Prioritizing Stream Temperature Data Collection to Meet Stakeholder Needs and Inform Regional Analyses

Start Date

2015

End Date

2020

Release Date

2015

Building off previous efforts of a Western Alaska LCC funded project, Alaska Online Aquatic Temperature site that inventories, stores, and displays metadata regarding current stream temperature monitoring efforts, This project hosted and facilitated a 1.5 day workshop in October 2015, “Data Storage, Dissemination and Harvesting” that involved over 50 stakeholders from state and federal agencies, tribal governments, universities, and non-profit organizations interested in monitoring stream temperature with a particular emphasis on aggregating individual organizational efforts for regional analysis of stream temperature. Previous to this workshop, Toohey and collaborators had created a semi-structured questionnaire that assessed current stakeholder data management strategies, capacity for data management, and desired capabilities of a data storage and management website. During the workshop, stakeholders discussed the results of this survey, assessed other stream temperature efforts for application in Alaska, desired capabilities for a multi-user website, and best data management practices to ensure long term sustainability of stream temperature data. Initially, Toohey was tasked with creating a report from this workshop that described the results of the survey and workshop discussion. Shortly after the workshop, it became apparent that stakeholders needed an assessment of existing websites that provided various components of data management described by the stakeholders in the questionnaire and workshop. Shortly after that realization, Toohey was also tasked with developing a HUC-8 prioritization strategy for the entire state of Alaska based on existing instrumentation and other relevant parameters to be included in the final report. The project aims to investigate stakeholder preferences for data management for an ad-hoc group of stakeholders interested in conducting regional analysis of stream temperature data. The data set includes results from a survey, a workshop, and prioritization maps for a regional and statewide objectives.

ScienceBase WMS

• Alaska CASC
• National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers