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Contact Information:

photo of Michael Breedlove
Name:
Breedlove, Michael
Title:
Geographer
Discipline(s):
Physical Resources, Geographic Information Systems
Research Station:
GCMRC
Work Address:
2255 North Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Telephone Number:
(928)556-7344
Email Address:
mbreedlove@usgs.gov

Biographical Sketch:

Michael Breedlove is a geographer with the USGS - Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. Michael received his Masters in Geography from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Florida in 1999. He has twenty-one (21) years experience in developing and implementing GIS applications for federal, state and local government research programs related to resource management and urban/environmental planning. He has worked for research and planning agencies in: the States of Missouri and Colorado; the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska; and the nations of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. He has been employed with the USGS since 2002.

  • Areas of Technical Expertise
    • Geographic Information Systems: Twenty-two (22) years experience in developing and implementing GIS (primarily Arc/Info) databases and applications for national, state and local government uses in coastal and riparian research and resource management programs, urban/environmental planning, demographic and economic research and public utilities. Current activities focus on GIS applications to coastal and fluvial processes, ecosystem assessment, mapping and custom research-support applications.
    • Remote Sensing: Twelve (12) years experience using ERDAS Imagine software. Interests and activities have focused on the application of satellite and aerial digital imagery in coastal and coral-reef research, digital terrain modeling, ecosystem monitoring and research team field support in the Grand Canyon.
    • Computer Cartography: Extensive experience in map design using Arc/Info. Products have included urban mapping to support field survey operations and planning activities, regional landuse/landcover mapping to support biologic corridor modeling in the Maya Forest/Paseo Pantera project in Central America and the Florida Greenways project, and river corridor mapping to support physical and biological research teams in the Grand Canyon. Marine mapping experience has included projects covering benthic habitat in the Saudi Arabian portion of the Red Sea and the coastal waters of Bahrain.

Project List

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Publications, Maps, and other Products

  1. Breedlove M.J., C.S. MaGirl. Generating Virtual Shorelines for the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon using Outputs of a One-Dimensional Hydraulic Model and a Digital Elevation Model. In Prep. [Technical Report]
  2. Breedlove M.J. Fine-Grained Sediment Inventory and Change Detection in the Grand Canyon River Corridor using Airborne Digital Imagery. In Prep. [Technical Report]
  3. Breedlove M.J. Colorado River Cross-Sections for Hydraulic Modeling: 3054 cross-sections extending to 100 feet above the river surface constructed from the May, 2002 ISTAR digital elevation model and the 8000 cfs water-surface elevation long profile. [Database Spatial]
  4. MaGirl C.S., R.H. Webb, P.T. Griffith. Changes in Water-Surface Profiles of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon between 1923 and 2000. Submitted for publication. Contributor. [Technical Report]
  5. Breedlove M.J. Colorado River Cross-Sections: Approximately 5,000 cross-sections constructed at 80-meter increments from Glen Canyon Dam to Diamond Creek to an elevation of 200 feet above river-surface elevation and to the extent of the May 2002 ISTAR digital elevation model. [Database Spatial]
  6. Breedlove M.J. 8000 cfs Water-Surface Elevations of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon: line, point and grid coverages constructed at 5-meter increments, Arizona State Plane Central, NAD83 ellipsoid. Line and point coverage created from GCMRC centerline. Grid coverage extends to the limits of the May 2002 ISTAR digital elevation model. [Database Spatial]
  7. Breedlove M.J. Campsites on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Point and polygon coverages delineating the location of primary and secondary river campsites and related attributes. [Database Spatial]
  8. Breedlove M.J. Fine-Grained Sediment (Sand) Distribution for Areas of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon above the 8,000: May, 2002. Polygons delineated from May, 2002 4-band digital imagery. [Database Spatial]
  9. Breedlove M.J. Virtual Shorelines of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon at Discharges of 25,000, 31,000, 45,000 and 97,000 cubic feet per second. Polygons generated using outputs of a one-dimensional hydraulic model and a May, 2002 digital elevation model (DEM). [Database Spatial]
  10. Davis P.A. 2003. Review of Results and Recommendations from the GCMRC 2000-2002 Remote Sensing Initiative for Monitoring Environmental Resources within the Colorado River Ecosystem. Review of Results and Recommendations. [Technical Report]
  11. Breedlove M.J., S. Mietz. 2002. A Map Guide to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. U.S. Geological Survey, September, 2002. [Technical Report]
  12. Breedlove M.J. 2002. May, 2002 8,000 cfs Shoreline for the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Polygons constructed from May, 2002 4-band digital imagery. [Database Spatial]
  13. MaGirl C.S., M.J. Breedlove, R.H. Webb, T. Melis. 2002. One-Dimensional Hydraulic Model of the Colorado River Updated to May 2002. In Prep. [Technical Report]