Tools: Mapping and Online Training

Mapping Tools

1. NJ DEP Geographic Information Systems
   GIS environmental mapping information available (through NJ-GeoWeb) for your neighborhood, county and the state of New Jersey. Find contaminated sites, regulatory boundaries, watersheds, water bodies, sensitive lands, land use data, and more..
2. New Jersey Geological Survey Digital Geodata Series
   Includes base maps, groundwater, geology, and geophysics series.
3. National Wetlands Inventory with Wetlands Mapper
   GIS based maps of wetlands in all of the United States.

Online Training Tools

1. Clean Water Act Online Tutorial
   The River Network's on-line tutorial familiarizes citizens with the Clean Water Act.
2. NEMO Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials
   Educational tools for land-use planners, created by the University of Connecticut.
3. OWLS - Object Watershed Link Simulation Hydrology Model
   2-D and 3-D watershed hydrology, stream channel dynamic changes and more, provided by Oregon State University.
4. NJ Watershed Watch Network
   A service provider for community-based water monitoring groups & a program of The Watershed Institute and NJDEP
5. NJ Watershed Management Outreach and Education Program
   NJDEP Outreach & Education: learn to be a volunteer watershed monitor.
6. U.S. EPA Online Training in Watershed Management
   Train yourself at home: watershed ecology, analysis, planning, management, and community impact.
7. USGS NWISWeb Tutorial
   National Water Information System Web site. Information on HUC (Hydrologic Unit Codes), accessing stream-flow data and accessing water-quality data.
8. Virginia SOS Stream Study
   On-line macroinvertebrate training.