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Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge Spot Landcover Classification in Relation to Greater Sage Grouse This landcover raster was generated through a Random Forest predictive model developed in R using a combination of image-derived and ancillary variables, and field-derived training points grouped into 18 classes. Overall accuracy, generated internally through bootstrapping, was 75.5%. A series of post-modeling steps brought the final number of land cover classes to 28. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, CMR, Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, Data Visualization & Tools, Landcover, All tags... Montana, North Central CASC, SPOT Imagery, Science Tools For Managers, Wildlife and Plants, environment, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags Training Points Training points collected in the field between 2012 and 2013 were grouped into 18 classes: Forested Burn (66), Foothill Woodland Steppe Transition (73), Greasewood Flat (73), Greasewood Steppe (239), Greasewood Sage Steppe (277), Great Plains Badlands (166), Great Plains Riparian (255), Low Density Sage Steppe (776), Medium Density Sage Steppe (783), Mixed Grass Prairie (555), Mixed Grass Prairie Burned (278), Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Shrubland (512), Riparian Floodplain (223), Semi-Desert Grassland (103), Sparsely Vegetated Mixed Shrub (252), Silver Sage Flat (70) , Silver Sage Steppe (64), and Water (246). When insufficient field data were available for a class, we augmented it through photointerpretation of... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, Charles M. Russel Wildlife Refuge, Data Visualization & Tools, North Central CASC, Science Tools For Managers, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, environment, Fewer tags Timelapse photos at SNOTEL station, locations, and associated metadata, Ollalie Meadows, Wash., 2015 UW_Olallie_photo_metadata & image files: These are the raw timelapse photographs. The date/time stamp is inaccurate for the camera deployed in the open (at the SNOTEL) due to a programming error. This timestamp is one day early (i.e., subtract 1 day from the timestamp when using these data). Also available is metadata for two timelapse cameras and their associated snow depth poles (two visible in each camera's field of view) deployed at Olallie Meadows SNOTEL during water year 2015. One camera was deployed in the open area that is the Olallie Meadows SNOTEL station (the snow pillow is in the field of view). The other camera was deployed in the adjacent forest, approximately 60 m to the southeast of the SNOTEL.... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cascade Mountains, Cle Elum, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Kittatas County, All tags... Landscapes, Northwest CASC, Olallie Meadows, Ollalie Meadows, Other Water, SNOTEL, Science Tools For Managers, Washington, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags Long format snow course observations, meteorological sensor observations,locations, and associated metadata for Mica Creek, Idaho UI_Mica_Location: Location metadata and meteorological and snow depth observations from met towers in the Mica Creek Experimental Forest. Data were collected at 7 different station sites at approximately half-hour intervals for water years 2003-2006, with discontinuous records due to equipment malfunction or damage. Stations were located within different forest harvest treatment sections, applied to the watershed in approximately 2001, including clear-cut harvest, partial harvest, and control sections (both second growth and old growth control forests). Site Data Citation for full description of the field campaign and sites. UI_Mica_met: Metadata and associated snow depth and SWE observations from 14 manual... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Idaho, Landscapes, Mica Creek, All tags... Northwest CASC, Other Water, Science Tools For Managers, Shoshone County, Water, Coasts and Ice, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags River extent of water related models in the Rio Grande/Bravo basin Create an inventory of water-related models that have been developed for the Rio Grande/Bravo basin. The summary includes a description of model river extent, spatial and temporal resolution, time period, model type, and their possible application for testing environmental flows or climate change future alternatives. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Hydraulics, Hydrologic, Optimization, Rio Bravo, Rio Grande, All tags... Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, Simulation, South Central CASC, State of the Science, Water Management, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags Regional to local coarse to fine scale global change impact study on flow Stream flows are essential for maintaining healthy aquatic ecosystems and for supporting human water supply needs. Integrated modeling approaches assessing the impact of changes in climate, land use, and water withdrawals on stream flows and the subsequent impact of changes in flow regime on aquatic biota at multiple spatial scales are necessary to insure an adequate supply of water for humans and healthy river ecosystems. We compared streamflow predictions from a regional-scale hydrological model to those of several fine-scale SW models under a range of hypothetical climate change scenarios to determine the range of predicted streamflow responses to fixed climate perturbations.This spreadsheet contains the results... