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Northwest Environmental Data Network Meeting

August 2, 2006, 9:00 - 4:30

Northwest Power & Conservation Council
851 SW 6th Ave, Suite 1100
Portland, Oregon
503-222-5161 or 800-452-5161

Conference call arrangements

Please dial 877-848-1997. You will then be asked to enter the conference code. Enter code 351 to connect to the call.

A. NED agenda items

1. Introductions
2. Demo of NED Portal. (Tom Pansky)
3. Update on Columbia River Data Center Proposal. (Peter Paquet)
4. Federal Caucus Data Needs. (Michael Newsom)
5. Use of NED Data Network Portal Channels and Data Stewards Roles and Responsibilities (130k PDF) and NED Portal Data Sharing Agreement (110k PDF). Stewart Toshach
6. Update on International Columbia River Basin Center of Knowledge proposal. (Peter Paquet)
7. Report on Subbasin Planning Data Management paper. (Phil Roger)
8. Other products to complete:
   1. Check List for data collectors.
   2. Semantics for data dictionary (50k PDF). Stewart Toshach
9. Update on Salmonid Data Tracking Project. (Stewart Toshach)
10. Meeting with ISAB (Peter Paquet)
11. Short Updates from Workgroup Leads (if time).

B. PNAMP data management agenda items

1. PNAMP Inventory Task. Update. Bruce Schmidt.
2. Presentation about the Pacific NW Aquatic Monitoring Partnership and NED at the Organization of Fish and Wildlife Information Managers (OFWIM) conference in Minneapolis, MN. The conference is being held from October 16-19
3. PNAMP Effectiveness Monitoring Meeting

C. Afternoon session: 1-4pm

The Salmonid work group will meet at 1:00 pm to discuss the planned work (70k PDF) for the Study of Salmonid Status and Trend Data Collection Work Process.

Stewart Toshach
NED Coordinator &
PNAMP Data Management Co-Lead