Methods Board Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Nov. 15-16, 2006
Notes from Physical Habitat Data Elements Committee
Wednesday, Nov. 15 Discussion
Overall goal today
Construct plan for developing data elements for habitat
Questions:
(1) What types of habitat should be included?
Approach:
- Construct data elements in context of ESAR
- Examine ESAR details – need contact/plan for interaction
- Build on result types appropriate for habitat
- Query experts from different types of protocols – lake, estuaries, etc.
- Build on endpoint types list started by Revital
- Develop matrix of common characteristics/ingredients and level of rigor (qualitative/quantitative, estimates/msmts, etc) from major protocols (LeAnne’s matrix, Mike Miller’s matrix)
- Identify stakeholders, partners, collaborators
- National fish habitat initiative—BRD, Aquatic GAP, AFS, TU, TNC
- USFS
- NOAA
- BLM
- BOR
- Distill list down into core habitat data elements (last thing to do, maybe next year)
What is the plan?
- Build on draft PHab data elements
- Build on linkages with ESAR standards
- Identify unifying concepts across protocols
- Expand draft modules (esp. 2.0, 5.0, and 7.0)
- More-specific definitions and “pick lists”
Goals
- MDCB, NWQMC, ACWI approval of pHab data elements list
- ESAR-compatible data elements list for pHab in 2007
- Present pHab data elements at NMC in 2008
How do we get there?
Meetings – probably need more than 2x year
Conference calls - ??
What resources do we need?
- Time
- Personnel (or volunteers)
Notes From Thursday Nov. 16
General notes on role of the Board relative to Physical Habitat
- Marketing
- Building capacity
- Facilitaors
- Clearing house
- Data standards
- Needs to be ESAR compatable
- Build a pic list
- Need a results and location modules
- Mike Miller matrix of comparison of Phab lists from various sources
Chuck Spooner: Need to contact Lockheed Martin who is leading the EPA ESAR PHab development.
LeAnn Astin: Question: Is there a formal document asking the Board to be the focus of this effort? Action: Eric contact Bob Hirsch (USGS), Gail Mallard (Council), and Donna Meyers (NAWQA) ASAP
Revital Katznelson: Need to work with Curtis Cude and matrices
LeAnn Astin : Need to look into relational database commonalities and field protocol matrix
Chris Lochner: Will the WIS efforts and PHab elements be related to Webservice?
Table 1. Estimated timeline of major tasks for Physical Habitat Elements work Group
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2007 |
2008 |
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1. Develop MDCB Technical Liaison Team |
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2. Conference calls # |
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3. Face-to-face meetings |
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4. Products |
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a. Results type |
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b. Mike Miller Matirx |
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c. WQDE for PHab that is ESAR compatable |
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5. Documents |
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a. Internal web-page updates |
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b. External web site updates |
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c. Publication by NWQMC Conference |
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Figure 1. Conceptual diagram showing relation of the Physical Habitat Technical Liaison Committee of the Methods Data Comparability Board to other Federal agency habitat groups.
(Other groups to be added as identified)
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