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Project Baseline utilizes a working template developed during twenty years of exploration, education and
conservation initiatives within the fresh water ecosystems of northern Florida. These actions focused
public awareness on one of Florida’s most renowned State Parks (Wakulla Springs). GUE initiatives and the
persistent support of our affiliate Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP) were critical in convincing the
city of Tallahassee to spend approximately 250 million dollars revamping their waste water practices. This
landmark success demonstrates the tremendous power of well organized volunteers and serves as a template
for communities across the globe.
Download the Google Earth tour of Wakulla Springs here.
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The Lake Tahoe site will endeavor to share with the viewer the rich environmental, cultural, historical and maritime history that Tahoe enjoys. Known as the "Jewel of the Sierra”, Lake Tahoe is designated as an Outstanding National Resource Water, which is a special designation under the Clean Water Act, because of its clarity and water quality.
New Millennium Dive Expeditions and the Tahoe Divers Conservancy will now begin a focused effort to document the true condition of the lake by reporting strictly on the conditions personally observed while submerged from the nearshore down to 500 feet. Much has been reported as to the efforts of various agencies trying to protect the lake and in some cases there is truth and in other cases denial. We will provide baseline information and let the viewer make the ultimate decision.
Download the Google Earth tour of Lake Tahoe here.
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The North Adriatic Sea project is the effort of UWFrontiers in Trieste, Italy, designed to document, monitor and help protect the North Adriatic Sea from environmental degradation. As is often the case, local divers have gradually noticed that within the same dive site, they no longer see lobsters or sea bass or other species that have been observed in the past. When a comparison is made by those who dove the same area 10 or 20 years ago, the difference becomes huge.
This layer contains documentation of over 25 wrecks in the northern Adriatic sea, and also features 3-D modeling of ships.
Download the Google Earth tour of the North Adriatic Sea here.
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Project Baseline: The Netherlands invites you to take a look into the full range of aquatic environments Holland has to offer.
The current setup serves as a platform for multiple baseline projects in the Netherlands, and enables teams all over the country to monitor their own local site and upload data into the project.
There is no limit to the possibilities; from fresh water quarries, lakes and rivers to the shipwrecks of the sea.
The PB: Netherlands community develops and shares its knowledge, tools, standards and methods to be able to compare results all over all of the individual sub-projects.
Download the Google Earth tour of the Netherlands (in Dutch) here.
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Download the Google Earth tour of the Netherlands (in English) here.
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Gulfstream
Enveloping the origination point of the Gulf stream’s northern flow in the most extreme point of the Florida Key’s (Dry Tortugas) to north of Port Canaveral, Florida and encompassing the entire Bahamas, Project Baseline’s Gulfstream Chapter is home to over 10-million people, the 3rd largest coral reef in world, a diverse 7-billion dollar economy and arguably the most influential “stream” on the globe. As divers we all know that as population has increased, the quality of the reef, fresh water supplies and fish population have declined in this region. Sharing “baseline” data with the other 99% (non-divers) of the population is the first goal on a path to assisting our citizens and leaders in developing sustainable policies, practices, lifestyles, progress, etc.
More than 95% of the Dry Tortugas National Park is underwater and has been well documented by academic dive/science programs for many years. This area is one of the boundaries for the Gulfstream Chapter of Project Baseline as start point for the Gulf Stream current entering the Florida and Bahamas. The southwest Florida shelf in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico is the primary feeder to the entire Florida Keyes and is the original spawning grounds for much of the marine life found in and around the Gulf Stream.
Less than 1% of the oceans are currently protected from industrial and residential developmental pressures, yet our oceans and fresh water bodies constitute more than 75% of the surface mass of the globe; this is in stark contrast to the 12% of land mass currently being protected today. Project Baseline will assist to balance this ratio by efficiently providing compelling data to the public in an easily accessible, highly visible, graphic/image supported, open platform (Google Earth) and embracing the unstoppable power of the “citizen scientist”. We welcome input, collaboration and support from all.
Robert Manuel Carmichael, GUE-B.O.D. / Gulfstream Exploration Team Leader
rmc@gue.com
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