Prioritized Monitoring for the Lake Superior Basin: Final Report

Abstract

Given this overall goal, the specific objectives for this project were to: 1) create a scalable system of fine-resolution, hierarchically nested watersheds across the Lake Superior basin; 2) quantify the natural environmental and human disturbance gradients for fine-scale watersheds; 3) use these gradients to provide supporting data for intra- and cross-agency monitoring and sampling designs; 4) identify reference (least impacted) and degraded watersheds and coastal regions within the Lake Superior basin; 5) develop tools that allow users to scale data appropriate to their sample domain and response variables; 6) disseminate project outputs via an updated LSDSS website.