# Presentation: 818821

## Watershed Database & Mapping Projects:

***Watershed Database & Mapping Projects:***
***Vieques, Puerto Rico***

## ORR Watershed Database & Mapping Projects

- What is a Watershed Project:
- a collection of data, information and tools to support the exploration of environmental questions
- a user friendly environment to help a broad range of users to formulate and ask better questions

## ORR Watershed Database & Mapping Projects

- Watershed Project objectives:
- Provide data and tools to users in an easy to use package
- Integrate *site specific* and *watershed wide* data to protect and restore trust resources
- Support coordination with external Partners
- Encourage data sharing

## Support the NOAA Ecosystem approach 
Site support activities collect site specific data 
Multiple sites in a watershed influence health of system  
Watershed Projects bring these data together, integrate information and provide a resource for a decision making with a practical watershed based management unit

- Site support activities collect site specific data
- Multiple sites in a watershed influence health of system
- Watershed Projects bring these data together, integrate information and provide a resource for a decision making with a practical watershed based management unit

- ORR Watershed Database & Mapping Projects

## ORR Watershed Database & Mapping Projects

- Watershed Project audience:
- Federal, state and local partners including the public
- Build and deploy standardized GIS projects *with* our partners
- Support all types of users, novice to expert
- Simple, cost effective, portable – Query Manager (QM)/Marplot
- Easy to use, online - QM/ArcIMS
- Full function, desktop GIS spatial analysis - QM/ArcView - ArcMAP

**Notes:**
Key is to engage partners to actively participate and provide information 
– Vieques is an excellent example that we will talk about today

Watershed Projects work for a variety of Customers and at multiple scales based on the needs of an individual project...
-Site to Watershed
-Simple viewing of data to sophisticated analysis
-Any basic PC to high-powered systems to Web-browsing

## ORR Watershed Database & Mapping Projects

- Provide Decision Support Tools for:
- Assessment
- Site discovery/ characterization
- Remediation
- Extent/ magnitude of contamination
- Source identification
- Restoration
- Habitat/ site identification

## Current ORR Watershed Projects

- Charles River, MA
- New Bedford Harbor, MA
- Hudson River, NY
- Newark Bay, NJ/NY
- St Lawrence River, NY
- Vieques, Puerto Rico
- Anacostia River, DC
- Christina River, DE
- Delaware River, DE/PA/NJ
- St. Andrew Bay, FL
- St. John River, FL
- Elizabeth River, VA

- Hurricane Mitch, Central America
- Kalamazoo River, MI
- Sheboygan River, WI
- St. Louis River, MN
- Calcasieu Estuary, LA
- San Francisco Bay, CA
- Southern California, CA
- Portland Harbor, OR
- Puget Sound/Duwamish Waterway, WA
- Tulalip/ Quulott, WA
- Metlakatla, AK
- Pearl Harbor, HI

**Notes:**
Watershed Projects have been/are being developed all across the country using a standard approach...

## Major Components of ORR Watershed Projects

- Major Components of ORR Watershed Projects

- Query Manager database-mapping application
- ArcView Watershed GIS Project and Custom Tools (includes ArcView 3.x/9.x, ArcGIS & ArcIMS)
- Watershed Project Webguide

**Notes:**
Watershed Projects are made up of 3 major components...

## Query Manager 2.61

- Query Manager Database-Mapping application
- Self-contained run-time application (free, no additional software required)
- Standardized watershed databases include studies from a variety of sources
- Menu of standard flexible queries for evaluation of sediment (surface and subsurface) chemistry, tissue chemistry, and sediment toxicity
- Effect models: dioxin toxic equivalency (TEQ), PAH toxic unit, logistic regression model probability of toxicity
- Application and Databases Downloadable from CPRD web site:  http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/cpr/watershed.html

**Notes:**
QM works for anyone...

FREE, Downloadable, Any PC platform

Standard framework, consistent structure allows all project development to improve past and future projects

## Data exploration – Contaminant concentration:  Dioxin in surface sediments

*Data exploration* – Contaminant concentration:  Dioxin in surface sediments

**Notes:**
Example of FREE mapping tool, Marplot that works directly with QM

Excellent heads-up magnitude and extent of contaminants across a site/watershed

## Data screening – QM Sediment Quality Guidelines

- Over 30 individual  guidelines supported
- 10 paired guidelines supported

## Data export – QM Tools

- Extract data for
- ArcView
- Graphics
- Statistical analysis

- ArcView/ArcMAP

- Graphics

- Output Data Table

*Data export – **QM* Tools

**Notes:**
Multiple options for how the users uses data retrieved from QM

Easily outputs to other packages...(standard files...)

