University of Redlands

ADWEA Management Training Program

ADWEA contracted with commercial consulting firms to implement a turnkey Enterprise Facility Management Geographic Information System (GIS). The Redlands Institute was part of a solution to design, develop, and deliver high-quality, cost-effective, customized GIS management and awareness training to ADWEA project administrators, utility managers, and technology managers in the effective use this system.

Project Duration: December 2001 – December 2002

East Valley COMPASS

The Redlands Institute supported the city of Redlands Police Department in the design and implementation of their "East Valley Community Mapping, Planning and Analysis for Safety Strategies Program" (COMPASS). A project funded through a grant from the National Institute of Justice.

The objective of the grant was to facilitate a process whereby community safety, social program and faith-based organizations in the San Bernardino East Valley region map their problem "hot-spots," identify geographic neighborhoods where these overlap, analyze the factors that contribute to these problems and devise collaborative and integrative intervention strategies.

This effort sought to identify and address causative factors, in place of traditional crime suppression that tends to move, rather than solve, basic community problems.

Project Duration: December 2001 – June 2003

Regional Water Quality Control Board GIS Initiative

The State Water Quality Control Board has primary responsibility for managing water quality throughout nine regions in California.

The Lower Colorado River Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) (Region 7) identified the need for an integrated, comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) to support their activities in the region. This project built upon previous water quality coordination efforts initiated under the Salton Sea Database Program.

The Redlands Institute collaborated with Region 7 staff to develop a GIS to support watershed protection planning in the Lower Colorado River Region. The topics addressed included database design, application development, and data, software, hardware, and training requirements.

The Redlands Institute also developed a custom GIS application--Agricultural Data Analysis Tool (AG-DAT)--to assist the RWQCB with the TMDL Implementation process in Imperial Valley.

AG-DAT is a set of utilities for automating data import, formatting, quality control, and reporting workflows for novice ArcGIS users. AG-DAT was awarded first place for best VBA application at the 2004 ESRI International Users Conference application development fair.

Project Duration: June 2002 – June 2004

Water Quality Data Coordination

Due to the need to canvas and coordinate the numerous agencies gathering water quality data, the Salton Sea Database Program (SSDP) and the California State Regional Water Quality Control Board began a comprehensive inventory of agencies involved with water quality data collection. 

The results were entered into the SSDP Geographic Information System (GIS) and displayed on color hill shade and bathymetric maps, and large-format data tables. These summaries provided compelling graphics to understand which agencies and individuals were collecting data, what data were being collected, and when and where the data were being collected.

A Final Water Quality Data (University of Redlands, 2001) report is now available for public review.

Water Quality Data Coordination report (PDF).
The 2001 ESRI User Conference poster (JPEG).