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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

Allison was the GIS lead for an assessment of Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) for West Coast Groundfish and development of an Environmental Impact Statement. Because of her skill in a number of programming and scripting languages combined with her experience in marine science, she was a key member of the scientific and modeling team. She created and compiled datasets to develop a comprehensive GIS for groundfish including such diverse datasets as geologic habitat, species abundance, bathymetry, fishing effort, and non-fishing impacts. She worked closely with the client, presented project results to technical reviewers and stakeholders, and contributed to technical and policy documents. This project received a ‘Special Achievement in GIS’ Award from ESRI in 2004. The project also successfully informed policy decisions to protect esssential fish habitat (EFH) off the West Coast.

• Final Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Environmental Impact Statement
• Information about groundfish EFH and groundfish closed areas on the West Coast
• Amendment 19 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Management Plan
• Much of the data produced during the EFH EIS is distributed and available via an on-line mapping site at the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
• Media coverage of the West Coast groundfish EFH process:
  West Coast trawling restricted, but effects may be light (Seattle Post-Intellegencer/AP)
  Essential Fish Habitat (Seattle Times)