## Standard Project Layers
 NOS program data
Digital raster navigation charts
	(1:10K – 1:500K)
Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC)
Shoreline 
	(1:20K – 1:70K)
HAZMAT ESI
 FWS National Wetlands Inventory (NWI)
Older, 1:24K dataset
 EPA BASINS data
EPA Regulated facilities
USGS Hydrology, historic landuse, gage stations
other basic features
 Project specific datasets 
    (Federal, state, municipal, NGO)
Contaminant data
Habitat/Species
Aerial photography

-  NOS program data
- Digital raster navigation charts
- 	(1:10K – 1:500K)
- Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC)
- Shoreline
- 	(1:20K – 1:70K)
- HAZMAT ESI
-  FWS National Wetlands Inventory (NWI)
- Older, 1:24K dataset
-  EPA BASINS data
- EPA Regulated facilities
- USGS Hydrology, historic landuse, gage stations
- other basic features
-  Project specific datasets
-     (Federal, state, municipal, NGO)
- Contaminant data
- Habitat/Species
- Aerial photography

- ORR ArcView Watershed GIS Project

**Notes:**
Watershed Projects are all built with a common structure and common set of base-layer data
	NOS Program data (Charts, ENC, Shoreline)
	FWS National Wetland Inventory (NWI Wetlands)
	EPA Regulated Facilities (CERCLA, RCRA, PCS, etc)

	Project Specific Data
		Contaminant data (non-QM -Water Quality)
		Habitat
		Aerial Photography

## ORR ArcView Watershed GIS Project 

- Query Manager Import & Reprojection
- Data import
- Shapefile Generation
- Documentation
- Advanced analytical tools
- Remedial Design
- Ecological Risk
- ESI Tools
- Custom Feature Labeling
- Common tasks
- Integrated HTML Watershed webguide
- Programmatic data & purpose
- Query Manager
- ArcView/ArcMAP
- Custom Tools
- Installation
**Tool for ArcView & ArcMAP**

- ORR ArcView Watershed GIS Project

**Notes:**
Custom Tools move data from QM database into ArcView GIS EASILY

Prepares data for GIS use (projections/datum/documentation)

Enhanced Feature Labeling, multiple items/data sorting

Watershed Webguide covering all aspects of the Watershed Project

## Custom GIS Tools – QM Import & Reprojection Utility

- 3 Ways to easily move QM data to any ArcView project
- Directory templates
- Output projection/datum
- Import files (batch file import)
- Auto-documentation
- QM legend support

- *Currently only NOAA 2005 Crab Sampling Tissue data, but more to come...

- QM Import ArcView 3.x

- QM Direct ArcView 3.x

- QM Import ArcMAP

**Notes:**
		QM Data in Decimal Degrees

## Custom GIS Tools – Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) data 

- Shoreline Ranking
- Classified Shoreline
- Sensitivity to oiling
- Biological Resources
- Birds, fish, marine/terrestrial mammals & reptiles
- Human-use Resources
- Marinas, port facilities, significant socioeconomic features

- ESI data provide information on
- living resources and potential
- sensitivity to an oil spill
- This includes:

## Custom GIS Tools – Sample Design

- The U.S. EPA FIELDS Sampling Design Tools
- easier to create and implement several types of sampling plans
- Summary Statistics
- Supported Sample Designs are:
- Judgmental
- Random
- Systematic (Gridded)
- Linear (River System)

## Watershed Project Webguide

- HTML Project Webguide for CD-ROM and online distribution

- Project History, NOAA’s role
- Environmental setting/resources
- GIS project metadata/map products
- Application guide/help
- Integrated support to ArcView Project
- Significant Outreach Tool

