U.S. Department of the InteriorU.S. Geological Survey

North AmericanEncyclopedia of Life

Web-based resource to enable federal data usage, integration, decision making, and research in the areas of climate change, invasive species, and ecosystems management.

Participants

· US Geological Survey (USGS)· National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)

· Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

· Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

· NASA

· Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)

· Smithsonian Institution· Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

· National Museum of Natural History

· Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Initial Study Areas & Goals

· Prototype will focus on the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay regions to support use cases for:· Invasive species

· Climate change

· Provide additional data to http://www.data.gov

Potential NAEOL Datasets · Integrated Taxonomic Information System· EPA Datasets:· Watershed boundaries, wetlands, stream segments, water

quality, air quality

· NASA Datasets:· land cover type, gross primary productivity, vegetation indices,

land surface temperature, fire, etc..

· Smithsonian:· Chesapeake Bay watershed environmental and ecological data· Collections

· USGS NBII· US mirror to GBIF · GAP species distributions· GAP Protected Areas · Global Invasive Species DB

Current Status

· Working group has been established

· DNS is being registered (http://naeol.gov)

· EPA has Google Earth Enterprise application up and running for geospatial data

· Site to be hosted at NBII

· Developing Use Cases

Next Steps

· Continue convening the working groups

· Finalize on content management system

· Continue delivery of geospatial datasets to EPA for installation on the Google Earth Enterprise (i.e. fusing vs. web-services)

· Develop species mashup capability

· Identify available web-services and enable