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Development Grant Facility |
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The World Bank`s Development Grant Facility
Project was designed to help IABIN establish the Connectivity Program,
whose main objective is to encourge the integration of biological data
with socio-economic and geospatial data. Partnerships were established
with organizations or programs in the region with similar goals and
which could provide co-financing to meet the specific objetives of the
Connectivity Program. Partenerships were developed with SEMARNAT, NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center, the EROS Data Center and The Nature
Conservacy, NASA JPL, Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental
Education (Belize), CATHAKAC/SERVIR, CIRA UNAN (nicaragua), PAIGH, The
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panamá, and el Colegio de la
Frontera Sur (ECOSUR, México).
The City of Knowledge (Grant recipient), the
IABIN Secretariat, the World Bank, the CCAD an the identified parterns
constitute the Connectivity Program Team, which guided the developmente
of plans and activities
Project Coordinator: Vincent Abreu
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Develpment of elevation derivatives for Central Amecia and the Caribbean |
Development of elevation derivatives for Central
America and the Caribbean using the Shuttle
Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) level-2 dataset (30 meter resolution,
limited distribution).
The elevation derivatives include datasets such as
basins, streamlines, hill shade, slope, aspect, water flow, and water
accumulation. The derivatives were
produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources
Observation and Science (EROS), and the final products were provided to
selected national agencies in each country, which will be responsible for
completing some of the products (i.e., streamlines), labeling them, and
developing metadata.
DEM Derived Maps
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Protected Area Assessment Capacity Building And Classification of Socio-Economic Threat |
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Protected
Area Assessment Capacity
Building and
Classification of Socio-Economic Threats for Freshwater Systems
  
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Integrated use of Geospatial and Biological Data to Predict African Tilapia Invasion |
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Integrated use of Geospatial and Biological Data to Predict
African Tilapia Invasion in Northern Mesoamerica
The
goal of Component 4 of IABIN’s Connectivity Program was to integrate geospatial
data with biological data to demonstrate an effective approach for utilizing
I3N and IABIN specimen databases to create predictive models that anticipate
species invasions in freshwater habitats.
African tilapias were selected as a model organism to demonstrate the
predictive modeling approach because they are a documented invasive species
that is widely distributed through the IABIN program area and of obvious
conservation concern. A modeling system
was developed for all of the domestic and international watersheds of Belize including portions of Guatemala, and Mexico. The modeling system allows a user to draw on 27
specially prepared environmental datasets to predict patterns of habitat
vulnerability to tilapia invasion in all of the 36,368 stream segments of the
project area.
Integrated use of Geospatial and Biological Data to Predict African Tilapia Invasion
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Analysis between Anthropogenic Pressures and the State of Contamination of Lake Cocibolca |
Analysis of the Relationship between Anthropogenic Pressures in the
Watershed and the State of Contamination of Lake Cocibolca
of Nicaragua
The Foundation of Ciudad del
Saber and the Nicaraguan Research Center
for Aquatic Resources (CIRA/UNAN) initiated a project in April of 2006 with the
objective to evaluate the relationship between anthropogenic activities in the
watershed and the actual state of contamination in the water of Lake Cocibolca.
The project activities have
integrated biological, physical and chemical data of the water of the lake with
results of satellite imagery and information collected from the watershed of Lake Cocibolca
to accomplish the following 9 results. This report is aimed to summarize the
activities completed to attain the given result. The technical results and
their interpretation are presented in the appendix and all figures and tables
refer to this report (Informe Técnico)
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