Program Announcement No. 1434-HQ-98-PA-00044 APPLICATION INFORMATION SUMMARY (FY 98) NSDI COMPETITIVE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS PROGRAM
1. Project title:
A Clearinghouse for Geospatial Information on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State
2. Project summary:
This project will build a Clearinghouse node for Olympic Peninsula natural resource metadata. This project will significantly add to the amount of metadata for the Olympic Peninsula on Clearinghouse by providing dedicated resources to outreach and metadata creation, producing educational materials, and convening metadata workshops. We will emphasize documentation of biological and coastal/marine data for the Peninsula, and will establish cooperative relationships for the Olympic Natural Resources Center and Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary with federal, state and local agencies, as well as tribes, researchers, private landowners, and other non-governmental organizations.
3. Applicant:
U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division
Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Field Station for Protected Area Research
University of Washington
P.O. Box 352100
Seattle, WA 98195-2100
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~cpsu
4. Collaborating organizations/agencies:
State of Washington
Geographic Information Council
P.O. Box 42445
Olympia, WA 98504-2445
http://www.wa.gov/gic/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sanctuaries and Reserves Division
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
138 West First Street
Port Angeles, WA 98362
http://www.nos.noaa.gov/ocrm/nmsp/nmsolympiccoast.html
Olympic Natural Resources Center
P.O. Box 1628
Forks, WA 98331
http://www.onrc.washington.edu
University of Washington
Department of Geography
P.O. Box 353550
Seattle, WA 98195-3550
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~geogdept
U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division
Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Olympic Field Station
600 East Park Avenue
Port Angeles, WA 98362
http://www.nbs.gov/fresc/fs.portangeles.html
5. Amount requested:
$39,987
6. Matching funds:
$92,178
7. Principal point of contact:
Dr. David L. Peterson
206 543-1587 (voice)
206 685-0790 (fax)
wild@u.washington.edu
A CLEARINGHOUSE FOR GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION ON THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA, WASHINGTON STATE
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A CLEARINGHOUSE FOR GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION ON THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA, WASHINGTON STATE
APPLICATION NARRATIVE
Objectives
This project supports the development of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Clearinghouse Node for the Olympic Peninsula, State of Washington. Although this is primarily a Clearinghouse devel- opment effort, we will include a substantial outreach and educational component to serve a diverse user community and will also build stronger relationships among the many Peninsula organizations to support digital geographic data coordination (this addresses three of the four specific efforts cited in the Program Announcement). By providing scientists, resource managers, policy makers and citizens with better access to natural resource data, we hope to improve resource management and decision making on the Peninsula and to reduce the conflict that has plagued this region for the past 20 years. Specifically, we propose to:
Background
The Olympic Peninsula is an unusually diverse region which ranges from temperate rainforest to the rainshadow "banana belt" (Henderson et al. 1989, Buckingham et al. 1995), from alpine glaciers to the ocean. It also has a significant diversity of ownership, with significant acreage managed by the federal government, state agencies, Native American tribes, and timber companies (Figure 1). Objectives for management of natural resources in this region vary by agency and landowner, yet many physical and biological connections clearly transcend political boundaries (Peterson et al. 1997). The current focus on ecosystem management and regional planning make it imperative that resource data be examined at large spatial scales. Analyses of vegetation patterns on the Olympic Peninsula (Turner et al. 1996) and the western Cascades of Oregon (Spies et al. 1994) demonstrate the value of using diverse data sources across political boundaries to assess spatial patterns and managerial options. Furthermore, there are important linkages (e.g., anadramous fish) between the terrestrial ecosystems of the Peninsula and the surrounding marine environment (Cederholm et al 1989, Bilby et al.1996, Stouder et al. 1997).
Because of the diversity of ownership interests, there is currently no single repository or access point for natural resource data on the Olympic Peninsula. However, the Olympic Natural Resource Center (ONRC) wishes to take on this role. ONRC's mission is "to foster and support the research and education necessary to provide sound scientific information on which to base sustainable forest and marine industries, and at the same time sustain ecological health." ONRC sees geospatial information and GIS technology as a major component of this strategy, and is now developing a GIS program and hiring a GIS specialist who will direct the "administration of ONRC's role as a regional data clearinghouse and delivery of GIS services to support ONRC's research agenda" (ONRC 1996). Therefore, ONRC has committed to coordinate a regional node of NSDI. Now the metadata must be gathered so the Center can advance its role of encouraging and facilitating forest and marine resources research and education on the Olympic Peninsula.
