Salish Sea Bioregion Boundary
Boundary for the Salish Sea Bioregion based on watersheds that drain into the Salish Sea. Created for the Salish Sea Atlas ( https://wp.wwu.edu/salishseaatlas/).
The boundary of the Salish Sea Bioregion follows the outline of watersheds that drain into the sea. Throughout most of the region, the boundary exactly follows the borders of HUC-8 level US watersheds and sub-sub-drainage basin level Canadian watersheds that directly or indirectly drain into the Salish Sea. Watersheds in the Fraser River’s upper drainage area were excluded. The watersheds at the northeastern and northwestern corners of the boundary were clipped along sub-basin boundaries to remove portions of the larger watersheds that drain into Johnstone Strait or Bute Inlet rather than the Salish Sea.
The Salish Sea is defined based on legal definitions used in Washington and British Columbia as consisting of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, Georgia Strait, and their associated bays, channels, and inlets. Definitions of the northern border vary slightly among sources. We used a generous interpretation and included all the channels and inlets south of Johnstone Strait and Bute Inlet that connect to the Strait of Georgia.
All processing and analysis was completed using the NAD 83 UTM Zone 10N projection and coordinate system.
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Western Washington University
Aquila Flower
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Boundary for the Salish Sea Bioregion based on watersheds that drain into the Salish Sea. Created for the Salish Sea Atlas ( https://wp.wwu.edu/salishseaatlas/).
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Analysis and cartography by Aquila Flower
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Western Washington University
Aquila Flower
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License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Details: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. You are free to download, modify, and share this dataset for non-commercial purposes, but you must include a citation (such as "Salish Sea Atlas, Aquila Flower, 2021"). If you do use the dataset, I'd love to hear from you about how you're using it.
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Salish Sea watershed basin
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Analysis and cartography by Aquila Flower.
US Hydrologic Unit Code level 8 (HUC-8) NHD watershed boundaries from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset hosted by the Washington Department of Ecology ( https://ecology.wa.gov/Research-Data/Data-resources/Geographic-Information-Systems-GIS/Data).
"Water Survey of Canada Sub-Sub-Drainage Area" (WSCSSDA) NHN watershed boundaries from the National Hydro Network hosted by the Canadian Open Data portal ( https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a4b190fe-e090-4e6d-881e-b87956c07977).
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Western Washington University
Aquila Flower
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https://salish-sea-atlas-data-wwu.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/wwu::salish-sea-bioregion-boundary/about Salish Sea Bioregion Boundary
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https://services.arcgis.com/qboYD3ru0louQq4F/arcgis/rest/services/Salish_Sea_Bioregion_Boundary/FeatureServer Salish Sea Bioregion Boundary
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https://wp.wwu.edu/salishseaatlas/ Salish Sea Atlas
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https://doi.org/10.48689/18d12dfd-7415-4f7c-8160-8e315fa9772b Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
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- 2023-12-17T20:45:45.621Z
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NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Western Washington University
Aquila Flower
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