Water Cluster Telecons

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October 1, 2009 Telecon

1-3 pm EDT
Phone: Meeting Number: 877-326-0011
Meeting Code: *7884944*
GoTo Meeting Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/188806762

Topics

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1. Review of prior ESIP Water Cluster Activities - Paul Houser & All
2. EPA Office of Water Water Quality Exchange (WQX) General Update - Chuck Spooner
3. Presentation & discussion of CUAHSI Activities - TBD
4. Potential for external review of EPA OEI Substance Registry System (SRS) chemicals and other terminology related to water - TBD
5. Solving Ontology Wranglings ala MMI - Liaison with ESIP Semantic Cluster Group - Luis Bermudez & All
6. GEOSS Related activities (in consultation with NASA/NOAA) - TBD
7. Topics and organization for ESIP winter meeting (January 2010) All

Meeting Docs

MMI Ontology Wrangling

Participants

• Bill Sonntag
• Paul Houser
• Debbie Belvedere
• Rick Hooper
• Carol Meyer
• Brian Rogan
• Lawrence Friedl
• Bruce Bargmeyer
• Kevin Keck
• Gary Foley
• Will Pozzi
• Mark Hamilton
• Danny Hardin
• George Percivall
• Louis Sweeney
• Luis Bermudez
• Chuck Spooner
• Sara Graves
• Wenwen Li
• Phil Yang
• Gail Hodge

Notes

1. Review of prior ESIP Water Cluster Activities

Paul Houser, co-chair reviewed prior activities of the ESIP Federation Water Cluster. Those activities fell into 3 distinct areas:

• development of the Earth Information Exchange (EIE) portal for water
• contributions of ESIP partner data sets in response to the Puget Sound Initiative
• technology contributions to GEO decision support initiatives (especially in the area of ontology development) (Will Pozzi)

2. Water Quality Exchange (WQX) General Update

Chuck Spooner, EPA Office of Water provided an overview of the Water Quality Exchange (WQX). He first provided background on the STORET data warehouse, an archive of state reported measurements accessible through an xml query. The WQX schema provides for a data and exchange format, which has now been adopted by USGS. EPA and USGS will be combining their query systems (< 1 year away from completion), with NOAA and Agricultural Research Service also interested. EPA's Office of Water is working with USGS and OGC to improve access to real-time data.

Other EPA Data Sources:

• National Hydrography Dataset (NHD, NHD Plus) is an addressing system for facilities and sampling points
• Watershed Boundary Data Set provides hydrologic unit codes (HUCs) for subsections of watersheds

Next Steps

• EPAS's data system is now duplicated using USGS query techniques, with a possibility that a single query system will be used in the future
• a master water quality portal is in development
• methods of data analysis with automatic linking is a key priority for EPA data systems

Other Related Activities

• Berkeley Water Center is working with Microsoft Research to make NWISS and STORET data available through SciScope (an Open Source tool). Will be adding Web 2.0 and 3.0 capabilities.
• USGS Flow Network is working closely with NOAA
• Environmental Information Exchange Network grant opportunity - closes Nov. 20 and available to states only

1. Presentation & discussion of CUAHSI Activities - TBD
2. Potential for external review of EPA OEI Substance Registry System (SRS) chemicals and other terminology related to water - TBD
3. Solving Ontology Wranglings ala MMI - Liaison with ESIP Semantic Cluster Group - Luis Bermudez & All
4. GEOSS Related activities (in consultation with NASA/NOAA) - TBD
5. Topics and organization for ESIP winter meeting (January 2010) All