Zach Ancona
Zach Ancona is a Physical Scientist with the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
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Data Release for Toward ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in ecosystem service potential and flows Data Release for Toward ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in ecosystem service potential and flows
Ecosystem accounts link national-scale environmental and economic trends, offering an internationally standardized approach to tracking sustainability. We compile ecosystem accounts for Rwanda over a 25-year period, and demonstrate that despite strong economic growth, social development, and high-level commitment to environmental goals, ecosystem services fundamental to Rwanda's well...
Data release for Using social-context matching to improve transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models Data release for Using social-context matching to improve transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models
Spatial planning is becoming an increasingly important component of managing natural resources in the face of growing demands upon and threats to our public lands. Efforts to model and map the goods and services derived from ecosystems provide important information to planning efforts, permitting the analysis of tradeoffs or costs and benefits associated with management alternatives...
Data Release for The sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution Data Release for The sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution
Although ecosystem service (ES) modeling has progressed rapidly in the last 10-15 years, comparative studies on data and model selection effects have become more common only recently. Such studies have drawn mixed conclusions about whether different data and model choices yield divergent results. In this study we apply inter- and intra-model comparisons to address these questions at...
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A rasterized building footprint dataset for the United States A rasterized building footprint dataset for the United States
Microsoft released a U.S.-wide vector building dataset in 2018. Although the vector building layers provide relatively accurate geometries, their use in large-extent geospatial analysis comes at a high computational cost. We used High-Performance Computing (HPC) to develop an algorithm that calculates six summary values for each cell in a raster representation of each U.S. state...
Authors
Mehdi Pourpeikari Heris, Nathan Foks, Kenneth Bagstad, Austin Troy, Zachary Ancona
Sustaining Environmental Capital Initiative summary report Sustaining Environmental Capital Initiative summary report
Federal agencies need credible scientific information to determine the production and value of ecosystem services in an efficient and timely manner. The U.S. Geological Survey addresses this scientific information need through the Sustaining Environmental Capital Initiative project. The project has relied on U.S. Geological Survey expertise related to water, fisheries, advanced modeling...
Authors
Christopher Huber, James Meldrum, Rudy Schuster, Zachary Ancona, Kenneth Bagstad, Scott Beck, Daren Carlisle, Peter Claggett, Fabiano Franco, Heather Galbraith, Michelle Haefele, Kristin Hoelting, Dianna Hogan, Kristina Hopkins, Tim Kern, Collin Lawrence, Stacy Lischka, John Loomis, Julie Mueller, Gregory Noe, Emily Pindilli, Brian Quay, Darius Semmens, Wilson Sinclair, Daniel Spooner, Brian Voigt, Barabara St. John White
Toward ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in potential supply and flows of ecosystem services Toward ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in potential supply and flows of ecosystem services
1. Rwanda, a small but rapidly developing central African nation, has undertaken development of natural capital accounts to better inform its economic development through the World Bank’s Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES) Partnership. In this paper, we develop ecosystem service (ES) models to quantify the physical supply components of ecosystem accounts in...
Authors
Kenneth Bagstad, Jane Ingram, Glenn-Marie Lange, Michel Masozera, Zachary Ancona, Mediatrice Bana, Desire Kabogo, Bernard Musana, Nsharwasi Nabahungu, Emmanuel Rukundo, Evariste Rutebuka, Stephen Polasky, Denis Rugege, Claudine Uwera
Monarch habitat as a component of multifunctional landscape restoration using continuous riparian buffers Monarch habitat as a component of multifunctional landscape restoration using continuous riparian buffers
Stabilizing the eastern, migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) is expected to require substantial habitat restoration on agricultural land in the core breeding area of the Upper Midwestern U.S. Previous research has considered the potential to utilize marginal land for this purpose because of its low productivity, erodible soils, and high nutrient input...
Authors
Darius Semmens, Zachary Ancona
Using social-context matching to improve spatial function-transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models Using social-context matching to improve spatial function-transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models
Recreational and aesthetic enjoyment of public lands is increasing across a wide range of activities, highlighting the need to assess and adapt management to accommodate these uses. Despite a growing number of studies on mapping cultural ecosystem services, most are local-scale assessments that rely on costly and time-consuming primary data collection. As a result, the availability of...
Authors
Darius Semmens, Benson Sherrouse, Zachary Ancona
The sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution The sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution
Although ecosystem service (ES) modeling has progressed rapidly in the last 10–15 years, comparative studies on data and model selection effects have become more common only recently. Such studies have drawn mixed conclusions about whether different data and model choices yield divergent results. In this study, we compared the results of different models to address these questions at...
