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Chesapeake Online Adaptive Support Toolkit (COAST)
Web-based adaptive management tools for the Chesapeake Bay ....a cooperative effort between the
USGS and EPA Chesapeake Bay Program
  

The COAST Mission:

The Chesapeake Online Adaptive Support Toolkit (COAST) is a decision-support system designed to assist land management and restoration efforts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. COAST uses an adaptive-management framework to provide access to a diverse suite of spatial information, monitoring data, and supporting scientific research to help Federal, State, and local resource managers better target, implement, and assess the effectiveness of their activities.

DOI Adaptive Management
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COAST Toolkit:

restoration mapper smapleCOAST contains a suite of web mapping tools that facilitate decision making. You can access these tools in the Toolkit section of the menu bar.

bulletThe CB Activities Mapper provides a reference of on going projects and planned work in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
bulletThe Watershed Contribution Mapper provides access to the USGS Chesapeake Bay Spatially Referenced Regressions On Watershed (SPARROW) attribtutes models and a suite of other geospatial layers related to watershed restoration.
bulletThe CB Forested Land Management Mapper provides funtionality to weight geospatial data layers and create your own priority areas for land management decision making.
bulletThe Riparian Buffer Mapper is available as a desktop tool for automated riparian buffer delineation and land cover mapping with high resolution imagery (HRI).
bulletThe Water-quality Monitoring Results web form delivers information from the USGS Non Tidal and River Input Monitoring Network programs.






Recent Updates:

bulletNewThe COAST Forested Land Management Mapper is now available.

bulletNewNew USDA Agricultural Statistics data button in the COAST Watershed Mapper

bulletNewDownload user defined subsets of USGS SPARROW data in the COAST Watershed Mapper

bulletCOAST website now contains information relating to the Executive Order.

bulletUpdated State 303d listed watersheds layer in the COAST Nutrient Contribution Mapper. Use the identify tool to link directly to each report from a stream reach in the map.

bulletThe Chesapeake Bay Activities Mapper... The COAST Chesapeake Bay Activities Mapper is starting place to find out where Federal agencies are conducting research in your area. Learn more...

bulletSPARROW Sediment Data now available in the COAST Watershed Mapper

bulletUpdated link to the Riparian Buffer Mapper. Learn more...


Learn More:
Overview of COAST— Version 1.0 Briefing Paper
Executive Order



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