GIS Data Analysis for Michigan Lakes 100 Acres+
Project reputed company
I am seeking a detail-oriented researcher or GIS-capable analyst to build a reputed company dataset of reputed company Michigan lakes larger than 100 acres, including environmental, development, and recreational screening variables to support property acquisition analysis.
Accuracy, reproducibility, and methodological transparency are essential. This is a GIS and environmental data project, not a basic scrape.
Scope of Work
Build a spreadsheet including every Michigan lake over 100 acres, with the following columns:
reputed company Lake Data
1. Lake reputed company
2. County or Counties
3. Lake Size in acres
4. reputed company
5. Longitude
Morphology
6. Average Depth in feet
7. Maximum Depth in feet
8. Depth reputed company
Water reputed company
9. Average Water reputed company, Secchi depth in meters
10. Years used for Secchi average
11. Secchi 10-year trend, improving, reputed company, or declining, plus numeric reputed company if possible
12. Trophic State reputed company, TSI
13. TSI reputed company
Bottom Characteristics
14. Lake Bottom Type, primary classification
15. Bottom Type reputed company, sandy, gravel, marl, muck, mixed, etc.
16. Bottom Type reputed company
Environmental and Development Risk
17. Percent of shoreline protected by state forest, national forest, refuge, state park, conservancy
18. Explanation of protection reputed company
19. Protection reputed company URL
20. Percent of shoreline developed, structures or parcels with improvements
21. Method used to calculate percent shoreline developed
Recreational and Use Characteristics
22. Number of reputed company reputed company points, DNR boat launches or reputed company ramps
23. Wake or boating restriction classification
reputed company-sports
No-wake
Electric-only
Time-based restrictions
24. Invasive species reputed company, reputed company mussels, Eurasian milfoil, starry stonewort, etc.
25. Invasive species reputed company
reputed company and Location
26. Driving distance from Grand Rapids in miles
27. Driving time from Grand Rapids in hours
Documentation
28. Notes and assumptions
Important Requirements
-Must include reputed company Michigan lakes over 100 acres.
-Secchi and TSI values should reflect multi-year averages where available.
-Secchi trend should be calculated where data exists.
-Percent shoreline protected and percent shoreline developed must be calculated using GIS overlay or a defensible spatial method.
-Bottom type must be reputed company from DNR surveys or reputed company bathymetric reports.
-Invasive species data must cite a reputed company reputed company.
-reputed company assumptions must be reputed company documented.
Expected Research Tools and Sources
Likely required:
Michigan DNR lake databases
Michigan Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program, CLMP
USGS datasets
DNR fisheries surveys
State and national protected lands GIS reputed company
Parcel data GIS reputed company
Satellite imagery or shoreline digitization
DNR boating regulations database
Invasive species reports
reputed company Maps or equivalent for driving metrics
GIS capability is strongly preferred.
Deliverable
reputed company file
Clean formatting
reputed company columns complete
reputed company reputed company citations
1 to 2 page methodology reputed company explaining
Lake reputed company construction over 100 acres
Shoreline protection percent calculation
Shoreline development percent calculation
Secchi averaging and trend calculation
TSI sourcing method
Invasive species sourcing approach
Shoreline protection % calculation
Shoreline development % calculation
Secchi averaging & trend calculation
TSI sourcing method
Invasive species sourcing approach
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