Description: The final boundary for the Wisconsin–Lake Michigan National Marine Sanctuary. More information can be found on the Wisconsin - Lake Michigan National Marine Sanctuary webisite: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/wisconsin/
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
Description: Great Lakes Protected Areas were extracted from the Marine Protected Area (MPA) inventory. The MPA Inventory is a comprehensive catalog that provides detailed information for existing marine protected areas in the United States. The inventory provides geospatial boundary information (in polygon format) and classification attributes that seek to define the conservation objectives, protection level, governance and related management criteria for all sites in the database. The comprehensive inventory of federal, state and territorial MPA sites provides governments and stakeholders with access to information to make better decisions about the current and future use of place-based conservation. The information also will be used to inform the development of the national system of marine protected areas as required by Executive Order 13158.The Protected Planet World Database on Protected Areas was also used to collect Canadian data in 2012. The database allows users to search protected areas from around the world including wilderness areas, national parks, and heritage sites. http://www.protectedplanet.net/about
NOAA Marine Protected Areas Center in joint effort with the US Department of the Interior. One additional MPA (Grand Traverse Bay Bottomland Preserve) was added to this file in 2012 at the Institute for Fisheries Research (IFR). In 2012 at IFR, two Canadian MPAs were added to this file from the Protected Planet website. Also in 2012, at IFR, the North Lake Trout Refuge, South Lake Trout Refuge, Drummond Island Refuge, and Six Fathom Lake Trout Refuge were added the file. The Lake Huron Six Fathom Bank Refuge was originally digitized in 2000 by the Lake Huron GIS Project, of the Michigan DNR Roscommon Fisheries Division. The Lake Huron Drummond Island Refuge was digitized in 2000 by Michigan DNR, Fisheries Division.
Copyright Text: NOAA Marine Protected Areas Centers; the Institute for Fisheries Research (IFR); Michigan DNR and Department of Interior
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Description: Location of completed terrestrial mapping surveys with a very high sounding density (1 sounding per meter squared or greater). Mapping surveys with very high sounding densities were acquired with Light Detection and Ranging [LIDAR] and are commonly used to develop high-resolution digital elevation models.
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Description: Location of completed mapping surveys with a very high sounding density (1 sounding per meter squared or greater). Mapping surveys with very high sounding densities were most commonly acquired with newer technologies (i.e. Light Detection and Ranging-LIDAR, multibeam echosounders, interferometric sidescan, etc.), and are commonly used to develop high-resolution seamless digital elevation models.
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Description: Location of completed mapping surveys with low to moderate sounding densities (less than 1 sounding per meter squared, but most surveys in this category are 1 sounding per kilometer squared). Mapping surveys with low to moderate sounding densities were typically acquired with leadlines and single beam echosounders, and are commonly used to develop coarse resolution digital elevation models and nautical charts in non-hazard areas.
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Description: Location of completed sidescan surveys. Sidescan echosounders are commonly used to map shipwrecks, other objects on the lakebed, substrates and habitats.
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Description: Location of photos and videos collected for calibrating remote-sensing data, and aid in the interpretation and analysis of what is being sensed.
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Description: Location of completed lakebed color mapping surveys. Lakebed color is commonly acquired from satellites (i.e. Landsat) or aerial photographs, and is used to map algae and benthic habitats.
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Description: Footprints of completed lakebed surveys categorized by time period of mapping data collection. Time periods are seperated by general timing of signficant improvements to sensor quality and accuracy of positioning systems.
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Description: Data was compiled by many sources over years ranging from 1968-present. The majority of sources are published journal articles with maps that were heads-up digitized. The shoreline material was extended from the shoreline to the nearshore areas (0 - 30 m of depth). The shoreline material information is from the the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (2012) and the shoreline classification from Environment Canada Environmental Sensitivity Atlas (1990s). The Euclidean Allocation Tool, part of the Spatial Analyst Extension, was used to extend the shoreline material line feature class values into the nearshore and missing data areas.
