, WI 54501

Contact

David T. Cleland

Email

[email protected]

Phone


424

(715) 365-1003

Name

USGS Aerial Photographs

What is it?

Photographic image data

Link

http://eros.usgs.gov/aerial-photography

Keywords

Air Photopgraph, Orthophotograph, Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles, DOQ

Description

The United States Geologic Service (USGS) supports Air Photo development and distribution through several programs (http://eros.usgs.gov/products/aerial.html). Recent computer and web based developments have made the dissemination of Air Photos much more convenient to the general public. It is often the case that recently collected high resolution ortho-photos are available for download from State and/or Federal sponsored websites. In addition, several web based services are currently available to provide high resolution imagery for instant downloading within the GIS environment. Three examples are GlobeXplorer (www.globexplorer.com), TerraServer (www.terraserver.com), and ArcGIS Online (http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/).

Uses


Purposes



TMDL Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Emergency response Water resources management Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Local

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


Open-source GIS Minimum Software Requirement




Cost Estimate Free

USGS

Address

Email

Contact

Phone


425

[email protected]

Name

USGS Downsizer

What is it?

Raw tool

Link

http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/SW_MoWS/Downsizer.html

Keywords

Description

The Downsizer is a GUI that retrieves daily climate and gage data. Climate data is from the NWS COOP network and the NRCS SNOTEL network. The COOP data is updated regularly. We have to update the SNOTEL data manually, so SNOTEL is usually only current through the last water year. Gage data is from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS). 2008-04-21 Release 2.1.0.745 adds World Wind (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/) to Downsizer. Visualizing station locations and retrieving data for specific geographical regions can now be done with just a few mouse gestures. Click the "Controls..." menu item in the World Wind frame for an overview of how to navigate the globe.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Multiple

Community outreach Water resources management Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale

National


Ecosystems

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


Downsizer Powerpoint (http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/SW_MoWS/software/downsizer_s/downsizer.ppt)




Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed USGS

Address

Contact Email

Cost Estimate Free



426

USGS Earth Explorer

Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal

Keywords

Link

http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Description

USGS Gateway/Portal to query and order aerial photography, satellite imagery and cartographic products. NOTICE 09/29/2008: Beginning September 30 2008, the USGS will offer all users the Landsat 7 archive data at no charge using a standard data product recipe. The Landsat TM and Landsat MSS archive will also become available at no charge with a standard recipe in December 2008. High demand for this data may result in slow EarthExplorer performance. We apologize for any inconvenience.Aerial Photography

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Multiple


Geographic Scale

Global

Regional

National

Local National State

Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River

Wetland Related Tools NASA (GCMD) - Global Change Master Directory Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) NASA (EOS) Earth Observing System

NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise Developer

ArcGIS® Image Analysis




Address

427

Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USGS

Address

Contact

http://www.usgs.gov/ask/

Phone

Email

[email protected]


428

USGS (EROS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal Grid data

Keywords

Link

http://eros.usgs.gov/

Description

The Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) is a data management, systems development, and research field center for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Geography Discipline

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple


Watershed planning Permitting Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

National


Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland Estuary/Coastal Lake

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions NASA (GCMD) - Global Change Master Directory Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

NASA (EOS) Earth Observing System USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) USGS Earth Explorer NASA (ESDIS) Earth Science Data and Information System Project

NASA (MODIS) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Thursday, September 29, 2011

Image Analysis GIS with raster capability


429



Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USGS

Address

U.S. Geological Survey Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001

Contact

Customer Services

Phone

800-252-4547

Email

[email protected]


430

Name

USGS (GAP) - Gap Analysis Program

What is it?

Point data Analytical tool Model Decision support system Vector data Grid data

Link

http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/

Keywords

Description

Uses

The mission of the Gap Analysis Program (GAP) is to provide regional assessments of the conservation status of native vertebrate species and natural land cover types and to facilitate the application of this information to land management activities. This is accomplished through the following five objectives: 1) map the land cover of the United States, 2) map predicted distributions of vertebrate species for the U.S., 3) document the representation of vertebrate species and land cover types in areas managed for the long-term maintenance of biodiversity, 4) provide this information to the public and those entities charged with land use research, policy, planning, and management, 5) build institutional cooperation in the application of this information to state and regional management activities. Program Applications

Purposes



Watershed planning

Restoration/recovery potential BMP selection and siting Prioritization Condition assessment

