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North American Encyclopedia of Life

North American Encyclopedia of Life. Web-based resource to enable federal data usage, integration, decision making, and research in the areas of climate change, invasive species, and ecosystems management. Participants. US Geological Survey (USGS)

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North American Encyclopedia of Life

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  1. North AmericanEncyclopedia of Life Web-based resource to enable federal data usage, integration, decision making, and research in the areas of climate change, invasive species, and ecosystems management.

  2. Participants • US Geological Survey (USGS) • National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) • Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) • NASA • Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) • Smithsonian Institution • Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) • National Museum of Natural History • Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  3. Initial Study Areas & Goals • Prototype will focus on the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay regions to support use cases for: • Invasive species • Climate change • Provide additional data to http://www.data.gov

  4. Potential NAEOL Datasets • Integrated Taxonomic Information System • EPA Datasets: • Watershed boundaries, wetlands, stream segments, water quality, air quality • NASA Datasets: • land cover type, gross primary productivity, vegetation indices, land surface temperature, fire, etc.. • Smithsonian: • Chesapeake Bay watershed environmental and ecological data • Collections • USGS NBII • US mirror to GBIF • GAP species distributions • GAP Protected Areas • Global Invasive Species DB

  5. Current Status • Working group has been established • DNS is being registered (http://naeol.gov) • EPA has Google Earth Enterprise application up and running for geospatial data • Site to be hosted at NBII • Developing Use Cases

  6. Next Steps • Continue convening the working groups • Finalize on content management system • Continue delivery of geospatial datasets to EPA for installation on the Google Earth Enterprise (i.e. fusing vs. web-services) • Develop species mashup capability • Identify available web-services and enable

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