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Current GIS Lab Projects
GIS lab and staff played a crucial role in the projects listed. This is not a comprehensive list. Please contact Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator fulfrost@ucsc.edu, for more information.
Faculty / Lab Research Projects
2001 – Present UC Atlas of Inequality (see http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu). The GIS lab hosts the Atlas web site and Brian Fulfrost, UCSC GIS Coordinator, provides GIS and mapping support for the project, as well as, database and ArcIMS design and development. The Atlas is available to anyone with an internet connection all over the world, not just the UC system. The Atlas is an online teaching resource mapping global inequalities and how they are changing as the world is becoming more integrated. Innovations of the Atlas that Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, either provided guidance or technical assistance for, include: web enabled maps produced in Arcview 3.2; showing changing global patterns of inequality over time; an interactive mySQL database incorporating data from several international agencies; on-demand mapping of variables in the database using ArcIMS; and printable maps. Other innovations include: animated guides to reading graphs, using the Atlas, getting data; teaching activities using the Atlas; summaries of key debates and links to other literature; a glossary and bibliography.
2001 – Present California Sea Otter Census GIS. Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, developed a GIS interface in Arcview 3.2 that allows wildlife managers and researchers to input and geographical visualize and query ground and aerial census data in one easy to use and consistent format. The GIS interface was developed for USGS group headed up by Jim Estes at Long Marine Lab at UCSC. Planned research includes using GIS to spatially analyzing the census data in relationship to other environmental variable including kelp beds, subsurface habitat, and outflows from terrestrial sources.
2003 - Present Mapping for Conservation: Ailinginae Atoll, RMI A proposed World Heritage Site. Building on biodiversity field surveys and the analysis of Quickbird Multispectral imagery conducted by Daria Siciliano, Karen Joyce and Jim Maragos, Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, utilized GIS to perform spatial analyses to identify and visualize biodiversity hotspots. Brian utilized Kriging to interpolate surfaces of biodiversity, created 3D bathymetric surfaces and draped the biodiversity surfaces on top, and finally plotted cross taxa biodiversity field sites onto the classified satellite imagery.
2001 – Present Mapping SFBBO Banding Data at Coyote Creek. Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, is working with the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory’s (SFBBO) landbird biologist, Gina Barton, they took almost 20 years of bird banding data and linked it to mist nets and bird point count locations to help visualize demographic and environmental associations. Significant amounts of vector editing, data management and GPS field checks were necessary before the GIS could be utilized. Most of this preprocessing and GIS development was accomplished with the help of undergraduate interns. In addition, Brian also serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the SFBBO.
2002 – Present UCSC Natural Reserve GIS and Fort Ord Mapping of Endangered Plants. Brain Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, has provided both project planning and technical guidance to the UCSC Natural Reserve staff in the development of a GIS for research and planning. In 1998, UCSC completed a comprehensive survey of sandgilia on the Fort Ord Natural Reserve. Field maps were digitized in ArcInfo workstation based on a digitizing methodology I helped to create. Subsequent surveys will be overlaid on these coverages so spatial density and distribution can be analyzed over time.
2002 – Present Spatial Patterns of Beetle Herbivory
and Trophic Cascades in La Selva
Biological Station,
2002 – Present From Wind to Whales: Using an Integrated Ocean Observation System to Understand California’s Upwelling Ecosystem. Serving as GIS technical advisor to the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies. ArcIMS technologies will be use to provide interactive (i.e. user driven) access to satellite imagery, buoy data and a host of near real-time datasets, all overlaid in one map and available via the Internet. CIMT is incorporating the GIS lab into its 2004-2005 proposal and budget to NOAA.
2002 – Present Perennial Habitat for Conservation Biological Control in Annual Cropping Systems: An Investigation at Two Spatial Scales. Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, is collaborating on research that is being directed by Dr. Carol Shennan and Dr. Deborah Letorneau. Brian is assisting in project planning as it pertains to the use of GIS and the interpretation of color infrared, true color and black and white aerial orthophotos for the purposes of vegetation classifications. Once all the data has been collected and interpreted, Brian will also assist in the development of density, point pattern and proximity surfaces for analyzing spatial patterns and associations related to insect habitat surrounding organic farms.
2003 - Present Using GIS to Identify and Rank Potentiality of Septic Tank Locations as Sources for Pathogens in the San Lorenzo River Watershed. Research is being conducted using a range of vector overlay analyses, raster processing, cost/path analyses and hydrologic models for identifying the source of pathogens from septic tanks in the San Lorenzo River watershed. Brian Fulfrost’s design of the GIS Potentiality Model and development of a GIS Needs Assessment for the project is currently being implemented with the help of an Environmental Studies undergraduate senior. Investigations and research are also being conducted with the assistance and approval of the County of Santa Cruz and with the expertise of water quality specialist Dr. Marc Los Huertos. USDA grant application planned for January 2004.
2003 – Present Developing a Community GIS for
Mapping the Landscape of the Chixoy Dam in
2003 Coastal Watershed Council Snapshot Day GIS. In Spring 2003, Brian Fulfrost’s GIS class assisted in a state- wide water quality sampling event, sponsored by the Coastal Watershed Council. With the assistance of a senior thesis students, Rachel Toring, they designed, developed and implemented a GIS to manage, visualize and analyze these water quality data. Extensive time was spent on building a basemap, QA/QC of locational and attribute data, linking station points to lab and field results and building maps for the Snapshot Day report that was given to the State Water Quality Control Board.
