Project Goals
The overall goal is to facilitate more effective engagements between key inland and coastal management institutions in the
Tennessee-Tombigbee - Mobile Bay Basin and to identify and integrate priority geospatial information.
By creating a basis for sustained collaboration on data and decision making for the Tennessee-Tombigbee - Mobile Bay Basin,
upstream and coastal communities would have a mutual benefit, Mobile Bay’s estuarine research and protection needs
would be highlighted, and the Tenn-Tom Waterway’s purpose and role in regional economic development would be recognized.
These effective engagements would server as a model to apply in other inland-coastal basins in the northern Gulf
coast and the Southeastern Atlantic regions.
Outcomes
Through workshops and collaborations among the different institutions, decision support needs will be identified,
the availability of GIS data will be discovered, and a common understnding and sharing of datasets and tools will be
developed. This effort will come together to create a working upstream-downstream coalition amoung institutions. A
prototype database will provide the knowledge of who is collecting data, who uses that data to make decisions, and what
kind priorities are placed on that data. A plan for continued progress and sucess will also be developed for the
participating institutions.