Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
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About NWIFC
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commissionis a consortium of 20 federally recognized Indian Tribes in western portion of Washington State. Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) received a 2007 National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant to develop a WQX data exchange utilizing a central Node at the NWIFC office and a Client at the member tribe’s offices. The original intent of the project was to utilize the exchange network technology and to minimize the administrative burden of having a Node at each member’s tribal office. The project included the planning, development, deployment, training and mentoring support to member tribes establishing their own exchange network Nodes as well as the tribes that will be accessing the Exchange Network through the NWIFC Node for submitting their Clean Water Act §106 data to the EPA.
Node Technology
- OpenNode2: installed the lastest version of the Exchange Network Node.
- Node Client: NWIFC WQX Client is adapted to member tribe's needs and pulls from the MS SQL Express 2008 Tribal Water Quality Database (TWQD).
- WQX Plugin: part of the OpenNode2 software
- Tribal Water Quality Database (TWQD): developed by the NWIFC; it contains a subset of Water Quality parameters and is WQX compliant.
Active Data Exchanges
Water Quality Exchange to the EPA-WQX and Partners
Planned Data Exchanges
Juvenile Migrant Data Exchange:The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) is working as part of the Puget Sound Initiative (PSI) to help support the cleanup and restoration of the Sound’s waterways and salmon habitat. One of the projects currently underway within the PSI is the Puget Sound Data Exchange (PSDE) project. The goal of this PSDE project is to use the Exchange Network (EN) to collect and integrate information from fish and wildlife agencies, Tribes, water quality and quantity agencies, land managers, and agencies providing restoration and protective action grants. The information will be used to inform decisions and activities designed to restore and protect the Puget Sound watershed.
The PSDE project intends to achieve the following outcomes for the PSI:
1. Improved sharing of juvenile migrant salmon information, using the EN, between Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), NWIFC, participating Tribes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology), and the Puget Sound Partnership (PSP).
2. Improved internal and shared tools for entry and management of juvenile migrant salmon information.
3. Development and implementation of improved information access tools, including an EN client for use with the juvenile migrant flow.
Other One Stop or Exchange Network Related Projects
Contacts
Bruce Jones, SSHIAP Section Manager, (bjones@nwifc.org)
