Welcome to the GIS & Remote Sensing Division of the Conservation Management Institute.  Our group provides assistance to natural resource agencies interested in vegetation mapping, GIS building and applications, as well as field support and other information gathering activities.


 

Projects

Personnel

Publications

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Projects

     Vegetation Mapping

Virginia Gap Analysis Project

NPS Vegetation Mapping Project - Fire Island National Seashore

US Fish and Wildlife Service Vegetation Mapping Projects

     Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge

     Presquile National Wildlife Refuge

     James River National Wildlife Refuge

     Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge

GIS and Vegetation Mapping for the Appalachian Cooperative Grouse Project

Vegetation Mapping at Brookhaven National Labs

UrBIN Gap Analysis Project

 

     Species Inventory and Modeling

Virginia Gap Analysis Project

Upper Tennessee Aquatic Gap Analysis Project

Region 5 Grassland Bird Project

Virginia Elk Reintroduction Feasibility Study

Landscape-scale Evaluation of Northern Bobwhite Habitat in Virginia

Species Inventory at Fort A.P. Hill (Virginia)

Tick Threat Assessment Mapping at Fort Pickett (Virginia)

Aerial Census for Horseshoe Crabs

Species Surveys at Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson

Effects Of Habitat Fragmentation On Grassland Bird And Predator Communities

     Internet Mapping

USGS National Landscape Pattern Database

US Fish and Wildlife Service Colonial Water bird Survey

 

     Decision Support and Data Retrieval Systems

US Fish and Wildlife Service Eastern Virginia Rivers National Wildlife Refuge Complex

US Forest Service George Washington-Jefferson National Forest Planning Level Survey Database

US Fish and Wildlife Service Permit Review System (Abingdon Office)

US Fish and Wildlife Service Permit Review System (Gloucester Office)

A Decision Support System for Identifying and Prioritizing Conservation Risks and Opportunities with Gap Analysis and Socioeconomics

USFS George Washington & Jefferson National Forest Aquatic Database Project

NPS GIS and Database Support to the Appalachian Highlands Network

     Outreach and Education

Intro to GIS course

Intro to Vegetation Mapping Course

New Technologies in Fisheries and Wildlife 

The Gap Analysis Program: A Course For Natural Resource Professionals

 

Personnel

Scott Klopfer, Division Coordinator

Laura Roghair, Research Associate

Ken Convery, Research Assistant

Allison Williams, Graduate Research Associate

Eric Wolf, Research Assistant

Publications     

    2002

Final Report: Vegetation Mapping at Brookhaven National Labs ~ S. Klopfer and V. Emrick (CMI-GRS-02-01)

Final Report of the NPS Vegetation Mapping Project at Fire Island National Seashore ~ S. Klopfer et al.  (CMI-GRS-02-03)

Final Report: Pilot Study of Bird Populations in Grassland Habitats of Southwest Virginia ~ S. Klopfer and S. Lee (CMI-GRS-02-05)

    2003

Final Report: Land Cover Characterization and Change in the Hunting Creek Pilot Watershed for the Period 1973-1991~ S. Klopfer and D. Lee (CMI-GRS-03-01)

A Gap Analysis of the UrBIN Pilot Project Watershed ~ K. Convery, S. Klopfer and L. Roghair  (CMI-GRS-03-01)

 

 

 

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