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