Still to be determined, but likely a mobile friendly survey platform for each survey.
Legislation (N.J.S.A. 13:1B-15.147 and 15.148 -- Public Law 1988, c. 127, s.3.) directs the state to track data on the location of rare species, which we do by maintaining and updating the Biotics database. In recent years, with the help of BGIS, we have developed a database, NJ Wildlife Tracker, that serves as a mechanism to receive data from DEP staff, partners, and the public in a user-friendly way, and also allows our species experts to review the data, for a much more efficient flow of data from the field to Biotics. With NJ Wildlife Tracker, we also expanded the type of data we collect, by also including not just rare species observations, but observations of wildlife with any status that is observed on a roadway in order to inform our Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey (CHANJ) project.
We now would like to take advantage again of ArcGIS mobile technology and the Hub environment to expand NJ Wildlife Tracker by incorporating species and project specific surveys that will feed into the base schema of NJ Wildlife Tracker, but allows additional types of data to be collected by DEP staff, partners, and the public – such as standardized roadkill data survey data, vernal pool data, bats/bridges data, etc.