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West Virginia NHD Stewardship. Evan Fedorko May 2013. Kanawha Falls, WV; aka NHD Area Rapids #74532907. Stewardship in WV. USGS NHD Stewardship. WV Office of GIS Coordination. WV NHD Steward. Natural Resource Analysis Center. WV GIS Technical Center. Technical Partner. Technical Lead.
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West Virginia NHD Stewardship Evan Fedorko May 2013 Kanawha Falls, WV; aka NHD Area Rapids #74532907
Stewardship in WV USGS NHD Stewardship WV Office of GIS Coordination WV NHD Steward Natural Resource Analysis Center WV GIS Technical Center Technical Partner Technical Lead Evan Fedorko Jackie Strager WVDEP Office of Water Resc.; USFS; etc. Contributors
Stewardship Goals • Increase NHD adoption • Geometric correction and editing • Coal fields • Urban development • General NHD edits • Name errors, network errors, etc. • Inclusion of new features • Lakes/ponds • Limestone features such as sinks
Recent Highlights • Conference workshop • Introduced advanced NHD tools and products such as HEM, NHD Plus, Stream Stats, etc. • http://nhd.usgs.gov/tools.html
Highlights, Cont. • Development of mine impacted streams dataset
Highlights, Cont. • Editing, non-mining • Two watersheds completed ~2010 • Utilized catalog of errors from WVDEP along with other submissions
Highlights, Cont. • Editing, mining • Mine effected features dataset crucial to this work
Looking Forward • WV NHD Stewardship is: THANKS! Questions? Evan Fedorko WV GIS Technical Center 304.293.0557 evan.fedorko@mail.wvu.edu Photo credit: National Geographic