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Fourth Quarter
- Additional fish records were received and error-checked before incorporating into the fish database.
- Catchments and upstream watershed boundaries were revised for the southern part of the LCRB due to problems related to the number of canals.
Third Quarter
- Environmental data was attributed and summarized for the streams, catchments, and upstream watershed for the Verde watershed.
- Changes recommended from the expert reviews of stream classifications and species distribution were incorporated into these datasets.
- Dr. Julian Olden joined the Lower Colorado River Basin Aquatic GAP effort. Dr. Olden currently is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. His area of expertise includes biogeography of freshwater ecosytems with a focus of fish. See his website for more information about his research.
- Catchments and upstream watershed boundaries were derived for the remainder of the Lower Colorado River Basin.
- Several data requests were received from State and Federal agencies.
Second Quarter
- Stream data for the entire lower basin have been reviewed and corrected.
- Catchments and upstream watershed boundaries were developed for the Verde watershed pilot project
- Environmental data is being summarized for the Verde watershed.
- Another fish location dataset was received for the Verde and was moved into a database format and error-checked.
- Several data requests were received and processed.
- Two ArcIMS sites were provided online to allow cooperators and interested stakeholders to error-check the current databases and identify missing datasets. The Fish ArcIMS site contains generalized locations by species and timeframe throughout the Verde Basin. The Stream ArcIMS site displays the flow classifications (intermittent/perennial) for the Verde Basin based on data acquired through the USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). The flow classification in the NHD is known to be error prone so we requested review of these from experts in the region.
First Quarter
- We attended a workshop on the NHDPlus program in Denver. While there, we met with the staff for the NHDPlus to discuss incorporating our stream edits into their product.
- Until funds become available to revise the NHDPlus dataset, the edits we made to the NHD stream layer won't be incorporated into the NHDPlus dataset.
- Development of an ArcIMS site continued. The objective of this site is to provide detailed maps of fish distributions for peer-review.
- Clean-up of the stream layers is nearly complete.
- Presentations were given at the Arizona/New Mexico American Fisheries Society.
- We led a GIS workshop at the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.
- We met with several cooperators to discuss how the GAP information might be used in their respective projects.
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