Abstract

Expediting ESA Section 7 Consultations With AGOL for Orgs & Web App Builder
Track: Education
Authors: Dean Szumylo

To improve and streamline the Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 (S7) consultation process for federal actions, the NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region used AGOL for Orgs and Web AppBuilder to build a simple spatial search application with very low overhead. The application hosts a newly-built dataset locating where S7 consultations are recommended, and generates a report detailing which vulnerable ESA-listed species life stages could overlap a user-drawn action area.