04 / Conservation · Project design
Arroyo Hondo Watershed
The conservation project behind the converter.
Assignment 1 presentation · Use the slide arrows to explore, or open it below for a larger view.
The project
From ridge to sea.
My original Assignment 1 for Conservation Project Design and Evaluation at the Middlebury Institute focuses on the Arroyo Hondo Watershed in California. It brings together the project’s scope, vision, conservation targets, human wellbeing targets, and threats in Miradi.
The presentation introduces the watershed and the relationships between its habitats, species, people, and conservation pressures.
What the assignment covers
The building blocks of a conservation project.
- 01 / Scope and visionDefine the place and what success would look like.
- 02 / Conservation targetsIdentify the habitats and species the project is meant to sustain.
- 03 / Human wellbeing targetsConnect the watershed to the people who depend on it.
- 04 / ThreatsName the pressures on each target and how they relate to one another.
Coursework that became a tool
Entering the same information twice.
Working through the assignment led to Miradi Converter: a way to reduce repeated entry and translate existing information into a structured conservation project. Its current development focuses on AI-assisted extraction from management plans.
The watershed project continues as coursework, while the converter explores how to make that workflow easier. Read the Miradi Converter case study ↗
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