1988-108-04 EXP STREAMNET (CIS-NED) FY13

StreamNet is a cooperative, regional scale data compilation and dissemination project that acquires fish related data from the management agencies, standardizes and georeferences them to the hydrography (stream network), and makes them widely available through online data query systems.  This contract covers a 9 month period, which  resulted from a a one time extension to the FY-12 contract to continue FY-12 activities while new plans were developed for FY-13.  This SOW is the result of that planning and covers the contract period from Jan. 1, 2013 through Sept. 30, 2013.

The StreamNet project is undergoing significant changes in response to new regional data priorities.  For FY-2013, data development work on the traditional data types has been deferred until new data priorities are addressed.  The specific new priorities are:

1.  Inventory of fish related data in projects funded by BPA to identify where the resulting data are currently being stored, assess the safety and security of the data in those locations, recommend suitable safe and secure storage locations if the present locations are not adequate, assist project sponsors upload unsecure data sets to the StreamNet Data Store or other appropriate accessible location, and, if the data are of a traditional StreamNet data type but are not yet included in StreamNet determine how to include them in the future.
2.  Initiate flow of data for Coordinated Assessments by obtaining estimates of the four VSP related indicators and supporting metrics from the participating state fisheries agencies (starting with priority populations), organize those data in a database conforming to the CA Data Exchange Standard (DES), publish the data as web services, and establish a process to directly feed these data to the NOAA Fisheries SPS database.  StreamNet will also coordinate with tribal efforts to compile these data and include them in the Coordinated Assessments database as they are made available.
3.  Develop a DES for juvenile abundance estimates and include this data type as part of the traditional data types in StreamNet.
4.  Explore the potential to add fish population productivity estimates to the traditional StreamNet data types.
5.  Develop a Data Sharing Agreement template to facilitate data sharing through StreamNet and other regional scale databases.
6.  Expand use of web services to utilize information from various regional databases such as Taurus, mm.org, monitoringresources.org, etc. to facilitate development of metadata and query capabilities for data in StreamNet, with a goal of increasing efficiency by eliminating the need for data sources to enter the same information more than once.  Explore the use of the common log in capabilities of those regional database.
7.  Assist completion of the Population Crosswalk took being developed by CRITFC.
8.  Prepare to receive and maintain data from the Northwest Habitat Institute as directed by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.

Any work to update the traditional StreamNet data types will be attempted only when work to address the new priorities has been completed.  Few updates are expected this year due to the new workload.

Ongoing work to support the project will include maintenance of the databases and computer infrastructure needed to manage and disseminate the data, regional coordination to integrate StreamNet efforts with other regional efforts to maximize efficiency of data flow and support regional approaches to data management and sharing, and administration of the project.

Details of the specific tasks to be performed in FY-2013 are presented in this Statement of Work.