## Vieques Watershed Database & Mapping Project Current Resources

- NOAA
- NCCOS/CSC Benthic Habitats of Puerto Rico & the Virgin Islands
- ORR/Hazmat Environmental Sensitivity Index data
- (queriable species/habitat, classified shoreline, selected T&E, PDF maps)
- OCS ENC & Digital Raster Charts
- ORR/CPRD Query Manager Application and GIS Tools
- NAVFAC (Navy & CH2MHILL)
- Boundaries (Facilities, AOC/SWMU, barrios, airports)
- Physiographic features (contours, shoreline, hydrology)
- Habitat Features (Mangrove, marsh, seagrass, coral)
- Rectified Aerial Photography (’36/37, ’59, ’62, ’64, ’67, ’70, ’84 ’94, ’99)
- FWS
- Conservation Area Boundaries
- USGS
- Mainland PR Rectified Aerial Photography (2003)

## Vieques Watershed Database & Mapping Project Puerto Rico ESI – T&E Species data

- Crustacean
- Blue Land Crab
- Purple, Blackback, Freshwater
- WI Topsnail (whelk)
- Marine Mammals
- Humpback Whale
- Sperm Whale
- WI Manatee
- Turtles
- Hawksbill
- Green Sea
- Leatherback

- Birds
- Brown Pelican
- Peregrine Falcon
- PR Broad Winged Hawk
- PR Sharp Shinned Hawk
- PR Nightjar
- PR Parrot
- PR Plain Pigeon
- Yellow Shouldered Blackbird
- Habitat
- Coral
- SAV

## Vieques Watershed Database & Mapping Project Information

- What can we doing with the Watershed Project?
- Resource and data ***visualization***
- Sample, Remedial, and Restoration ***design***
- Use existing data and new data collection efforts to assess resources such as the ***health and safety of Vieques crab fishery***
***Deliver ***maps, data and analysis via ArcIMS browser based interactive mapping and/or project CD-ROMs
- Support ***data sharing*** between Partners
- Provide ***communication & outreach*** for all shareholders

## What are we doing with the Vieques Watershed Database & Mapping Project?

- June 2005 - Land/Fiddler Crab sampling	(final report available on-line)
- Pilot Underwater Ordnance Identification Project	(planned fall 2006)
- Vieques Conservation & Historic Trust Outreach	(ongoing)
- Query Manager database population 2005 Crab study, National Sediment Inventory and other existing projects	(final crab study data available on-line)
- Watershed Database & Mapping Project	(never-ending...)

## Vieques Watershed Database & Mapping Project Current Projects

- June 2005 - Land/Fiddler Crab sampling
- 14 Vieques Island and mainland PR sites (2 reference)
- 6 Land crab and 3 Fiddler crab co-located samples
- Whole body analysis for both
- Metals, pesticides, PCBs and ordnance related compounds
- Report available on ORR website & in Vieques Webguide

## Vieques Watershed Database & Mapping Project Current Projects

- Underwater Ordnance Survey Pilot Project
- Assess potential impact to trust resources from ordnance and debris around Vieques
- Conduct a limited underwater survey to demonstrate effectiveness of different technology (side scan, multibeam, video, magnetometer)
- Help guide planning and technologychoices for future underwater surveys

## Vieques Watershed Database & Mapping Project Current Projects

- Vieques Conservation & Historic Trust Outreach
- Enhance the Marine life exhibit
- Design/implement bilingual interactive exhibit on Vieques’ Bioluminescent Bays
- Develop educational materials on Vieques’ coastal resources (draft available in watershed webguide)

## Vieques Watershed Database & Mapping Project Partner Projects

- ORR Hazmat ESI update
- NCCOS Summit to Sea
- NCCOS 2006 R/V Nancy Foster Cruise
- Coral and Seagrass recovery
- Fishery habitat utilization
- Manatee habitat tracking
- NCCOS 2007 Coral Reef monitoring
- PR DNER Bioluminescent Bays Conservation Plan

## ORR Watershed Database-Mapping Project Summary

- Proven framework for data integration and management
- Easy-to-use and accessible tools for looking at data using an ecosystem approach
- Specifically designed to enhance the use of data in spatial analysis
- Helps users ask better questions to support better decisions