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Scientists at the Fort Collins Science Center develop software and web applications to benefit natural resource management communities through improved decision making and support of the complex issues they face in today's world. These software and web applications support the scientific community through sharing of code and increase reproducibility of research results.

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grsg_lekdb: Compiling and standardizing greater sage-grouse lek databases

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) are landscape-scale sagebrush obligate species and an important gamebird and iconic species of the western United States. They occupy the sagebrush biome in western North America, extending east of the Sierra Nevada/Cascade Mountain ranges to the western regions of the Great Plains of the United States. Sage-grouse are one of the most closely monitor
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Fort Collins Science Center

North American Bat Monitoring Program: R Data Connection Package, (Version 1.0.1)

The North American Bat Monitoring Program: R Data Connection Package can be used to extract and upload data to the NABat Monitoring Program through the GQL API. This software is written as a wrapper around the NABat GQL API. Documentation for the database and API can be found at https://sciencebase.usgs.gov/. This code includes the ability to reformat NABat data, upload NABat data, create reports,
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Fort Collins Science Center

Wild horse aerial double observer survey analysis R script

This R file estimates horse abundance by analyzing data from simultaneous double-observer aerial surveys. The code follows analytical procedures established by Dr. Bruce Lubow, the statistician contracted for many years by Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Field data collection techniques are described in the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), which is a separate document. Download the files
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Fort Collins Science Center

popcluster: Developing Hierarchical Population Monitoring Frameworks for mobile species with high site fidelity

The software "popcluster" constructs hierarchically nested groupings of similar habitats associated with field surveys while considering biological structure/connectedness (movements between habitats). This approach can support mobile species with high site fidelity where monitoring during surveys occurs on birthing grounds, breeding grounds, or stopovers/seasonal habitat for migratory species. Ea
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Land Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center

Geospatial Route Interface Tool (GRIT)

The Geospatial Route Interface Tool (GRIT) is a Microsoft Windows desktop, graphical user interface application, written in an open source programming language (Python) that references ESRI Geographic Information System (GIS) python functions. The software streamlines and refines the process of analyzing transportation data and natural resources data, thereby improving the efficiency and standardi
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Fort Collins Science Center

Software to Process and Preserve Legacy Magnetotelluric Data

The USGS Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center (CGGSC) collaborated with the USGS Data at Risk (DaR) team to preserve and release a subset of magnetotelluric data from the San Andreas Fault in Parkfield, California. The San Andreas Fault data were collected by the Branch of Geophysics, a precursor to the now CGGSC, between 1989 and 1994. The magnetotelluric data selected for this pres
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS) Program, Community for Data Integration (CDI), Fort Collins Science Center

Metadata Wizard

The MetadataWizard is a useful tool designed to facilitate FGDC metadata creation for spatial and non-spatial data sets.

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Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS) Program, Community for Data Integration (CDI), Fort Collins Science Center, Science Data Management

Metadata Wizard

The MetadataWizard is a tool designed to facilitate CSDGM metadata creation for spatial and non-spatial data sets. It is a cross-platform desktop application built using an open-source Python architecture. Complete user documentation available at: https://doi-usgs.github.io/fort-pymdwizard/
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Science Synthesis, Analysis and Research Program, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS) Program, Fort Collins Science Center

ScienceBase

The U.S. Geological Survey is committed to enhancing and expanding information sharing and sound data management practices. Science teams directly use ScienceBase as an information management and collaboration platform and to release scientific data. ScienceBase is a central location that provides access to aggregated information derived from many data and information domains.

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Fort Collins Science Center

Blossom Statistical Package for R

Blossom is an R package with functions for making statistical comparisons with distance-function based permutation tests developed by P.W. Mielke, Jr. and colleagues at Colorado State University, and for testing parameters estimated in linear models with permutation procedures developed by B. S. Cade and colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey' Fort Collins Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey.
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Fort Collins Science Center

Physical Habitat Simulation (PHABSIM) Software for Windows

The purpose of the Physical Habitat Simulation System (PHABSIM) is to simulate a relationship between streamflow and physical habitat for various life stages of a species of fish or a recreational activity. 

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Fort Collins Science Center

SmartRiver GIS

Smart River GIS allows simultaneous views of river hydraulics, species-specific habitat, and fish population simulations, for a better understanding of complex ecological interactions. We used existing data sets from the South Platte River in Colorado to develop a multi-layered geographic information system (GIS) that resource managers can use to improve their understanding of river ecosystems.

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Fort Collins Science Center