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional


Forest Grassland

Stressors Multiple Invasive species

Estuary/Coastal

Altered habitat

Lake

Altered flow

Stream/River

Climate change

Wetland

Habitat fragmentation Altered hydrology Natural disturbances Urbanization


http://gapanalysis.nbii.gov/portal/community/GAP_Analysis_Program/Communities/Research_&_Ap plications/


431


GIS Minimum Software GIS with raster capability Requirement

Required Expertise



Developer

USGS Biological Resources Division

Address

Headquarters, Reston, VA

Contact

John Mossesso, GAP Program Mana

Email

[email protected]

Phone


432

Cost Estimate Free

(703) 648-4079

Name

USGS - The GIS Weasel

What is it?


Link

http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/SW_MoWS/Weasel.html

Keywords

Description

The GIS Weasel is a software system designed to aid users in preparing spatial information as input to lumped and distributed parameter environmental simulation models (ESMs). The GIS Weasel provides geographic information system (GIS) tools to help create maps of geographic features relevant to the application of a user’s ESM and to generate parameters from those maps. The operation of the GIS Weasel does not require a user to be a GIS expert, only that a user has an understanding of the spatial information requirements of the model. The GIS Weasel software system provides a GIS-based graphical user interface (GUI), C programming language executables, and general utility scripts. The software will run on any computing platform where ArcInfo Workstation (version 8.1 or later) and the GRID extension are accessible. The user controls the GIS Weasel by interacting with menus, maps, and tables.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Water resources management Modeling

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National State

National State

Multiple

Stressors Multiple


Viger, R.J., 2008, An overview of the GIS Weasel: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2008–3004, 2 p. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3004/pdf/FS08-3004.pdf) Viger, R.J., and Leavesley, G.H., 2007, The GIS Weasel user's manual: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 6, chap. B4, 201 p. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/2007/06B04/)


433

USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis)

Type of Tool

Grid data

Keywords

Link

http://glovis.usgs.gov/

Description

The USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) is a quick and easy online search and order tool for selected satellite data. The viewer allows user-friendly access to all available browse images from the Landsat 7 ETM+, Landsat 4/5 TM, Landsat 1-5 MSS, EO-1 ALI, EO-1 Hyperion, NAPP, NHAP, MRLC, and Tri-Decadal data sets, as well as Aster TIR, Aster VNIR and MODIS browse images from the DAAC inventory. Through a graphic map display, the user can select any area of interest and immediately view all available browse images within the USGS inventory for the specified location. From the browse image viewer page, the user may either navigate to view adjacent scene locations or select a new area of interest. GloVis also offers additional features such as cloud cover limits, date limits, user-specified map layer displays, scene list maintenance, and access to metadata. An ordering interface is available for Aerial, Landsat, EO-1, ASTER and MODIS data purchases. Future GloVis releases will include the addition of data from other datasets within the USGS EROS archives.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Multiple

Community outreach Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

National


Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland Urban/Suburban/ Estuary/Coastal

Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools NASA (GCMD) - Global Change Master Directory Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture USGS/NASA Landsat Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Thursday, September 29, 2011

Image Analysis


434


Image Analysis GIS with raster capability




Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USGS

Address

Earth Resources Observation & Science Center (EROS) 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001

Contact

Customer Services

Phone

800-252-4547

Email

[email protected]; ASTER and MODIS questions: [email protected]


435

USGS (GOS) - Geospatial One Stop

Type of Tool

Gateway/Portal

Keywords

Link

http://www.usgs.gov/ngpo/

Description

As of September 30, 2011 Geospatial One Stop is moving to Geodata.gov.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple


Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Emergency response


Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National

National

State

State

Multiple

Stressors Multiple

Related Tools (NLCD 1992) - National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD 2001) - National Land Cover Dataset

USGS (GAP) - Gap Analysis Program National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) EPA Omernik Ecoregions

National Wetland Inventory classification USGS (NED) - National Elevation Dataset Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) National Atlas USGS The National Map

National Coastal Assessment (NCA) Integrated Geologic Map Databases for the United States USGS (MIPS) Maps, Imagery & Publications NASA (GCMD) - Global Change Master Directory

Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) NASA (EOS) Earth Observing System USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) Thursday, September 29, 2011

