1. Shawna Dark, Director Danielle Bram, Project Manager Patricia Pendleton, Project Manager Facilitating Statewide Collaboration in GIS & Water Resources http://www.csun.edu/~centergs/

2. who are we? mission benefits of collaboration skills and experience resources how to get involved questions Presentation Outline

3. www.csun.edu/~centergs/www.gic.csuchico.edu/ Who Are We?

4. The Centers’ mission is to promote and foster the use of GIS in education and research within the California State University system and throughout our local communities. We seek to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, students, and groups in the local community who can benefit from using geographical information and spatial analysis. Mission

5. Benefits of Collaboration: Old Model

6. Benefits of Collaboration: New Model

7. Benefits of Collaboration Community & Clients Expertise Institutional knowledge Trained workforce, knowledgeable and practiced High quality and timely work Cost effective pricing Interns Real World Training Professional Meeting Exposure Develop networking opportunities Exposed to and develop skills in workplace behavior Learn responsibilities expected of them in future job placement Earn income while in college CSUs Ability to tailor educational programs to further meet industry needs/requirements Develop contacts and support network within the community Name recognition in geospatial technology/local community Support student education, matriculation, and future employment Who Benefits and How?

8. Student Skills and Experience data creation database design and creation GIS analysis GIS customization programming operations process flow analysis feasibility/cost benefit analysis web development database management protocols familiarity with institutional data and challenges professional training in workplace behaviors

9. Skills and Experience: Water Resources creating opportunities for better efficiency with water resource data in-depth knowledge of Regional Water Board Basin Plans NHD editing, geoconflation, and applications application of NWI mapping standards development of statewide wetland mapping standards historical wetlands mapping and ecological research contemporary wetlands mapping hydrologically-based linear referencing hydrological modeling research and applications coordination of local, regional, and statewide outreach to/with stakeholders familiarity with agencies, data, and challenges associated with water resource data

10. Skills and Experience: Water Resources Create a more efficient and intuitive system for tracking water quality policies in the State of California by incorporating most components of the CA Basin Plans and other related Water Quality Control Plans into the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) geodatabase. Regional & Statewide Water Quality Objectives Beneficial Uses Applicable TMDL’s Statewide and regional policies (CTR, NTR, NRWQC, Ocean Plan, and Thermal Plan) Basin Plan Project Status: In Progress

11. Skills and Experience: Water Resources The objective of this project was to build upon ongoing work by US Fish and Wildlife Services, National Wetlands Inventory (USFWS NWI), the Resources Agency, the Coastal Conservancy, & Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) to complete an update of wetland habitat maps for Southern California coastal watersheds. To learn more, please visit www.socalwetlands.comwww.socalwetlands.com Wetlands Mapping Project Status: Completed

12. Skills and Experience: Water Resources Status and Trends: The Center is assisting the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) in a project to establish an efficient and accurate methodology for assessing the change in extent and distribution of California wetlands in the state of California. Status: In Progress Stream Periodicity: Under the direction of SCCWRP, the Center will develop a methodology and modeling approach to predict stream flow periodicity and apply this approach to create a spatial data layer that identifies the likely (or probable) location of non-perennial streams within Southern California. Status: In Progress Wetland Change Analysis: The goal of this project is provide an initial estimate of change in extent and composition of southern California’s coastal wetlands between ca. 1850 and 2005. The analysis will be based on a comparison of wetlands mapped on the historical U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey topographic maps (t-sheets) to the contemporary U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) maps. Status: In Progress – almost complete Water Resources Analysis Projects

13. Skills and Experience: Water Resources NHD/Topography Update Project: The objective of the project is to bring improvement to the high resolution NHD to (1) update the NHD database for several regions in California with no current steward, which in turn will (2) improve the corresponding hydrography features represented on the revised US Topo maps scheduled for release 2015. Status: Not started NHD/HEM Editing (Basin Plan Project): In the course of modifying NHD features to satisfy requirements for the Basin Plan Project, CGS staff were required to utilize and apply both USGS NHD Edit and Hydrography Event Management (HEM) tools to NHD data. NHD Projects NHD GeoConflation Project: In this pilot project, CGS updated the existing NHD with newly developed data from the Southern California Wetland Mapping project. This project would serves as an opportunity to pilot the update and conflation process, providing the state with a basic hours and cost estimates as well as documentation of best practices for this task. Status: In Progress – almost complete

14. Skills and Experience: Enterprise GIS Managing spatial data in a relational database management system (RDBMS). Provides central, scalable, data storage and management system to include Multi-user versioned editing Data replication Conflict resolution Data security with using permissions Web services data editing Proprietary and Open Source ESRI’s ArcGIS Intergraph’s Geomedia QGIS Others… Customized Applications Configuration and Programming ©ESRI

15. Skills and Experience: Web Mapping Proprietary ESRI FLEX and JavaScript API’s Mobile GIS Online GIS Open Source Geoserver Postgresql with the PostGIS extension Others…. Accessibility Diversified learning ©ESRI

16. Resources State Water Resources Control Board USGS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Caltrans California Department of Fish and Wildlife Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board City of Los Angeles Los Angeles Fire Department Newhall County Water District Rivers and Mountains Conservancy Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy CSU Chico, Geographical Information Center (GIC) San Francisco Estuary Institute 23 California State University Campuses Faculty Expertise Biology, criminology, hydrology, history, geography, computer science, engineering, etc. Other CSU Centers CSUN: Center for Pioneering Technology, Viscom, Wells Fargo Center for Small Business and Entrepreneurship State-of-the-art facilities and equipment In-house support and technical staff Highly motivated student-interns! Partnerships & ClientsOther Resources

17. How to Get Involved Dr. Shawna Dark shawna.dark@csun.edu Danielle Bram danielle.bram@csun.edu Patricia Pendleton patricia.pendleton@csun.edu http://www.csun.edu/~centergs

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