Authors
Kenneth Bagstad, Erika Cohen, Zachary Ancona, Steven McNulty, Ge Sun
Analyzing land-use change scenarios for trade-offs among culturalecosystem services in the Southern Rocky Mountains Analyzing land-use change scenarios for trade-offs among culturalecosystem services in the Southern Rocky Mountains
Significant increases in outdoor recreation participants are projected over the next 50 years for national forests across the United States, with even larger increases possible for forests located in the Southern Rocky Mountains. Forest managers will be challenged to balance increasing demand for outdoor recreation with other ecosystem services. Future management needs could be better...
Authors
Benson Sherrouse, Darius Semmens, Zachary Ancona, Nicole Brunner
Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States
This dataset provides industrial-scale onshore wind turbine locations in the United States, corresponding facility information, and turbine technical specifications. The database has wind turbine records that have been collected, digitized, locationally verified, and internally quality controlled. Turbines from the Federal Aviation Administration Digital Obstacles File, through product...
Authors
Jay Diffendorfer, Roger Compton, Louisa Kramer, Zach Ancona, Donna Norton
Evaluating alternative methods for biophysical and cultural ecosystem services hotspot mapping in natural resource planning Evaluating alternative methods for biophysical and cultural ecosystem services hotspot mapping in natural resource planning
Context Data for biophysically modeled and Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS)-derived cultural ecosystem services have potential to identify natural resource management synergies and conflicts, but have rarely been combined. Ecosystem service hot/coldspots generated using different methods vary in their spatial extent and connectivity, with important implications. Objectives We map...
Authors
Kenneth Bagstad, Darius Semmens, Zachary Ancona, Benson Sherrouse
Social-value maps for Arapaho, Roosevelt, Medicine Bow, Routt, and White River National Forests, Colorado and Wyoming Social-value maps for Arapaho, Roosevelt, Medicine Bow, Routt, and White River National Forests, Colorado and Wyoming
Executive Summary The continued pressures of population growth on the life-sustaining, economic, and cultural ecosystem services provided by our national forests, particularly those located near rapidly growing urban areas, present ongoing challenges to forest managers. Achieving an effective assessment of these ecosystem services includes a proper accounting of the ecological, economic...
Authors
Zachary Ancona, Darius Semmens, Benson Sherrouse
Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States up to March 2014 Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States up to March 2014
Wind energy is a rapidly growing form of renewable energy in the United States. While summary information on the total amounts of installed capacity are available by state, a free, centralized, national, turbine-level, geospatial dataset useful for scientific research, land and resource management, and other uses did not exist. Available in multiple formats and in a web application...
Authors
James E. Diffendorfer, Louisa Kramer, Zachary Ancona, Christopher Garrity
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 15
Data Release for Toward ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in ecosystem service potential and flows Data Release for Toward ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in ecosystem service potential and flows
Ecosystem accounts link national-scale environmental and economic trends, offering an internationally standardized approach to tracking sustainability. We compile ecosystem accounts for Rwanda over a 25-year period, and demonstrate that despite strong economic growth, social development, and high-level commitment to environmental goals, ecosystem services fundamental to Rwanda's well...
Data release for Using social-context matching to improve transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models Data release for Using social-context matching to improve transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models
Spatial planning is becoming an increasingly important component of managing natural resources in the face of growing demands upon and threats to our public lands. Efforts to model and map the goods and services derived from ecosystems provide important information to planning efforts, permitting the analysis of tradeoffs or costs and benefits associated with management alternatives...
Data Release for The sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution Data Release for The sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution
Although ecosystem service (ES) modeling has progressed rapidly in the last 10-15 years, comparative studies on data and model selection effects have become more common only recently. Such studies have drawn mixed conclusions about whether different data and model choices yield divergent results. In this study we apply inter- and intra-model comparisons to address these questions at...
Filter Total Items: 23
A rasterized building footprint dataset for the United States A rasterized building footprint dataset for the United States
Microsoft released a U.S.-wide vector building dataset in 2018. Although the vector building layers provide relatively accurate geometries, their use in large-extent geospatial analysis comes at a high computational cost. We used High-Performance Computing (HPC) to develop an algorithm that calculates six summary values for each cell in a raster representation of each U.S. state...
Authors
Mehdi Pourpeikari Heris, Nathan Foks, Kenneth Bagstad, Austin Troy, Zachary Ancona
Sustaining Environmental Capital Initiative summary report Sustaining Environmental Capital Initiative summary report
Federal agencies need credible scientific information to determine the production and value of ecosystem services in an efficient and timely manner. The U.S. Geological Survey addresses this scientific information need through the Sustaining Environmental Capital Initiative project. The project has relied on U.S. Geological Survey expertise related to water, fisheries, advanced modeling...
