Draft Workshop Agenda Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Objectives

• Sharing between LAES, especially around data management priorities, organization, and projects
• Discuss collective needs and opportunities in two content areas: Activity Tracking and Data Clearing/Distribution and its linkage to Activity Tracking
• Explore interest and approach for LAE becomes a durable organizing venue to help improve collaboration on LAE data management

Note: This agenda is proposing that we have a series of very brief presentations (i.e.,"lighting rounds") to allow as much time as possible for interaction. We will take very quick questions but mostly que up questions for the group discussion time after the break.

Introductions and Context

• Introductions
  • One person from each LAE
    

• Overview/intro from EPA Large Aquatic Ecosystem Council and OEI
  • EPA LAE Council Fact Sheet

Part 1: Sharing Learning

Content Focus Area 1: Activity Tracking/Registries

• OEI Perspectives & Experience Developing an Activity Registry for Large Aquatic Ecosystems - Mary McAffery 
  • Registry Diagram
  • Additional background Information: EPA Experience Developing an Activity Registry for Large Aquatic Ecosystems
• CBP Registry - Nancy Imler
  
• Implementing and enhancing the registry developed by CBP in the Great Lakes - Marcia Damato and Ken Klewin (GLNPO)
  
• Developing a Community Schema for Environmental Restoration Activity Tracking - Louis Sweeny
  

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Content Focus Area 2: EN role in data distribution/integration and connection to performance

• Using the EN to Integrate Environmental Data Sets to Enhance Performance Accountability (Speaker: Nancie Imler)
  
• Overview of Chesapeake STAT data viewer (Speaker: 'Nancie Imler)
• Puget Sound Data Exchange Network (Speaker: John Tooley)
• Columbia River Basin Overview (Speaker: Steve Rentmeester)
  
• Lake St. Clair Digital Library (Speaker: Carol Miller)
• Gulf of Maine Activity Overview (Speaker: Deb Soule)
• Regional Data Needs (Speaker: David Tetta EPA Region 10)
  

Optional Content Focus Area 3 (if time allows): Organizing around data: how are we doing it and what are we learning? 

This focus area could deal with how various LAE are or are not trying to get organized for the many (e.g., 10, 100, 1000)  actors around which data are organized. We would ask each LAE to very briefly describe current organization, and one key issue about how collaboration, decision making, investment, etc. is or is not working regarding data.

Focusing before the Break

Break

Part II: Shared Exploration and Planning

• Open Discussion: What is important? What are the issues and opportunities? (20 min)

Identify cross cutting issues/opportunities and plan our remaining time together...working from the straw list proposed below. Depending how the issues of most interest cluster, we can modify the organization of the remaining time.

• Discussion Area 1: Example - Activity Tracking as a Flow
• Discussion Area 2: Example - Where the EN fits into broader data integration efforts
• Discussion Area 3: Example - How could/should we collaborate to make progress on these areas (and the others we did not have time to discus)
  

Wrap-up and Next Steps