Data accessed through GLAHF, http://glahf.org/
Copyright Text: Powers and Robertson (1968), that essentially corroborated two earlier surveys by Hough (1935) and Ayers and Hough (1963-64), was used. 8) Bertrand, G., J. Lang, J. Ross. 1976. The Green Bay Watershed Past/Present/Future. Technical Report No. 229, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Program, Madison, WI. 300 p. Moore, J.R. and R.P. Meyer. 1969. Progress report on the geological-geophysical survey of Green Bay, 1968. Technical Report No. 1, Universityof Wisconsin Sea grant Program, Madison, WI. 16 p.; the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project
Description: The Great Lakes shoreline classification composite dataset is a composite of the environmental sensitivity atlas (ESA) from Environment Canada (EC) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) shoreline descriptors. The ESA data ranges in dates from 1987 through the late 1990s, and the ACOE shoreline descriptions are from the 2012 oblique imagery interpretation. The full shoreline class descriptions were reviewed for both datasets and harmonized into 6 common classes, which were further simplified into 3 classes for aquatic habitat classification purposes.
Data accessed through GLAHF, http://glahf.org/
Copyright Text: Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project
Description: The Great Lakes shoreline classification composite dataset is a composite of the environmental sensitivity atlas (ESA) from Environment Canada (EC) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) shoreline descriptors. The ESA data ranges in dates from 1987 through the late 1990s, and the ACOE shoreline descriptions are from the 2012 oblique imagery interpretation. The full shoreline class descriptions were reviewed for both datasets and harmonized into 6 common classes, which were further simplified into 3 classes for aquatic habitat classification purposes.
Data accessed through GLAHF, http://glahf.org/
Copyright Text: Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project
Description: This data set comprises the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) maps
for the shoreline of Western Lake Michigan. ESI data characterize
coastal environments and wildlife by their sensitivity to spilled oil. The
ESI data include information for three main components: shoreline
habitats; sensitive biological resources; and human-use resources
Copyright Text: NOAA/Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment
Description: This data set comprises the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) maps
for the shoreline of Western Lake Michigan. ESI data characterize
coastal environments and wildlife by their sensitivity to spilled oil. The
ESI data include information for three main components: shoreline
habitats; sensitive biological resources; and human-use resources
Copyright Text: NOAA/Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment
Description: Drainage network for watersheds adjacent to the proposed Wisconsin - Lake Michigan National Marine Sanctuary. This drainage network was derived from an analysis of flow accumulation, and is part of the Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset Version 1 and was developed as as a part of the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project. Data accessed through GLAHF, http://glahf.org/
Data downloaded from the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project; http://glahf.org/. Clipped to HUCs 04040003,04040002 and 04040001.
Copyright Text: Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework project
Description: Watersheds delineated by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The data are compiled from 1:24,000-scale topographic maps. DNR watershed delineations generally indicate areas that drain into a common river system or lake, but may also be based on DNR basin management criteria. The custodian of this data set is the DNR Bureau of Watershed Management (WT).
Data downloaded from: http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/watersheds/
Copyright Text: Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources
Description: The binational inventory provides a standard reference for the Great Lakes wetland community. The inventory consists of wetland polygons and points, along with extensive attribute data, compiled from the best existing data sets throughout the basin. All the data have been standardized and the polygons have been stitched together into one seamless GIS coverage. Downloaded from: https://greatlakesinform.org/data-catalog/item/1447
Description: Upwelling is the occurrence of cooler bottom water rising to the surface as warm water is pushed offshore during high winds. This is an important phenomena in the coastal areas of the Great Lakes, which introduces cooler, nutrient rich water to the surface. Using methods established by Plattner, et al. (2006) GLAHF developed an annual index of the number of days upwelling has occurred each year at a fine spatial scale across the Great Lakes for the years 1995-2013. This layer shows the average index between 2004 and 2013 the last 10 years of the series. Data accessed through GLAHF, http://glahf.org/
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science; the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project
Description: This data set describes fish spawning and nursery sites in the Great Lakes. It is derived primarily from the Goodyear Spawning Atlas (Goodyear et al., 1982). However, in order to present a more up-to-date view of fish spawning activity, additional information was incorporated in 2011 from several more recent studies, so that some locations have been added, and others have been removed, as compared with the original Goodyear Spawning Atlas. This process was completed for twelve species of interest only: alewife, bloater, burbot, emerald shiner, lake herring, lake trout, lake whitefish, rainbow smelt, slimy sculpin, smallmouth bass, walleye, and yellow perch. Goodyear Atlas points for other species were not included in this GIS file. Please note that these GIS points are accurate, at best, to one arcminute, and many locations are approximate; consult the Goodyear Spawning Atlas for more information on any given point.The fish spawning data update process was performed by Aimee Hoover and Nikki Rose Cosmo under the guidance of Dr. Ed Rutherford.
