Hood Canal Project

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Some of the button icons below are GIS created maps having background information for a marine restoration project proposal that is in-development for Hood Canal, Washington State. They are similar to the originals because I am limited about project details due to the proprietary nature potentially involving future patents. More maps were created than shown here and we hope that someday all of our project details will be public information. A PDF made during initial research into project and I'd appreciate any expert's feedback to the diagram.

The PDFs range in file size from about 20mb to 36mb and may not open in your web browser. Advised is to right click the icon and download (save target as, etc.) for a full size PDF of the map that includes spatial information about longitude/latitude values if the Analysis Toolbar in Adobe Reader is used. The maps were created using two 60 day evaluation versions through ArcGIS10.0 and extensions.

My colleague is Kip Taylor, Project Lead and a spaced out view off Google Earth of Kip's photo location. Mr. Taylor had the ideas for the project and I'm the grunt researcher, maps, CAD designer and computer guy (but not a bad job).

Note: A special thanks to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Nespelem, WA) for giving me the opportunity to be considered for a GIS Analyst position (10/2010*) just for the experience of it if nothing else. Native Americans are proud and important peoples and are deeply respected by Kip and myself for their cultural contributions to the American knowledge, values and historical content.
(*No candidate interviewed at that time for the position was hired. Additionally and reluctantly I turned down another interview in 9/2011 for similar position instead for a seasonal water quality technician position on the Alaskan Way Viaduct project in Seattle)

	Hard at work with CAD 3D solid modeling on a to-be-identified-later key component of the project. (Credits: AutoCAD 2011 unregistered 30-day trial)
	I strive at creating professional looking maps and while using new features of ArcMap v10.0. This 36x48 inch map was created from satellite imagery (Mr. Sid), while at 150dpi resolution (13mb) it does not do the map justice when zoomed in close. Alternately, this version at 400dpi resolution (105mb) is of excellent quality zoomed at large scales. Note: both maps are PDF files that need to be saved to disk because they are very reluctant to open in a web browser.
	The most recent land cover vegetation data from USGS and GAP (6/2010). This map is level 2 and is a dumbed up version of level 3 (below) because of the simplified land cover classifications. There is also a level 1 built into to data attributes (for the real novices).
	The most recent land cover vegetation data from USGS and GAP and is level 3, the most detailed.
	Roadside Geology of Washington information from the David Alt and Donald Hyndman field guide (1994). The map was created by georeferencing a scanned image from the book's content and adding the various attributes based on the author's synthesis of several sources. Kathy A. Troost, Director of The Pacific Northwest Center for Geologic Mapping Studies (GeoMapNW) Dept. of Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington and Tim Walsh from the Washington Dept. of Natural Resources provided me the knowledge to locate previously created geologic maps for very precise geological information. The following PDF will get you published and in-work 7.5 minute and selected 15 minute geologic mapping from topographic quadrangles. The link should open in your web browser and the geologic maps are accessed by double-clicking the quad if its hyperlink appears when cursor hovers over it: ger_24k_mapping_status.pdf
	StreamNet.org and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife data of dams surrounding Hood Canal near fish-borne streams. We're very habitat conservation conscious.
	More or less as a last gasp prior to ArcGIS 10.0 evaluation expiring, created this map of the physical and cultural geographic features within the project area watersheds and near shores (size 6.1mb). Dairies are referenced due to their potential nitrogen runoff and percolation into groundwater and aquifers. Watersheds are colored and the raster is from the UW GIS lab.
	As good as ArcGIS is, and from what I know it does not create very good profiles, so instead a CAD figure is used to depict a longitudinal section cut through the north canal in the area of the Puget Sound Box Model. (This figure should open in your web browser.) The information is relevant for helping us understand the changes between the south and north canal basin boundary for seasonal and interannual fluxes in residence times and interbasin transports of freshwater input from rivers that affects salinity variability at season forcing timescales. The figure was created with bathymetry data from 30-meter cells from the October DEM (University of Washington and PRISM). Manuscript source: Babson, A.L., et al. 2006. Seasonal and Interannual Variability in the Circulation of Puget Sound, Washington: A Box Model Study. Atmosphere-Ocean:(1)44,29–45.
	Time series animation of SPURT doing its job to add dissolved oxygen to the seawater, then the tidal fluxes transporting it towards Puget Sound. This is for illustrative purposes only.
	Similar to the CAD figure above is a digital survey started with a trial version of the GIS software Global Mapper using coordinate geometry (COGO). An information table is provided for the Northing/Easting and bathymetry elevations (- feet) derived from the October DEM. This is primarily for illustrative purposes because a more detailed survey would be expected. However, a survey done like this is a reasonable quick study without the expense of going into the field and using survey equipment. Click for PDF (21mb) of 1:125,000 scale map, and spreadsheet of the COGO locations and elevations.