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: ELOHA, Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, All tags... Southeast CASC, State of the Science, Water, Coasts and Ice, calibration, ecosystem health, environmental flow, hydrologic models, uncertainty, water supply, Fewer tags Structured decision-making to facilitate multi-stakeholder coastal conservation and restoration under climate change uncertainties: case study on barrier islands of the northern Gulf of Mexico (2015) The goal of barrier island restoration in the northern Gulf of Mexico is to restore barrier island morphology using sediment to support the functions and habitats the islands provide. Barrier island restoration typically involves placement of sediment either directly on the island footprint or within the littoral zone for system transport and distribution. The re-engineering of barrier islands presents numerous challenges and uncertainties associated with climate change induced hurricanes/storms and other dynamic components of the system such as sediment availability and erosional trends. The goal of this study was to use a collaborative SDM approach to develop two Bayesian decision network models (DMs) for restoration... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Gulf of Mexico, USA, Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program, All tags... Science Tools For Managers, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Ship Island, Mississippi, USA, Southeast CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, adaptive management, barrier islands, decision support methods, ecosystem management, Fewer tags Southeast modeling efforts for flow and ecology Stream flows are essential for maintaining healthy aquatic ecosystems and for supporting human water supply needs. Integrated modeling approaches assessing the impact of changes in climate, land use, and water withdrawals on stream flows and the subsequent impact of changes in flow regime on aquatic biota at multiple spatial scales are necessary to insure an adequate supply of water for humans and healthy river ecosystems. This spreadsheet contains an inventory of existing hydrologic models in the Southeast region and Puerto Rico. Data were compiled by contacting federal and state agencies, members of academia, and environmental consultants. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: ELOHA, Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, All tags... Southeast CASC, State of the Science, Water, Coasts and Ice, calibration, ecosystem health, environmental flow, hydrologic models, uncertainty, water supply, Fewer tags State-and-transition simulation model of rangeland vegetation in southwest South Dakota (1969-2050) This is a spatially-explicit state-and-transition simulation model of rangeland vegetation dynamics in southwest South Dakota. It was co-designed with resource management partners to support scenario planning for climate change adaptation. The study site encompasses part of multiple jurisdictions, including Badlands National Park, Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The model represents key vegetation types, grazing, exotic plants, fire, and the effects of climate and management on rangeland productivity and composition (i.e., distribution of ecological community phases). See Miller et al. (2017) for further details. The model was built using the ST-Sim software platform (www.apexrms.com/stsm).... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Badlands National Park, Bison, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Cattle, Climate change, All tags... Climatology, Data Visualization & Tools, Fire, Grazing, Invasive species, Land Use Change, Livestock, North Central CASC, Northern Great Plains, Scenario planning, Science Tools for Managers, South Dakota, State-and-transition simulation model, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Fewer tags Drought Indicators of the South Central Plains (1981-2014) The South Central U.S. is one of the main agricultural regions in North America: annual agricultural production is valued at more than $44 billion dollars. However, as climate conditions change, the region is experiencing more frequent and severe droughts, with significant impacts on agriculture and broader consequences for land management. For example, in 2011 drought caused an estimated $7.6 billion in agricultural losses in Texas and an additional $1.6 billion in Oklahoma. Although there are many drought monitoring tools available, most of these tools were developed without input from the stakeholders, such as farmers and ranchers, who are intended to use them. The goal of this project is to assess the information... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Science Tools For Managers, South Central CASC, All tags... agriculture, droughts, statistical analysis, Fewer tags Fishtail huc12: Indices and supporting data characterizing the current (1961-2000) and future (2041-2080) risk to fish habitat degradation in the Northeast Climate Science Center region This dataset represents results from this study attributed to the Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 12 watershed boundaries. Human impacts occurring throughout the Northeast and Midwest United States, including urbanization, agriculture, and dams, have multiple effects on the region’s streams which support economically valuable stream fishes. Changes in climate are expected to lead to additional impacts in stream habitats and fish assemblages in multiple ways, including changing stream water temperatures. To manage streams for current impacts and future changes, managers need region-wide information for decision-making and developing proactive management strategies. Our project met that need by integrating results... