Sound GIS

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Sound GIS Projects

West Coast Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Environmental Impact Statement

The Offshore Component of the Nature Conservancy’s Marine Ecoregional Assessment

Oil Spill Response Atlas for Puget Sound and Straits of Juan de Fuca

Essential Fish Habitat Bayesian Network Model

Aquatic Vegetation Surveys

Washington Coastal Kelp Data Consolidation

Other Projects

Stormwater Infrastructure Inventory and Database Development

Snohomish County Drainage Needs Report

Assessment of Anthropogenic Changes to Marine Habitats in Fidalgo Bay

Virtual Transects: GIS-Based Assessment of Floating Kelp Beds.

West Coast Groundfish Management

Nearshore Habitat Inventory of Puget Sound

Sub-pixel Analysis of Invasive Species in Coastal Wetlands

Essential Fish Habitat Bayesian Network Model
Marine Resource Assessment Group (MRAG)

MRAG and University of Reading have developed a Bayesian Network (BN) model to delineate West Coast groundfish habitat for 82 species. Allison developed automated routines to consolidate and format spatial data input for the model. In addition, she automated the process for incorporating model output data into GIS and generating maps for over 160 groundfish species and lifestage combinations. Interaction between the GIS data and the model was smooth and seamless and allowed for multiple re-runs of the model and updates to the map to occur during interactive scientific review meetings. Allison and others in the EFH team presented these models, data sources, and model output for numerous reviews by scientific, statistical, and other advisory committees of the Pacific Fishery Management Council.