[CINC] Fw: PYRIFERA IS HERE! KFM data at YOUR fingertips!!!!

[David_Begun at nps.gov]

Interesting site for kelp forest monitoring information.

David Begun
Channel Islands National Park
david_begun at nps.gov
805-658-5731
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                                       PYRIFERA IS HERE!  KFM data at YOUR 
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Hi All,

I know most of you have been dreaming about being able to visualize Channel
Islands National Park Kelp Forest Monitoring (KFM) data at your finger
tips, well your dream has come true. With the new open source application:
www.pyrifera.marinemap.org you can visually look at the abundance of 70 KFM
indicator species of fish, invertebrates, algae and temperature at an
individual site or at all 33 sites at the same time.  You can even create
your own chart of one or more species to compare them to assist in the
preliminary assessment of species relationships or perhaps even the
difference inside or outside the MPAs.  If you don't want to chart your own
data and just want to visualize the sites, click on one of the sites on the
Google Earth map, click on Site Information and there you can not only
chart multiple species for that site, but you can view all of the video
transects we have collected dating back to 1983 for the original sites, yes
KFM movies!!!!.

Depending on how fast our internet is running, the video's may take awhile
to download so you may have to wait.  Also, whey you search for species by
common or scientific name, a photo of that species should appear, but will
not on our government computers due to firewall issues.

There is no tutorial yet for the web page, but most of it is self
explainable and with a bit of patience you will be an expert.  It can be
view on the most current version of Explorer, Firefox, GoogleChrome, or
Safari.  At the moment, we only have the basic density and percent cover
data available.  We hope to post other data in the near future. If you have
any questions, need assistance with the web page or have comments, please
let me know.

Enjoy,
David


David Kushner
Marine Biologist
Channel Islands National Park
1901 Spinnaker Dr.
Ventura, CA 93001
(805) 658-5773
David_kushner at nps.gov