New map explorer for research and analysis of non-indigenous species in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Session: Poster session

Felix Martinez, NOAA/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, [email protected]
Joeseph Smith, Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, [email protected]
Rochelle Sturtevant, GLERL/NOAA, Sea Grant Extension, [email protected]

Abstract

In 2017, the team behind the Great Lakes Aquatic Non-indigenous Species Information System (GLANSIS) renovated their website, and also added a new web application called the Map Explorer. This new interface allows users to display known non-indigenous, invasive species' distributions across an interactive map. This poster will highlight the web application's features, which include the ability to display the spatial distributions of up to three non-indigenous species (via the United States Geological Survey's Non-indigenous Aquatic Species, or USGS-NAS database), overlay species data on top of map layers from the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF), and copy comma and tab delimited data to a local file for other analyses to be performed.

1. Keyword
Great Lakes basin

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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI)

3. Keyword
invasive species

4. Additional Keyword
non-indigenous species

5. Additional Keyword
map

6. Additional Keyword
interactive web application