Harvard Forest

Data Archive

HF362

Academics for Land Protection in New England (ALPINE) GIS Data 2015-2018

Related Publications

Data

• hf362-01: school parcel GIS layers
• hf362-02: campus location GIS layers

Overview

• Lead: Marianne Jorgensen, Brian Hall, David Foster
• Investigators:
• Contact: Information Manager
• Start date: 2015
• End date: 2018
• Status: completed
• Location: New England
• Latitude: +41.00 to +47.47 degrees
• Longitude: -73.70 to -67.00 degrees
• Elevation: 0 to 1917 meter
• Datum: WGS84
• Taxa:
• Release date: 2023
• Language: English
• EML file: knb-lter-hfr.362.5
• DOI: digital object identifier
• EDI: data package
• DataONE: data package
• Related links:
• Natural Land Zones in New England in 2006 from 2010 Wildlands and Woodlands Report
• Land Zones in New England 1940-2070 from 2017 Wildlands and Woodlands Report
• Wildlands and Woodlands: ALPINE
• Study type: historical
• Research topic: conservation and management
• LTER core area: disturbance patterns, land use and land cover change, human-environment interactions
• Keywords: conservation, geographic information systems, land cover, land use, management, spatial vector
• Abstract:

  Academics for Land Protection in New England (ALPINE) is a network of academic institutions committed to increasing the pace of land protection in New England to address the region’s environmental challenges and to support nature and people. ALPINE seeks to expand the role that academic institutions play in conserving the New England landscape by sharing experiences and resources among faculty and staff, students, administrations, and alumni.

  This dataset contains point locations of colleges that are participants in ALPINE and parcels of natural land owned by participating schools who submitted data to the ALPINE coordinator.

• Methods:

  hf362-01-school-parcels.zip

  This file contains data for parcels owned by selected schools in the ALPINE project. Most parcels were submitted to researchers by the institutions themselves and the names of source are listed in the DataSource field. Not all ALPINE colleges are represented in this data if the participating schools did not send the data to ALPINE leadership. Data includes the school name, property name, permanent protection status if noted by provider, who provided the data, the acreage as calculated in GIS, and an abbreviated version of the school’s name.

  hf362-02-campus-locations.zip

  This file contains the point locations of the main campus for colleges that were participating in ALPINE. Data includes a field stating if the school is public or private.

  All of the GIS layers are in USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection.

• Organization: Harvard Forest. 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA 01366, USA. Phone (978) 724-3302. Fax (978) 724-3595.

• Project: The Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program examines ecological dynamics in the New England region resulting from natural disturbances, environmental change, and human impacts. (ROR).

• Funding: National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210.

• Use: This dataset is released to the public under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (No Rights Reserved). Please keep the dataset creators informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset should include proper acknowledgement.

• License: Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0)

• Citation: Jorgensen M, Hall B, Foster D. 2023. Academics for Land Protection in New England (ALPINE) GIS Data 2015-2018. Harvard Forest Data Archive: HF362 (v.5). Environmental Data Initiative: https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4110c7059a9219461c3a088a0eef6477.

Detailed Metadata

hf362-01: school parcel GIS layers

• Compression: zip
• Format: Esri shapefile
• Type: vector GIS

hf362-02: campus location GIS layers

• Compression: zip
• Format: Esri shapefile
• Type: vector GIS