• Quantify the gradient of environmental stressors within the Lake Superior basin at a fine spatial resolution.
• Use to develop a monitoring framework that will support individual agency and ongoing binational cooperative monitoring efforts across the basin.
  • Development of high resolution watersheds on US and Canadian sides of the basin.
  • Summarize major point and non-point stressors within these watersheds.
  • Create tools for scaling watersheds and associated stressor summaries to accomidate the appropriate spatial scales for major environmental indicators
  • Identify reference sites and “at-risk” sites throughout the basin.
  • Specific objectives for this project are to:
• Create a scaleable system of fine-resolution, hierarchically nested watersheds across the Lake Superior basin;
• Quantify the natural environmental and human disturbance gradients for fine-scale watersheds; with tools for scaling these upward;
• Use these gradients to provide supporting data for intra- and cross-agency monitoring designs sampling,
• Identify reference (least impacted) and degraded watersheds and coastal regions within the Lake Superior basin;
• Develop tools that allow users to scale data appropriate to their sample domain and response variables;
• Disseminate project outputs via the LSDSS website and workshop presentations.
  

 

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ArcIMS - Lake Superior Basin Stressors