The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS), designated in 1994, also recognizes the linkages between the terrestrial environment and the health of the waters that it manages. In its 1996 annual report, the OCNMS Sanctuary Advisory Council noted that while GIS is a necessary technology for managing the Sanctuary, the Sanctuary should tie into existing GIS resources rather than "reinvent the wheel" (OCNMS 1996, 1997). In February 1998, the Sanctuary held a planning workshop to develop its research strategy for the next five years, and GIS and metadata was again a clear theme for them to pursue. Similarly, this project will also assist the proposed Northwest Straits National Marine Sanctuary, which would manage the waters to the north and east of the Peninsula.
The Washington State Geographic Information Council (WAGIC) maintains an NSDI Clearinghouse Node and is interested in adding data from all parts of the state, including the Olympic Peninsula, to the metadata on its Node. In addition, the USGS-Biological Resources Division (BRD) has a keen interest in developing the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) (DÆErchia et al. 1997). Both the Olympic and the University of Washington BRD Field Stations are committed to assisting the ONRC in its mission to develop natural resource metadata.
The Department of Geography at the University of Washington, another cooperator in the project, has educated many GIS practitioners in Washington State. The Department's GIS program offered a course in metadata long before the NSDI was established (Nyerges and Chrisman 1989). Students in that course are now (Winter Quarter 1998) developing FGDC-compliant metadata for the ONRC Clearinghouse node.
Project's contribution to NSDI
This project will contribute to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure in several ways. It will greatly expand the coverage of metadata for the Olympic Peninsula, in particular for natural resource and coastal/marine datasets. It will raise the awareness of metadata and the NSDI among many local governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, and it will significantly increase cooperation among those organizations. It will develop useful training and educational materials that will be used to promote NSDI in other parts of Washington State, and which we will make available for other projects outside the state.
Relationship to other projects
This project is closely connected to two recent Cooperative Agreements Program projects funded by grants to organizations in Washington State. First, rather than create a separate metadata node, the metadata created under this project will be stored on the Washington State node of the NSDI, which was created under a 1995 CCAP grant to the Washington Geographic Information Council (Jeff Holm, principal contact). Second, we will also cooperate with a project funded by a 1997 CCAP grant to the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) (James Eby, principal contact) to develop metadata for WDFW's geospatial data, including the Washington State GAP species distribution data. These are important datasets for the Olympic Peninsula, and the WDFW project will also maintain its metadata on the Washington State NSDI node. Third, the project will actively coordinate with the two Washington State Framework projects currently underway to facilitate the ONRC's input to their projects. Finally, WAGIC is in the process of developing a Framework Business Plan for Washington State that will take a strategic approach to coordinating the development of Framework data themes in the State. This plan will assess the common spatial information needs of a cross-section of spatial information user. We will serve on the development committee for that effort and help define the requirements and propose possible means to fulfill them.
We are also in contact with two other CCAP awards in Washington State, to the Puget Sound Regional Council (1997) and to the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments (1996), although our project has little overlap with those projects. Our project will also cooperate with the Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model project now being conducted as a partnership of federal, state, and local agencies and a number of units at the University of Washington.
Similar ongoing projects
We will contact other Clearinghouse activities in coastal environments, such as the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (1996 CCAP grant), to determine what techniques they found to be successful. We will also contact projects that have similar outreach efforts, such as the 1997 CCAP projects in Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Texas, to see if they are willing to share their materials so that we might adapt them for use in Washington State.
Compliance with FGDC standards; Clearinghouse level
All metadata developed for this project will comply with the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC 1994) and will be available to the public via the Internet and the FGDC Clearinghouse. For datasets with a biological component, metadata will comply with NBII metadata standards. All other relevant FGDC standards will be followed. Metadata will also be developed in accordance with guidelines established by WAGIC as part of their 1995 CCAP grant (WAGIC 1995). As mentioned above, the Clearinghouse node will be co-located with the Washington State NSDI node. The data contributed to the node by this Project will be at the "C" level when possible (e.g., for data from Federal agencies), but lack of on-line data and other institutional constraints on the part of the organizations holding the data will likely cause a certain amount of our metadata to be at the "A" or "B" level. The server is operating at level 3.
