1. Assignment #8 - Project Flow Chart Jack Melcher UEP-232
Paving Paradise: Shellfish Habitat Impacts on the North Shore of Massachusetts
Assignment #8 - Project Flow Chart
Jack Melcher
UEP-232

2. Project Description
Urbanization has been linked to declining water quality and ecosystem damage.
This study will seek to relate land cover and land use characteristics in watersheds with impaired shellfish habitats.

3. Project Process Phase I: Watershed Delineation
Perform first for Ipswich Watershed.
Source Data
Formatted Data
USGS DEM 30m
USGS DEM 30m
Watershed
Geographic coordinate system
Mass mainland Projected coordinate system
Mass mainland Projected coordinate system
Use Data Export to clip to area of interest
Use Spatial Analysis tools to delineate
Check against Ipswich watershed on MassGIS
done
Repeat for progressively smaller watersheds.
Parker Essex  Rowley  Walter

4. Project Process Phase II: Percentage Impervious
For each watershed:
Source Data
MassGIS Impervious
Raster – 2005
1m resolution
Amount impervious
Watershed
Use zonal analysis

5. Project Process Phase III: Percent Developed Land
Use LUCODE
9 – Water Based Recreation
10 – Multi-family Residential
11 – High-density Residential
12 – Medium Density Residential
13 – Low Density Residential
15 – Commercial
16 – Industrial
17 - Transitional
18 – Transportation
31 – Urban Public / Institutional
For each watershed:
Source Data
MassGIS Land Use
Vector – 2005
Percent developed land
Watershed
Use clip function

6. Project Process Phase IV: Health of Ecosystems
For Oysters, Mussels, and Clams: (or a subset if these if I run out of time)
Source Data
Potential Shellfish Habitat
Vector – 2008
Percentage impacted
Designated Shellfish Growing Areas
Areas are habitat but are not approved for harvest
Vector
Areas that have been approved to harvest shellfish
Delineate study area assumed to be receiving inflow primarily from a single watershed of interest.

7. Project Process Phase V: Results
Could perform a regression… or maybe just some kind of nice display of interesting cases.
Percent Impervious
Phase II
Conclusions
Percent Developed
Does impervious have a great effect than developed?
Phase III
Habitat Impairments
Export to stats package and look for significance of impervious and developed as a predictor of habitat improvements
Phase IV