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Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Successful Student Internship ProjectsESRI UC 2015Andrew Stratton
SIPI Enrollment
Geospatial Information Technology
GIT Certificate
GIT Associate of Applied Science
Summer GIT Program
www.sipi.edu/acadprog/ate/git
NEON NSF Grant #1441171
http://data.neoninc.org/home
2014 NEON Interns
• Darrell Leighton– Detailed study of precipitation trends in NM
• Allen Elwood– Fires in the Rio Grande Bosque
• Tim Tosa– Geothermal development possibilities in Jemez
Pueblo
New Directions…GIT 290 Special Topics
NSF PAGE Grant Proposal
Isleta Pueblo Restoration Project
Integrated Programs
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Thank you……and now for Allen!
Looking at Burn Areas in the Middle Rio Grande Bosque Between Cochiti Pueblo and Isleta Pueblo
http://www.abqjournal.com/114130/abqnewsseeker/updated-bosque-fire-has-burned-288-acres.html
Objective StatementThe objective of this project is to look at burn areas that have occurred in the
Bosque and if location determines the frequency and size of fires
http://www.abqjournal.com/114130/abqnewsseeker/updated-bosque-fire-has-burned-288-acres.html
http://www.bleachanime.org/forums/showthread.php?t=122099
The Middle Rio Grande Bosque represents the largest cottonwood gallery riparian forest in the southwest United States.
www.city-data.com/forum/albuquerque/1691546-access-rio-grande.html
My Study Area Is A 45 mile subset of the Middle Rio Grande
Materials All fire data was compiled from the USGS Wildfire Wildland Fire website
http://wildfire.cr.usgs.gov
Data collected by Federal land management agencies for fires from 1980-2013
Selected fires for this project are from BIA, BLM, USFS data
Base data from New Mexico State-RGIS clearing house
Boundary data from the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Division
All data processed created using ESRI ArcGIS software
Created base map using fire data, hydrology, counties, all native lands
Created Slope and hillshade using 10m Digital Elevation Model
Used hillshade to determine the natural river basin
Used Google Earth to digitize Bosque using KMZ/KML
Subset fire data to identify prescribed fires within the area of interest Developed trend lines for size and frequency of fires within the area of interest
Created time line of fires that have occurred from 1980-2013
Methods
Bosque Study Area - Middle Rio Grande
All Fires – 1980 to 2013
• All Fires in region• Noticed Clusters• Subset Fires to study
area
Time Series From 1980-2013
• Increasing size of point indicates acreage of fire
• Notice clusters
Fires Since 1980
• Increasing size of point indicates acreage of fire
• Notice clusters
Fires Since 1980
Ginger Fire
Acres Burned and Number of Fires Per Year
Ginger Fire
Distribution of Fire Types Since 1980
• 4 Natural Caused Fires• 143 Human Caused Fires• 6 Unknown Caused Fires
Addition of Prescribed Fires Since 1980
Ginger Fire
• 3 prescribed fires in 33 years
• Not enough data to include in analysis
http://www.dukecityfix.com/profiles/blogs/bosque-fire-452010
Conclusions• Not seeing a general increase in the size of acres burned• Seeing an increase frequency of fires• Seeing a interesting distribution of fires• Why?
Recommendation For Future Work• Fire intensity (Burn severity index)• Fuel load• Management
Resource allocationsInfrastructure
• Precipitation/Temperature patterns over time
Acknowledgments• Patrick Kozak and Bull Bennett – KIKSAPA Consulting• Maggie Porter, Andrew Stratton and Christel White – SIPI • Eric Wood – USGS• Tribal GIS
• Project Funded By National Science Foundation NSF #1441171
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