We will register two "pointers" to the Washington State Node from the federal Clearinghouse Gateway: one that identifies it as the Washington State Node and another that identifies it as the ONRC Node. Therefore, metadata will not have to be duplicated, but users who are familiar with the ONRC Node will find the name of the node they expect.
Further applications
It is our intention that the ONRC Clearinghouse node will serve as a model of cooperation for other regions that have similar challenges in terms of diversity of landowners. This project is also intended to spawn similar projects in other regions of Washington State.
WAGIC and ONRC anticipate a long-term commitment to supporting a variety of NSDI component initiatives in Washington State. The deliverables and lessons learned from this project will be critical to long-term success for the Washington State Clearinghouse and Framework initiatives. Partnerships and working relationships established will be leveraged in the future to continued enhancement of Olympic Peninsula related spatial data. Promotional and educational materials developed as part of this grant will provide a useful resource for training and implementing the NSDI initiatives in Washington State. These resources and approach can be applied in the future to facilitate involvement with bordering states and could provide a common resource for the entire West Coast region.
Technical Approach
Building Metadata and the Clearinghouse Node Initially, all project participants will collectively determine which organizations have geographic data for the Olympic Peninsula, and identify the contact information for the organization's GIS manager. Personnel from the University of Washington/USGS-BRD Field Station for Protected Area Research (FSPAR) will then contact each organization to determine their willingness to cooperate with the ONRC Clearinghouse and the status of their metadata efforts. This effort is already well underway, and virtually every organization we have contacted (over 30 to date) has agreed to cooperate with the ONRC Clearinghouse. Many of these organizations have submitted letters of support, which are attached to this proposal. We will welcome all organizations with geospatial data for the Olympic Peninsula to contribute metadata to the ONRC Clearinghouse. However, we will particularly pursue relationships with owners of biologi- cal, coastal, and ocean spatial data, because these data are particularly relevant for the missions of ONRC and OCNMS. We will seek out not only public agencies, but also large private landowners (timber com- panies), as well as researchers and non-profit groups.
Figure 2 Overview of ONRC Clearinghouse Node Development
For organizations unfamiliar with metadata or which have made little progress in compiling them, FSPAR will provide FGDC and WAGIC standards documentation and provide advice on suitable metadata tools. For organizations without resources to create metadata, FSPAR will assist with creation of metadata for their datasets. For organizations that are committed to creating their own metadata, FSPAR will provide assistance as needed. All submitted metadata will be required to adhere to FGDC standards. Although all organizations will be encouraged to participate fully, those with proprietary interests (e.g., private landowners) can simply provide contact information and some limited description of the data. We will pay particular attention to establishing capabilities that endure after the project ends, so that ONRC will be able to maintain the Clearinghouse indefinitely. Organizations will be provided protocols for updating their data; information on date of acquisition and frequency of updates will help users assess data quality and temporal resolution.
FSPAR will construct a Web site for the Olympic Peninsula Clearinghouse data. The clearinghouse site will be linked to sites maintained by data contributors and to all other appropriate sites relevant to Olympic Peninsula natural resource data. Ideally, metadata contributors will serve their data themselves on the Web, a task that is now quite feasible for most public agencies.
Metadata workshops, materials, and tools
The proposed data archive at ONRC depends on trained users in the pool of local cooperators and community groups. An outreach effort is needed to fully realize the potential of the geographic data clearinghouse on the Olympic Peninsula. The Washington State Geographic Information Council and Prof. Nicholas Chrisman will create, coordinate and deliver multiple, one-day Metadata Creation Workshops in support of the ONRC Clearinghouse effort. As a 1995 CCAP recipient, WAGIC created a Clearinghouse Node for Washington State and prototyped several metadata creation workshops. The focus of this proposal is to leverage the experience gained in delivering those early workshops and develop high-quality promotional and educational reference materials for several Metadata Creation Workshops to be delivered around the Olympic Peninsula.
The workshops will give participants hands-on experience with several metadata collection tools and result in the attendees posting at least one example of their organizations' metadata to the Clearinghouse node. The first half of this one-day class provides an overview of the FGDC's Metadata Content Standard and several types of collection tools. During the second half, attendees choose a tool that will work in their work environment and actually create metadata and post it to the Clearinghouse Node. This effort will continue to focus on the educational aspects of the workshops and the creation of classroom reference materials to enhance the learning experience. These materials will then be used in all subsequent Metadata workshops in the state and would be made available via the Internet as a teaching resource to any interested organization.
