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Timothy Fox
I have interdisciplinary expertise in biology, geographical information systems (GIS) and application programming. My work emphasizes avian ecology and the creation of flexible applications to model species habitat. Lately my focus has been on the creation of web-enabled decision support systems.
Active Projects:
- Assessing ecological impacts of moose herbivory under varying moose population densities absent the regulatory effects of wolves on Isle Royale
- Avian botulism in distressed Great Lakes environments for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
- Development a spatial Decision Support System (DSS) in support of the conservation goals of the Eastern Tallgrass Prairies (ETPBR) and Big Rivers LCC and adjacent LCCs
- Development of the Connectivity and Inundation Tool, an analytical tool to investigate the cumulative effects of fluctuating water flow and depth
- Development of the Curve Fit, linear and nonlinear raster regressor
Authored Software Products:
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LINK: a GIS application that evaluates landscapes from a species habitat prospective
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The Habitat Needs Assessment Query Tool: a GIS application for evaluating habitat on the Upper Mississippi River System
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The Comprehensive Conservation Plan GIS Tools: a set of GIS tools for evaluating management strategies related to the Comprehensive Conservation Planning process
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NullTerritories: a GIS application that creates a set of randomly placed elliptical territories. Size and shape of the random territories is based on set of observed polygonal territories.
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Compositional Comparison Tool: a GIS application for comparing landscape composition of two areas
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Everglades Species Query Tool: a ArcGIS query application for evaluating habitat of the Everglades National Park
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The Census Stop Tool: an ArcGIS tool for placing random sample points on a set of lines.
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Linear Deviation Tool: is an ArcGIS tool that describes the spatial deviation and the mean path for of a set of lines.
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Curve Fit: a pixel level raster regression tool
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Connectivity and Inundation Tool, an analytical tool to investigating fluctuating water flow and depth within lotic ecosystems
Science and Products
Decision Support Systems
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...
LINK: ArcGIS Tools for Conservation Planning
Allows managers and planners to rapidly assess landscape attributes and link these attributes with species/habitat information Provides resource managers a means to compare the conservation potential of local management units with that of the surrounding county, state, or region Can be applied to any taxa or suite of taxa and any landscape, given that spatial data layers representing habitats are...
Connectivity and Inundation Tool
There are ongoing needs for analytical tools to investigate the cumulative effects of fluctuating water flow and depth. The Connectivity and Inundation Tool was developed at UMESC to help address these needs. The tool allows for the investigation of the historic hydrographs or proposed theoretical hydrographs. It does this by utilizing existing 2D hydrodynamic models that have been encapsulated...
Science to Assess Future Conservation Practices for the Mississippi River Basin
USFWS Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) throughout the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) have identified high nutrient runoff, a major contributor to Gulf hypoxia, and declines in wildlife populations (especially grassland and riparian birds), as conservation challenges requiring collaborative action. This project aimed to develop a spatial decision support system (DSS) to address...
Lock and Dam 7 Panorama
Science and Products
Decision Support Systems
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...
LINK: ArcGIS Tools for Conservation Planning
Allows managers and planners to rapidly assess landscape attributes and link these attributes with species/habitat information Provides resource managers a means to compare the conservation potential of local management units with that of the surrounding county, state, or region Can be applied to any taxa or suite of taxa and any landscape, given that spatial data layers representing habitats are...
Connectivity and Inundation Tool
There are ongoing needs for analytical tools to investigate the cumulative effects of fluctuating water flow and depth. The Connectivity and Inundation Tool was developed at UMESC to help address these needs. The tool allows for the investigation of the historic hydrographs or proposed theoretical hydrographs. It does this by utilizing existing 2D hydrodynamic models that have been encapsulated...
Science to Assess Future Conservation Practices for the Mississippi River Basin
USFWS Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) throughout the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) have identified high nutrient runoff, a major contributor to Gulf hypoxia, and declines in wildlife populations (especially grassland and riparian birds), as conservation challenges requiring collaborative action. This project aimed to develop a spatial decision support system (DSS) to address...
Lock and Dam 7 Panorama
Lock and Dam 7 Panorama