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Watershed Planning Support Systems
Project Abstract:
We are building a watershed-scale partnership that will extend the information and visualization innovations of university research to a group of local and regional government agencies and private companies, all seeking to address crucial problems in sustainable economic and regional development. The partnership's overarching goal is to work together in building an integrated watershed-based information system and set of visualization tools that can help break down barriers to effective planning and environmental management at a regional/watershed scale.
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Project Goals:
(1) Create a Watershed Planning Support System that enables greater efficiency in corporate environmental management systems and government regulation
(2) Produce an economic assessment of policy options regarding water quality impact mitigation and Best Management Practices (BMPs).
(3) Incorporate underrepresented minorities and students into our collective effort by establishing a "sustainability science" educational and workforce development program in the San Diego River Watershed.
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Research Priorities (and suggested topics for investigation):
Monthly meetings, used to update regional partners on our progress and monitor advances in the region,
will take place throughout the course of the project.
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Full Description of Project:
Innovative Information and Visualization Technology for Sustainable Economic and Regional Development: A Watershed Partnership
We propose a watershed-scale partnership that will extend the information and visualization innovations of university research to a group of local and regional government agencies and private companies, all seeking to address crucial problems in sustainable economic and regional development. In forming this partnership, we have defined three interlocking objectives: (1) create a Watershed Planning Support System that enables greater efficiency in corporate environmental management systems and government regulation, (2) produce an economic assessment of policy options regarding water quality impact mitigation and Best Management Practices (BMPs), and (3) incorporate underrepresented minorities and students into our collective effort by establishing a “sustainability science” educational and workforce development program in the San Diego River Watershed. On this last point, participants will be trained to collect field data useful for the economic assessment and task of building the Watershed Planning Support System. The partnership’s overarching goal is to work together in building an integrated watershed-based information system and set of visualization tools that can help break down barriers to effective planning and environmental management at a regional/watershed scale.
Intellectual merit. Increasingly efforts to promote economic development and quality of life must embrace a broad metropolitan and regional scale. Yet many barriers stand in the way, including difficulties associated with integrating, sharing, and managing information across jurisdictionally fragmented regional landscapes. Fortunately, the exponential growth of computing power, connectivity and flexibility is now enabling us to study, visualize, understand, and potentially manage, vastly more complex living and engineered systems than was hitherto possible. Along these lines, our partnership for innovation extends recent university advances in information and visualization technologies to specific regional watershed planning problems—especially water pollution. Our collective strategy exploits the potential of geospatial data and metadata management, digital libraries, 3D visualization, online interactive mapping, and solid terrain model technology. The crux of our innovation outcome will be the way we bundle and apply these tools in support of watershed planning, environmental management and education.
Broader impact. We will make the capabilities and products developed for professional decision making and information exchange readily available across the web, as well as for physical exhibits on public display or loan to schools. Our partner agencies are committed to incorporating our “Watershed Planning Support System” and other innovative outcomes into their ongoing institutional and business operations. We anticipate a long term and broad impact on a number of major regional planning initiatives that will be implemented over the next decade (the Regional Comprehensive Plan, Basin Plan Update, San Diego Watershed Management Plan). A major objective is to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in watershed planning and management. In collaboration with the San Diego River Park Foundation, we will work with the Urban Corps of San Diego to establish a system of on-site field checks that document the location of environmental impact mitigation sites within the San Diego River Watershed. The Urban Corps is a local non-profit conservation group, nationally recognized for training and education of young adults from traditionally underserved communities. While our initial partnership project will focus on specific issues in our region, the methods we develop will be applicable to other problems in other areas. Our plan builds on a foundation laid by the Regional Workbench Consortium (RWBC), a newly created "knowledge-action collaborative" geared to linking science and technology to policy and planning for sustainable city-region development . Through the RWBC, outcomes of the grant will be shared regionally through our partner organizations, as well as nationally and globally through the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), and the Sustainability Science Initiative.
