Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Aquatic Monitoring

Partnership (PNAMP)Partnership (PNAMP)

• Technology Exchange Meetings

Steve Rentmeester, Environmental Data Services

Sean Quigely, Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership

Technology Exchange Meetings

• Develop community of data practitioners• Identify needs of local field offices• Inventory existing tools• Demonstrate best practices• Identify regional strategic issues and options

Objectives

Timeline• May 2009 – Sept 2009

Technology Exchange Meetings

• TRRP in Portland, Sept 4th

• EcoTrust/ODFW in Corvallis, Jan 15th• WDFW in Olympia, May 7th• MaDMC in Wenatchee, May 13th• TRRP on phone, May 20th

• CRITFIC in Portland, June 5th

• WDFW on phone, June 15th• LCREP in Portland, June 18th

Meetings Convened

Common Challenges

• Data integration / synchronization across multiple databases

• Lack of documentation (study design, metrics, protocols)

• Data entry forms that meet local expectations and state-wide standards

• Endless tail-chasing to meet current reporting requirements

• Lack of policy-level support• Difficulties with funding and contracting

Additional Concerns

• Clarification of data practitioners role in monitoring programs

• Gap between expectations for tool performance and clear specifications for tool design (lack of data dictionaries, validation rules, and metric definitions)

• Difficulties receiving data from data generators

Successful approaches

• Shared development process with regular interaction between programmers and biologists

• Separation of data storage from data analysis tools

• Auto-generation of data entry forms from protocol documentation

Juvenile Out-migrant Data

• Groups - PSP, TRRP, ISEMP, StreamNet, CalFG

• Challenges - Multiple study designs, non-standardized efficiency trials, estimating catch, and difficulty reporting analysis methods

• Advances – study design report, reviews of efficiency trials

Technology Exchange Meetings

• Organization of Fish and Wildlife Information Managers• Seattle, WA• Sept 14-17th, 2009• http://www.ofwim.org/

Related Meetings

• IDFG • ODFW• EcoTrust• PSP

Proposed Meetings• CRITFC• NCEAS• PSU/TESC

Technology Exchange Meetings

• Participation with various juvenile out-migrant efforts• One-on-one metadata documenting work-sessions

with field biologists

Next Steps

Products• Tool Inventory• Meeting Notes

http://pnamp.psmfc.org/datamgt/index.asp?page=5

Technology Exchange Meetings

Questions?

Data Sharing Data Interoperability

- Well documented- Discoverable- Accessible

- Inconsistent Formats- Inconsistent Methodologies

- Well documented- Discoverable- Accessible

- Consistent Formats- Comparable Methodologies

Technology Exchange Meetings