Join the Minnesota Office of Soil Health (MOSH) for a hands-on, online workshop exploring a new tool to help you visualize and compare precipitation and erosion trends at the sub-watershed scale. In this session, Eduardo Luquin Oroz will provide an overview of the Daily Erosion Project (DEP) and introduce two new interactive dashboards designed to help conservation professionals analyze and create graphics for their watersheds.
The DEP is a modeling framework providing daily public estimates of runoff and soil loss from hillslopes at the HUC12 scale. Through a collaboration between University of Minnesota and Iowa State University and funded by the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources, the DEP is continuously improved to better fit Minnesota’s unique landscape. These new dashboards make it easy to summarize the complex daily DEP data into user-friendly annual maps and charts. You can quickly visualize long-term and interannual trends, compare watersheds, and identify areas with high rates of hillslope soil loss, runoff, and precipitation. In this one-hour workshop, you will learn how to:
Understand the fundamentals of the DEP
Navigate the main DEP interactive map for daily erosion and precipitation data
Use the new UMN Dashboards to map hillslope soil loss and pinpoint priority areas
Compare trends in precipitation, runoff, and soil loss between different watersheds
Interpret and export data and visuals to support conservation planning, grant proposals, and reporting
