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Tuesday 18 October 2005: Session 2, 9:30:00 AM
Chesapeake Bay Riparian Buffer Inventory and Analysis: Focus on Pennsylvania.
Presentation Abstract
Maintaining healthy forests and wetlands in riparian zones greatly benefits the ecological health of water features. The Chesapeake Bay Program office funded a project to inventory and analyze the riparian land cover conditions utilizing a geographic information systems approach and currently available data sources. The inventory shows great variability in the riparian land cover conditions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This talk will focus on the results for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The inventory is being analyzed further to discern patterns of land cover fragmentation and other land cover trends. Both the Chesapeake Bay Program Office and Pennsylvania will use the results to identify and prioritize watersheds for activities to improve riparian buffer conditions.
Speaker Biographical Information
Rick Day Director, Associate Professor: RGIS Penn State - Geospatial Technology Program, Land Analysis Lab
Dr. Day is an Associate Professor of Soil Science and Environmental Information Systems in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State University. His current position is divided among cooperative extension, resident education, and research. He serves as Director of the Land Analysis Laboratory, Director of the Cooperative Extension Geospatial Technology Program, and Director of the Penn State – Chesapeake site of the National Consortium for Rural Geospatial Innovations (RuralGIS). Dr. Day has over 24 years of experience in geospatial sciences. Dr. Day’s extension activities focus on technology transfer of geospatial information system technologies to users throughout Pennsylvania and the surrounding region for use in environmental assessment, agriculture, K-12 education, local government, and land use planning and management. Dr. Day’s research interests include (1) the development of new applications of advanced geospatial technologies in natural resource, agricultural, and environmental studies, and (2) field soil science emphasizing soil physical properties and processes. Basic research interests have been in spatial data analysis, soil morphology, soil hydrologic processes, watershed hydrology, and nutrient and sediment transport modeling. Applied research is focused on the application of advanced information system technologies such as geographic information systems, remote sensing, terrain analysis, global positioning systems and computer modeling, to environmental assessment and management.
Raymond Crew GIS Research Associate: RGIS Penn State - Geospatial Technology Program, Land Analysis Lab
Raymond is a GIS Research Associate that has been with the Land Analysis Lab for six years. He undertakes a variety of research projects, extension training, and computer support and administration. Ray is a member of the Chesapeake Bay Program Forestry Workgroup. Ray is a 1993 graduate of Penn State University with a B.S. in Earth Science and is currently pursing a M.S. in soil Science.
