Wednesday, June 6, 2007 - 2:30 PM
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Interactive web-based data visualization for discovery and decision-making: LakeSuperiorStreams.org

Richard Axler1, George Host1, Norm Will1, Cynthia Hagley2, Jesse Schomberg2, Marnie Lonsdale3, and Lucinda Johnson1. (1) Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota, 5013 Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth, MN 55811, (2) MN Sea Grant, University of Minnesota, 2305 E. 5th Street, Duluth, MN 55812, (3) Stormwater Utility, City of Duluth, 520 Garfield Ave, Duluth, MN 55802

Urbanization and rural development are placing pressure on western Lake Superior streams and nearshore zones. www.LakeSuperiorStreams.org (LSS), initiated via EPA-STAR (EMPACT) funding, uses web-based delivery and interactive animations of real-time water quality data to address sustainability issues in Minnesota watersheds at the headwaters of the Great Lakes. The website delivers intensive real-time values of flow, temperature, turbidity and conductivity in conventional formats and via a unique data animation tool from five urban and rural trout streams tributary to Lake Superior. It integrates these and other data with interpretive information, curricula, case studies and a site design toolkit to educate a wide spectrum of users including the general public, homeowners, contractors, engineers, developers, students, teachers, local officials, and natural resource agency managers and professionals. A Regional Stormwater Protection Team of >25 partner organizations now delivers common educational messages and provides tools and training with the LSS website as a common educational hub. The project evolved from its predecessor real-time lake data based projects www.WaterontheWeb.org and www.LakeAccess.org and recently created animation and mapping utilities for displaying Lake Superior Beach Monitoring fecals/E. coli data via www.MNbeaches.org. The LSS website now averages ~300,000 requests/mo and 60,000 page requests/mo.


Web Page: www.lakesuperiorstreams.org

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