2002 – 2003 Using GIS for Mapping Coastal Hazards. Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, used GIS for building a basemap of the entire coast of California and for creating dynamically segmented lines representing the coast. Events for the segmented line were acquired from various experts for three distinct types of coastal hazards. Published in The Changing Coast of California by Griggs, G.B, Patsch, K.B., Savoy, L. Maps created by Kiki Patsch and Brian Fulfrost with the assistance of Arwen Edsall. Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, California (In Review).
2002 – 2003 Meta-analysis to Assess Status and Guide Effort for Conservation Targets: Endemic Oak Regeneration in California. Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, oversaw development of GIS for analyzing spatial patterns and associations between the locations of blue oaks and other environmental variable in an effort to understand blue oak regeneration. Included merging of elevation grids, plotting of field sites included in meta-analysis, incorporating precipitation datasets and vector and raster processing.
2000 Planning for Expansion: Using GIS to Assist in Modeling Potential Hydraulic Loads from Urban Growth, County Sanitation District (CSD1), Sacramento, CA. Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, is working with the lead engineer and principal investigator, Gisa Ju, they have developed a model in ArcInfo of the wastewater infrastructure in CSD1. Once the model was developed, they built hydraulic sewer sheds and load points using the model and built a land use database in ArcInfo of potential loads based on a variety of land use reports and general plans, and specific development plans. Once the GIS was complete it was output to a hydraulic modeling package and results were visualized back in the GIS. Project was under contract with the County of Sacramento to plan for necessary wastewater infrastructure.
2000 Using GIS to Identify Sites for Aquifer Recharge in San Joaquin County, CA. Working with the lead hydrogeologist, Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, took groundwater data available from the California Department of Water Resources and interpolated groundwater (depth to water) surface maps using Kriging and IDW. These surfaces were overlaid on reclassified soil maps, that were based on permeability, to serve as a guide for identifying optimal locations for recharging the counties aquifer.
Sara G. Bothwell - Do complex landscapes affect biological control of pest insects on organic vegetable farms? (2003)
Annual cropping systems experience much higher levels of disturbance than do disturbance-prone natural systems or perennial cropping systems. One result of this disturbance regime is that habitat requirements for natural enemies of pest insects may not be met at the field, farm, or landscape level. My research asks whether landscapes surrounding organic vegetable farms support a greater diversity of natural enemies when those landscape contain substantial natural vegetation features (complex landscapes), and also whether farms in complex landscapes experience higher rates of pest control. With the assistance of Brian Fulfost, I am using GIS to locate organic vegetable farms across Santa Cruz and Monterey counties and to quantify the complexity of the landscapes in which they are situated through vegetation classification of aerial photos. This work, paired with insect collections and field experiments, will help inform central coast farmers regarding landscape management.
Kimberly S. Heinemeyer - Translating individual movements into population patterns : American marten in fragmented forested landscapes (2002)
Matthew J. Kauffman - The influence of host and spatial heterogeneity on the spread of a nonnative pathogen (2003)
Liba Pejchar - Home range size varies with habitat in a Hawaiian honeycreeper: Implications for native koa forestry (2004)
Jacob Pollock - Conservation and Restoration Issues and Ecological Modeling as a means to address them.
Angela L. Shelton - Variability of defensive chemicals in plants and their effects on herbivore behavior (2002)
Chris Wilcox - Conservation of endangered systems : using modeling and empirical investigations to assess the dynamics of endangered species and their threats (2002)
Emily Dubin - Using GIS to Quantify the realtionship between human development and riparian ecosystems. (2004)
Arwen Edsall - Using GIS for Mapping Coastal Hazards.
Arwen Edsall assisted Kiki Patsch and Brian Fulfrost by creating maps for this project. Brian Fulfrost, GIS Lab Coordinator, used GIS for building a basemap of the entire coast of California and for creating dynamically segmented lines representing the coast. Events for the segmented line were acquired from various experts for three distinct types of coastal hazards. Published in The Changing Coast of California by Griggs, G.B, Patsch, K.B., Savoy, L. Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, California (In Review). (2002-2003)
Merrill A. Kruger - Sustainable Community Growth: Institutions and Ecology. Evaluating for Optimal Health of Interdependent Systems.
The goal of this project is to inventory the campus forest population, and research the degree to which campus infrastructure impacts soil, tree health, safety, community structure, and consequently global environmental quality. Information gleaned from analysis shall equip communities with superior tools for establishing values of existing trees; reflecting actual costs that are courteous of previously perceived externalities and facilitating a shared common standard descriptive language. The inventory library serves as a foundation for improved research into accurate predictions of the amends of future growth; maximizing beneficial tree maintenance operations and profitable in situ preservation. (2003) Species Distribution Map
Marabeth Madsen - Carex sp. riparian vegetation mapping and hydropower
test flow inundation study: GIS comparison of HyMap hyperspectral remote
sensing and traditional field mapping on the Pit River, Northern California.
Using ENVI 3.6 spectral analysis software on 3 m HyMap hyperspectral data of the Pit River in Northern California, Carex sp. (sedges) were mapped in the riparian corridor of a 1 km study site as a proxy for remote sensing’s habitat mapping potential. Classification polygons were clipped with two-dimensional breaklines of the river’s edge in ArcInfo 8.3 to determine the location and extent of existing Carex sp. communities inundated at each of PG&E’s five test flows compared to the current regulated bypass reach baseflow.(2003) Final Map
Ethan Mora - Using GIS to map the areas of Methamphetamine use in California with respect to hospital admitance over the past years. (2004)