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Where did the “ Forum ” idea come from?

Where did the “ Forum ” idea come from?. 2002 National OEI meeting in Atlanta A variety of creative, expert applications were presented Many applications have not been shared or reviewed for possible use across the Agency

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Where did the “ Forum ” idea come from?

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  1. Where did the “Forum” idea come from? • 2002 National OEI meeting in Atlanta • A variety of creative, expert applications were presented • Many applications have not been shared or reviewed for possible use across the Agency • Existing repositories & inventories for registering these applications are not necessarily recognized or used by the application developers • Need to understand how the Regions fit into Enterprise Architecture starting with identifying applications that are being designed & used across the Regions • Anoverall forumdoesn’t exist for sharing application ideas • The idea of “check-in before developing” was born

  2. Goal & Purpose Goal: To achieve a single, integrated, multi-media core of data and tools Purpose: To promote and manage the active sharing of expertise, products, and work among Regions and Headquarters and other stakeholders through the collaborativedevelopment of knowledge applications and systems needed to support common interests.

  3. Objectives • Establish profile of expertise & centers of expertise • Create collaborative development/sharing engine • Support information-based decision-making • Leverage & complement other’s efforts & products • Develop integrating portal to/bundler of applications • Pursue public-private partnerships • Market products & services • Partner actively with others • Align with, inform, & Update other Agency work: EA, SIP, SP, IQG, Geospatial Blueprint, SOER, etc.

  4. Benefitsof Forum Work • A profile of specific expertise • A registry of applications (w/i Forum & as Forum ‘Points’ to READ) • Collaborative, standards-based product generation • Common look-and-feel products with seamless, transboundary analysis and communications features • Value-added products made available to all organizations • Support to multi-media integration, planning and analysis • Aligned with Enterprise Architecture and Information Strategic Plan • An innovative environment to pursue and test promising state-of-the-art technologies

  5. Special Emphases • Build on others’ work • Clarify HQ-Regional roles & responsibilities • Promote efficiencies, reduce duplication • Deal w/ limited resources • Getting the most out of what & especially who we have • Prioritize & exploit opportunities & address gaps

  6. Coordination Team Implementation Recruitment Linkages Marketing Communication & Facilitation Resources Business Case Library Product Testing Development Team Expertise Profile Forum Website Portal & Applications Replication & Consulting Services Business Rules & Practices Scout Team Product Testing Forum Structure & Functions

  7. Whowould be onWhichTeam? Coordination Team • Regional & HQ managers & senior staff in IT/IM • Senior Regional information resource users from science/technical, programmatic, management, and/or financial fields Development Team • Regional & HQ GIS, imaging, charting, database development, exchange, and warehousing, scripting, modeling, & 3-D/animation experts • Regional & HQ systems administration, networking, & security experts • Regional & HQ web development, web services, search engine, scripting, & linking experts

  8. Inter-Team Relationship • Ongoing Cross-Team Collaboration • Unified workplan development • Review & progress reports • Priority-setting • Decision-making • Product review & testing • Joint Design Work • Forum website • Portal/bundler • Applications

  9. Phase 1 ForumProducts • Beta portal(Both Teams) • Forum website(Both Teams) • Marketing strategy(Coordination) • Communication & facilitation strategy(Coordination) • Regional expertise profile(Developers) • Build business case library(Coordination)

  10. So, how is all thisdifferent? • There are dozensof Regional, HQs, National, and Inter-Agency work groups developing a remarkable array of products (design specs for Enterprise Architecture, Applications Inventories, Data/Metadata Standards, Geospatial Web Services, Indicators & Performance Measures, etc.) which position the Agency to more fully exploit information and information technologies to support enhanced decision-making. • The Forum will integrate web-basedproducts developed by established Agency workgroups through a one-stop portal or gateway incorporating a wide array of inter-operable applications which seamlessly access a robust network of distributed data sources, delivering it all to the desk-top.

  11. Q’s & A’s • Are HQ developers going to be involved? • How does this change life for me as a regional program manager or a regional developer? • Is any of this really new? • Why should my group play here? • I’m an air/water/waste program manager. Isn’t this just a thing for technical IT folks? • How is all this going to be funded?

