4. WHY THE NEED FOR DATABASE MANAGEMENT? Seven major rivers cross the reservation –24 Established sampling sites –12+ years accumulated water quality data –7+ years accumulated benthic data –Spreadsheet program limitations –Inability to complete statistical analysis

8. Nutrient Workgroup Members include: EPA Region VI, EPA Region VIII, Southern Ute Tribe, Ute Mtn. Ute Tribe, State of Colorado, New Mexico, CDOW, and several environmental interest groups. Nutrients Habitat Algae Ash Free Dry Mass Volatile Organic Matter Sediment

9. Data: Metals

10. Data: Nutrients

11. Major Accomplishments Phase I  Development of SIM-DE (SIM-Data Entry)  Development of Individual Data Warehouse  Began design of WebSIM  Setup remote StoRet hosting for the 27 Tribes of Region VIII  Creation of a SIM/StoRet compatible Tribal Spreadsheet for data collection and management  Migration of SUIT data into StoRet and the Individual Data Warehouse  Regional Training on Tribal Spreadsheet and Data Management

12. Station Information Format

13. Major Accomplishments Phase II  Creation and Implementation of WebSIM Application  On-Site Data Management Workshops  16 of 27 Tribes Began Loading Data into Regional StoRet Database

14. Phase II (cont…)  New Regional StoRet Web Portal including WebSIM, Individual and Regional Data Warehouse, and Tribal Contact Database  Creation of the Region VIII Tribal Management Site  Customize and Deploy Regional Copy of the National Data Warehouse

15. Major and On-going Accomplishments Phase III  Continue On-Site Data Management Workshops  Complete Migration of all Region VIII Tribes Historic Data  Provide assistance for Region VIII Tribes for Current Data Submissions  Create a business plan  Streamline communication between the Data Warehouse and Local Data Management and Analysis Tools (imLink)  Investigate options to deploy the Regional StoRet as a Node on the National Environmental Information Exchange Network. (NEIEN)