We hope you’ll join us virtually for the Esri Geodesign Summit (February 9-10). This year, Lisa Marr and Michael Sprague of Trout Headwaters Inc (THI) will be joined at the Summit by Tye River Mitigation Bank owner Shannon Tillman to talk about creating a successful environmental opportunity and lasting ecological improvements for headwater streams in central Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
The firm deployed significant big data and geospatial analysis for active watershed restoration planning, analysis, design, monitoring and reporting. and continues to leverage critical technology, including Esri platforms (ArcGIS, Explorer) and THI’s EcoBlu Analyst to achieve impact-driven results for this 10-year project.
“The success and lasting value of applied ecological restoration for streams, rivers, wetlands, and other habitats relies on routine, consistent processes for development, design, implementation and monitoring,” says Sprague. “Prudent adaptive management, working with nature, and a smart feedback loop using repeatable quantitative monitoring is the ‘silver bullet’ to ensuring long-term ecological success,” he said.
This Year’s Theme ‘Resilient by Geodesign’
Our planet and its inhabitants are facing challenges like few times before in history—climate change, resource scarcity, and massive migrations of our planet’s inhabitants as well as local community challenges. Using geodesign, we aim to foster integrated and collaborative planning and design solutions for rapidly evolving landscapes in diverse contexts. We want to overcome challenges through forward thinking and creativity by merging people, data, methods, and technology. We’ll emerge stronger and better prepared—resilient by geodesign.