  12. Five Types of Tools • Data access • Data provision • Interactive data mapping • Simple data analysis • Predictive modeling tools

  13. Data Access • Tells where to find data: • EPA’s READ • EPA’s Geospatial Server • Metadata Explorer • Geography Network

  14. Data Provision • Downloadable data • USGSNational Map • Natural Heritage NetworkNatureServe Explorer

  15. Interactive Data Mapping • Customizable maps • US EPAWindows to My Environment • KY DNRKentucky Water Management Planning • WI DNRAquatic and Terrestrial Resources Inventory

  16. Simple Data Analysis Tools • Allows for basic spatial data manipulation • Orton FoundationCommunityViz • UW-Madison Land Information & Computer Graphics FacilityPlaceIT

  17. Predictive Modeling Tools • Spatial data manipulated for hypothetical scenarios with predictive results • Purdue L-THIA • Dane County, WITURM • CriterionINDEX

  18. Regional Applications by Strategic Information Plan Goals: • Use (Application) • Data • Access • Technology • Partnership

  19. Use • Wide ranging uses: • Support to the Programs (internal): • Reporting EPA strategic environmental goal indicators • Targeting inspections and remediation • Monitoring status and trends • Tracking compliance and enforcement case resolution/benefit • Modeling pollution sources against environmental quality • Support to states/local governments, other management organizations, and the public (External) • Decision support tools/services online and downloadable • …. • Serves individual desktop analyses as well as casual users

  20. Data • Always concern for data quality, completeness, and timeliness (EPA regulatory data) • Need for better data documentation (“metadata”) • Need for more integration using data standards (e.g., locational, facility, chemical, industrial class, etc.) • Need to update locational data policy and continue improvement of coordinates in EPA data bases • Reduce replication of purchase of data from other sources (i.e., do nationally) and • Work on accessing other organizations’ data rather than purchasing copies

  21. Access • Goal for access is “seamless:” • Let the application do the integration of data sets (wherever they are located) • Make search for the information easy and efficient (catalogs, inventories, registries) • Goal -- Make appropriate data available to all users • Create widely used applications as on-line web services

  22. Technology (Infrastructure) • Staff have access to: • dependable and sufficient computing resources • bandwidth capacity • Applications and data are secure but accessible to external partners and the public • Architecture is built on open and interoperable standards that foster interactions with partners • Timely implementation of emerging technologies

  23. Partnerships • More collaboration is possible now because of the use of standard tools, the Intranet/ Internet (Multiple Regions with Headquarters) • Important to include external partners and users in design of applications which serve them • We see opportunities to integrate not only environmental, but administrative, research & development data and applications into services

  24. What to Look for in Regional Applications • Transparent information suitable for end users • The capacity to access the detailed data behind the processed information • A process to engage end users in design and use • The ability to use data from as many sources as necessary • Geographic context • Realtime data to the extent necessary and possible • Standardized data and technology

  25. Summary • Applications are critical to understand the status and forecast the future of our health and the environment • Applications are critical to uncovering and resolving health and environmental problems • There are a wide variety of applications but we chose only a few from each major EPA business area to present: • Environmental & Human Health Monitoring & Forecasting • Pollution Control and Remediation • Emergency Response • Pollution Prevention • Regions to work together and with Headquarters counterparts to make applications more available, understandable, and easy to use. • Incorporate Regional applications into the Agency Enterprise Architecture

  26. Some Issues to be Discussed: • Need to construct implementation plan which consider the following: • Need to share already developed applications & we need to review existing inventories of these applications • We have limited resources so do we… • Put our “eggs in one basket” for “soup to nuts” development and marketing to demo success or • “Divide and conquer” to use the “expertise centers” for developing apps in respective program areas • What Regional business processes are most important and of common interest and use? • Which business areas should be considered first – build on successfully developed applications or work on applications in areas of greatest outstanding need (or both)?

  27. Rapid Access Information System(RAINS - R10) What’s New: • Automate the mediation of models components and their handoff to true GIS • Advances in the IMS template that push the envelope • On the fly sharing techniques • Integration of satellite imagery • Increase in the number of data sources actively accessed and linked • The partnership with not only USFS, but the wider land management community • Work is underway to replicate in R4

  28. BlueSky RAINS Helping to Manage Prescribed Forestry & Agricultural Burning • Components: • Source characteristics & emissions data for prescribed burns (FS FASTRACS; agricultural field burning db planned) • Meteorological forecast data (UW's MM5 model) • Trajectory modeling (NOAA HYSPLIT model) • Estimates of potential air quality impact (CALPUFF) • ArcIMS displays: • Emission points • MM5 output • Plume trajectories • Predicted air quality concentrations

