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EPA’s Environmental Indicators
Gateway
www.epa.gov/indicators
Guy Tomassoni, ChiefAnalytical Products Branch
Ecoinformatics Technical Collaboration24 March 2009
202-566-1937 / [email protected]
Outline
• Purpose and development process
• Online tour
• Criteria for project inclusion
• Next steps and potential ecoinformatics
implications
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Gateway Origins
Issue
EPA produces or contributes to numerous indicator reports. These reports often differ in:
Issue
EPA produces or contributes to numerous indicator reports. These reports often differ in:
Gateway Purpose• Improve access to existing indicator projects• Promote cross-project information sharing
• Develop an improved sense of EPA indicator activities• Improve cross-Agency indicator coordination
Gateway Purpose• Improve access to existing indicator projects• Promote cross-project information sharing
• Develop an improved sense of EPA indicator activities• Improve cross-Agency indicator coordination
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-Purpose-Audience-Topic area
-Geographic scale-Quality protocols-Online presence
Continuum of Indicator Projects
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Gateway Development Process
1) Clarify the universe of EPA’s indicator projects• What is an “indicator project”?• How many EPA indicator projects exist?
2) Identify the key elements of an indicator project• What key details are relevant to EPA? the public?• How can we ensure indicators are presented in proper
context for their intended use (e.g., data quality)?• How do we balance comprehensiveness and brevity?
3) Design and develop a registration process and website• How do we create an efficient and acceptable internal
process for adding, editing, and approving projects?• What search features and navigation are most effective
for presenting EPA’s indicator projects?
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Registration Snapshot6
Main Page7
Regional Mapping Capability8
Public Project Catalog9
Gateway Project Details
About Products Characteristics Quality Assurance Contact Info
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Gateway Project Details
About Products Characteristics Quality Assurance Contact Info
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Gateway Project Details
About Products Characteristics Quality Assurance Contact Info
Additional Data Elements
• Definition of “indicator”
• Origin and purpose of indicator project
• Stakeholder involvement and user feedback
• Methodological development
– Report organization
– Indicator selection
About Products Characteristics Quality Assurance Contact InfoAdditional Information
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Criteria for Gateway Inclusion
• Emphasize indicators, not just performance
measures
• Provide analysis and synthesis
• Publish a public report in the last 10 years
• Certify Gateway “biosketch,” including quality
elements
• Include EPA as a major author
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Potential Next Steps
• Disaggregate reports down to the indicator level
• Provide collaborative tools for facilitating indicator
development and communication
• Develop a “state of EPA indicator efforts” report to
take stock and suggest next steps
• Expand focus beyond EPA reports
(local, state, international)
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Ecoinformatics Application
Potential Synergies• Adapt existing Gateway definitions and “biosketch” for
international use• Utilize existing Gateway process for external log-in,
registration, and project approval• Leverage standardized data on international indicator
reports to draft joint working paper
Potential Synergies• Adapt existing Gateway definitions and “biosketch” for
international use• Utilize existing Gateway process for external log-in,
registration, and project approval• Leverage standardized data on international indicator
reports to draft joint working paper
Pre-Meeting Overview of Indicator Activities:
Analyse and shed light on good and innovative practices
Synthesize and develop a common understanding, framework or model of the different questions and challenges we face
Pre-Meeting Overview of Indicator Activities:
Analyse and shed light on good and innovative practices
Synthesize and develop a common understanding, framework or model of the different questions and challenges we face
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Upcoming Webinar on EPA’s Report on the Environment
Provides an introduction to the ROE / eROE as
a resource in understanding what we know –
and what we don’t know – about trends in air,
water, land, human health, and ecological
condition in the United States.
Provides an introduction to the ROE / eROE as
a resource in understanding what we know –
and what we don’t know – about trends in air,
water, land, human health, and ecological
condition in the United States.
April 16, 11 am – 1 pm EDT
Registration: http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/eroe
April 16, 11 am – 1 pm EDT
Registration: http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/eroe
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