436

USGS (EROS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science

EPA Enviromapper for Water USGS Earth Explorer NASA (ESDIS) Earth Science Data and Information System Project NASA (MODIS) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer NASA Earth Observatory

NOAA Benthic Habitat EPA Geospatial Portal USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream USGS HYDRO1k Elevation Derivative Database Examples Additional Information Minimum Software Requirements Required Expertise

Open-source GIS



Developer

USGS

Address

Contact

Geospatial One-Stop

Phone

Email

[email protected]


437

Cost Estimate Free

U.S. Geological Survey, Mail Stop 590 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192-0002 USA

USGS - GTOPO30 - A System for Topologically Coding Global Drainage Basins and Stream Networks Gateway/Portal

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/metadata_qr/metadata/hydro1k_verdin.htm

Description

Development of a global digital elevation model at 30 arcsecond resolution (approximately 1 kilometer) at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center, labeled as GTOPO30, has made it possible to obtain derivative products for hydrologic studies. Tools in ARC/INFO3 and GRID were used to automatically extract river basins and drainage networks, which were subsequently vectorized and tagged with attributes according to the numbering scheme developed by Otto Pfafstetter, a Brazilian engineer. The Pfafstetter system is based upon the topology of the drainage network and the size of the surface area drained. Its numbering scheme is self-replicating, making it possible to provide identification numbers to the level of the smallest subbasins extractable from a DEM. The system's appeal stems from its economy of digits, the topological information which the digits carry, and its global applicability. ARCVIEW Avenue scripts were written to provide an interface to the basins and drainage networks via the Pfafstetter codes. Queries which exploit the topological information in the Pfafstetter digits are programmed in the scripts. Examples of the utility of the system include: for a given location, the automatic identification of all upstream subbasins, all upstream river reaches, or all downstream reaches. The result is a global system of unique identification numbers for topographic drainage features and a convenient interface to manipulate them for customized applications.

Uses


Purposes

Water resources management Multiple Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Global

National

Regional National

State Multiple

Ecosystems

Stressors Multiple


http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html


GIS with raster capability


Telephone Email Required Expertise Developer

Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed USGS - Kristine L. Verdin


Address

438

Cost Estimate Free

Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center

Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57198 USA Contact

Kristine L. Verdin

Email

[email protected]


Phone

439

(605) 594-6002

Name

USGS (HCDN) - Hydro-Climatic Data Network

What is it? Link

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1992/ofr92-129/content.html

Keywords

Description

Records of streamflow can provide an account of climatic variation over a hydrologic basin. The ability to do so is conditioned on the absence of confounding factors that diminish the climate signal. A national data set of streamflow records that are relatively free of confounding anthropogenic influences has been developed for the purpose of studying the variation in surface-water conditions throughout the United States. Records in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Storage and Retrieval System (WATSTORE) data base for active and discontinued streamflow gaging stations through water year 1988 (that is, through September 30, 1988) were reviewed jointly with data specialists in each USGS District office. The resulting collection of stations, each with its respective period of record satisfying the qualifying criteria, is called the Hydro-Climatic Data Network, or HCDN. The HCDN consists of 1,659 sites throughout the United States and its territories, totaling 73,231 water years of daily mean discharge values. For each station in the HCDN, information necessary for its identification, along with any qualifying comments about the available record and a set of descriptive watershed characteristics are provided in tabular format in this report, both on paper and on computer disk (enclosed). For each station in the HCDN, the appropriate daily mean discharge values were compiled, and statistical characteristics, including monthly mean discharges and annual mean, minimum and maximum discharges, were derived. The discharge data values are provided in a companion report.

Uses


Purposes

Standards

Multiple

Monitoring/Assessment TMDL Watershed planning Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Modeling Transferability

Geographic Scale


Lake

Stressors Multiple

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Examples Additional Information

Hydro-Climatic Data Network: A U.S. Geological Survey streamflow data set for the United States for the study of climate variations, 1874 - 1988. USGS Open-File Report 92-129. By J.R. Slack and Jurate Maciunas Landwehr


440

ArcGIS® Minimum Technical Website Software Support Email Excel Requirement MS Access SAS (Statistical Analysis System Institut Statistical analysis package Required Expertise Developer

Extensive scientific training required Extensive computer/GIS/programming skills required USGS

Address Contact

J.R. Slack and Jurate Maciunas Land

Email

[email protected]

