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California Coastal Redwoods

Models predict range shifts and contraction of Coastal Redwood distribution. Read more.

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The Climate Center

The Data Basin Climate Center centralizes critical climate change datasets and findings. Users can visualize, analyze, and communicate about vulnerabilities, trends or predicted future scenarios at local and regional scales.

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Boreal Information Centre

The Boreal Information Centre contains high-quality geospatial datasets and information to aide in land-use, conservation planning, and managment of the North American boreal forest biome.

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Sharing, Interpreting and Visualizing

One of the most pervasive barriers to conservation effectiveness has always been the lack of capacity in our community for easily sharing, interpreting, and visualizing complex ecological information, and our stories have suffered for it. In subsidizing the development of Data Basin™, our primary goal was to help Wilburforce grantees share their data easily and more effectively – to provide the latest technology and help foster more of those aha! moments when maps overlay to illustrate and...

Minnesota Climate Change Project

On April 21st, CBI and The Nature Conservancy hosted a meeting in Duluth, MN to discuss climate change in northeastern MN and to begin developing scenarios that could be used with a forest simulation model to estimate the effects of climate change on the extensive forests of northeastern MN.

Our objective at the meeting was to formulate 2-4 scenarios that can reduce uncertainty regarding the effects of climate change on northeastern Minnesota forests. The model inputs and...

Joel Clement

Joel Clement, Program Officer for the Conservation Science Program, is an ecologist with a background in biodiversity studies and environmental policy. Prior to coming to the Foundation, Joel was an independent consultant and contributed to research and conservation programs in Alaska, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominica, Madagascar, and the Pacific Northwest. He has received support from the National Geographic Society for biodiversity field research in Chile and was featured in National Geographic Magazine for his field...

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Bridging Conservation Science and Practice

Data Basin is an online system that connects users with spatial datasets, tools, and a network of scientists and practitioners.

You can explore and download a vast library of datasets, connect to external data sources, upload and publish your own datasets, connect to experts, create working groups, and produce customized maps that can be easily shared. Click on Join Now to set up your free Data Basin user account.

Datasets: Data Basin contains well-documented, spatially-explicit biological, physical, socioeconomic datasets, and imagery that can be downloaded or visualized in Data Basin. Browse Datasets.

Maps: Data Basin provides easy-to-use mapping tools that allow you to customize your own maps. After creating a map, you can keep it private, share it with a group, or publish for everyone to see. Browse maps.

Projects: Users can publish collections of datasets, maps, and reports as projects (including studies, atlases, and books) that others can easily find and use. Browse projects.

People: A searchable directory of Data Basin user profiles facilitates building new connections within the community. Find collaborators to help solve conservation problems. Browse people.

Groups: User-defined groups make it easy to collaborate around specific issues. You can share, analyze, and discuss datasets and maps. Data Basin allows for private (closed) groups and participation by request. Browse groups.

Tools: Data Basin provides highly-focused map-based analytical tools that can be used to address specific conservation topics, including risk assessment, ecosystem monitoring, and climate change adaptation.

Data Basin makes is easy to browse or search for datasets, maps, people, groups, and projects. Find datasets to add to a map, find experts on key topics, find groups to collaborate with, and more. Click on Join Now to set up your free user account.

Online data publication will boost the dataset providers’ recognition. Publishing datasets online is less expensive and it exposes the author’s work to a far wider audience. Data Basin provides clear standards and a mechanism for publishing your data.

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Maps

Sudden Oak Death Areas in California
Coastal Development and Overfishing Threats to Reefs of SE Asia
Gifford Pinchot National Forest Road Removal Priorities

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Datasets

Heart of the West Wildlands Network Design, Wild Utah Project
Reefs at Risk Threat Index in the Wider Caribbean, World Resources Institute
Protected Areas within the Heart of Borneo, World Wildlife Fund

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Projects

Marten (Martes Americana) Population Dynamics in Northern Appalachians
Minnesota Climate Change Impacts
TNC Atlas of Global Conservation

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People

Emily Platt, Gifford Pinchot National Forest Task Force
Carlos Carroll, Klamath Center for Conservation
Healy Hamilton, California Academy of Sciences

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Tools

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Groups

PANGAS - Gulf of California Fisheries Management
Forest Conservation Scenarios
Tri-national Marine Priorities for the Gulf of Mexico

Data Basin was just contacted by an excited user in Indonesia who can use the WWF's Heart of Borneo datasets.
The Wild Utah Project has been one of the primary partners in developing the Heart of the West Wildlands Network Design.
The tri-national Gulf of Mexico marine priority group is using Data Basin’s group functionality to share and publish data.
Gifford Pinchot Task Force has uploaded their datasets to show priority areas for road removal in the National Forest.

Spotlight:

Emily Platt is the executive director of the Gifford Pinchot Task Force (GPTF), working to protect and restore the ecosystems of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

As someone who has never previously used GIS mapping software, Emily now has the ability to interact directly with the data and share information in more dynamic and compelling way. One way Emily and the GPTF are using Data Basin is to map roads that are priorities for removal, or in some cases closure.

Visualize the Gifford Pinchot Task Force datasets:

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Data Basin is made possible by the generous support of the Wilburforce Foundation, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), The Kresge Foundation, individual donors, and others.