Our role in the NED Portal and at Northwest Habitat Institute:

About Icon Too Elizabeth Gee has a Masters of Architecture from UCLA school of Architecture and Urban Planning.  She has been part of the core team for two successful software startups. She has worked as an application designer/developer for Microsoft. In June 2010, Elizabeth completed her Certification in Digital Marketing Strategies  at Portland State University. This ceritifies her profiency in Web 2.0, Branding, SEO/SEM, Social Media, Web Analytics, etc. Her key strengths are her techical and people skills which include listening to the needs of many, and comparing the solutions of the competition or alliances then presenting viable solutions.  She believes in getting consensus, and rapid protoyping while designing/developing highly usable rich yet easy to navigate, web environments which users want to visit. Mission: Icon Too's role on the NED Portal was to first to understand the diversity and wealth of our regional information, then to convey these disparate diversity of information in ways which are easily accessable and usable by our biological, educational, decision-makers,  regional communities and the public. Our mission is to carry forward these same goals on projects with the Northwest Habitat Institute NWHI.org Involvement: Our involvement since Spring 2008 has been to actively participate in Bonneville, Council, and NOAA Fisheries planning sessions to understand the diversity and wealth of our regional information. Our first metadata demonstration on the NED Portal is the John Day working closely with the USGS.  In the Summer of 2008, our involvement was in designing and developing quickstart tutorials and seamlessly integrating them in the ESRI Portal Java environment.   The outcome from the Fall 2008 planning session was to prepare for the Executive Summit meeting in October.  This entailed much brainstorming by the NED Portal workgroup regarding how to make the NED Portal a compelling destination and how to attract more Participating Partners to become contributors of metadata on the Portal.  Through consensus, we redesigned the home page to include more Public Relations aspects to the portal, as well as adding more compelling communities such as the International Columbia River Center of Information. This Fall and Winter 2008, Elizabeth became particularly interested in the NW Habitat Institute's data after adding important John Day Steelhead Abundance Data that came in spreadsheet format.  At this point, she started adding non-gis metadata to the NED Portal. John Day Lower Mainstem  North Fork  Upper Mainstem  Middle Fork  South Fork In discussion with the NW Habitat Institute and Bonneville, Elizabeth launched the beginnings of moving the NW Habitat Institute's PHaCS database to the web.  Many books reference this database, and it is available for download from the NW Habitat Institute. On the NED Portal, this important work is in the process of being moved to the web. Habitat Classification In 2010, Elizabeth has been working with the NW Habitat Institute to move  the NW Habitat Clasification System PHaCS database to the web, with funds from the NBII. She is completing an interactive searchable web version of the PHaCS viewable on the IconToo.com website: PHaCS interactive. Moving Forwards: Liz and Tom O'Neil of the NW Habitat Institute are working together to publish PHaCS Interactive  on the web and plan to launch it on NWHI.info in August 2010. The plan is to make it iPhone and mobile phone compatible for biologists in the field. Icon Too would like to continue as the active web/database designer/developer for the NWHI projects.  In our working sessions, discussions about many crosswalk databases and terminology dictionaries have been discussed.  After launching PHaCS Interactive on NWHI.info, we hope to develop other databases such as the PNAMP Protocol Library in meaningful ways to allow biologists to crosswalk protocols, methods in an interactive usable web environment. Although the NED Portal has over 300 metadata records and growing, the site at face value does not reflect this.  The ESRI search engine is an industry standard search engine for geospatial metadata records.  The NED Portal, as a regional portal needs more content, like the federal portal and other regional portals, many of which are build using the ESRI Portal Toolkit: geodata.gov Utah GIS Portal North Dakota GIS Tennessee GIS Portal ...etc. Moving forwards, Icon Too would like to access these other portals and do a comparative analysis of these portals, and present to the PNAMP workgroup features that we could add to to community.    Within our own region, there are a number of portals published by potential participating partners of the NED Portal.  It would be advantageous to do a comparative analysis of portals in our region, and come up with a plan to share data and content with the NED Portal.  Current discussions with the Defenders of Wildlife have prompted us to add helpful features to the proposed work with PNAMP Protocol Library including a blog for users feedback and Dynamic Performance Fish Monitoring Dashboards (charting) of imported spreadsheet information on current NOAA Fisheries spreadsheet data.  While at BPA, we met with Anita Decker of BPA and told her of our plans to implement these Fish Monitoring Dashboards, leveraging the existing work on Performance Dashboards Liz was developing for another BPA project. Our plan moving forwards is to work with PNAMP on projects which could utilize Fish Monitoring Dashboards. There was much agreed upon work to do as listed in the 2008 Summary of NED Tasks, NED Pilots, and Related Pilots document. NED Portal tasks which Icon Too could have supported, if funding for the project was not cut in 2009. These included: Community Stewardship of new partners like the Defenders of Wildlife - Nature Conservancy Develop DBMS technology to exchange data across existing databases. Publish Communities for BPA and Fish and Wildlife databases on the NED Portal Community stewardship for the Hatchery Reform Project Development of database exchange to support non metadata searches of Hatchery Reform databases on the NED Portal Develop a NED locator prototype for Non-Aquatic Wildlife and an online data collection interface with the NW Habitat Institute's PHaCS database Publish and provide technical oversight and database design, architecture and management for Tribal Anadromous Fish Data Tribal Resident Fish Data Tribal Wildlife Data

Moving forward, as funds become available for any or like kind initiatives for NWHI or PNAMP, we would like to be active contributors to this process.