Check out the Reproducibility Project page to see the latest videos in our series! With all those complete, we are gearing up for our client meeting next week. The powerpoint is made and we are excited to complete this large milestone.
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As we hit mid-semester it has come time to buckle down and make significant progress on the Reproducibility Project. The switch in paper set us back a few days but we have caught up at this point and completed the first video assignment. As of today, we have also worked through the methods of recreating the main figure in the paper (Figure 2) and are ready to record the other videos. Good thing too, because our Progress Meeting with the CGA Fellow is in two weeks!
Sometimes, things just don't go as planned. And sometimes, that allows you to create something even better! After digging into the data of our initial paper, it became clear that the required remote sensing pre-processing of the data was going to be an insurmountable barrier for one semester's worth of work. So we chose another paper here, which focuses on the loss of coastal forested wetlands in the North Atlantic Coastal Plain driven by climate change.
With this shift in direction came a shift in focus to wetlands as opposed to marshes, so we have rebranded ourselves to "Wetland Mappers". We think our new logo is pretty neat and might remind you of another one most of you are familiar with... Some exciting news this week from Marsh Mappers: we had our paper approved for our Reproducibility Project! After creating our website, submitting a paper for approval was the next major step in our work plan towards completing this project.
Marsh Mappers will be reviewing "Assessing Coastal Squeeze of Tidal Wetlands" to assess reproducibility of the GIS processing. The paper develops a method to assess coastal squeeze, aka how much hardened with buildings and impervious surfaces is the upland adjacent to marshes migrating inland with sea level rise? This is extremely important information to have as marshes, threatened by rapids rates of sea level rise, must be able to migrate inland to survive to the end of the 21st century. This is a global issue. Stay tuned for a timeline for this project in the next few days! This is the first week of our new consultancy, Marsh Mappers! We are excited to provide our clients with geoethical solutions to geospatial problems. Right now we specialize on salt marsh ecosystems, however in the coming months to years we hope to expand our team and add expertise in other areas such as beaches, barrier islands, and eventually, freshwater coastal systems. Stay tuned for more updates about our first project!
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