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Project Participants:
List of Partnership Organizations and Personnel
Academic Institutions
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
• Charles F. Kennel, Dean of SIO
• John Orcutt, Professor of Geophysics, Interim Dean of Marine Sciences
* Geological Data Center (GDC) -- http://gdc.ucsd.edu
• Dru Clark, Staff Researcher Associate
• Stephen Miller, Director
* SIO Visualization Center -- http://siovizcenter.ucsd.edu
• Graham Kent, Director
• Debi Kilb, Science Director
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
* Economics -- http://econ.ucsd.edu
• Richard Carson, Chair
• Wolfram Schlenker, Assistant Professor
* San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) -- http://daks.npaci.edu
• Richard Marciano, Lab Director
* Urban Studies & Planning (USP) -- http://regionalworkbench.org
• Keith Pezzoli, Supervisor of Field Research,
Regional Workbench Consortium Director
Local Governments
City of San Diego Water Department -- http://www.sannet.gov/water/quality
• Bob Collins, Chair, Watershed Coordination Technical Workgroup
• Jeff Pasek, Senior Biologist, Source Water Protection Program
County of San Diego Project Clean Water -- http://www.projectcleanwater.org
• Teresa Brownyard, Director
San Diego Association of Governments (SanDAG) -- http://www.sandag.org
• Mike Mclaughlin, Director of Regional Planning
• Carolina Gregor, Senior Regional Planner
• Jeff Tayman, Director of Research
San Diego Regional Water Quality Board (SDRWQB) –
http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/rwqcb9/
• John Robertus, Executive Director
Private Sector Organizations
Industrial Environmental Association (IEA) -- http://www.ieasdc.org
• Patti Krebbs, Executive Director
Solid Terrain Modeling (STM) -- http://www.solidterrainmodeling.com
• Lawrence Faulkner, President
Non-Profit Organizations
San Diego River Park Foundation -- http://www.sandiegoriver.org/
• Rob Hutsel, Director
Telesis Corporation -- http://www.qolsandiego.net
• David Cleveland, President
Technology Consultants
Earthstar Geographics – http://www.es-geo.com
• Eric Augenstein, President
Sparkers Inc. - Global Document Services -- http://www.sparkersinc.com/gds/
• Jyotin Purohit, President
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Related Files:
File Name: San Diego's Watersheds
File Type: imagery
Description:
San Diego County's 11 major hydrological units. Source: Project Clean Water, County of San Diego
Relevant Date: May 2003
Date Entered: May 19, 2003, 7:43 pm
download file (right click and press "save as")
File Name: NSF-Partnerships for Innovation proposal/ SUMMARY
File Type: text
Description:
Proposal Abstract including Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact
Relevant Date: Submitted April 2003
Date Entered: May 28, 2003, 5:37 pm
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File Name: NSF-Partnerships for Innovation proposal/ DESCRIPTION
File Type: text
Description:
Full length description of the NSF-PFI proposal (16 pages)
Relevant Date: April 9, 2003
Date Entered: May 18, 2003, 6:33 pm
download file (right click and press "save as")
File Name: NSF-Partnerships for Innovation proposal/ SUPPORT LETTERS
File Type: text
Description:
Letters of commitment from the various partner agencies
Relevant Date: April 2003
Date Entered: May 28, 2003, 5:38 pm
download file (right click and press "save as")
File Name: San Diego's Watersheds
File Type: imagery
Description:
11 Major Hydrological Units in San Diego County. Source: Project Clean Water, County of San Diego
Relevant Date: April 2003
Date Entered: May 28, 2003, 5:38 pm
download file (right click and press "save as")
Related References:
Project Clean Water Web site
http://www.projectcleanwater.org/
Reference Type: text
Description:
The County of San Diego Board of Supervisors initiated Project Clean Water in July, 2000 to provide a framework for regional commitment to protect and improve water quality.
The Project Clean Water Web site provides a portal to watershed information in each of the 11 major hydrological units in San Diego County
Date Entered: May 18, 2003, 6:41 pm
California Watershed Map
http://www.baydeltawatershed.org/images/watershed_map.pdf
Reference Type: imagery
Description:
A color map (11 in x 17 in) showing all of the watersheds in California
Date Entered: May 21, 2003, 10:45 pm
EPA Watershed Atlas
http://www.epa.gov/wateratlas/
Reference Type: text
Description:
The Watershed Atlas is a catalog of geo-spatial displays and analyses of information and data important for watershed protection and restoration.
Date Entered: May 28, 2003, 5:40 pm
California Digital Conservation Atlas
http://legacy.ca.gov/new_atlas.epl
Reference Type: -1
Description:
The California Digital Conservation Atlas is California’s comprehensive public website for conservation information. It is designed to provide easy-to-use, map views of California’s natural resources and working landscapes for people who may not be familiar with specialized geographic software.
Date Entered: June 6, 2003, 8:50 pm
Time Series Maps
http://www.consrv.ca.gov/DLRP/fmmp/time_series_img/index.htm
Reference Type: text
Description:
Site shows changes in land use for specific regions, from 1984 to 2000.
Date Entered: June 6, 2003, 8:54 pm
"Natural Color" Mosaic of San Diego County
http://sdtj.regionalworkbench.org/UCSD/OrthoPhoto.htm
Reference Type: imagery
Description:
"Natural Color" Mosaic of San Diego County
2-foot Resolution Ortho Images from SanDAG (2001), processed by Earthstar Geographics (Eric Augenstein)
-- a demo of a 116 GB image, ECW-format compressed down to 3 GB, and served to you on the fly through the IWS server --
Date Entered: August 13, 2003, 11:23 pm
New central portal for watershed information
http://cwp.resources.ca.gov/
Reference Type: text
Description:
Date Entered: November 4, 2003, 7:44 pm
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