Authors
Christopher Huber, James Meldrum, Rudy Schuster, Zachary Ancona, Kenneth Bagstad, Scott Beck, Daren Carlisle, Peter Claggett, Fabiano Franco, Heather Galbraith, Michelle Haefele, Kristin Hoelting, Dianna Hogan, Kristina Hopkins, Tim Kern, Collin Lawrence, Stacy Lischka, John Loomis, Julie Mueller, Gregory Noe, Emily Pindilli, Brian Quay, Darius Semmens, Wilson Sinclair, Daniel Spooner, Brian Voigt, Barabara St. John White
Toward ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in potential supply and flows of ecosystem services Toward ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in potential supply and flows of ecosystem services
1. Rwanda, a small but rapidly developing central African nation, has undertaken development of natural capital accounts to better inform its economic development through the World Bank’s Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES) Partnership. In this paper, we develop ecosystem service (ES) models to quantify the physical supply components of ecosystem accounts in...
Authors
Kenneth Bagstad, Jane Ingram, Glenn-Marie Lange, Michel Masozera, Zachary Ancona, Mediatrice Bana, Desire Kabogo, Bernard Musana, Nsharwasi Nabahungu, Emmanuel Rukundo, Evariste Rutebuka, Stephen Polasky, Denis Rugege, Claudine Uwera
Monarch habitat as a component of multifunctional landscape restoration using continuous riparian buffers Monarch habitat as a component of multifunctional landscape restoration using continuous riparian buffers
Stabilizing the eastern, migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) is expected to require substantial habitat restoration on agricultural land in the core breeding area of the Upper Midwestern U.S. Previous research has considered the potential to utilize marginal land for this purpose because of its low productivity, erodible soils, and high nutrient input...
Authors
Darius Semmens, Zachary Ancona
Using social-context matching to improve spatial function-transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models Using social-context matching to improve spatial function-transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models
Recreational and aesthetic enjoyment of public lands is increasing across a wide range of activities, highlighting the need to assess and adapt management to accommodate these uses. Despite a growing number of studies on mapping cultural ecosystem services, most are local-scale assessments that rely on costly and time-consuming primary data collection. As a result, the availability of...
Authors
Darius Semmens, Benson Sherrouse, Zachary Ancona
The sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution The sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution
Although ecosystem service (ES) modeling has progressed rapidly in the last 10–15 years, comparative studies on data and model selection effects have become more common only recently. Such studies have drawn mixed conclusions about whether different data and model choices yield divergent results. In this study, we compared the results of different models to address these questions at...
Authors
Kenneth Bagstad, Erika Cohen, Zachary Ancona, Steven McNulty, Ge Sun
Analyzing land-use change scenarios for trade-offs among culturalecosystem services in the Southern Rocky Mountains Analyzing land-use change scenarios for trade-offs among culturalecosystem services in the Southern Rocky Mountains
Significant increases in outdoor recreation participants are projected over the next 50 years for national forests across the United States, with even larger increases possible for forests located in the Southern Rocky Mountains. Forest managers will be challenged to balance increasing demand for outdoor recreation with other ecosystem services. Future management needs could be better...
Authors
Benson Sherrouse, Darius Semmens, Zachary Ancona, Nicole Brunner
Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States
This dataset provides industrial-scale onshore wind turbine locations in the United States, corresponding facility information, and turbine technical specifications. The database has wind turbine records that have been collected, digitized, locationally verified, and internally quality controlled. Turbines from the Federal Aviation Administration Digital Obstacles File, through product...
Authors
Jay Diffendorfer, Roger Compton, Louisa Kramer, Zach Ancona, Donna Norton
Evaluating alternative methods for biophysical and cultural ecosystem services hotspot mapping in natural resource planning Evaluating alternative methods for biophysical and cultural ecosystem services hotspot mapping in natural resource planning
Context Data for biophysically modeled and Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS)-derived cultural ecosystem services have potential to identify natural resource management synergies and conflicts, but have rarely been combined. Ecosystem service hot/coldspots generated using different methods vary in their spatial extent and connectivity, with important implications. Objectives We map...
Authors
Kenneth Bagstad, Darius Semmens, Zachary Ancona, Benson Sherrouse
Social-value maps for Arapaho, Roosevelt, Medicine Bow, Routt, and White River National Forests, Colorado and Wyoming Social-value maps for Arapaho, Roosevelt, Medicine Bow, Routt, and White River National Forests, Colorado and Wyoming
Executive Summary The continued pressures of population growth on the life-sustaining, economic, and cultural ecosystem services provided by our national forests, particularly those located near rapidly growing urban areas, present ongoing challenges to forest managers. Achieving an effective assessment of these ecosystem services includes a proper accounting of the ecological, economic...
Authors
Zachary Ancona, Darius Semmens, Benson Sherrouse
Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States up to March 2014 Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States up to March 2014
Wind energy is a rapidly growing form of renewable energy in the United States. While summary information on the total amounts of installed capacity are available by state, a free, centralized, national, turbine-level, geospatial dataset useful for scientific research, land and resource management, and other uses did not exist. Available in multiple formats and in a web application...
Authors
James E. Diffendorfer, Louisa Kramer, Zachary Ancona, Christopher Garrity