John Koehmstedt

John Koehmstedt works for the US Geological Survey (USGS), and among other projects he is involved in the Tampa Bay Project's Broad Scale Mapping, Documentation of Urbanization, Historical Land Use Change, and Basemap Formulation.

The need for baseline maps and bathymetry for the Tampa Bay Region has been identified as a priority item by NOAA, Tampa Bay Estuary Program and Southwest Florida Water Management District. These maps will be created at broad scale and fine scale and will provide the background information that biologists, geologists and water resource scientists need in order to develop high resolution digital maps and GIS products that will be available through web-based data management systems.