1988-108-04 EXP STREAMNET (CIS-NED) FY14

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.  The project also provides data management related services to a variety of regional entities, including the agencies that create the biological data, and regional groups that have interest in regional scale fish monitoring data.

The StreamNet project is undergoing significant changes in response to new regional data priorities.  For FY-2014, data development work on the traditional data types has been relegated to secondary priority, with primary emphasis on generating a flow of data to satisfy the Coordinated Assessments project and to support the archiving of data to secure data repositories that are available to appropriate regional scale entities.  secure data from BPA funded projects.  More specific work priorities for this year are:

1.  Based on the FY-13 inventory of fish monitoring data, work to support efforts that ensure that data created by BPA funded projects are archived in suitably secure and accessible data repositories, as listed in monitoringresources.org.
2.  Assure annual updates of available indicators and metrics as defined by the Coordinated Assessments (CA) project, and work to support improved data flow efficiency.  Work toward establishing automated data feeds from the CA database to NOAA Fisheries for the Salmon Populaiton Status database, and as agency capabilities improve, automate data feeds from the agencies to the CA database.  As the CA project expands focus to additional types of indicators, such as for hatchery performance, lead the development of Data Exchange Standards (DES) for the project and incorporate them into the CA database.
3.  Finalize a DES for juvenile abundance estimates and include this data type as part of the traditional data types in StreamNet.  Assure that juvenile data are included in the CA data flow, and work to acquire juvenile data that are broader than just CA metrics for inclusion in the StreamNet database, as a lower priority.
4.  Explore the potential to add fish population productivity estimates to the traditional StreamNet data types.
5.  Implement 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.
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.  Some resumption of updating the more traditional data may begin in FY-14, but complete updating of standard data trends will not be possible due to other priorities.

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-2014 are presented in this Statement of Work.