USGS National Wetlands Research Center: Bill Jones profile

William R. Jones, B.S.

William R. Jones, B.S. 1991. Geography, University of Southern Mississippi. Troubleshooting GIS problems.

Jones is responsible for the habitat mapping activities for the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act. Activities include flight planning, photointerpretation, image analysis, and writing reports. He is also responsible for gathering data for a characterization study of the Northeast Gulf of Mexico. His daily activities include personnel management, coordinating GIS activities, map production, image analysis, and installing new hardware and software.

Jones' NWRC Publications

The following list of publications is current only through 2001. For an update, please go to the online NWRC publications data base (http://librrefmgr.cr.usgs.gov?func=advSearch) to search for the bibliographic citations of individual staff members.

Handley, L.R., A. Calix, W. Jones, S. Hartley, E. Seeger, T. Barrilleaux, R. Mouton, L. Marien, A. Martucci, and G. Linscomb. 2000. Nourishment of a disappearing barrier island -- Racoon Island, Louisiana. Page 438 in A. Crowe and L. Rochefort, editors. Quebec 2000: Millennium Wetland Event Program with Abstracts, Quebec, Canada, August 6-12, 2000.

Handley, L.R., Jones, W.R., O'Neil, C.P., Wells, C., Creed, S., Lichtenberg, D., Seeger, E., Dugas, J., Thibodeaux, J., II, Mouton, R., and Clark, N., 2001, Marsh dieback classification and mapping [abs.]: Abstracts from "Coastal Marsh Dieback in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Extent, Causes, Consequences, and Remedies," USGS Information and Technology Report, USGS/BRD/ITR-2001-0003, 31 p.

Handley, L.R., Jones, W.R., O'Neil, C.P., Wells, C., Creed, S., Lichtenberg, D., Seeger, E., Dugas, J., Thibodeaux, J., II, Mouton, R., and Clark, N., 2001, Marsh die-back classification and mapping [abs.]: ERF 2001: the 16th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, November 4-8, 2001, St. Petersburg, Fla., p.57.

Johnson, C.A., and W.R. Jones. 1994. Using GIS to monitor habitat change surrounding New Orleans. Page 54 in ARC/INFO Map Book 1993. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA.

Johnston, J.B., W. Jones, E. Seeger, H. Gaudet, and G. Steyer. 1999. The integration of GIS and image processing technology for monitoring wetland restoration projects. Vol II. Pages 435-448 in Proceedings of the Fourth International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, 21st Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Canada, 21-24 June 1999.

Johnston, J.B., M.E. McNiff, W.R. Jones, W. Ji, L.R. Handley, J. Barras, and P. Bourgeois. 1995. Applications of GIS analysis for natural resource management at the National Biological Service's Southern Science Center. Pages 297-306 in Proceedings of 15th Annual ESRI User Conference. Palm Springs, CA, May 22-26, 1995.

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