SoS - Agency Partnerships Initiative
Salmon Data Access Working Group:
Meeting 2: Portland, Oregon (November 4–6, 2009)
This year’s meeting was part of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation's 20th Biennial Conference in Portland, Oregon on November 1–5 at the Oregon Convention Center. The SalDAWG-Informatics session ran November 4–6 and included several sessions dedicated to salmon and their habitat
This year's meeting had a great line up of presentations and discussions to wow us for a day and half, including speakers from Science Commons, HUBzero, the Open Source Lab, FishTrax, NCEAS, Periscopic, among others. And, the first product issuing from the SoS-Agency Partnerships Initiative was unveiled: Julie Firman of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife demoed the beta Coastal Coho Conservation web site.
We also convened for a closed working meeting to explore the potential of developing a salmon population data ontology and we made a field trip to the coast, looking for coho.
About
SalDAWG is comprised of scientists, managers, web programmers, database developers, and others working at the intersection of primary research and natural resources management, and its resulting data and data systems. Members hail from the U.S. and Canada, from Alaska to California. The group was formed to guide the development of three projects working to deepen fisheries agency capacity for data management and in so doing, enhance collaboration among practitioners across North America and provide a foundation for increased data interoperability across borders.
Hosting the 2009 meeting in Portland and coincident with a large research conference afforded us with the unique chance to explore an array of relevant topics and meet a cadre of forward-thinking specialists working at the advanced edge of research science, communication, information management, and computer science.
Presentations and Abstracts
Open Spaces
- Open Science and Data Sharing, Kaitlin Thaney
- Developing Information Systems for Salmon Science, Management and Marketing, Peter Lawson
- Jim Strittholt
The Semantic Web
- The Semantic Web, Linked Data and How It Can Help, Peter DeVries
- The Scientific Observations Network and semantic tools for ecological data management, Matt Jones
E-science or Cyberinfrastructure
- The HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration, Michael McLennan
- Data Conservancy, A Library-Based Data Cyberinfrastructure Paradigm, Melissa Cragin
- Information Solutions for Watersheds, III. A service-oriented solution for managing and analyzing data across the Mississippi Atchafalaya River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico, Amanda Parker
Models for Data Aggregation & Delivery
- The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS), Gary Shenk
- National Environmental Information Exchange Network, Sharing data for better watershed management, Mitch West
- The Washington State Salmonid Stock Inventory, aggregation, standardization, and dissemination of sensitive, potentially contentious data, Dayv Lowry
- Information Management in LTER, Moving beyond site-based approaches to accommodate network-scale interdisciplinary research, Don Henshaw
Visualizing Information
- Capitalizing on Data Visualization Technologies, An introduction to Tableau software, Josh Vitello
- Behind the Scenes of the Sockeye IUCN Visualization, Kim Rees
- A Web-based Data Serving and Visualization Tool for Oregon Coastal Coho Salmon and Aquatic Habitat Information, Julie Firman
Approaches to Data Integration & Analysis
- Kepler, A scientific work flow support tool, Matt Jones
- Dynamic Mapping and Data Access to Salmonid Data, Jeff Cowen
- Informatic Tools to Assess Habitat Restoration in the Pacific Northwest, David Hamm
- Use of a Non-Supervised Neural Network and Hierarchical Clustering To Study Spatial Patterns of Fish Assemblages in Southeast Alaska, Katharine Miller
- Ecosystem Informatics for Natural History Data – Developing an integrated framework for biological and geographic data, Deborah Reusser
Making Data Reusable
Project Overviews
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
We're working with the ODFW Research Lab in Corvallis to create a web and database system to:
• Make it easier for ODFW staff to track their progress towards meeting conservation goals for coastal coho.
• Provide public access to frequently requested data and information on salmon and aquatic habitat in coastal Oregon and the Lower Columbia region.
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Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
We're working with DFO staff at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo to develop a summarized catch and escapement
data set by Conservation Unit (CU) to:
• Ensure DFO researchers have ready access to standard, core information needed to assess biological status of CUs.
• Establish the groundwork for eventual public access to escapement, catch rate, and CU status information in BC and Yukon
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Alaska Department of Fish and Game
We're working with ADF&G's Copper River and Prince William Sound Commercial Fisheries staff in Cordova to create web and database systems to:
• Make it easier for ADF&G staff to enter, edit, retrieve, and analyze escapement, age, sex, size and harvest data.
• Provide public access to frequently requested data and information.
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