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Data Integration in Action -- Multiple LCCs and Partners working with Integrated Solutions

Thursday, October 23, 2014: 10:35 AM
Meridian D/E (Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center)
Bj Richardson , USFWS, Hadley, MA
Tom Miewald , USFWS, Portland, OR
Lei Ann Wilson , USGS, Ft. Collins, CO
Emily Fort , USGS, Reston, VA
Rachel Gregg , EcoAdapt, Bainbridge Island, WA
Laura O'Gan , National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO
Amy Keister , USFWS
Jenn Jenkins , USFWS/Artic LCC, Fairbanks, AK
Pat Lineback , USFWS, Sacramento, CA
Janine Salwasser , Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Tosha Comendant , Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR
For landscape-level analyses to succeed, researchers need data portals and catalogs to interact at many levels. This way users, both in management and the scientific community, can discover and use distributed science products. Taken to the next level, these interactions can help outreach specialists provide information to local and regional agencies, supporting conservation at the community level. This presentation will discuss the how multiple Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (North Pacific, North Atlantic, Great Basin, Desert, and Southern Appalachian) and partner projects (Heart of the Rockies, NorWeST) are working to build these interactions among data portals and catalogs.