{"id":91833,"date":"2019-03-05T08:31:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=91833"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T01:48:13","slug":"lyon-arboretum-interactive-plant-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/05\/lyon-arboretum-interactive-plant-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Century of plant data available through Lyon Arboretum interactive map"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_91888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91888\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/manoa-lyon-gis.jpg\" alt=\"One woman looking at device another one looking on.\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/manoa-lyon-gis.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/manoa-lyon-gis-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/manoa-lyon-gis-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lyon Arboretum <abbr title=\"geographic information system\">GIS<\/abbr> laboratory manager Jessica Adinolphi, left, with <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa graduate student Casey McGrath.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new geographic information system (<abbr title=\"geographic information system\">GIS<\/abbr>) device being employed at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/lyonarboretum\/\">Harold L. Lyon Arboretum<\/a> allows users to locate plants on its property and view metadata gathered over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This new interface opens up 100 years of Lyon\u2019s collections history right onto your laptop,&rdquo; said <strong>Rakan Zahawi<\/strong>, Lyon Arboretum director. &ldquo;It is a great tool for both researchers and avid plant enthusiasts, and we hope that it will get a lot of use.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.hawaii.edu\/lbG\">Lyon Living Plant Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The lab is headed by <strong>Jessica Adinolfi<\/strong>, who was a <abbr>GIS<\/abbr> analyst with  the United States Army Corps of Engineers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am excited to help upgrade this critical part of managing the arboretum\u2019s living collection,&rdquo; said Adinolfi. &ldquo;By bringing the information into this platform, we are making the work of so many dedicated people available to everyone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Funded by donors, the arboretum acquired the latest equipment and tools to develop a new online interactive map as well as other mapping projects. The lab uses the latest Trimble <abbr title=\"Global Positioning System\">GPS<\/abbr> (<abbr>GIS<\/abbr>) unit, which maps the living collection and other features.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Casey McGrath<\/strong>, a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> graduate student is already utilizing the <abbr>GIS<\/abbr> lab services. McGrath established an experimental site at the arboretum to understand how Hawaiian soils will respond to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Through mapping the locations of the temperature sensors and heaters across the field site, the <abbr>GIS<\/abbr> lab is aiding the project in understanding the spatial relationships between soil temperature and other soil properties,&rdquo; said McGrath.<\/p>\n<p>The lab is migrating the living collection data into Arc<abbr>GIS<\/abbr>, which provides a streamlined and comprehensive system for managing the approximately 20,000 entries in Lyon\u2019s living collection.<\/p>\n<p>Users can filter by plant family or other traits and view the location and information for 1,054 accessions currently on the map. The map is not yet fully populated, and Adinolfi hopes student interns and volunteers will help expedite the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users can filter by plant family or other traits and view the location and information for 1,054 arboretum accessions currently on the map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[368,192,1363,1017,9],"class_list":["post-91833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-botany","tag-lyon-arboretum","tag-manoa-research","tag-mapping","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91833"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91918,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91833\/revisions\/91918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}