Creating a National Park from the Ground Up

Members of the TL2 Project received an Esri Conservation Grant to collect and map field conservation data in the hopes of establishing Lomami National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

ArcNews, Winter 2013

Geodesign and Wildlife Corridors

Researchers use geodesign principles to create the Automated Design Module in ArcGIS that optimizes wildlife corridor design in the Sonoran Desert.

ArcNews, Summer 2012

It Must Be Something in the Water

Researchers from Woods Hole Research Center mapped and analyzed river chemistry in the Congo River Basin with GIS in support of the Global Rivers Project.

ArcNews, Spring 2012

Turning Analysis into Action

Researchers use GIS to monitor water quality in the Catawba River Basin in South Carolina and promote watershed health by mitigating runoff from agricultural sites.

ArcUser, Spring 2012

Promoting River Health

Headwaters Economics and the US Army Corps of Engineers created the Yellowstone River Atlas and mapped riverbank stabilizations and resources with GIS.

ArcNews, Spring 2012

Sustaining biodiversity and preventing fragmentation, extinction, and natural resource depletion are crucial to conservation of the environment. The ability to use GIS technology as a tool to monitor habitat change, track wildlife demographics, and predict future land and resource use is essential to conservation goals and practices. The spatial and thematic aspects of GIS technology enable users to overlay various data to delineate and predict the future of our resources, land, ocean, plant life, and wildlife. This geoprocessing enables decision makers to implement laws and programs that will protect and sustain the environment and its resources.

GIS is a tool that manages, analyzes, and models data from our environment so that we can make decisions based on that information to better conserve its resources and protect its biodiversity.