The Mapping Application for the Lower Maumee River (MALMR) is intended to support science-based decision making regarding habitat restoration at various scales in the lower Maumee River and surrounding region. By delineating current habitat conditions and providing interactive access to spatial information, the MALMR: 1) informs ongoing restoration discussions within the Maumee Area of Concern (AOC) program, 2) offers a common platform to support discussion across a network of stakeholders, 3) provides a template for other areas of restoration activity across the Great Lakes ecosystem, and 4) provides data to address scientific questions in academic settings.
The MALMR includes the following components:
- GeoNarrative: introduces the MALMR in detail and provides interaction with its various underlying spatial information;
- Mapping Application: depicts topographic and bathymetric settings, land cover, Maumee River bed substrate, conservation lands, land parcels, etc.;
- Data Exploration Application: explores lake-river mixing and the hydrologic, meteorological, and aquatic environmental conditions during actual mixing events.
These components depict many of the prominent forces driving habitat conditions for fish and wildlife in the lower Maumee River and surrounding area. The MALMR relates these seemingly disparate components in a unified decision-support tool in order to help assess cost, benefits, and trade-offs regarding ecological restoration and community revitalization.