  29. What is FIELDS? A collection of automated toolsthat provide analysis in support of environmental decision-making

  30. FIELDS Tools Software Functions • Sample Design • Random, systematic, secondary sampling; GPS upload • Database Query • Data import, processing, queries • Modeling Transformations • Cross validation (for IDW) and natural neighbor contouring • Analysis Tools • Error Estimation, mass/volume, remediation, human and ecological risk assessment • 3D Viewer • Data viewing, contouring • FIELDS Help Documentation • Definitions, and procedures

  31. FIELDS System Requirements • ArcView 3.X • ArcView Spatial Analyst 1.X or 2.X • Windows (95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, and XP)

  32. Partners and Collaborators • FIELDS (Field Decision Support System) • Region 5 USEPA • SADA (Spatial Analysis & Decision Assistance) • University of Tennessee • VSP (Visual Sample Plan) • Battelle, DOE contractor • FORMS II Lite (USEPA) • STORET (USEPA) • Query Manager (NOAA) • ASAPs (Adaptive Sampling and Analysis Programs) • Argonne National Laboratory

  33. State of the EnvironmentWhat’s New: Quality Assurance • Behind the scenes system • Need only your web browser (internet explorer) • Scientist would see add update new data only • Data committee can review & approve to have new data appears on the website • Common set of questions providing continuity across datasets, setting the stage for analysis, need not repeat QA if already done, just give us the url • Future: as we begin to look at applying statistical tools and overlaying different layers of data, we will need to assure QA system holds analysis to high standards (but still efficiently)

  34. State of the EnvironmentWhat’s New: GIS • Existing data is static images • Changed the way we display several data sets next to each other • Can drill in to lots of data if you want but you can also see the bottom line data set with a quick summary of what it means • Future: Carmen Masó & Tim knightly will integrate ArcIMS • Want to work with ReVA to incorporate their statistical analysis

  35. State of the EnvironmentWhat’s New: Who will use it? • Region 5 management -- like the display of data with the Regional plan/new goals • Regions 2 and 3 interested in using what R5 has developed and R5 excited about working with and learning from them

  36. Center for Technology Transfer & Pollution Prevention • Region 5’s Software Development Section provides grants • Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural Engineering • Established in 1992 Purpose:To develop software to explain to the public complex laws, regulations and environmental issues in understandable terms

  37. Using HypermediaInformation Technology SDS is now of environmental information, i.e. local government decision-makers, environment managers and citizens with interactive screening tools to play “what if” games.

  38. Overarching Goal: Develop, promote and disseminate Web-based Watershed Management DSS’s

  39. Objectives ShareExisting DSS’s with Users Promote DSS’s use through education and outreach Develop Midwest Watershed Management Information DSS Portal

  40. Designing the Toolbox for: Funding Watershed Analysis Tools Technical Assistance Education and Information Partnerships Watershed Management Process

  41. Watershed Protection Approach Elements • targeting priority problems • stakeholder involvement • integrated solutions • measuring success by data gathering

  42. L-THIA(Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment) A Strategic Informational Tool ProvidesSite-specificEstimates of Changes in Runoff, Recharge and Pollution Resulting from Past or Proposed Land Use Changes

  43. Now It’s Time to Plug the Information into L-THIA, the environmental impact calculator. Do it manually or from a database. Databases can be plugged into it via ArcView software or simply on the Internet. First, let’s look at our Partnerships that are very important for the distribution of the user-friendly web-based version of L-THIA and for other goals.

  44. Partnerships International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Purdue University Michigan State University Members of Midwest Spatial Workshop Workgroups Federal Agencies State Agencies Cooperative Extension Service ICMA Region 5 Water and Information Management Programs

  45. The Latest and Unique Decision Support Products • Provide to anybody with access to the Internet • user-friendly, • locally needed and location-specific • online assistance • based on real time information . . . • freely,

  46. Digital Watershed: Another Nationwide Web Application Tool for Effective Watershed Management Institute of Water Research Michigan State University

  47. Introduction • Centralized Hierarchical Information Repository • Online Watershed Computing Center • Comprehensive Datasets of EPA BASINS • Online Environmental Modeling

  48. Overview • Nationwide Watershed Coverage • Multiple Forms of Access • Comprehensive Datasets • Scaling Function • Online Environmental Modeling

  49. Online Environmental Modeling • Advances in distributed computing technologies has madeonline real timeor quasi-real time environmentalmodelingpossible • Online environmental modelingasnational watershedcomputing infrastructure • A demo of online environmental modeling forerosion and deposition modeling

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