Midwest
Spatial Decision Support
System Partnership
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June, 2011
The Institute of Water Research now host the partnership's website!
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Introduction
The Midwest Spatial Decision-support Systems Partnership (Midwest Partnership), founded in 2002, is a unique federal-state-local government partnership focused on applying science and technology to environmental solutions. The Midwest Partnership develops, promotes, and disseminates spatial, decision-support systems to help manage watersheds in the Midwest. In particular, the partnership aims to make these systems freely available via the World Wide Web to local officials, natural resource managers, and the general public.
Primary members of the Midwest Partnership include:
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Michigan State University
• Purdue University
• University of Wisconsin-Extension
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
• Great Lakes Commission
• U.S. Geological Survey
• Local and regional planning commissions
The Midwest Partnership works to provide information and analytical tools to those levels of government and citizens closest to actual watershed management challenges (i.e. state and local decision makers and practitioners). The partnership offers direct access to its own web-based, decision-support tools, as well as road maps to other websites where additional tools can be found. This factsheet briefly describes some of the Midwest Partnership tools.