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Northwest Environmental Data Network Meeting

June 6, 2007, 9:00 - 4:00

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 338 to connect to the call.

A. NED agenda

1. Introductions.
2. Executive Summit - Sharing Information for Decision Making 2007-10-02. Invitation, Planning and Responsibilities. (NED, PNAMP, PNW-RGIC)
   • Draft Business Case: Sharing Information to Improve Decisions - Examples of Cost Avoidance and Benefits (330k Word)
   • Draft Best Practices for Regional Data Collection, Sharing and Exchange
3. Report on Metadata Training Workshop May 22-23.
4. Northwest Environmental Data Network Inventory (Update).
5. NED Data Portal (Update).
   • Populating the Portal – needed action, outreach, contacts.
   • Potential Channel Manager Participants: Upper Columbia Basin Trust, Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership, Pacific Northwest Regional Geographic Information Council.
   • Demonstration of Portal to NOAA GIS users group on 2007-05-17

B. PNAMP data management agenda

1. PNAMP Retreat (Information).
2. PNAMP Fish Population WG is beginning a protocol review/discussion with respect to fish monitoring protocols. (Update)
3. New Task - PNAMP documenting data definitions for methods/metrics of interest. (Update)

C. Afternoon worksession: NED and CBFWA work session

1. Introductions
2. Review, and if possible finalize:
   A Strategy for Managing Fish, Wildlife, and Habitat Data for the Fish and Wildlife Program  (1.5mb Word)
3. CBFWA review of currently funded Program data management projects against NED work plan (340k?Word) and development of a FY08-09 work plan to implement the data management strategy.