Wisconsin Objectives for 2002-03

There are three primary objectives to be undertaken in the coming year 1) Development of a GIS 2) Development of the biological database and preliminary analysis 3) Develop, conduct, and participate in outreach activities.

1. GIS development will include:

• Review literature and publications
• Acquire GIS spatial data layers, AMLs, and other processing tools
• Investigate the use of ecoregions to define Ecological Drainage Units
• Complete delineation of draft Valley Segment classification
• Identify and test conflation methods for transferring Valley Segment attributes between 1:24000 and 1:100000 hydrography layers.

2. Biological Database development will include:

• Determine and develop database structure
• Develop a list of sources of fish (main focus), benthic invertebrate, and freshwater mussel data
• Acquire fish data and enter into database
• Review literature related to a habitat suitability index for fish and other target taxa
• Data analysis will include a pilot effort to link the fish data to valley segments

3. Outreach will include:

• Develop a Wisconsin Aquatic Gap Web page
• Conduct technical subgroup and stakeholders meetings
• Conduct meetings with other Great Lakes Aquatic Gap projects to coordinate efforts
• Establish a multi-institutional approach toward development of a Statewide Aquatic Gap project

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