The intent of this newly developed resource is not to duplicate information contained in the FGDC's Metadata Content Standard 'Green Book' but rather serve as a classroom resource that bridges the gap between the Standard and the actual creation of metadata. The Workshop Workbook will describe the various tools, their relative merits given an organization's orientation and readiness to compile metadata. It is anticipated that the following tools will be featured: a word processing template, an on-line collection tool that is Internet-based and integrated with the Isite Clearinghouse platform, at least two examples of stand-alone metadata collection environment that are PC database oriented. One of these will be commercial-vendor supplied and the other will be MetaMaker as distributed by the NBII. WAGIC will also explore ways to enhance the functionality of the FGDC's Metadata Entry System (MES). Based on experience gained in the early Workshops many participants are interested in utilizing a tool like the MES. In cooperation with WAGIC Clearinghouse Steering Committee, Washington State Department of Information Services (DIS) will facilitate the selected enhancements to MES. The enhanced version of MES will be made available to current and future metadata contributors. Additionally, a set of professionally produced promotional materials will be created. These materials will primarily focus on promoting Clearinghouse contributions from local jurisdiction (counties, cities, councils of governments) and tribal entities. The intent is to provide an effective set of tools that can be used for selling and gaining support for the Metadata, Clearinghouse and Framework initiatives in the State. The keystone to the approach will be promoting the value of adopting and furthering the NSDI approach to help contributing organizations meet their professional and public access needs for spatial information.
Milestones and means of assessing progress
Several activities associated with this proposal have already begun with funding from ONRC. The Field Station for Protected Area Research has established a Web site for the ONRC Clearinghouse, and we have begun to establish relationships with many of the data producers on the Peninsula. WAGIC has conducted a preparatory metadata workshop. We are requesting funding to continue the activities that we have begun, so that the ONRC Clearinghouse Node becomes as fully populated with metadata for the Peninsula as possible and so that relationships between ONRC and the Peninsula GIS community are cemented.
Milestones for this project are:
The means for assessing progress on this project will mainly be the amount of metadata compiled, as well as the variety of organizations from which we receive metadata, either through our workshops or otherwise. The full test of this process will be the use of the ONRC Clearinghouse by researchers and resource managers to conduct research and analysis.
We will comply with all of the reporting requirements listed in section XI of the Program Announcement
Project Participants/Experience
The project is a collaborative project that includes six major participating organizations. These organizations have a wide diversity of skills and experience in planning, project management, data resource man- agement, and GIS. Personnel in these organizations are very knowledgeable and are experts within their own domain. They have extensive experience gaining consensus among autonomous organizations and integrating geospatial data developed from different sources.
In addition to these six participants, many other organizations have already committed to providing metadata for the Clearinghouse Node.
USGS-BRD Field Station for Protected Area Research (FSPAR). FSPAR is a unit of the U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division (BRD), located at the University of Washington (UW). Dr. David L. Peterson is Field Station Leader and a Research Biologist with BRD, and Professor, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington. He has conducted research on natural resources for 20 years, with projects funded by several federal agencies, including the U.S. Geological Survey, National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His recent work focuses on the ecology and biogeography of the Olympic Peninsula, particularly with respect to global change impacts and inventory and monitoring of natural resources. He was technical coordinator for the development of vegetation and landform databases for Olympic, North Cascades, Mt. Rainier and Crater Lake National Parks, and is principal investigator for geographic metadata clearinghouse activities on the Olympic Peninsula in cooperation with the ONRC. He has published over 100 papers on various aspects of ecology and resource management in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere.
Robert A. Norheim is the GIS Analyst for FSPAR. His work has included developing metadata for FSPAR datasets as well as research into the nature of, and potential sources for, error. He is supervising the development of the ONRC Clearinghouse, and his duties include outreach and standards development.
Teresa Z. Alcock is currently coordinating the development of the ONRC Clearinghouse. Her duties include outreach, metadata development, identification of potential partners, selection of metadata tools, and web site development.
Peterson will be the Project Manager. Norheim and Alcock will be the lead for identifying existing and planned geospatial data about the peninsula, and collecting and/or compiling the metadata about those geospatial data. They will also lead development of the Web site that will be the companion to the ONRC Node. Alcock will be working full time on Clearinghouse development, Norheim half time.
