Minako Kimura Edgar   mkimura@umich.edu

Minako Kimura Edgar has been working as a research associate at the IFR since December 2004. She is a GIS specialist working for the Great Lakes GIS Project. This project maintains the landscape-based spatial dataset for Great Lakes. We acquire, manage and distribute GIS data, which includes base-political, biological, environmental and physical data. She has been working on a Lakebed Alteration Decision Support tool for offshore wind development and nearshore habitat classification.