Centralized Data Management Overview
Background
NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) acknowledges
the importance of both long-term environmental monitoring programs
and data and information dissemination through the support of the
NERRS System-wide Monitoring Program (SWMP). The goal of the SWMP
is to "identify and track short-term variability and long-term
changes in the integrity and biodiversity of representative estuarine
ecosystems and coastal watersheds for the purpose of contributing
to effective national, regional and site specific coastal zone management".
This comprehensive program consists of three phased components:
(1) estuarine water quality monitoring,
(2) biodiversity monitoring, and
(3) land-use and habitat change analysis.
Goals
The Centralized Data Management Office (CDMO) and the CDMO Data Management Committee (comprised of representation
from the Managers, Research Coordinators, Education Coordinators, SWMP Technicians,
NOAA, and state CZM programs) have established six priority areas
in support of the System-wide Monitoring Program:
Continuation and advancement of the System-wide Monitoring Program
data and information management program. [Read more]
Continuation and advancement of the on-line data and information
server accessible across a variety of computer platforms regardless
of sites' level of technological sophistication. [Read more]
Continue to provide technical support services via telephone,
e-mail, and individual and group training. [Read more]
Continuation of the CDMO Data Management Committee and annual
workshop to provide an additional avenue for the exchange of ideas
and information related to database management, technological advances,
and other data collection and monitoring program. [Read more]
Continuation of the CDMO annual Technicians' Training Workshop series to
provide training for NERRS research technicians working on SWMP
initiatives. [Read more]
In addition, the CDMO will continue to support related activities of the NERRS program:
Provide technical support for special NOAA projects and provide information management and outreach support for NOAA, reserve Managers, Educators, Research Coordinators, and state CZM agencies. [Read more]
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For additional information on the CDMO and related activities,
contact:
Dr. Dwayne E. Porter
CDMO Director
Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
803-777-4615 or porter@sc.edu
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