NBWA Stewardship Plan Projects Database

Update on Progress To Date, Next Phase of Work

Deanne DiPietro, Sonoma Ecology Center

Data Standardization

Participated in CalEDLN, development of standardized project description

Project data from Stewardship Plan converted into CalEDLN standard

Also standardized: SF Bay Joint Venture Project Database (291) Natural Resource Project Inventory (5,605) North Coast IRWMP Projects (121) SEC, Marin Audubon, Urban Creeks Cncl (60)

Data Standardization

Putting info into the same fields as everyone else (left a lot of blanks)

Syncing up keywords with those of other catalogs so they can be searched together

Including geographic data in the records so they can be searched by area

NBWA Project Objectives

•Cultural education•Dry weather nuisance flows•Erosion, sedimention, and refuse reduction•Flood hazard assessment•Flood plain protection•Groundwater best management practices•Habitat restoration•Impaired water bodies•Interpretive features•Monitoring•Potable water supply•Public education•Receiving waters protection•Recreational facilities•Recreational use•Recycled water•Riparian protection•Stream geomorphic restoration•Stream restoration

KRIS Resource Catalog

East Marin/Northbay KRIS: a large collection of charts, maps, tabular data, photos, and documents

Metadata standardized and will soon be posted, then will be searchable with all the other data

Data Networking

NBWA Project Database now in the CERES Catalog with NRPI and others

May all be harvested and analyzed together

Networked catalogs are refreshed by data stewards

The Northbay Commons is born

Cure for the stand-alone database

Now what would you like your data to do? Maps Graphs, stats Downloads News-feeds

NBWA Projects in CERES

CA Resources Agency’s system

Searchable with other catalogs across the state

By keyword By region By organization

Powerful Searching in CERES

• Sonoma Land Trust• US Fish and Wildlife Service• Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open

Space District• Marin County• Sonoma County Water Agency• North Bay Watershed Association• Sonoma County Water Agency• Laguna de Santa Rosa• Bay Area Open Space Council• San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development

Commission• Audubon Canyon Ranch• Bodega Marine Lab (UC Davis)• Laguna de Santa Rosa• Circuit Rider Productions• Sonoma State University• California Dept. of Forestry & Fire Protection

Catalog Training and Updates

Information Management and Sharing workshops held in August

Reps from 16 orgs trained

Funded by USGS

Outreach & Data Holdings Review

Database application for review and editing

Combining all project and resource data to review by organization

Outreach & Data Holdings Review

Next Phase: October-February

Objectives: Update and augment the data Promote ownership and future updates

Challenges: Need to track down the right people, hope they can

spend the time Capture data that will support analysis desired by

NBWA

Benefits to Everyone

Data is put to work for a real purpose, so it gets refined for that purpose

Data becomes a “living” resource instead of another stale duplicate

Northbay Commons and CERES are tested, refined, and pushed forward

Open public access, will lead to further development of analysis tools

Thank you