Gregory V. Jones, Ph.D.
Southern Oregon University
Department of Geography
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Annual Report – FY 2005
Task Agreement: J9W88040020
Cooperative Agreement: CA9088A0008
Project Title: Geographical Information System (GIS) and Spatial Analysis Support for
the Klamath Network Inventory and Monitoring Program
GIS Specialist: Andrew Duff
1) Major activities undertaken
The GIS specialist has been working closely with network and park staff (Parks
involved - CRLA, LABE, LAVO, ORCA, REDW, and WHIS) to compile, edit, and
analyze critical data layers from the parks, the states of California and Oregon, and field
inventories. In addition, the GIS specialist has taught advanced GIS courses to SOU
students, along with mentoring student projects (both NPS and SOU related) and
collaborating with faculty.
2) Completed maps or data layers
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The GIS specialist tasks included spatial analysis in support of the NPS
inventories, and climate and elevation zone stratification for monitoring. Copies
of park level GIS databases were collected and selected layers applicable to
inventories and monitoring (about 75% of existing park databases) were
migrated into a parallel I & M file structure, with consistent projections (UTM
NAD 83) and naming conventions across all parks and a regional KLMN dataset.
Examples of layers deposited into the regional database include: climate,
elevation, air resources, weather, soils, geologic types, water features, plant and
animal distribution maps, and ancillary data sets such as boundaries,
transportation, infrastructure, population data, etc. Most of these datasets have
been organized into logical groups in personal Geodatabases, preparing the data
for future enterprise Geodatabase migration.
Substantial work was accomplished during FY05 to collect baseline remote
sensing datasets for the KLMN region including: digital panchromatic
orthophotography and digital raster graphics (topo maps) by county, EOS-1
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Modis data (Leaf Area Index, Enhanced Vegetation Index, Normalized
Difference Vegetation Index, snow cover and extent), Landsat 7 ETM + (MRLC),
and approximately 1,500 scanned aerial photography images (mainly legacy data
1940’s + as well as some more recent photo sets).
The GIS specialist has begun to integrate mapping technology into the KLMN
natural resource database (KLMN NRD) (a Microsoft Access database) using
Active X controls from the ArcGIS Engine.
Approximately 45 digital geospatial datasets and metadata for the Klamath
Network have been posted on the NR-GIS Data store science.nature.nps.gov/nrdata/.
3) Support provided to SOU Students
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The GIS Specialist taught two advanced GIS practicum courses during FY05 (one
during each of the winter and spring terms) to a total of 10 students.
The GIS specialist mentored numerous students on processes related to
internship and capstone geospatial analysis and mapping.
4) Volunteer of internship service provided by SOU staff or students
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A volunteer (Barney Stoffell) and a SOU student intern (Joey Myers) were trained
in scanning aerial photography, manipulating imagery in Adobe Photoshop, and
georeferencing images, as well as other remedial GIS tasks in 2-D and 3-D
mapping applications.
5) Teaching or workshops provided to park staff
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The GIS specialist also coordinated and organized a remote sensing workshop
(March 23-24, 2005) for the parks and network by inviting regional experts to
speak on a variety of topics including: LiDAR data collection and applications,
the Oregon orthoimagery program, hyperspectral data collection, remote sensing
in the NPS and BLM fire programs, and Vegetation mapping and monitoring.
The GIS specialist co-presented a workshop on metadata creation using NPS
Metadata Tools and Editor was presented to 5 attendees (network and park staff)
in October.
6) Major scientific or educational presentations
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ESRI Best Practices in Science Modeling Challenge – “Modeling Viticultural
Landscapes: A GIS Analysis of the Viticultural Potential in the Rogue Valley,
Oregon” by Dr. Gregory Jones and Andrew Duff, Southern Oregon University.
Second place in an international competition, presented as a poster at the 2005
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ESRI Users Conference. Work will also be presented at the Terroir 2006 Congress
in July in Bordeaux, France. Publication is being prepared for journal submission.
Western Section of the Wildlife Society - “Evaluating the validity of a pallid bat
(Antrozous pallidus) distribution model for the Eagle Lake Ranger District, Lassen
National Forest, California” by Andrew Duff, Thomas Morrell, Crystal Prussick,
Bobbette Jones, and Tom Rickman. Poster presentation presented at the Annual
Meeting, Western Section of the Wildlife Society, held in Sacramento, CA during
January 2005.
Publication of the results of bat inventories in Whiskeytown N.R.A. (2002-2003) is
underway. Current manuscript entitled “Predictive Occurrence Models for Bat
Species in California” is in revision for resubmission to the Journal of Wildlife
Management.
We are preparing to present for the Western Section of the Wildlife Society “Developing predictive models for bat species activity at Crater Lake National Park
using Ordinary Point Kriging” by Dana Ostfeld and Andrew Duff. This work will
be a poster presentation to be presented at the Annual Meeting, Western Section of
the Wildlife Society, held in Sacramento, CA during February, 2005.
7) Bat Inventory
During the summers of 2004 and 2005, between 1 June and 13 October, we conducted
bat inventories using mist nets, harp traps, and acoustical sampling in 2 of the Klamath
Network (KLMN) parks: Crater Lake National Park (CRLA) and Redwood National
and State Parks (REDW). At CRLA, we captured 119 bats representing 6 species in mist
nets during 24 nights (3,868.9 m2 net hours of netting effort) and during acoustical
sampling we recorded Anabat sequence files at 19 sites during 80 nights. At REDW, we
captured 77 bats representing 9 species in mist nets during 25 nights (6,866.6 m2 net
hours of netting effort) and during acoustical sampling we recorded Anabat sequence
files at 20 sites during 57 nights.
This study provided useful baseline information that previously did not exist for the
parks. Our final report includes measures of species diversity, relative abundance
estimates, and activity indices for all survey sites. The findings can be applied to the
results of future efforts to help identify trends in bat activity at specific locations.
Additionally, we provided a comparison of live capture verses acoustical techniques for
sampling bats and presented resource managers with recommendations for the longterm monitoring of bats.
Scheduled FY06 Activities and Products; include but are not limited to:
a) The GIS Specialist will continue to assess and inventory all network GIS data. In
addition, the GIS Specialist will continue developing new analytical data layers,
as needed, to guide development of monitoring protocols or design studies.
b) Continue developing GIS data layers for all inventories funded by the Klamath
Network and the development of a Geodatabase of data layers.
c) Continue programming work to integrate GIS in the KLMN NRD and prepare
mobile GIS and database applications for monitoring.
d) Continue to provide geospatial instructional support and collaborative
interactions with SOU students and faculty.
Sincerely,
Gregory V. Jones, Ph.D.
Task Agreement Principle Investigator