Phone


441

Cost Estimate Free

USGS - (HIP) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process Type of Tool

Model

Keywords

Link

http://www.fort.usgs.gov/Resources/research_briefs/HIP.asp

Description

Managing rivers and streams to maintain healthy aquatic ecosystems is a challenge for resource managers across the country. Demand for competing uses of water resources grows with escalating development, increasing recreational use, and the vagaries of climate and weather. For many species of concern, instream flow and associated water quality is critical for survival. Balancing these ecosystem needs with proposed changes in flow regimes requires a process managers can use to classify streams and determine the ecological and hydrological impacts of changes in streamflow. In response, USGS scientists have developed the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process (HIP) and a suite of software tools for conducting a hydrologic classification of streams, addressing instream flow needs, and assessing past and proposed hydrologic alterations on streamflow and/or other ecosystem components. The HIP recognizes that streamflow is strongly related to many critical physiochemical components of rivers, such as dissolved oxygen, channel geomorphology, and water temperature, and can be considered a ― master variable‖ that limits the disturbance, abundance, and diversity of many aquatic plant and animal species. The HIP is intended for use by any federal or state agency, institution, private firm, or nongovernmental entity that has responsibility for or interest in managing and/or regulating streams to restore or maintain ecological integrity. In addition, the HIP can assist researchers by identifying ecologically relevant, stream-class-specific hydrologic indices that adequately characterize the 5 major components of the flow regime (magnitude, frequency, duration, timing, and rate of change) by using 10 nonredundant indices. The process is developed at a state or other large geographicalarea scale but is applied at the stream-reach level. To date, the HIP has been fully developed for the State of New Jersey and is in development for several additional states, including Missouri and Massachusetts. Among the set of tools, federal agencies involved in water management issues (such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Army Corps of Engineers) will find the National Hydrologic Assessment Tool of particular value.

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL

Visualization

Watershed planning

Prioritization

Permitting

Low flow

Community outreach


Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local


Multiple


Stressors Bedded sediment

442

Altered habitat

Altered flow Altered hydrology Related Tools Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration Software USGS - The National Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NATHAT) Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM )

Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) IWMI Global Environmental Flow Calculator (GEFC) IWMI Ecohydrological Databases EPA DFLOW 3.0 – A Tool for Low Flow Analysis Examples

http://www.fort.usgs.gov/Products/Software/NJHAT/Default.asp


Stand-alone

Technical Online user community Support Telephone


Cost Estimate Free


Developer

USGS

Address

U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center 2150 Centre Ave, Bldg c. Fort Collins, CO 80526-8118

Contact

Brian Cade

Phone

970-226-9325

Email

[email protected]


443

Name

USGS (HUC) - Hydrologic Unit Code

What is it?

Vector data

Link

http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc.html

Keywords

HUC, Hydrologic Unit Code

Description

Hydrologic unit codes (HUC) are a way of identifying drainage basins in a nested arrangement from largest (Regions) to smallest (Cataloging Units). Each hydrologic unit is identified by a unique HUC consisting of two to eight digits based on the four levels of classification in the hydrologic unit system.

Uses


Purposes




Geographic Scale

National


Ecosystems


Stressors Multiple

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) Examples Additional Information

Nationally, at all mapping scales, only about half or less of hydrologic unit codes (HUCs) are true watersheds, in which the boundary delineates the surface and subsurface drainage of a geographic area to a particular receiving point on a stream, typically a stream confluence. HUCs that are not complete watersheds contain portions of larger drainage areas or several drainage basins. Considerable confusion exists among the public, the scientific community and resource agencies on this point, with most users considering HUCs and watersheds to be synonymous.

GIS Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise Developer


General understanding of issues Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed USGS

Address Contact

Water Webserver Team

Email

http://water.usgs.gov/user_feedback_

Phone


444

Cost Estimate Free

ArcINFO Minimum Software Requirement

Technical Online user community Support Website Guidance Email

Required Expertise


Developer

Roland J. Viger and George H. Leavesley

Address

U.S. Geological Survey MS 412, Box 25046 Denver Federal Center Denver, CO 80225

Contact

Modeling of Watershed Systems Proj

Email

[email protected]

