Case Studies

Biodiversity and Habitat  |  Climate Change  |  Pollution  |  Regulatory Compliance  |  Sustainable Development

Biodiversity and Habitat

• Al Gore Discusses Environmental Sustainability
• California Lake Threatened by Pike
• CASI Data Provides Better Picture of Coral Reef Threats
• Conserving the Land of Napa County, California
• Getting Along on the Range
• Habitat Maps Created with GIS Aid Alberta with Grizzly Conservation
• KARSTERO
• Mapping the Spread of White-Nose Syndrome with GIS
• Mineral Licks: Evaluating Their Role in Disease Transmission
• Minimizing Avian Mortality in Siting Wind Turbines
• Modeling Small Areas Is a Big Challenge
• Nature, the Human Network, and the Role of GIS
• Prioritizing Seagrass Restoration Sites
• Protecting Oregon Caves
• People-Nature: The Human Network
• People-Nature: The Natural Network
• Supporting Island Land Conservation

Climate Change

• Addressing Ambient Air Pollution in Jakarta, Indonesia
• Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Communications Supported by GIS
• Earth Observation and GIS Industries Take Action Against Climate Change
• Mapping the Ayles Ice Shelf Break
• Mapping Ozone Conditions Across Europe in Real Time
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [PDF]
• Ongoing Planet Action Projects

Pollution Prevention and Control

• Air Pollution Sources in South Coast Air Basin—Impacts of Meteorology, Terrain, and other Sources
• The Arsenic Project
• Developing a Watershed Inventory for Vulnerability Assessment Using ArcGIS
• Dye Study on the Mississippi River
• In Maryland, Abandoned Coal Mine Stabilization Is Made Economical with GIS
• MDEP Deploys Distributed GIS Application
• The Province of Québec, Canada, Manages Stream Crossings and Forest Roads with GIS
• Regulating Illegal Piggery Waste Runoff
• River Pollutants Monitored with GIS
• Students and Farmers Become Citizen Scientists

Regulatory Compliance

• Data Viewer Popular Beyond Expectations
• Improving Regional Water Quality Assessment
• St. Johns River Management District [PDF]

Sustainable Development

• African Water Resource Database
• Conservation GeoPortal to Support Worldwide Data Sharing and Discovery
• The Effects of Human Population Growth and Deforestation—Asian Elephant Range Loss Studied With GIS
• GIS Gateway for Aquaculture and Fisheries
• GIS Hero Susan Minnemeyer Works for Frontier Forest Conservation
• IMSMA GIS and Analysis Tools Support Demining Efforts
• Kick-Starting Enterprise GIS
• Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Noted Environmentalist to Give Keynote
• Preserving the World's Dying Languages with GIS
• Renewable Energy Siting: Wind Energy and Ethanol Production in Kansas [PDF]
• Virtually Visiting a Remote Park
• VVAF and ESRI Support Humanitarian Efforts with GIS

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