Short communication: The Mid-Atlantic Watershed Atlas (MAWA): Open access data search & watershed-based community building

  • Authors:

  • Patrick M. Reed;Brian Bills;Michael Anderson;Blake Ketchum;Michael Piasecki

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 212 Sackett Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA;Center for Environmental Informatics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2217 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA;Center for Environmental Informatics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2217 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA;Center for Environmental Informatics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2217 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA;Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  • Venue:
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The Mid-Atlantic region in the United States (US) is composed of a diverse range of gradients across its natural and human systems. These gradients encompass heavily urbanized population centers, agriculture dominated valleys, reforested headwaters, and some of the most important estuaries in North America. The Mid-Atlantic Watershed Atlas (MAWA) portal has been developed to encourage public access and use of a wide range of freely available data resources. Moreover, the system has been designed to facilitate emergent geospatial tagging to identify the individuals, groups, and agencies shaping the region's water resources. The goal of the system is to facilitate improved regional watershed knowledge, provide information to individual stakeholders, and support broad regional initiatives.