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USIEP was initiated in May of 2003 with a three year grant from the US Department of Education’s GAANN Program (Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need), which provides fellowships for six new PhD students to work in the multi-disciplinary area of sustainable urban infrastructure development.
Since the inception of USIEP in 2003, our projects have received various grants and funding.
USIEP Award (US Department of Education)
Lead PI: Anu Ramaswami
Co-PIs: Lynn Johnson, Sarosh Khan, Kevin Rens
Amount:
$600,000 in fellowships over three years
Phase 1 USEPA's P3 Sustainable Design Competition 2004: Holistic Building Design
Lead PI: Anu Ramaswami
Amount $10,000
Phase 1 USEPA's P3 Sustainable Design Competition 2004: Industrial Symbiosis: Waste to Value
Lead PI: Anu Ramaswami
Amount: $10,000
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Title: COORDINATED AREAWIDE CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ASSESSMENT
(C-DOT)
Co-PIs: Lynn Johnson, Brian Muller, John Wyckoff
Amount: $150,000
Description: This project seeks to create GIS procedures for carrying out area-wide coordinated cumulative effects analyses of transportation projects and programs as part of NEPA and other legal and regulatory requirements. It involves the integration of spatial databases developed for historic and current conditions, and forecasts of these. The Areawide CEA models for the various resource domains take the spatial data as inputs and generate metrics for the regional domain accounts. Changes in the resource account metrics over time constitute the cumulative effects. Growth forecasts and the calculated changes provide the predicted cumulative effects. Valuation of the cumulative effects per thresholds is derived from involvement of stakeholders in the data and models development.
Title: MULTI-CRITERIA WETLAND MAPPING FOR NORTHERN FRONT RANGE MPO (C-DOT)
Co-PIs: Lynn Johnson, John Wyckoff
Amount: $50,000
Description: This project seeks to establish a high resolution spatial database of wetland occurrence and distributions to assist planning level activities in an area which includes the NFRMPO. We utilize and combine readily available and relatively inexpensive satellite imagery data for analysis of landscapes for the presence of wetlands and riparian areas. We assess the applicability of the methods using hyperspectral imagery, and simulate the delineation method established in the Wetlands Delineation Manual by applying recent advances of geospatial technology to wetlands mapping.
Title: COLORADO ENVIRONMENTAL GEODATABASE (C-DOT)
Co-PIs: Lynn Johnson, Brian Muller, John Wyckoff
Amount: $200,000
Description: The goal of this project is to develop a statewide environmental geodatabase and GIS procedural tools to assist the Colorado Department of Transportation in addressing environmental factors of project planning. These factors include direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental impacts in any given area. The area includes all of Colorado. We identify, develop and archive data useful for CDOT project planning and incorporate available aerial photography, satellite imagery and other data sources. We also establish data development procedures for habitat characterization, hydrological impacts, and land use change modeling.
Title: GIS-BASED CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ASSESSMENT (C-DOT)
Co-PIs: Lynn Johnson, John Wyckoff
Amount: $75,000
Description: This research project involved development and application of geographic information systems and remote sensing (GIS/RS) databases and analysis models for cumulative effects assessment resulting from growth associated with transportation infrastructure. A spatial environmental database was collated from various sources for a 53 km by 97 km (33 by 60 mile) region bounding I-25 from Denver to near the Colorado-Wyoming border. The project demonstrated several ways that GIS can be used as a tool for performing Cumulative Effects Assessments (CEA). It presents four environmental assessments which use GIS. The first two, a habitat suitability study and a land use change analysis, demonstrate commonly used GIS overlay and distance techniques; the remaining two use less common and more complex technologies. The third study links a spatial database with commonly used flood design procedures to measure hydrologic impacts due to land use change. The final study uses a number of techniques for growth modeling. Specific applications for CEA are given in the land use and hydrologic studies.
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