Phone


445

Cost Estimate Free

USGS HYDRO1k Elevation Derivative Database

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30/hydro

Description

HYDRO1k is a geographic database developed to provide comprehensive and consistent global coverage of topographically derived data sets, including streams, drainage basins and ancillary layers derived from the USGS' 30 arc-second digital elevation model of the world (GTOPO30). HYDRO1k provides a suite of geo-referenced data sets, both raster and vector, which will be of value for all users who need to organize, evaluate, or process hydrologic information on a continental scale. Developed at the U.S. Geological Survey's Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS), the HYDRO1k project's goal is to provide to users, on a continent by continent basis, hydrologically correct DEMs along with ancillary data sets for use in continental and regional scale modeling and analyses. Detailed descriptions of the processing steps involved in development of the HYDRO1k data sets can be found in the Readme file. This work was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with UNEP/GRID Sioux Falls. Additional funding was provided by the Brazilian Water Resources Secretariat and the Food and Agriculture Organization/Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Multiple


Geographic Scale

Global Regional National Estuary/Coastal

Ecosystems



http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/hydro/apps.html


Open-source GIS



Some scientific background needed Some computer/GIS/programming skills needed USGS


Address

446

Cost Estimate Free

U.S. Geological Survey Center for Earth Resources Observation and

Science (EROS) 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001 Contact

Customer Services

Email

[email protected]


Phone

447

800-252-4547

Name

USGS - Hydrologic Landscape Regions

What is it?


Link

http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/hlrus.xml

Keywords

hydrologic

Description

The overall approach for delineation of HLRs for the United States involved three steps:;(1) Delineate a set of watersheds that covers all 50 States.;(2) Determine metrics to quantify the landsurface form, geologic texture (herein defined as the permeability of the soil and bedrock), and climate characteristics that define hydrologic landscapes, and then average the metrics for each watershed.;(3) Use cluster analysis to assign the watersheds to groups according to their similarity in land-surface form, geologic texture, and climate characteristics. Each group of similar watersheds comprises an HLR.

Uses


Purposes

Standards




TMDL Watershed planning Water resources management

Ecosystems

Transferability

Geographic Scale

National

Regional

Lake Stream/River

Stressors Multiple Nonpoint source Suspended sediment

Wetland

Bedded sediment Altered flow Climate change Related Tools EPA Omernik Ecoregions USFS Bailey's Ecoregions USFS National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units USFS Hierarchical Framework of Aquatic Ecological Units Multivariate Clustering to Recognize Ecoregion Borders Hydrogeoclimatic zones Hydrologic threshold classification Hydrologic regime Examples

http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/dsdl/hlrshape.zip


Wolock, D.M., Winter, T.C., and McMahon, Gerard, 2004, Delineation and evaluation of hydrologiclandscape regions in the United States using geographic information system tools and multivariate statistical analyses: Environmental Management, v. 34, p. S71-S88. (http://www.springerlink.com/content/1ljlt2p6nrv7w0l4/fulltext.pdf) Testing the Hydrological Landscape Unit Classification System and Other Terrain Analysis Measures for Predicting Low-Flow Nitrate and Chloride in Watersheds: Environmental Management, v.42, Number 5, November, 2008.


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(http://www.springerlink.com/content/b3un853318042175/fulltext.pdf) Stand-alone Minimum Software Requirement Required Expertise

Technical Guidance Support Cost Estimate Free


Developer

USGS (Wolock)

Address

445 National Center; Reston, VA 20192

Contact

Ask USGS - Water Webserver Team

Email

http://answers.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/gsans

Phone


449

1-888-275-8747

Name

USGS (LUCA) - Let Us Calibrate

What is it? Link

http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/SW_MoWS/LUCA.html

Keywords

Description

Luca (Let us calibrate): a wizard-style graphical user interface (GUI) for building and performing systematic multi-objective, step-wise calibration of hydrologic models.

