GeoSpatial Services Awarded New Projects

GSS was recently awarded new work from their partners/clients in multiple areas of the country.

New Alaska project areas are shown in yellow.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wetlands mapping group of GSS recently bid on and won numerous projects in both Alaska and the Lower 48 states. The group will take on additional project work in Idaho and 5 new project areas in Alaska. This is in addition to the current mapping work going on in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, California, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Alaska. The BLM group within GSS currently has 5 full-time staff members and 17 students engaged in landscape-level wetland mapping under the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

Counties in red are new areas where GSS will be mapping wetlands.

Another group within GSS, also working with the USFWS on NWI wetland mapping in North Dakota, has recently been awarded contracts to complete mapping across 14 additional counties in central North Dakota. The GSS North Dakota group will work towards the completion of this project over the next 18 months. After its completion, the GSS mapping teams will have completed mapping across most of the state. The North Dakota project engages 14 SMUMN students and 3 full-time GSS staff members.