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GIS Data Analysis for Michigan Lakes 100 Acres+

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-28
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 Apply tot his job Apply To this Job

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