Dawn Wright and

Davey Jones Locker Lab GroupDepartment of Geosciences

Oregon State University

OSU GIS & Seafloor Mapping Activities in

American Samoa

ASGIS UG Meeting, September 21, 2004Photo by

OrSt & USFMultibeam Surveys to date

By OrSt grad student Emily Lundblad

NOAA Biogeography Ikonos Classifications

By OrSt grad student Emily Lundblad

Ongoing Collaborations & Products

• OrSt & NOAA & AS GIS User Group– Benthic classifications for benthic habitat/MPAs– Benthic Terrain Modeler (ArcGIS 8.x tool)– American Samoa Benthic Viewer– AS Marine/Coastal Bibliographic Tool– On-island workshops in September 2004– 3D Visualizations and movies in Fledermaus

• Other work– Duke U. Coral reef ecosystem studies – NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Division Mapping

Recent OrSt ESRI Papers

• Larkin et al. - Bilingual data distribution (ArcIMS, Bibliography tool)– dusk.geo.orst.edu/esri04/p1123_pc.html

• Rinehart et al. - Benthic terrain tool– dusk.geo.orst.edu/esri04/p1433_ron.html

• Lundblad et al. - Benthic characterization for benthic habitat– dusk.geo.orst.edu/esri04/p1208_cc.html

Recent OrSt Theses

• Emily Lundblad, Geosciences– Benthic Classifications in American Samoa …

– dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/theses/lundblad_abs.html

• Alyssa Aaby, Geosciences

– Reef Fish & the ArcGIS Marine Data Model– dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/theses/aaby_abs.html

• Jeannette Tuitele-Lewis, Forest Science

– American Samoa Agroforestry

– tuitelje@onid.orst.edu

New Books• Bartlett and Smith, GIS in Coastal Zone Mgmt

©2004 – Just out with CRC/Taylor & Francis

• A Geospatial Framework for the Coastal Zone … ©2004 National Academies Press– Free copies to user group

• Wright and Scholz, Place Matters--Geospatial Tools for Marine Science, Conservation & Management ©2005– Coming in Spring 2005, Free copy to user group

– dusk.geo.orst.edu/aaas

NOAA Biogeography & Coral Reef Ecosystem

Division

By OrSt grad student Emily Lundblad

2005 HURL Sub & ROV surveys

Ka‘imikai-o-Kanaloa Pisces IV or V

RCV-150

ArcGIS Marine Data Modeldusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/arcgis

• Basic template for implementing GIS projects– input, formatting, geoprocessing, creating maps,

performing analyses

• Relationships with rules, behaviors used in geoprocessing and analysis

• Basic framework for building software tools

A Marine Data Model

Implications for Data Collection & Analysis …

ArcGIS Marine Data Modeldusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/arcgis

http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/samoa

dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/samoa (Samoa data & tools)

dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/discov.html (all DJL projects)

dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/arcgis (MDM) www.ivs.unb.ca (iView 3D)

Image courtesy of FBNMS

How do YOU spell GIS?

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are needed to see this picture.

By OrSt grad student Emily Larkin

http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/samoa

Benthic Terrain ModelerBenthic Zone Classification and

HabitatArcGIS 8.x

GIS Capacity Building:Toward a Territory-wide GIS

• National Park of AS

• AS CZM Program

• FBNMS

• EPA

• Fish & Wildlife Service

• Forest Service

• Natural Resources Conservation Service

• USGS

• AS Government– Dept. of Commerce

– Dept. of Public Works

– Dept. of Marine & Wildlife Resources

• AS Historic Preservation Office

• AS Power Authority

• Nature Conservancy

• OrSt

A Few GIS-Related Issues• Data sharing• More data collection

– Digital orthophotos– Bathymetric surveying– Water quality monitoring

• Standards: Datums, Projections, Metadata– Transformation parameters

• Planning & permitting - communal lands• Local capacity to maintain GIS efforts