Monitoring Location Pilot Project

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Monitoring Location Pilot Project
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Purpose of pilot project

• Initial step towards sharing data on a simplistic
  level
• Use existing standards and schema to build Excel
  template to share information
• Environmental Data Standards Council (EDSC)
  standards
• Water Quality Exchange (WQX) Schema
• Flexibility to add/delete info as needed
• Sets the stage for Exchange Network Grant (if we
  get it)
• Obtain monitoring location info for GoMODP
  projects for web application

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Project Development

• Ray Konisky, Tom Shyka, and Deb Soule initially
  create template
• Reviewed applicable standards and WQX schema to
  develop short list of monitoring location info
  items of interest
• Development was quick about 1 hour to create.
• Info on data owner/contact, project, and
  monitoring locations in an Excel Template
• Tested ability to create data according to
  template
• Executive and Technical Committee Reviews
• Minor revisions
• Call for data contributors 10/26/2006
• NHDES, ME DMR, UNH COOA, Huntsman Marine Science
  Centre and GoMOOS contributed
• GoMOOS creates initial web application

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Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant
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About the grant

• EPA sponsored grant to further information
  exchange using its Exchange Network
• Applied 11/17/2006 for 465,097 will hear in
  summer 2006 if get it
• Formal grant partners
• NH Department of Env. Services (applicant)
• GoMOOS (most of the work)
• Tufts University SEANET
• Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
• University of South Carolina Research Foundation
• Coastal Ocean Observing Center, UNH
• Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NFSC- NOAA)
• USEPA Atlantic Ecology Division
• Centre for Marine Biodiversity
• Atlantic Reference Centre (actually informal
  partner)
• Other partners can still participate just no

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We signed up to

• Develop and implement an Exchange Network host
  node at GoMOOS.
• Set up node clients for participating partners.
• Develop and implement data exchange schema (for
  project, station, and result data).
• Develop web application to display data and
  monitoring locations and allow for queries.

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Benefits

• to do what we agreed to do in MOU
• By using standards, can more readily communicate
  with outside groups using same standards
• Possible crosswalk between these standards and
  others?
• Using a framework that has been in use for a few
  years by many types of environmentally oriented
  programs
• Process still allows for flexibility we create
  what we need
• Do not need to change partner databases just
  need to map to schema developed
• We will have interoperability
• Transferability other partners can still
  contribute

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• Questions?