Application Development

Four types of invasive carp are currently found in the United States: black, grass, silver, and bighead carps. These species are fast growing, prolific feeders that out-compete native fish species and drastically alter the natural ecosystems they invade. To prevent the spread of invasive carp into the Great Lakes, the multi-agency Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC) implements...

Four types of invasive carp fish species, are currently found in the United States: black, grass, silver, and bighead carps. These species are fast growing, prolific feeders that out-compete native fish species and drastically alter the natural ecosystems they invade. To prevent the spread of invasive carp into the Great Lakes, the multi-agency Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC)...

The environmental DNA (eDNA) samples collected, processed, and sequenced by the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) and partner agencies are being archived in a cloud-based database application. Consolidating eDNA data will significantly improve researchers and managers ability to visualize, analyze, and integrate sequence data as a monitoring and early detection system for...

A Decision Support System (DSS) can be defined in many ways. The working definition the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) uses is, "A spatially based computer application or data that assists a researcher or manager in making decisions." This is quite a broad definition and it needs to be, as the possibilities for types of DSS are limited only by the user group and the developer...

Gray, BR, RJ Haro and JT Rogala. 2010. Addressing among-group variation in covariate effects using multilevel models. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 17: 573–591.Gray BR. 2012. Variance components estimation for continuous and discrete data, with emphasis on cross-classified sampling designs. In Gitzen RA, JJ Millspaugh, AB Cooper and DS Licht (eds.), Design and analysis of long-term...

Allows managers and planners to rapidly assess landscape attributes and link these attributes with species/habitat informationProvides resource managers a means to compare the conservation potential of local management units with that of the surrounding county, state, or regionCan be applied to any taxa or suite of taxa and any landscape, given that spatial data layers representing habitats are...