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CalSWIM is an academic-industry initiative to develop an intelligent database for accessing and interacting with environmental monitoring data. The California Sustainable Wetland Information Manager (CalSWIM) is designed to help coastal managers make cost-effective and scientifically justifiable decisions regarding the monitoring, management, and alteration of coastal urban wetlands and their associated watersheds. An interdisciplinary team of researchers conduct field work and modeling studies collectively aimed at creating and implementing this web-based expert system and prototype database.
CalSWIM delivers the following management products:
- Forecasting and nowcasting of nutrient levels, sediment supply, indicator bacteria, and pathogens in impaired coastal urban wetland systems.
- Targeted evaluation of management decisions that affect the habitat quality and ecological function of coastal wetlands, and/or that directly bear on pollutants of concern.
CalSWIM is a web-based interface suitable for use by the general public, students and researchers interested in watershed and coastal wetland processes, and managers responsible for the restoration and maintenance of coastal urban wetlands in southern California. The current Development and deployment of CalSWIM focuses on Newport Bay, a regionally important tidal saltwater marsh in Orange County, southern California. In the future, CalSWIM will be extended, with an open and scalable architecture, to other coastal urban wetland sites in southern California and elsewhere.
The development and implementation of CalSWIM is carried out in close consultation with government and private sector personnel directly responsible for the management and restoration of coastal urban wetlands. The application is built on monitoring and modeling efforts carried out by the Orange County Health Care Agency, Coast Keepers, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project.
CalSWIM is created to initiate a broad paradigm shift away from the current piecemeal approach of managing coastal urban wetlands (in which data collection, modeling efforts, and decision-making are fractured across governmental agencies and discontinuous in time and space) toward an integrative and ever evolving approach that builds on past knowledge and is open and accessible to all stakeholders.
UCI faculty
- Prof. Stan Grant, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences
- Prof. Crista Videira Lopes, Department of Informatics
UCI Students
- Sushil Krishna Bajracharya
- Barry Doyle
- Amir Haghighat
- Abhishek Pednekar
UC staff
- Darren Haver
OCGOV supervisor
- Chris Crompton
OCGOV staff
- Amanda Carr
- Carmen Oancea
OCGOV consultant
- Brock Bernstein
Tetra Tech staff
- Steve Parker
- Patti Sexton
Photos by permission of Darren Haver, University of California Cooperative Extension Orange County. Clapper photo by: Charlie's Bird Blog.
Last Updated: July 09, 2006.