north american encyclopedia of life
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North American Encyclopedia of Life. Web-based resource to enable federal data usage, integration, decision making, and research in the areas of climate change, invasive species, and ecosystems management. Participants. US Geological Survey (USGS) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
U.S. Department of the InteriorU.S. Geological Survey
North AmericanEncyclopedia of Life
Web-based resource to enable federal data usage, integration, decision making, and research in the areas of climate change, invasive species, and ecosystems management.
Participants
· US Geological Survey (USGS)· National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
· Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
· Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
· NASA
· Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)
· Smithsonian Institution· Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
· National Museum of Natural History
· Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Initial Study Areas & Goals
· Prototype will focus on the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay regions to support use cases for:· Invasive species
· Climate change
· Provide additional data to http://www.data.gov
Potential NAEOL Datasets · Integrated Taxonomic Information System· EPA Datasets:· Watershed boundaries, wetlands, stream segments, water
quality, air quality
· NASA Datasets:· land cover type, gross primary productivity, vegetation indices,
land surface temperature, fire, etc..
· Smithsonian:· Chesapeake Bay watershed environmental and ecological data· Collections
· USGS NBII· US mirror to GBIF · GAP species distributions· GAP Protected Areas · Global Invasive Species DB
Current Status
· Working group has been established
· DNS is being registered (http://naeol.gov)
· EPA has Google Earth Enterprise application up and running for geospatial data
· Site to be hosted at NBII
· Developing Use Cases
Next Steps
· Continue convening the working groups
· Finalize on content management system
· Continue delivery of geospatial datasets to EPA for installation on the Google Earth Enterprise (i.e. fusing vs. web-services)
· Develop species mashup capability
· Identify available web-services and enable