Washington Geographic Information Council (WAGIC). Jeff Holm is the Statewide Coordinator for WAGIC, which is a unit of the Washington State government. WAGIC has just finished its work on a 1995 CCAP grant that established a NSDI Clearinghouse node for the state. The Geographic Information Council represents a wide variety of domain experts in many different jurisdictions throughout the State. The Council also represents a wide range of disciplines, such as growth management, water resources, education, transportation, job market, justice, and health care. They will provide input about geospatial metadata requirements and designation of the initial and detailed sets of geospatial metadata. They will also coordinate the development of metadata for statewide datasets that will also be applicable to the Peninsula.
Holm will take the lead on enhancing the MES, developing metadata workshop materials, scheduling workshops around the Peninsula, and conducting those workshops.
NOAA Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS). Edward Bowlby is the research coordinator at OCNMS. Before the ONRC GIS project ever started, he and other OCNMS staff organized a workshop for those interested in GIS in the marine environment on the Olympic Peninsula. He works on various projects that are GIS-based, including but not limited to intertidal mapping, subtidal surveys, bathymetry, kelp surveys, shipwreck sites, and marine mammal and seabird populations.
Bowlby will be the conduit for the project's links to marine geospatial information at NOAA and other agencies, and will help facilitate the compilation of metadata for those datasets. OCNMS is also planning to hire a GIS intern this year whose role would be to document the Sanctuary's geospatial data.
Olympic Natural Resources Center (ONRC). Miranda Wecker has 13 years of experience in program development and administration of natural resource, coastal and marine policy projects. She directs the Marine Program of the University of Washington's Olympic Natural Resources Center. She has been involved in research and educational activities aimed at the integration of scientific information into practical management policies. Wecker currently manages the following projects for the ONRC: the GIS research and training program, the marine curriculum development program, and the exotic species research program. She has consulted with communities in western Washington to design and start up nongovernmental organizations that promote sustainable development. She has provided legal and policy advice in connection with several major environmental projects, including a project funded by the Coastal Zone Management program and two others funded by EPA Near Coastal Waters Program grants. Prior to her work in western Washington, Wecker consulted on projects related to international ocean law and policy issues. She served on the National Research Council's Committee on Marine Debris which published a report reviewing implementation of an international treaty. For six years, she served as editor and publisher of the monthly Oceans Policy News. She regularly advised the U.S. State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Navy, and the Coast Guard regarding the implications of U.S. negotiating positions in international forums and served as a non-governmental advisor on the U.S. delegation to several international meetings.
ONRC has a well-equipped GIS lab and is in the final stages of hiring a GIS Analyst to manage the lab. ONRC also convenes the Olympic Peninsula Research Coordinating Group, a collaborative body of researchers who do work on the Peninsula (and a potential source of geospatial and biological datasets). Wecker will provide direction for the Clearinghouse project and help identify holders of spatial datasets on the Peninsula. The new GIS Analyst will work half time on the Clearinghouse, and will be prepared to oversee Clearinghouse activities when this project ends.
University of Washington Department of Geography. Dr. Nicholas Chrisman, Associate Professor and a national leader in the field of GIS, has long promoted the idea that metadata are an essential component of GIS. From 1982 to 1987, Chrisman was the Chair of the Working Group on Data Quality, National Committee for Digital Cartographic Data Standards, which produced FIPS 173, the Spatial Data Transfer Standard. He is currently a member of the Mapping Science Committee of the National Research Council, whose purpose is to provide direction and rationale to the FGDC for the implementation of the NSDI. Chrisman has recently authored a textbook, Exploring Geographic Information Systems, and has published over 70 papers on GIS and error. He has been PI or co-PI on over a dozen grants from National Science Foundation and other federal sources over the past twenty years. Most directly related to this proposal, he was funded by NSF Grant SES 87-22084 during 1988-91, titled "Modeling error in overlaid categorical maps".
Chrisman will participate in the project on a number of levels. His background with SDTS and his research interests place a strong emphasis on testing of GIS products. The current Geography 458 class will contribute a number of test results to the ONRC metadata resource. In addition, he is an advocate of an interface to metadata using spatial coverage diagram and other forms of thematic mapping. This project can provide a test-bed for these approaches. Chrisman will also participate in the metadata workshops.
A Sun workstation in the Department of Geography served as the temporary home of the Washington State node of the NSDI until more permanent accommodations at the University of Washington Libraries were recently established. Other units of the University of Washington that are participating de facto in this project are the University of Washington Libraries which will take responsibility for the Clearinghouse Node, and the College of Forest Resources which will actually manage the node and which also provides space to FSPAR.
