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5/23/2019 | 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | TRACKING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MISSISSIPPI RIVER DATASET: WHAT TOOLS ARE MOST EFFECTIVE IN PROVIDING DATA TO PARTNERS? | 150 G

TRACKING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MISSISSIPPI RIVER DATASET: WHAT TOOLS ARE MOST EFFECTIVE IN PROVIDING DATA TO PARTNERS?

In the era of big data and large-scale syntheses, ecology and conservation have become increasingly reliant on large, public datasets. Thus, making data easily accessible is central to the work of the agencies and organizations that collect them. The Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program (UMRRP), a partnership of federal and state agencies, has collected ecological (fisheries, water quality, vegetation) and spatial (land cover, bathymetry) data on 1,500 miles of the Upper Mississippi River since 1988. We provide data through direct download, visualization tools, reports, and publications. To date, we have not formally assessed how, why, and who uses these tools and data. We asked: 1) What data are downloaded and by whom?, 2) Which data visualization tools are most used?, and 3) Where and whom do we reach through publications? We found that spatial data, maps and web tools were more commonly used than ecological data. Tool use spiked at the time of creation and with seasonal data availability. This suggests that these curated web tools do indeed provide valuable information to the UMRRP and the broader public but maintaining their utility requires continued communication with partners and collaborators.

Restoration
Biogeochemistry
Fish

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KathiJo Jankowski (), U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, kjankowski@usgs.gov ;