Organization:
Research Title: Data Management, Access, and Integration
Funding Level (millions of dollars):
| FY94 | 0.0 |
|---|---|
| FY95 | 0.5 |
| FY96 | 0.5 |
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) Component:
(a) Subcommittee: Global Change Research (100%)
(b) Environmental Issues: other
(c) Research Activity: System Structure and Function: Observation (25%);
Data
Management (75%)
Organizational Component:
USEPA/NDPD
(MD-34)
Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Point of Contact:
Thomas Mace
Phone: 919-541-2710
Research Goals:
This program develops the needed data management, metadata, and infrastructure
for
inter
and intra-agency data exchange. This involves the development of GCDIS
interoperable
inventory, search, browse, and order capabilities with key Agency databases for use
by the
GCRP
Research Description:
This program follows work performed in FY 93 and 94 with CIESIN and the EPA's
ongoing
information infrastructure development for geographic initiatives, research, and
public access to environmental data. Specifically, the program includes
development
of a catalog system which is interoperable with GCDIS, connectivity over the
Internet,
a relational database containing extractions from key EPA data systems (Envirofacts),
and GIS connectivity to the database (Gateway). The program represents a long term
EPA commitment to environmental data integration and access.
Program Interfaces:
This program enables EPA to provide data from its focused program as well as data
collected for other regulatory and scientific purposes to other agencies within the
GCRP,
the scientific community, the states, and the international community. Data on
pollutant
sources and sinks, emissions factors and inventories, ecological monitoring and
assessments, effect of pollutants on human and ecological health, and other existing
data
will be critical to developing integrated GCRP assessments in both the short and
long term.
Program Milestones:
Information Management, 1991-1995 Milestones: Global Change and Information
System
(GCDIS) initiated, Global change master directory becomes operational; 1996-2000
Milestones: Researcher access to existing socio-economic data bases established,
Global
Change and Information System (GCDIS) expanded, and Satellite/in situ data
integration
supported.
Policy Payoffs:
Contributes to the 1995 and subsequent IPCC Assessments as well as contributing to
answering GCRP questions related to human and natural forcing factors, ecological
change
and biodiversity, human dimensions interactions, and comprehensive assessments.