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic habitats, Connecticut, Data Visualization & Tools, Delaware, Fish, All tags... Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Northeast CASC, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., Water, Coasts and Ice, West Virginia, Wildlife and Plants, Wisconsin, climate change, drainage basins, habitat fragmentation, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, rivers, streams, water quality, Fewer tags Timelapse photos, locations, and associated metadata for Snoqualmie Pass, WA Daily snow depth values from the UW Snoqualmie Pass site. A timelapse camera and 3 snow depth poles were deployed at the forest plot during water year 2015. Manual snow stake observations were taken in the open plot. This comparison of snow depth between the open and forest uses the daily snow depth data observed with the snow stake, rounded to 5cm, compared to the average of all visible pole values in the forest (read by eye from photos), also rounded to 5 cm. These data have been processed, aggregated and rounded. Raw photographs of the forest poles are also available. UW_Snoqualmie_snow_camera Attributes: Site - Snoqualmie, Cover - Forest or open, WY - water year 2015, Date - yyyy-mm-dd, Method - snow... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cascade Mountains, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, King County, Landscapes, All tags... Northwest CASC, Other Water, Science Tools For Managers, Snoqualmie Pass, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags Global Synthesis of Projected and Documented Effects of Climate Change on Inland Fish Although climate change is an important factor affecting inland fishes globally, a comprehensive review of how climate change has impacted and will continue to impact inland fishes worldwide does not currently exist. We conducted an extensive, systematic primary literature review to identify peer-reviewed publications with projected and documented examples of climate change impacts on inland fishes globally. Since the mid-1980s, scientists have projected the effects of climate change on inland fishes, and more recently, documentation of climate change impacts on inland fishes has increased. Of the thousands of title and abstracts reviewed, we selected 624 publications for a full text review: 63 of these publications... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Fish, National CASC, Science Tools for Managers, State of the Science, Wildlife and Plants, All tags... climate change, fish guilds, freshwater fishes, global, global change, inland fishes, projected and documented effects, synthesis, Fewer tags Observations of snow depth and meteorological variables in forests and nearby open areas at field sites in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, USA Snow and meteorological observations were collected over a range of water years (WY) by three research institutions and by citizen scientists to characterize forest effects on snow processes across the Pacific Northwest, USA. Fourteen total study sites cover the western slopes and crest of the Cascade Range in WA and OR, and central and northern ID. Each study location includes one or more paired forest and open area in which to compare snow observations. A range of forest canopy densities and data collection strategies are represented, including paired manual snow courses, snow pits, automated sensors, and time-lapse images of snow measurement poles. Analysis and synthesis of all of these sites are presented in... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cle Elum, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Idaho, Kittatas County, All tags... Landscapes, McCall, McKenzie River, Mica Creek, Middle Fork Willamette, Northwest CASC, Olallie Meadows, Oregon, Other Water, Ponderosa State Park, Science Tools For Managers, Valley County, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, citizen science, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags Fishtail catch: Indices and supporting data characterizing the current (1961-2000) and future (1961-2000) risk to fish habitat degradation in the Northeast Climate Science Center region This dataset represents results from this study attributed to the NHDPlus catchments. Human impacts occurring throughout the Northeast and Midwest United States, including urbanization, agriculture, and dams, have multiple effects on the region’s streams which support economically valuable stream fishes. Changes in climate are expected to lead to additional impacts in stream habitats and fish assemblages in multiple ways, including changing stream water temperatures. To manage streams for current impacts and future changes, managers need region-wide information for decision-making and developing proactive management strategies. Our project met that need by integrating results of a current condition assessment... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic habitats, Connecticut, Data Visualization & Tools, Delaware, Fish, All tags... Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Northeast CASC, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., Water, Coasts and Ice, West Virginia, Wildlife and Plants, Wisconsin, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, drainage basins, habitat fragmentation, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, rivers, streams, water quality, Fewer tags Large-scale and fine-scale model outputs for model comparison workshop Stream flows are essential for maintaining healthy aquatic ecosystems and for supporting human water supply needs. Integrated modeling approaches assessing the impact of changes in climate, land use, and water withdrawals on stream flows and the subsequent impact of changes in flow regime on aquatic biota at multiple spatial scales are necessary to insure an adequate supply of water for humans and healthy river ecosystems. This report inventories and then directly examines and compares a subset of hydrological models implemented in the Southeastern US that were used to estimate streamflow at a number of gaged basins across the region. This effort was designed to evaluate, quantify and compare the magnitude, and... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: ELOHA, Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, All tags... Southeast CASC, State of the Science, Water, Coasts and Ice, calibration, ecosystem health, environmental flow, hydrologic models, uncertainty, water supply, Fewer tags Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge Landsat 8 Landcover Classification in Relation to Greater Sage Grouse This landcover raster was generated through a Random Forest predictive model developed in R using a combination of image-derived and ancillary variables, and field-derived training points grouped into 18 classes. Overall accuracy, generated internally through bootstrapping, was 72.7%. A series of post-modeling steps brought the final number of land cover classes to 28. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, CMR, Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, Data Visualization & Tools, Landcover, All tags... Landsat Imagery, Montana, North Central CASC, Science Tools For Managers, Wildlife and Plants, environment, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags Manual snow course observations, raw met data, raw snow depth observations, locations, and associated metadata for Oregon sites OSU_SnowCourse Summary: Manual snow course observations were collected over WY 2012-2014 from four paired forest-open sites chosen to span a broad elevation range. Study sites were located in the upper McKenzie (McK) River watershed, approximately 100 km east of Corvallis, Oregon, on the western slope of the Cascade Range and in the Middle Fork Willamette (MFW) watershed, located to the south of the McKenzie. The sites were designated based on elevation, with a range of 1110-1480 m. Distributed snow depth and snow water equivalent (SWE) observations were collected via monthly manual snow courses from 1 November through 1 April and bi-weekly thereafter. Snow courses spanned 500 m of forested terrain and 500 m... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cascade Mountains, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Landscapes, Middle Fork Willamette watershed, All tags... Northwest CASC, Oregon, Other Water, Science Tools For Managers, Water, Coasts and Ice, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, upper McKenzie River watershed, Fewer tags Water management elements on the Rio Grande/Bravo basin This is one of five general categories that contains the water management elements on the Rio Grande/Bravo basin. This category includes the dams, water districts, and water related models on the United States and Mexico that overlap the basin boundary. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Dams, Groundwater models, Hydraulic models, Hydrologic models, Irrigation districts, All tags... Optimization models, Reservoirs, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, South Central CASC, State of the Science, Water allocation models, Water districts, Water management, Water related models, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags Fishtail reach: Indices and supporting data characterizing the current (1961-2000) and future (2041-2080) risk to fish habitat degradation in the Northeast Climate Science Center region This dataset represents results from this study attributed to the NHDPlus stream reach segments. Human impacts occurring throughout the Northeast and Midwest United States, including urbanization, agriculture, and dams, have multiple effects on the region’s streams which support economically valuable stream fishes. Changes in climate are expected to lead to additional impacts in stream habitats and fish assemblages in multiple ways, including changing stream water temperatures. To manage streams for current impacts and future changes, managers need region-wide information for decision-making and developing proactive management strategies. Our project met that need by integrating results of a current condition... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic habitats, Connecticut, Data Visualization & Tools, Delaware, Fish, All tags... Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Northeast CASC, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., Water, Coasts and Ice, West Virginia, Wildlife and Plants, Wisconsin, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, drainage basins, habitat fragmentation, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, rivers, streams, water quality, Fewer tags 1 2 »