U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey NHD Stewardship Assessment Preliminary Results 2012 NHD/WBD Stewardship Conference March 29, 2012.

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

NHD Stewardship AssessmentPreliminary Results

2012 NHD/WBD Stewardship ConferenceMarch 29, 2012

National Geospatial Program

Sharpen focus on our topographic mapping mission: elevation and hydrography

New emphasis on meeting user needs Priority communities of use:

Water - quality, quantity; river/stream resource management; flood risk management

Natural resources conservation Geologic mapping Natural hazards – landslides, volcano, earthquake

National Geospatial Program Strategic Direction


Addition of user engagement activities at headquarters and liaison network levels

Data acquisition assignments by theme (elevation, NHD, names and ancillary)

Increase specialization in user communities and data themes

Status: under construction

Improvements to Liaison Network



COU Coordinator Liaisons

Develop and manage overall user engagement strategy

“User engineer”- provide technical support, document user problems, issues and suggestions

Organize and lead technical committee

Get to know the landscape, expand the contacts

Determine user data that needs to be gathered

Staff technical committees, gather data, help to refine user needs

National outreach Regional outreach

Roles


National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) to provide recommendations on the advancement of the Nation’s Hydrography Infrastructure – NHDThe NHD is a successful model of a national dataset that is collaboratively maintained across levels of government and managed by a Federal agency. A host of resource management challenges pose the need to advance the data model, including integration of the human-made water infrastructure with natural systems, and integration of surface and groundwater models. Success in geo-enabling decision making will require accelerated development and population of the NHD. The USGS is seeking review and input on the current NHD stewardship and funding model in order to position it for meeting the growing needs.

NGP considering conducting a study for NHD

Increase Visibility, Support, and Use

National Geospatial Program Dr. David Cowen, NGAC Chair

Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina Dr. Jerry Johnston, NGAC Vice Chair

Geographic Information Officer, EPA Dr. Robert Austin

Manager, Enterprise Applications Integration City of Tampa, FL

Mr. Richard ClarkMontana Chief Information Officer

Mr. Jack DangermondPresident, Esri

Mr. David DiSeraVice President and CTO EMA, Inc.

Prof. Joanne Irene GabrynowiczProfessor , University of Mississippi

Mr. Bert GranbergManager, Utah Geographic Info. Database Group

Ms. Kass GreenPresident, Kass Green & Associates

Hon. Randy JohnsonCounty Commissioner, Hennepin County, MN

Ms. Laurie KurillaGIO and Deputy CIO, Ventura County, CA

Mr. James KwolekDirector, CIO, GIO, NGA

Dr. Xavier LopezDirector, Spatial and Semantic Products Group Oracle USA

Dr. E. Donald McKayDirector and State Geologist, Illinois State Geological Survey

Ms. Anne Hale MiglaresePrincipal, Booz Allen Hamilton

Ms. Kimberly NelsonExecutive Director for eGovernment, Microsoft

Dr. Timothy NyergesProfessor, University of Washington

Mr. Matthew O’ConnellPresident and CEO, GeoEye

Mr. Patrick OlsonPresident & CEO, Aero-Metric, Inc.

Brig. Gen. Jack Pellicci, US Army (Ret.)President and CEO, Intergraph Gov.Solutions

Mr. Mark Reichardt President & CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

Ms. Cynthia SalasDirector, Land and Field Services and Manager, GISCenterPoint Energy

Mr. Eugene SchillerDeputy Executive Director, Division of Management Services, SW Florida Water Management District

Mr. Anthony SpicciMissouri GIS Supervisor, Dept. of Conservation

Mr. Gary Thompson Chief, North Carolina Geodetic Survey

Mr. Gene Trobia Arizona State Cartographer

Ms. Molly VogtGIS Program Supervisor, Oregon Metro

Mr. David Wyatt GIS Manager, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians


Characterize stewardship status Figure out what’s working Figure out what we could do better

How do we improve stewardship?

Stewardship Assessment Goals


Questionnaires about stewardship activities were distributed to the Liaisons and POCs 60+ questions

9 state stewards and two Federal stewards were selected for the preliminary round

Liaisons and POCs were requested to fill in remaining forms for states not contacted based on their knowledge of the programs – will go back for complete coverage

Stewardship Assessment


Stewardship Assessment


Stewardship Agreement Status


Partners – Organization Type


Partners - GIS Coordinators


Partners - Agency Water Role


Stewardship training - NHD Update


Grant Activity 2006-2011


Since 2006, NGP has invested in 95 stewardship projects worth $4.5 million dollars.

Grant funds for NHD have been tight, but not as tight as some other themes 2006 - $370K – 7 grants 2007 - $500K – 12 grants 2008 - $230K – 5 grants 2009 - $926K – 19 grants 2010 - $592K - 14 grants 2011 - $1.03M – 18 grants 2012 - $950K - 20 grants

Grant Activity


Partner Updates 2008-2012 (1937 total)


Partner FTE– 2012

15 5 2 1 1 1 2


Other agencies contribute edits 35 Other agencies contribute staff 28 Other agencies contribute funds20

Third Agency Support for Stewards


Water-quality reporting 26 Streamflow modeling 24 Water-quality modeling 22 Fisheries management 17 Rainfall/Runoff modeling 12 Water rights 12 Hydro-electric management 7

Application Areas


35 states indicate the stewards work regularly with their POCs

Technical POCs


The NHD program has management, advisory, and technical committees. Do you participate in these committees?

6 of 11 responded Yes 2 of 11 responded Sometimes 3 of 11 responded No Of the 8 who attended at least sometimes, all

thought the meetings were a source of good, useful information

Participation at regular NHD meetings


Does the NHD monthly newsletter provide insightful information that is helpful to state stewards? 5 - Very Useful 2 4 10 3 11 2 1 1 – Not Useful 1 Average 3.44

Usefulness of NHD Newsletter


How useful is the NHD Website for use of the NHD? 5 – Very Useful 7 4 10 3 6 2 2 1 – Not Useful 0 Average 3.88

Usefulness of the NHD Website


5 is major obstacle, 1 is minor obstacle

3.8 Lack of funding

3.6 Complexity of the tools

3.3 Lack of staff

3.2 Complexity of the NHD

2.3 Lack of interest in stewardship

2.2 Lack of training

2.0 Lack of interest in NHD

Obstacles to Stewardship (1-5)


If You Could Change Anything About NHD Stewardship...

New tool would be easier - complexity of tools

Provide an editing process/ tool that is less complicated

To have the NHD tools work in conjunction with the latest version of ArcGIS.

Don’t like going through The National Map to download data


Check in/out is big change; need tools for version 10 (NO ONE using 9.3.x); skip 10 refresh and go to 10.1; several people volunteer as beta testers

It would be helpful if there would be more information provided on "check out" emails

More frequent site visits, opportunity to interact with management



More NHD fundamentals training (history, origin, intent, how NHD has evolved, structure, and use of NHD) to provide a consistent foundation for discussions

More communication among State Stewards (Regional Consortiums) for more consistency in the NHD

Better explanation of important decisions made for NHD issues, more coordination between State Stewards and other editors (USGS and USFS)

Various resolutions of NHD are not currently synchronized, need more feature codes for local and high resolution over medium resolution features



Continue to collect information for remaining states

Analyze data Define priorities Develop course of action

Next steps

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem

you had last year. - John Foster Dulles

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U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey NHD Stewardship Assessment Preliminary Results 2012 NHD/WBD Stewardship Conference March 29, 2012.

Documents

user data

national dataset

user communities

use slide

data model

current nhd stewardship

liaison network slide

document user problems