Bottom-up landscape science and visualizationfor wildlife management at Yellowstone NP and Carmel Bay(Systems Integration and Visualization of Yellowstone)

Fred Watson1*,

Collaborators: Bob Garrott2*, PJ White3*, Susan Alexander1*,Rick Wallen3, Wendi Newman1, Thor Anderson1, Tom Thein1, Jon Detka1, Alberto Guzman1,Claire Gower2, Jason Bruggeman2+, Matt Becker2, Sally Plumb3, Chris Geremia3

James Lindholm1*, Rick Starr4, Jessica Watson1

1California State University Monterey Bay, 2Montana State University Bozeman, 3Yellowstone National Park, 4Moss Landing Marine Labs, *Principal Investigators, +Formerly

Presented at NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team MeetingMay 7th 2009, New York, NY

Funding: NASA NCC2-1186 & NCC13-03009,NSF DEB 0074444 & DEB-0413570, NPS, NOAA (California Sea Grant) EcoViz: Ecosystem Science and Visualization

AppliedSc ienc es

Ec ologic alforecasting

NASA @Yellowstone

N A S A

I& M

Regions

Parks

NP S

W ildlifemanagement D aily

LandsatSnow model

Broad, Robust, EfficientBut potentially more difficult to identify linkages between specific management environments

and data products (?)

More focused, decisions realized within project timeframeBut difficult to scale up & generalize

Therefore costly

This project

Scale-dependency of interactions betweenecology, administration, and outcomes

Management scale

Agency

Staff

Species

EcosystemEcological

scale Outcome scale

Decisions

Policies

A

D

C

B

Scale-dependency of interactions betweenecology, administration, and outcomes

Management scale

Agency

Staff

Species

EcosystemEcological

scale Outcome scale

Decisions

Policies

A

D

C

B

EcoViz: YellowstoneEcosystem Science and Visualization

Fie ldwork

W ildlifeoperations

Lan d scapemo d e ls

Re motese n sin ganalyse s

Imag e ry

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F ores tc over

G eotherm alheat flux

M O D IS

F oragephenology

G eo th e rma lsu rve ys

F o restp lo ts

Me ad owplo ts

Ane mo -me te rs

Snowmod e l

Sno wcores

Wildlifemodels &analyse s

Bison b ou nd a ry op era tions

W olv esprey a tedges

Visu alization s

Datase rv ice s

S now pac k B is onm igration

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Bison ro ad u seW o lf re in tro du ctio n

D ecades

W ild fire s

W eeks to years

W inte r recrea tion

VisitorInterpretation

V is itor c enterk ios k

NP S w ebs ite

O R N LD A A C

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16 years

Fie ldwork

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Re motese n sin ganalyse s

Imag e ry

Lands at

F ores tc over

G eotherm alheat flux

M O D IS

F oragephenology

G eo th e rma lsu rve ys

F o restp lo ts

Me ad owplo ts

Ane mo -me te rs

Snowmod e l

Sno wcores

Wildlifemodels &analyse s

Bison b ou nd a ry op era tions

W olv esprey a tedges

Visu alization s

Datase rv ice s

S now pac k B is onm igration

F ilm ing

Geys erbas ins

T e leme try

P henologym odel

A S TE R

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D ecades

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W eeks to years

W inte r recrea tion

VisitorInterpretation

V is itor c enterk ios k

NP S w ebs ite

O R N LD A A C

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to roadgrooming

E l k re a l l ya vo i d

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5 years

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16 years

Journalpapers

Bookchapters

Fie ldwork

W ildlifeoperations

Lan d scapemo d e ls

Re motese n sin ganalyse s

Imag e ry

Lands at

F ores tc over

G eotherm alheat flux

M O D IS

F oragephenology

G eo th e rma lsu rve ys

F o restp lo ts

Me ad owplo ts

Ane mo -me te rs

Snowmod e l

Sno wcores

Wildlifemodels &analyse s

Bison b ou nd a ry op era tions

W olv esprey a tedges

Visu alization s

Datase rv ice s

S now pac k B is onm igration

F ilm ing

Geys erbas ins

T e leme try

P henologym odel

A S TE R

W olv esnear ly

ex tirpatee lk des pite

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Elkav oids now

Bis onav o ids now

S nowpac know c as ts

P rec ipm odel

W in dmo de l

W ildlifepolicy &planning

Bison ro ad u seW o lf re in tro du ctio n

D ecades

W ild fire s

W eeks to years

W inte r recrea tion

VisitorInterpretation

V is itor c enterk ios k

NP S w ebs ite

O R N LD A A C

Bis on non-res pons iv e

to roadgrooming

E l k re a l l ya vo i d

sn o w wi thwo lve s

A ICw=1

C lima tech an ge

5 years

So ftw arede v e lop me n t

Te ambu ild in g

16 years

Journalpapers

Bookchapters

Rockfish movement and habitat inCarmel Bay, California