Earth Design Consultants, Inc.

12/14/2021

Earth Design Consultants, Inc. has just completed a two-year pilot project for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. This project developed a series of spatial models that linked Tribal Members with valued natural resources using Traditional Ecological Knowledge. We are happy to report that this project will be expanding to a larger area during 2022-2024. These analyses are being used by Tribal Members to support their ongoing management decisions.

12/17/2019

Earth Design Consultants, Inc. is extremely pleased to be starting a project working with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians during the next two years. We will be building spatial databases and spatial models that link Tribal Members with natural and cultural resources. We will be considering both past and present use in applying their Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

10/22/2019

Collaborative Modeling Workshop in Mississippi

06/11/2019

EDC Scientists spent a few days last week collecting UAV imagery from Coos Bay. We are working with South Slough NERR staff to develop a method to map eelgrass.

05/29/2019

EDC, Inc. scientists will be heading to South Slough NERR next week to determine if eelgrass beds can accurately be mapped using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Sensors that we have used in the past have had sufficient spectral resolution but were expensive and had spatial resolution of 1 to 2 meters. Controlling the timing of acquisition and the spatial resolution of UAV imagery is pretty good but the spectral resolution (color and IR) is limited. We are interested if we can develop a method that takes advantage of the positive attributes of UAVs.

09/08/2018

EDC, Inc. collected another data set for a study being conducted by Dr. Shon Schooler-- he is using UAV imagery to evaluate the effects of changing water levels on the abundance and distribution of emergent vegetation in Pokegama Bay.

09/06/2018

EDC, Inc. is in the field this week completing the field component of a study on the St. Louis River Freshwater Estuary near Duluth, MN. We are collecting physical and biological information from a number of different types of shallow bays in MN and WI. This information will be used by the MN LandTrust to help set quantitative restoration targets for some of their wetland/ fish habitat restoration projects.

08/24/2018

Earth Design Consultants, Inc. is proud to sponsor the Wetland Conservancy's "Wetlands & Wellies 2018" --

Join us for our annual fundraiser Wetlands & Wellies October 14th. Tour a wetland and then dine with us at Cooper Hall in Portland.

07/16/2018

Photos from our Wetland Assessment Directed Study at the National Youth Science Camp in WV. We sampled macrobenthic invertebrates and used a UAV.

07/06/2018

Dr. Garono will be traveling to West Virginia to participate in the 2018 National Youth Science Camp this month. This will be his first time serving as camp "Staph." See http://www.nysf.com/w/category/programs/nysc/2018-nyscamp/ for details!

07/04/2018

Drs. Schooler and Garono work sample Perch Lake to collect data that will be used to help develop a restoration plan. They found areas of low oxygen concentration (orange and yellow dots on the map). Low oxygen concentrations can stress aquatic organisms. This work is sponsored by the Minnesota Land Trust.

05/23/2018

Here we are working along side Dr. Schooler of the LSNERR collecting algae and water quality samples on the lower St. Louis River. This information will be used by managers to evaluate some of the ongoing restoration work in the river.