Phenology web site: The USGS is collecting and analyzing weather data from the Shenandoah National Park to uncover and understand potential impacts of climate change on eastern forests and Appalachian wildlife habitats. Current weather conditions are transmitted from 1 of 7 weather stations spread throughout the Park. Specific station locations were selected so that a variety of vegetation types, elevations, slopes, and aspects are represented. They were also placed to avoid impacting visitor views and hiking experiences in this important and sensitive national resource.

ChesapeakeStat Tool: ChesapeakeStatis a systematic process within the Partnership of analyzing information and data to continually assess progress towards goals and adapt strategies and tactics when needed.

Additionally, it is a public website that promotes improved accountability, fosters coordination, and promotes transparency by sharing performance information on goals, indicators, strategies, and funding.

Decision Support Tools The decision tools will help partners focus on actions that will provide the greatest benefit for water quality, habitat restoration, and land protection. The tools on this page compliment the CBP ChesapeakeStat site, which aids partners in carrying out an adaptive management decision framework. USGS tools being developed include:

Additionally, it is a public website that promotes improved accountability, fosters coordination, and promotes transparency by sharing performance information on goals, indicators, strategies, and funding.

Eastern Geographic Science Center High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC): The HPCC is a Beowulf, a cluster of eighteen computers interconnected by a private, high-speed network. It has been designed to support the development and operation of computationally-intensive models and applications in land-change science and quantitative geography.

HPCC has two functions:

1. Providing General and Technical Information, and
2. Providing a Web Interface.
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Land Cover Analysis Tool (LCAT), beta version 2: In the year 2006, the Eastern Geographic Science Center began a joint project to develop a custom application to provide enhanced public access to USGS’s National Land Cover Database (NLCD). The resulting Land Cover Analysis Tool allows users to quickly locate, display, and download data from the NLCD, including the recently developed NLCD Change Product, which displays changes in land cover between 1992 and 2001.

Environmental Mercury Mapping, Modeling, and Analysis (EMMMA): Understanding the causes and consequences of mercury contamination in the environment is a problem of enormous geographic scope and scientific complexity. Effectively addressing this task requires the integration of data and expertise from many scientific disciplines.

Visit the EMMMA Web site, a joint effort of the USGS and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, designed to support environmental and health researchers and land and resource managers for the following tools:

Online mapping tools, USGS maps, images and other thematic data
Online model for mercury in fish tissue
Easy access to key environmental mercury datasets

South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Modeler (EPM): This web-based tool will investigate and communicate ecological values of land between the Everglades and Biscayne Bay, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is being developed in conjunction with partners at the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the University of Florida, and the University of Pennsylvania. The tool will be used to develop, assess, and communicate strategies for restoring and protecting important ecological values of the remaining open land in southern Miami-Dade County. There is intense development pressure in this area that will adversely affect Everglades and Biscayne National Parks, and the land bridge in between them.

EPM users will:

explore different land use, restoration, and development scenarios,
and explore tradeoffs between priorities.

Calculation of the ecological value of a location will take into account biodiversity potential, threatened and endangered species, rare and unique habitats, water quality, landscape patterns and fragmentation, and restoration potential. More...