Copyright Text: University of Michigan and Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Description: Species occurrence data were obtained from the Atlas of Spawning and Nursery Areas of Great Lakes Fishes (Goodyear et al. 1982). The atlas contains information on all of the commercially and recreationally important species that use the tributaries, littoral and open-water areas of the Great Lakes as spawning and nursery habitats. Close to 9500 geo-referenced data records (occurrences of fish species) were imported into ArcView GIS.
The 139 fish taxa reported in the Atlas had to be grouped into fewer broad categories to produce meaningful distribution maps. We chose three functional classification schemes.Jude and Pappas (1992) used Correspondence Analysis to partition fish species associated with the open water of each of the five Great Lakes and nine coastal wetlands. Three species complexes were suggested: a Great
Lakes taxocene; a transitional taxocene, which utilized open water,
near-shore, and wetlands; and a wetland taxocene. We chose this as
one of the classification schemes because we are particularly interested in identifying the distribution pattern of fish with coastal wetlands; for clarity sake, we have renamed these taxocenes coastal, intermediate
and open-water, respectively. For comparison, we also used Coker et al.s (2001) classification based on temperature preferenda (5 classes) and Balons (1975) reproductive guild classification (32 guilds).
This dataset was uploaded to Data Basin and is available with additional information at: http://app.databasin.org/app/pages/datasetPage.jsp?id=4b84f46fc5014788aa112860ddf54d09
Description: Known reef point locations were compiled from various data sources including the U.S. Geographic Naming Information System (GNIS), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Lake Huron known reef locations (also in Environment Canada's Environmental Sensitivity Index), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, U.S. Geological Survey norrthern Lake Michigan LiDAR collection, and published manuscripts from Edsall and Jude.
Data accessed through GLAHF, http://glahf.org/
Copyright Text: The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project
Description: Layer shows the boundaries of the fish spawning grounds for Lake Herring, lake Trout and Yellow Perch for the area of interest in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan. Fish spawning areas were digitized from a UW Sea Grant report titled" Fish Spawning Grounds in Wisconsin Waters of the Great Lakes". The report summarizes results of a study to locate as many of the known spawning grounds in Wisconsin waters as possible through interviews with Wisconsin's commercial fishermen.
Copyright Text: NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science; Wisconsin Sea Grant
Description: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) has a water quality monitoring program in the offshore waters (water greater than 30 meters in depth or greater than 3 miles from shore) of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Samples are taken from set stations in each lake twice a year, once in the spring and once in the summer. Samples have been collected from some stations since the 1980s.To supplement the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) summarized GLNPO water chemistry, zooplankton, benthos, and fish data.Original data source is the Great Lakes National Program Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Data compiled and summarized by the GLAHF project has been funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust and led by Dr. Catherine Riseng, PI at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, with partners from Michigan Department of Natural Resources-Institute for Fisheries Research, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, International Joint Commission, Michigan State University, The Nature Conservancy, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota-Duluth, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey and many collaborating partners in both the USA and Canada. More information about this project can be found at http://glahf.org/.
Description: Locations of the water quality sampling sites from different institutions in the Milwaukee region.
Source WATERBase University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Freshwater Sciences
http://www.waterbase.glwi.uwm.edu/
Copyright Text: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Freshwater Sciences