Projects

USA

State	Project/TA	Executing Agency	Brief Description
Arizona	Forest Landscape Analysis and Design	USDA; Forest Service	Developed ecosystem framework for planning and designing projects for the West Clear Creek Watershed (190,000 acres), including producing maps and tabular data.
Colorado	Microcomputer Applications in Irrigation Data and Project Management	Colorado State University	Designed and conducted training to develop computer skills of irrigation professionals in irrigation data and project management.
Colorado	Watershed, Soil Conservation, and Planning for Developing Countries Using Microcomputers	Colorado State University	Coordinated and conducted workshops providing basic training in watershed and soil conservation survey, planning, and M&E to technical officers from developing countries, with special focus on microcomputer applications.
Colorado	Remote Sensing, Image Processing, and GIS: Principles and Natural Resources Applications	Hidroelectrica del Rio Lempa (El Salvador)	Provided training on the background, principles, and use of remote sensing and raster-based GIS, including providing hands-on experience using all modules of the ERDAS system.
Colorado	Soil Resource Inventory	USDA; Forest Service	Mapped, classified, and described soils and vegetation within 325,520 acres in the Arapahoe and Roosevelt National Forests
Colorado	Local Area Network	Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources (Egypt)	Conducted professional development workshops on computer network operation and maintenance for Egyptian government officials.
Colorado	Design and Development of Denver Water’s Hydrological Database Management System	Denver Water Department	Designed, built, and integrated the components required for the development of PACSM, a river simulation model. The components included a relational database to store model input and output, a geographic information system (GIS) showing the river network and model nodes, a river simulation model, a graphical user interface (GUI), as well as several data conversion interfaces to move data seamlessly between the model components. The PACSM user can edit the model input data in the database, run the river simulation model with the updated input, and store the river model output data back into the database. The user can then examine graphs of model input and output over time by clicking on model nodes on the river network map in the GIS. All PACSM operations are centralized in the easy-to-use, menu-driven GUI. PACSM contains 45 years of daily hydrological data for each of the 250 model nodes.
Colorado	Conservation Guide on Computer Assisted Watershed Planning and Management	FAO	Prepared FAO Conservation Guide 28/1 – "Computer Assisted Watershed Planning and Management: Technologies for National Planning".
Colorado	Assessment of Benefits and Costs of Pressurized Dual Water Systems in Colorado	Colorado State University; U.S. Bureau of Reclamation	Identified a step-by-step low risk method of entry by traditional agricultural water suppliers into pressurized secondary water supply service for outdoor landscaping use in unincorporated areas. Supervised the project team to establish geo-databases for three irrigation canal companies to assess the potential for providing pressurized raw irrigation water through secondary water systems for landscape use in unincorporated and incorporated areas in Colorado.
Colorado	Improvement in Irrigation Information Management / GAP	Grand Valley Irrigation Company	Assisted the GVIC staff: (1) procuring and installing specific software and hardware for the new system; (2) building a company-wide geo-referenced database via tabular (CIIS-Rimroc) and spatial (Mesa County parcels) data integration; and (3) linking each headgate to the county parcel(s) within the GVIC service area. Trained the GVIC staff to: (1) operate and maintain the system, and (2) utilize the system to make better water management decisions
Michigan	Information Strategy Plan	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	Developed information strategy plan in ecosystem management, landscape planning for biodiverstiy conservation, and forest management.
New Mexico	Project GIS Readiness and Action Plan	USDA; Forest Service	Provided software and hardware alternatives to Forest Service for developing database access and GIS capabilities.
Utah	GIS Training in Forest Management	USDA; Forest Service	Developed materials and conducted training in the use of the GRID component of ArcInfo for building forest resource models.
Utah	ADP (UNIX) Equipment and GIS Software	USDA; Forest Service	Provided UNIX workstations and GIS software for running GIS applications.
Utah	Improvement in Irrigation Information Management / GAP	Strawberry Water Users Association	Assisted the SWUA staff: (1) building an association-wide geo-referenced database via tabular and spatial data integration; (2) implementing a mechanism to automatically compare county parcel layer with the SWUA water parcel layer, and detect and highlight changes; and (3) developing the ability to access information via a single entry point to allow SWUA to gain new insights and make significantly better decisions.
Wyoming	Soil Survey Inventory	USDA; Forest Service	Mapped, classified, and described soils and vegetation within 291,030 acres of the Shoshone National Forest.
Wyoming	Forest Planning Temporal-Spatial Optimization Analysis System Development	USDA; Forest Service	Developed and tested new analysis systems that integrate GIS, GIS-based models, and optimization systems to support forest ecosystem planning and management.