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A GIS Approach To Habitat Restoration Site Selection
and Prioritization in the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary
Kelly Kunert, Master's thesis, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, 2005


About this Publication

Restoring the degraded habitat of NY/NJ Harbor is important to ensure that the harbor can continue to be used as an economic, recreational, and ecological resource.

The NY/NJ Harbor Estuary Program has been working with government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the public since 1996 to protect and restore
habitat.

This paper discusses the measures presently being taken by the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program to restore habitat in the harbor and explores a method to improve the scientific rigor of current restoration site selection efforts using a geographic information system (GIS).

Full Publication | PDF (21.5 mb)
(115 pages)

Individual Sections

• Main Sections | PDF (5.2 mb)
  Introduction - Conclusions (45 pages)
  
  
• Appendix A | PDF (0.9 mb)
  Geographic Information System Suitability Analysis Model (7 pages)
  
  
• Appendix B | PDF (1.6 mb)
  Restoration Site Selection
  Criteria Maps (7 pages)
  
  
• Appendix C | PDF (14.5 mb)
  Detailed Habitat Restoration Suitability Maps
  (51 pages)
  
  
• Appendix D | PDF (0.3 mb)
  Harbor Estuary Program Acquisition and Restoration Sites List and Map (9 pages)
  
  

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