USGS-BRD Olympic Field Station. Dr. Edward G. Schreiner is Field Station Leader and a Research Biologist with the USGS-BRD, Olympic Field Station. He has conducted research on natural resources, with an emphasis on vegetation in the Olympic Mountains and elsewhere for 25 years. He has worked on a variety of research projects including impacts of human trampling on backcountry campsites, the role of exotic plants in natural ecosystems, exotic mountain goats, the role of Roosevelt elk in old-growth forests, and global climate change. He recently completed a book Flora of the Olympics which includes a detailed account of the phytogeography of the Peninsula and is currently involved with designing a long-term ecological monitoring program for the Olympic Peninsula that involves landscape as well as population-scale studies. He has served as technical consultant to the pioneering efforts to map vegetation in the Olympic Mountains using early LANDSAT imagery and technical consultant to the recently completed vegetation mapping projects at the four large national parks in Oregon and Washington. He is co-author of two books and more than 50 technical reports and journal publications. Individuals wishing to work on the Peninsula often seek his expertise on ecology and vegetation, and he is a frequent consultant to other national parks and agencies in the western United States. Schreiner will act as a liaison between the project and Olympic National Park and researchers working in the park.
Other participants. Many other organizations have already agreed to develop and contribute metadata to the ONRC Clearinghouse Node. These agencies represent the diversity of stakeholders on the Peninsula, and include Olympic National Park, Olympic National Forest, several tribes, state agencies, county agencies, and regional colleges and universities. Letters of commitment from several of these organizations are attached to this proposal. The list of contributors is continually updated on the ONRC Clearinghouse Node web site at contributors.html.
Commitment to Effort
As mentioned above, ONRC and OCNMS see geospatial data as critical to their missions, as specified in their annual planning documents. ONRC has committed $43,400 to the Clearinghouse project. This project also demonstrates that WAGIC is committed to further develop the Clearinghouse node that it created under its earlier CCAP grant.
We have structured this project such that a smooth transition will occur from the creation of the Clearinghouse node under this grant to its maintenance into the future by ONRC. WAGIC and the University of Washington Libraries, as part of their continuing missions, will handle the overhead of maintaining hardware and software for the actual node. ONRC is committed to maintaining the relationships with metadata contributors as part of its mission, and will update metadata from contributors and continue to develop its Web site as a part of normal business. ONRC, OCNMS, WAGIC, USGS-BRD, and the University of Washington all recognize that the Internet and Clearinghouse provide key resources in developing partnerships to achieve their missions.
Also, WAGIC will use the ONRC Node as a model of cooperation for other regions of the state, so that all areas of the state will eventually have significant metadata holdings available on Clearinghouse. The materials developed by WAGIC for the metadata workshops will be used throughout the state.
As mentioned earlier, we have already contacted a wide range of organizations that hold geospatial data for the Peninsula, and we have received an enthusiastic response for the project. Letters of support from several of the organizations who will be providing metadata for the ONRC Node are attached. Organizations that have verbally committed to participating in the ONRC Node are summarized below.
Federal
Olympic National Forest
Olympic National Park
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Comm.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
State
Dept. of Ecology
Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
Dept. of Natural Resources
Office of Financial Management
Non-Profit Organizations
The Wilderness Society
Willapa Alliance
Counties
Clallam County
Grays Harbor County
Planning Commission
Jefferson County
Mason County
Thurston Regional Planning Council
Tribes
NW Tribal GIS Council
Hoh
Jamestown S'Klallam
Lower Elwha Klallam
Makah
NW Indian Fisheries Comm.
Suquamish
Quinault
Private Landowners
Merrill and Ring
Port Blakely Tree Farms
Rayonier
Simpson
Weyerhaeuser
Educational Institutions
Centralia College
Evergreen State College
Grays Harbor College
Peninsula College
Western Washington University
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CURRICULA VITAE
C. Edward Bowlby
Nicholas R. Chrisman
Jeff Holm
Robert A. Norheim
David L. Peterson
Edward G. Schreiner
Miranda S. Wecker
LETTERS OF SUPPORT
USDA Forest Service: Olympic National Forest
Washington State Department of Ecology
Grays Harbor Regional Planning Commission
Thurston Regional Planning Council
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Lower Elwha Tribal Council
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
Grays Harbor College
Centralia College