Coastal GIS Applications Quarterly Report
David Hart
January to March 1999
Coastal GIS Applications Project
Shoreland Management. Developing a routine in the Blue Lake shoreland management
training exercise to examine changes in tax assessment data from year to year.
Water Quality. Updated a GIS application for stormwater management in Marquette,
Michigan to ArcView 3.1. Obtained and reviewed a copy of the SLAMM version 7.0
urban nonpoint source model. Developing routines to export land use data by sewershed
into the SLAMM model. Contacted model developers and users to obtain additional
information on the consistent operation of SLAMM.
Floodplain Management. Met with Damon Anderson of Ozaukee County on January 13
concerning the development of an ArcView GIS application to count the number of
structures in different types of floodplains. Documenting the development of the
application. Developed a poster of depicting structures in the floodplain for the southern
two-thirds of the county.
Shore Recession. Working with the Coastal Hazards Work Group to finalize the
methodology to estimate shoreline recession on Lake Michigan. Met with Prof. Frank
Scarpace and others on the use of visualization techniques for shoreline recession.
Assisted in the JASON GIS training for Madison area teacher held at LICGF on February
16 and 18.
Participated on the Planning Committee for the Coastal GeoTools conference sponsored
by the NOAA Coastal Services Center. Review abstracts submitted for the conference.
Reviewed two coastal hazards grant applications for the NOAA Coastal Services Center.
Data Acquisition and Integration for Coastal Hazard Damage Assessment—Corps
of Engineers, Detroit District
Met with Dave Gerczak of the Corps of Engineers about the project on January 13.
Updated the report titled The Status of Digital Parcel Mapping in Wisconsin’s Lake
Michigan Coastal Counties.
Obtained digital parcel and planimetric from Milwaukee County. Requested recently
completed digital parcel mapping for the Town of Carleton from Kewaunee County.
GIS Presentations and Papers
Gave a presentation on the COE Lake Michigan Coastal Data Integration Project at the
Wisconsin Land Information Association Annual Conference in Appleton, WI on March
10. 100 attending.
Submitted an abstract on the COE Lake Michigan Coastal Data Integration Project to the
URISA ’99 conference.
GIS Training
Conducted an Introduction to ArcView training course on March 15-16.
Meetings
Attended meetings of the WCMP Coastal Hazards Technical Advisory Committee on
February 2, February 23, and March 19.
Attended meetings of the Wisconsin Land Council - Technical Working Group on
January 7 and February 4.
Attended the WLIA Annual Conference in Appleton from March 9-12.