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Landscape Analysis Project Team

Erin K Sexton: Project Coordinator

Crown Managers Partnership, Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana;

(406) 250-4779;

erin.sexton@umontana.edu

http://www.umt.edu/flbs/


Mike Britten: Project Principal Investigator

Rocky Mountain Inventory and Monitoring Network, National Park Service;

(970) 267-2150;

Mike_Britten@nps.gov

http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/romn/

 

Greg McDermid: Project Principal Investigator

Department of Geography, University of Calgary;

(403) 220-4780;

mcdermid@ucalgary.ca

http://www.ucalgary.ca/f3gisci

 

Will McInnes

Research Technician,

Department of Geography, University of Calgary

Phone: (403) 220-8289

Email: wssmcinn@ucalgary.ca


Laura O'Gan: Project Data Manager

National Park Service, Inventory and Monitoring Division

Rocky Mountain Network

(970) 267-2148

Laura_OGan@nps.gov

http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/romn/

 

REPORTS

Crown of the Continent Ecosystem Data Mining Report

 The Crown Managers Partnership Landscapes Data-Review Report is a review of baseline geospatial datasets for the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem Landscape project. The report documents the data-discovery and assessment of the available GIS datasets for the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE), and is part of an on-going collaborative project between the National Park Service (NPS) Rocky Mountain Network (ROMN), the University of Calgary (UofC), the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) and the Crown Managers Partnership (CMP).

 

 

NPScapes Products Reports

NPscape is a national landscape dynamics monitoring project that produces and delivers to parks a suite of landscape-scale data sets, maps, reports and other products to inform resource management and planning at local, regional and national scales. The key products from NPscape are data, methods, analysis and results. Changes in the composition and configuration of different land cover types within and adjacent to National Parks has been shown to greatly affect biological and physical processes within and around those parks, such as habitat availability, animal movements, potential for invasion by exotic plants, water quality and in-stream habitat for fish and other aquatic organisms. This report documents the type of NPscape analysis and products that can be derived from the Crown Managers Partnership Landscape data.

Sensitivity Analysis

We will conduct a sensitivity analysis to examine how errors in base maps propagate into analysis results. Our approach will be based on Monte Carlo simulation.  In this approach known errors and uncertainties are used to simulate multiple versions of the input datasets, which are then used to repeat analyses and produce a new set of results. The results are compared to each other to measure the variability and reliability of results.  We will develop our methodology using trial datasets consisting of a grizzly bear habitat map derived from several input maps including land cover and roads. Methodological details and results will be provided as the project progresses.