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St. Croix International Watershed Mapping Initiative
Track: Water Resources
Author(s): Michael Laitta, Karen Hanson, Nelda Craig, Faye Cowie

In September 2005, The U.S. Geological Survey of the U.S. (USGS) of the Department of the Interior agreed to assist the International Joint Commission (IJC) in developing the technical methods required to support the International Watershed Initiative along the Canadian/U.S. boundary. As a preliminary step, the IJC selected the St. Croix drainage area as the pilot project area to assess the level of effort required to harmonize coding structures, naming protocols and line accuracies for the generation of hierarchical drainage area interpretations within the St. Croix drainage area. The St. Croix mapping project will be the first of its kind, integrating Canadian and U.S. data for a suite of seamless data products for a shared management area. In addition to bringing together stakeholders on both sides of the boundary, this initiative will provide experience that can be applied more broadly in other applications of the Canadian - U.S. mapping and data integration.

Michael Laitta
U.S. Geological Survey
3850 Holcomb Bridge Road
Norcross , GA 30092
US
Phone: (770) 409 7704
Fax: (770) 409 7725
E-mail: mtlaitta@usgs.gov

Karen Hanson
U.S. Geological Survey
2329 W Orton Circle
Salt Lake City , UT 84119
US
Phone: (801) 908 5038
E-mail: khanson@usgs.gov

Nelda Craig
New Brunswick Department of Environment
Marysville Place
Fredericton , New Brunswick E3B 5H1
CA
Phone: 506.457.4846
E-mail: nelda.craig@gnb.ca

Faye Cowie
University of New Brunswick
New Brunswick Aquatic Data Warehouse
1350 Regent Street
Fredericton , New Brunswick E3C 2G6
CA
Phone: 506.365.8927
E-mail: ardw@nbnet.nb.ca