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PNW Project Overview 1999
Enhancing a Clearinghouse for Natural Resources Information on the Olympic Peninsula
Principal
Investigators:
Dr.
David
L. Peterson, University of Washington, College of Forest Resources
Dr.
Nicholas R. Chrisman, University of Washington, Department of Geography
Edward G. Schreiner, USGS Biological Resources Division, Olympic Field
Station,
Washington
Awarded: $44,700
Project
Description:
The Olympic Peninsula Clearinghouse is now a fully operational node of the
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
and
National Biological Information Infrastructure, and has strong regional support from agencies and
nongovernmental organizations. Researchers
will continue to build and improve the Clearinghouse in cooperation with
the Olympic Natural Resources Center (ONRC).
Enhancements to the Clearinghouse will focus on recommendations
provided by resource managers, scientists, and other stakeholders at the
recent ONRC Science Conference. In
addition to continuing to compile metadata records, the project will:
1.
broaden the scope of
efforts from a metadata clearinghouse to an information clearinghouse to
facilitate use by greater numbers of individuals and organizations,
2.
improve the design of the
Clearinghouse web site by reorganizing metadata browse lists by theme and
developing a graphical user interface,
3.
expand representation of
hydrographic and other cross-jurisdictional metadata and data for the
Olympic Peninsula, ranging from headwaters to the coast.
In
addition, the project will develop a maintenance manual and other
protocols to assist ONRC in operating the Clearinghouse independently
following completion of the development
phase.
Project Status:
The Clearinghouse was enhanced to include a browse
by theme
section. The Clearinghouse was represented at several conferences or workshops
listed below. On line
presentations are available.
1. Lief Horwitz from USGS and Teresa Alcock from ONRC GIS presented:
“Communicating with Maps and the Internet: Online Mapping with USGS
GEODE and the ONRC Clearinghouse for the Olympic Peninsula” at the
Livable Communities Seminar in Port Angeles, WA, March 2000.
presentation
2. Robert Norheim presented the ONRC Clearinghouse to the USGS-BRD's
BioGeo'99 meeting at the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette,
Louisiana.