Watershed-Ocean Initiative: Related Projects and Resources

On this page, we'll reference other projects and discuss how they integrate or conflict with our approach:

• Census for Marine Life Mapping and Visualization
  Demonstrates mapping techniques for the world's first comprehensive census of the past, present, and future of life in the oceans (being released this year).
• Ecosystem-based Management Tools Network
  Provides periodic news about 50 EBM tool makers and their progress
• EPA's My Environment Service
  Visual and textual location-based updates on the state of the environment.
• EPA Surf Your Watershed
  Reliable flat map drill-down to some interesting near real-time water-related characteristics.
• GeoServer (with WMS)
  Important specification for back-end geospatial data serving
• Goddard Space Flight Center Evirocast
  Data services for many relavant climate change themes.
• LandScope America
  Nice series of examples of how data and storytelling go well together to invoke compassion for conservation.
• Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab
  Located at Duke University, this lab applies geospatial technologies to issues in marine ecology, resource management, and ocean conservation..
• National Fish Habitat Action Plan
  Includes search for watershed habitat resource/key contacts by state.
• Nature Rocks
  National program to inspire and empower families to play and explore in nature.
• NRCS Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention
  A place to track state-by-state watershed rehabilitation efforts.
• The Census of Agriculture
  2007 Census of USA broken out by watersheds and sub-watersheds.
• Trout Unlimited Watershed Restoration Plans
  Concerned about watershed water quality for fish production and quality of life.
• uDig
  Great place to explore open-source GIS tools and to use for investigating on-line the many on-line GIS datasets available on the Web.
• USGS EDNA Derived Watersheds
  Great place to start to give data layering and KML files a try. Wonderful watershed by watershed data characteristics.
• USGS Current Streamflow KML Site
• WikiWatershed
  Just getting started but their home page suggests a lot of overlap with our interests.

Narragansett Bay Resources

• RIGIS
• NarrBay.org
• Narragansett Bay Estuary Program
• Narragansett Watershed Map
• Rhode Island Map Server
• Rhode Island Natural History Survey
• URI Watershed Watch
• Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Visualizations
• Blackstone River Coalition
• Wild and Scenic Taunton River
• RI Marine Resources Uses

Chesapeake Bay Resources

• Baltimore County Watershed Management Program
• CGIS at Towson University
  A place for geospatial data for the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic.
• Chesapeake Gateways Network
• Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Partnership
• Chesapeake BayStat
• Dept of Natural Resources Data Sets
• Maryland Dept of Natural Resources Watershed Profiles

International Resources

• Freshwater Ecoregions of the World

Educational Resources

• Estuaries 101
• Brown Earth Lab

Community-building Resources

• Community Almanac