The Climate Smart Restoration Tool (CSRT) was developed to provide information on seed collection and transfer of native plants. The CSRT maps current and future seed transfer limits for plant species with or without genetic information using climate data.
EEMS Online is a web-based mapping and modeling system designed to allow the user to explore, modify, and run models constructed within the Environmental Evaluation Modeling System (EEMS). You can also order a customized version of EEMS Online for your region, topic, and organization that can either be available to the publicly or reserved for private organizational use. Visit California Offshore Wind Energy Modeling Platform for an example.
The Seedlot Selection Tool (SST) is a GIS mapping program designed to help forest managers match seedlots with planting sites based on climatic information. The climates of the planting sites can be chosen to represent current climates, or future climates based on selected climate change scenarios. It covers the entire continental USA, Canada, Alaska, and Mexico. The tool is a result of collaboration between scientists from the U.S. Forest Service, Oregon State University, and developers and communication specialists from the Conservation Biology Institute
The Healthy Soils Program (HSP), which is managed by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), provides financial support to California growers and ranchers to implement conservation management practices on their land that help sequester carbon, reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases, and improve overall soil health. CBI’s web tool was developed to assist Healthy Soils Program applicants to submit funding proposals and help agency staff make awards more efficiently.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) provides financial incentives for the implementation of non-digester manure management practices on dairy and livestock operations in California, which will result in reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This web application primarily provides tools for potential applicants to map out their project site’s current practices and proposed alternative manure management practices which are supported by AMMP. The tool also assesses the proposed project’s estimated GHG reductions (following the AMMP Quantification Methodology and accompanying Benefits Calculator Tool developed by the California Air Resources Board).
The CDFA AMMP Project Planning Tool provides California dairy and livestock operators an opportunity to easily visualize an alternative manure management practice that reduces carbon emissions, using simple ways of mapping proposed operations on the farm. The Tool increases access for potential applicants to create maps describing their current and proposed manure management, thus improving their AMMP grant applications, and our ability to review projects efficiently. The CBI team did an amazing job communicating with us regularly, offering suggestions, and helping put our ideas and the rather complex elements of our grant program together into a really beautiful and user-friendly tool.
Alyssa Louie – Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Food and Agriculture
Helping dairy farmers choose climate-smart manure management systems for potential funding from the California Depart of Food and Agriculture through their Alternate Manure Management Program (AMMP)
The CDFA AMMP Project Planning Tool provides California dairy and livestock operators an opportunity to easily visualize an alternative manure management practice that reduces carbon emissions, using simple ways of mapping proposed operations on the farm. The Tool increases access for potential applicants to create maps describing their current and proposed manure management, thus improving their AMMP grant applications, and our ability to review projects efficiently. The CBI team did an amazing job communicating with us regularly, offering suggestions, and helping put our ideas and the rather complex elements of our grant program together into a really beautiful and user-friendly tool.
Alyssa Louie – Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Food and Agriculture
RePlan is a core component of the California Strategic Growth Council’s (SGC) Integrated Regional Conservation and Development (IRCAD) initiative. This online tool supports the development and implementation of a sustainable and balanced vision for regional conservation and economic development. RePlan integrates the latest environmental, social, and economic data with analytic and reporting tools to allow users to identify optimal locations for implementing California’s conservation, resource management and development objectives. This tool helps to align regional planning and management activities in light of State and regional conservation, development, equity and resilience goals.
The current prototype version of the CRP tool allows USDA staff, land owners, and third-party organizations to view pertinent spatial information and guide decision making in relation to the status of certain CRP farms in 1) Washington state, 2) Kansas and Colorado states, 3) Mississippi state. In this tool, we focus on farm tracts in WA, KS and CO that are under grasslands practices, while for tracts in Mississippi that are under tree-based practices.
The tool showing the modeled occurrence of bare soil and perennial grass in Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas study areas. Such models can assist USDA FSA staff and landowners in assessing the land cover on CRP tracts and take necessary management actions to increase the quality of cover to enhance conservation outcomes.
The tool showing the modeled tree basal area layer for the state of Mississippi. Users can explore the average basal area for any area in the state including CRP tracts
The tool showing users where to expect stable or worsening habitats for breeding game birds with climate change for eastern parts of state of Washington. The layer was modeled using E-Bird and Audubon data. The CRP tool has many useful data layers and information can be filtered, summarized, or compared to guide planning and policy decisions.
The Site Check tool is to accelerate the production of housing by facilitating planning decisions and clarifying where existing streamlining options under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) may apply. It allows users to filter parcels based on specific CEQA provisions or whether the parcels meet certain requirements, like whether they are in an urbanized area, within a certain distance to transit, or covered by a specific plan. Users can also avoid parcels in environmentally sensitive areas like wetlands, natural hazard zones, species habitat, prime agricultural lands, flood plains, etc.
This application enables you to explore bat monitoring data for 34 species across North America, allowing you to explore seasonal trends in species detections and explore bat activity for a particular location. We hope will lead to greater levels of data sharing from the bat community, and in turn, lead to a greater understanding of bats at the continental scale. This application is a companion to the monitoring tool – Bat Acoustic Monitoring Portal (BatAMP). BatAMP provides a central platform where biologists can upload their detection data in order to better understand the distribution, seasonal movement patterns, and population status of bats across North America. These data are then compiled for visualization within this tool.
