The New Mexico Streamgage Catalog
Presenter: Marleigh Nicholas P181
Co-Author(s): Martha Whitaker
Advisor(s): Martha Whitaker
1Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates a publicly-accessible streamgage network, but there are many streamgages in each state that are operated by other agencies, and the locations are not cataloged as the USGS gages are. A lack of collaboration creates a data gap between the non-USGS agencies that operate streamgages. The New Mexico Streamgage Catalog is a central database that catalogs non-USGS gages. It will inform stakeholders of non-USGS streamgage locations, the availability of streamflow data, and increase resource efficiency. The New Mexico Streamgage Catalog was created by obtaining streamgage locations and associated metadata for each gage from individual organizations in New Mexico. It is an interactive map created with ArcGIS and includes streamgage locations, precipitation gage locations, watershed boundaries, and major river layers. When completed, the catalog will be publicly available as a web application on ArcGIS online. There will be an additional presentation on the Arizona Streamgage Catalog (AzStreamCAT) by Holland Goodrum Sterling and Robert Jimenez-Wieneke. Currently, these are two separate streamgage maps, but we plan to combine them and include other Colorado Basin states in the future.