![]() ![]() of GSM,UMTS,LTE & 5G technologies Planning tool use/experience (Atoll. ![]() This project will produce such a tool a geographic information system (GIS)-based prioritization model that accounts for bio-geo-physical constraints, as well as economic feasibility and social factors, to prioritize a network of islands for the Texas coast for which island creation or rehabilitation would provide the maximum conservation benefit for colonial waterbirds.ĬINDI project personnel: David Essian, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate Rostam Mirzadi, M.S. Responsible for the Radio Network Design & Planning for the areas assigned. ![]() These expensive projects are proceeding case-by-case with no tools to focus funding on islands and sites that have the greatest potential to benefit bird populations. ![]() The degradation of critical nesting islands for colonial waterbirds has prompted a move to rehabilitate eroding islands. In the last decade large investments of money (>$24 million) have been committed towards colony island projects along the Gulf coast, as recognition grows that existing islands are facing threats that can leave entire areas without nesting habitat. Colonial-nesting waterbirds (wading birds, gulls, terns, and pelicans) concentrate annually to breed on small coastal islands that comprise a tiny fraction of their habitat but are critically important to the birds’ full life cycle. ![]()
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