Uses


Purposes

Modeling

Multiple

Transferability

Geographic Scale

Global

Regional Local

Ecosystems


Stressors Multiple

Stream/River Wetland Related Tools Examples Additional Information

Multiple-Objective Stepwise Calibration Using Luca, OFR 2006-1323, - by Lauren E. Hay and Makiko Umemoto (http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/SW_MoWS/training/luca_t/luca_manual.pdf) STEP WISE, MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE CALIBRATION OF A HYDROLOGIC MODEL FOR A SNOWMELT DOMINATED BASIN (ftp://brrftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/mows/pubs/hay_pubs/hay_pdf/jawraHay.pdf)



Technical Website Support Guidance Email Cost Estimate Free

Unspecified Unspecified USGS

Address Contact

Phone

Email


450

USGS (MIPS) Maps, Imagery & Publications

Type of Tool

Photographic image data

Keywords

Air Photopgraph, Orthophotograph, Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles, DOQ

Link

http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/index.html

Description

The United States Geologic Service (USGS) supports Air Photo development and distribution through several programs (http://eros.usgs.gov/products/aerial.html). Recent computer and web based developments have made the dissemination of Air Photos much more convenient to the general public. It is often the case that recently collected high resolution ortho-photos are available for download from State and/or Federal sponsored websites. In addition, several web based services are currently available to provide high resolution imagery for instant downloading within the GIS environment. Three examples are GlobeXplorer (www.globexplorer.com), TerraServer (www.terraserver.com), and ArcGIS Online (http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/).

Uses


Purposes




Permitting Community outreach Integrated reporting (303d/305b) Emergency response Water resources management


Geographic Scale

National

Local

Multiple

Ecosystems

Stressors Multiple


Open-source GIS



USGS

Contact Email

Cost Estimate Free

General understanding of issues Basic computer skills sufficient Address Phone [email protected]


451

USGS (MOWS) - Modeling of Watershed Systems Gateway/Portal

Type of Tool

Keywords

Link

http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/SW_MoWS/

Description

Modeling of watershed response to normal and extreme climatic conditions or to changes in the physical conditions of a watershed requires the simulation of a variety of complex hydrologic processes and process interactions. Some of these processes are well understood at a point or for a small area; others are poorly understood at all scales. Increasing spatial and temporal variability in climate and watershed characteristics with an increase in watershed area adds significantly to the degree of difficulty in investigating and understanding these processes. Research is needed to better define these processes and to develop techniques to simulate these processes and their interactions at all watershed scales. Project objectives are to investigate watershed hydrologic processes and process interactions to (1) improve understanding of watershed system dynamic; (2) develop computer models to simulate and evaluate the effects of various combinations of precipitation, climate, and land use on streamflow, sediment yield, and other hydrologic components; and (3) develop procedures and techniques to estimate model parameters by using measurable watershed and climatic characteristics.

Uses


Purposes

Watershed planning

Multiple


Geographic Scale

Regional

Regional

Local

Local

National State Multiple

Ecosystems

Stressors Multiple


http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/SW_MoWS/software/software.shtml




Required Expertise


Cost Estimate Free

Developer

USGS

Address

U.S. Geological Survey Box 25046, MS 412 Denver Federal Center Lakewood, Colorado 80225

Contact

Lauren Hay

Email

[email protected]

Phone Email

(303) 236-7279 [email protected]


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Name

USGS/NASA Landsat

What is it?

Gateway/Portal Grid data

Link

http://landsat.usgs.gov/

Keywords

Description

Landsat represents the world's longest continuously acquired collection of space-based moderateresolution land remote sensing data. Nearly four decades of imagery provides a unique resource for those who work in agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, mapping, and global change research. Landsat images are also invaluable for emergency response and disaster relief. As a joint initiative between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA, the Landsat Project and the data it collects support government, commercial, industrial, civilian, military, and educational communities throughout the United States and worldwide. Plans for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) are currently underway, with launch scheduled late 2012. As with previous partnerships, this mission will continue to acquire Landsatquality data that meet both NASA and USGS scientific and operational requirements for observing land use and land change.

Uses


Purposes


Multiple


Geographic Scale

Global


Ecosystems

Agriculture

Stressors Multiple

Forest Grassland Estuary/Coastal Lake Stream/River Wetland Related Tools (NLCD 1992) - National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD 2001) - National Land Cover Dataset TAS - Terrain Analysis System Landserf NASA (GCMD) - Global Change Master Directory Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) NASA (EOS) Earth Observing System NOAA (NOSA) Observing Systems Architecture USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) Friday, July 29, 2011

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USGS (EROS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science USGS Earth Explorer NASA (ESDIS) Earth Science Data and Information System Project NASA (MODIS) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Examples

http://landsat.usgs.gov/products_data_at_no_charge.php


http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Image Analysis Minimum Software GIS with raster capability Requirement Required Expertise



Developer

NASA and USGS




454

Cost Estimate