Geography 469 GIS Workshop

Projects for Spring, 2013

There is NO implied priority to the projects listed below.

Projects are listed in order in which the project proposals arrived in Professor Nyerges’ email inbox

	Project Title	Organization	Contact	Project Synopsis
1	On-line Open Source GIS Curriculum for Water-oriented Non-Governmental Organization in Vietnam	Medrix	Robert Catherman robert2009vn@gmail.com	MEDRIX has developed a curriculum for learning and using QGIS (open source GIS software) that is now delivered partly via internet and partly through classroom contact. Students will complete the curriculum using ONLY internet resources and interactions and provide feedback to MEDRIX identifying and improving areas of the curriculum that require adjustment to work effectively in a distance-learning-only environment.
2	UW Campus History in 3D	UW Architect	Jeffrey Linn jefflinn@uw.edu	A 3d campus history is desired with both topography and the built environment. Source material is starting in 1911 there are some accurate, detailed surveys of the campus. I'll write up the project proposal and get it to you soon.
3	A Pilot GIS Hydrography Model for the Spokane Tribe	Spokane Tribe	Tim Leach Tim.Leach@spokanetribe.com	Design a pilot hydrography database for use by Spokane Tribe GIS. The design should be as simple as possible, compatible with Washington DNR’s water courses feature class.
4	Re-evaluating the Washington State Immunization Information System: Testing for Efficacy and Incorporating a Geodatabase	WithinReach on behalf of the Washington State Office of Immunization and Child Profile	Todd Faubion toddf@withinreachwa.org	The Washington State Immunization Information System (WSIIS) is among the most robust immunization information systems in the country, but it lacks key metadata and a geodatabase through which local health jurisdictions might be able to effectively use data extracted from the WSIIS. We would like to determine how complete and representative data are when compared to other data sources capturing the demographics of Washington State.
5	Nationwide Rivers Inventory Geospatial Database in Idaho	National Park Service	Susan Rosebrough susan_rosebrough@nps.gov	Create a geospatial database with geospatial and attribute information for rivers on the Nationwide Rivers Inventory (NRI). Identify strategies for updating the NRI using modern data and technology.
6	1891 Seattle City Directory Linkage to 1890 Digital Map of City of Seattle	Seattle Genealogical Society	Chuck Richards sgs1890@gmail.com	We would like to be able to display a clickable digital 1890 Seattle base map on our website that links to the information in our master database. We would like users to be able to go from the map to the data as well as from the data to the map.
7	Possibility of storing water throughout the cascades in small off channel distributed retention areas.	Institute for Hazards Mitigation Planning and Research	Bob Freitag bfreitag@uw.edu	Stresses due to climate change in the Cascades might be reduced if it is possible to store water throughout the Cascades in small off channel distributed retention areas. Determine the possibility that such areas, if available, might provide sufficient moisture to hydrate soils sufficient to maintain existing goods and services provided by this natural capital.
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9	Exploratory Spatial Analysis of City Parks and Forest	City of Seattle & Puget Sound GIS	Jesse Alton Jesse@pugetsoundgis.com	City of Seattle Parks and recreation (SPR) has be compiling habitat data over the last 10 years. They now have extensive data on plant species cover, tree density, and habitat in SPR’s park and open-spaces. Working with both city ecologists and GIS professionals we hope to discover innovative solutions to improve the health of city parks and forests.
10	Geo-visualization of Seattle environmental stewardship organizations	Forest Service, Pacific NW Research Station, Green Cities Research Alliance	Oliver Bazinet obazinet@uw.edu Kathleen Wolf kwolf@uw.edu	Stew-MAP is a project to better understand the full extent and effects of work by more than 600 organizations in the Seattle metro area that undertake environmental stewardship. The assessment is being done in collaboration with other U.S. cities (Chicago, New York, and Baltimore [1]). The boundaries of where the organizations do field projects (aka "turf") have been digitized into GIS layers (feature class & KMZ formats) to help visualize turfs for research and management. We plan to publish the project to the web soon. Google tools will be the web platform to save costs.
11	A Farmland Inventory and Protection Strategy for Bainbridge Island	Friends of the Farms	Christy Carr chcarr2012@gmail.com	A comprehensive farmland inventory of Bainbridge Island does not exist. A database inventory of agricultural land is needed to develop a strategy for farmland protection. The database inventory should include farmland properties with land characteristics such as soil, aspect, water availability, proximity to schools/downtown/other farms, and land value.
12	Assessment of Geoweb mobile applications used to engage citizens in natural resource stewardship	Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust	Mark Boyar Mark.Boyar@mtsgreenway.org	Convened by the Greenway Trust, a coalition of nonprofits and public land managers is developing a web-based reporting interface (website and mobile apps) for the outdoor recreation community. Our aim is to engage this large community in stewardship of our wild forests and rivers: our tools will permit citizens to quickly report invasive weed infestations, road washouts, garbage dump sites, vandalism and other problems encountered in the course of a hike, mountain bike ride, or other outdoor activity.
13	Lake Geodatabase for Invasive Plant Monitoring and Management	King County Noxious Weed Control Program	Sasha Shaw sasha.shaw@kingcounty.gov	King County is developing a citizen science monitoring program called the Lake Weed Watchers. The purpose of the program is to assist with early detection and rapid response of priority invasive plants on lakes and to educate and engage the public on the topics of lake stewardship and invasive species. To visualize citizen reporting with spatial content, there is a need for a lake geodatabase to organize, manage, and display existing information from various sources.
14	GIS Analysis & Mapping of Conservation Priorities for a Watershed Open Space Strategy	UW Green Futures Research & Design Lab	Jeffrey W. Raker jeffrey.w.raker@gmail.com	Assemble, analyze, and thematically map data for one of seven Watershed Open Space Strategies (WOSS) to be integrated into the Regional Open Space Strategy (ROSS) for Central Puget Sound. The ROSS project will stitch together the many activities underway to conserve and enhance open space and contribute to the ecological, economic, social, recreational and aesthetic vitality of the Central Puget Sound region.
15	Hazardous Materials Survey GIS	UW – Capital Projects Office	Molly Polk mapolk@uw.edu	UW has been conducting hazardous materials surveys prior to beginning most of the construction projects for the last 5 years, creating a significant, but incomplete data store. We’d like help creating a GIS application to identify all of the zones that have been surveyed and the specific spots of each known survey. Data will need to display information on a map by building and if possible by floor within the building. A Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) may need to be signed by all members of this group before survey zones and data points will be made available. Note to group: Check with CPO to see if any information can be reported in a presentation and report to instructors.
16	Fall Protection GIS Project	UW Facilities Services, Physical Plant, Central Zone	Ellen Oxley eo9@uw.edu	Staff from UW Facilities Services would like to create a graphical system that maps out the location of UW roofs from the central zone on campus, how to access the roof, and what fall protection is required to work on the roof. In addition we’d like to be able to show the condition of the roofs on a map, as well many other data elements such as the materials, structure, size, and structural elements contained on the roof.