As part of the effort to restore the California River Watersheds, 34 North has developed a web based toolset to support the San Joaquin River regional monitoring program.   The OpenNRM  toolset aggregates and presents the necessary data so that all stakeholders can effectively monitor and analyze  the conditions of the SJR  and it’s watershed.  Data in the form of interactive maps,  real time sensor data, science publications, hydrologic data, water quality data,   historical sampling, land-use data, fish data and more is organized for easy discovery and analysis to answer questions important to the community.  In addition to watershed conditions, the website serves as an education tool for understanding the vast area and it’s many features.  Interested visitors can learn about species (The SJRRiver watershed is home to the iconic spring-run Chinook salmon) , water uses, land use (Major land use along the San Joaquin Valley floor is agricultural, with over 2.1 million irrigated acres, representing 22% of the irrigated acreage in California)

Visit the SJRRMP Web-Based tools.  (Currently password protected until public launch in the fall of 2013).  Screen shots are provided below.

Visit OpenNRM.org for full technical and scientific analysis of the project and how OpenNRM tools are being used.

Services Provided

1.  Website Design

Template design based on OpenNRM style guide, colors, SJR RMP logo and other design requirements.   The look of the OpenNRM application is controlled using CSS and allows customer to customize the presentation of widgets, lists, navigation, fonts, colors and layout.  We have a team  of highly qualified designers to help you meet important branding  goals.  The good news is, if you get tired of your website styling,  you can quickly and easily change or update the CSS to reflect a new design style.

2.  Customizable Templates

Choose your own layout.  Customize templates and general widget layout  for the homepage and content pages of all public outreach initiatives.  Your staff can manage these pages using an HTML editor, associate or  link assets, add content widgets from other aspects of the website  including image/video viewers, Twitter, Issuu, Facebook badges and more.

3.  Project Collaboration Tools

Project tools include project library, project pages, project teams, related documents, links and wiki pages.  Use the project management tools to document and communicate projects and group actions.

4.  Asset Management

Create private and public libraries of all documents relevant to your organization.  Assign these documents to appropriate public outreach  pages, wiki pages and projects with ease.  The document library provides our customers with a comprehensive asset repository.  Archived and secure.

5.   Content Management

The OpenNRM application is itself a comprehensive content management  system developed specifically for natural resource management.  You only have to decide how and where to publish the content.  Easily manage and embed images, videos, maps, documents, presentations and more.

6.  Interactive Mapping and GIS

Build maps for general organization communication needs and to help users locate important project information.

7.  Syndication and Partner Branding/Messaging

Easy partner linking and consumption of RSS enabled content from  partner websites.  Each partner can have a public profile/widget

dedicated to his or her participation in the partnership.

8.  Custom Database

Develop custom data fields for your assets and projects.  Retain important metadata standards.

9.  Document File Sharing

We make it easy to share everything on the website.

10.  Knowledge Base: 

Wiki application for building libraries of knowledge.

11.   Collaborate

Users and or staff can join and contribute, what they can publish is controlled using permissions or by the administrator.

12.  Permission Based Publishing

OpenNRM architecture can display as much or as little functionality and information as you want.  Everything is controlled by permissions.

13.  Source Code

The customer owns the source code.  Web applications are growing at an unprecedented rate.  Owning the source code allows you to grow and change with the times.  Be part of the growing OpenNRM Community.

14.  Seamless Integration with Partner Data

Seamlessly embed partner data and database from the main navigation.

About the San Joaquin River Basin

The San Joaquin River flows northward and drains the portion of the Central Valley south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and north of the Tulare Lake Basin. The San Joaquin River Basin covers 15,880 square miles and yields an average annual surface runoff of about 1.6 million acre feet. The Basin includes the entire area drained by the San Joaquin River and all watersheds tributary to the river. The principal streams in the basin are the San Joaquin River and its larger tributaries: the Cosumnes, Mokelumne, Calaveras, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced, Chowchilla, and Fresno Rivers. Major reservoirs and lakes include Camanche, Pardee, New Hogan, New Melones, Don Pedro, McClure, and Millerton.

The Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference (formerly known as the CALFED Science Conference) is a forum for presenting technical analyses and results relevant to the Delta Science Program’s mission to provide the best possible, unbiased, scientific, information for water and environmental decision-making in the Bay-Delta system. The goal of the conference is to provide new information such as study results, model simulations, and analysis and syntheses of data to the broad community of scientists, engineers, resource managers, and stakeholders working on Bay-Delta issues. The organizers of this 6th Science Conference are seeking presentations toward this goal.

The conference program will feature both oral and poster presentations that provide scientific information and ideas relevant to the specific themes listed, as well as the broader overall conference theme “Ecosystem Sustainability: Focusing Science on Managing California’s Water Future.”

6th Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference 2010
Ecosystem Sustainability: Focusing Science on Managing California’s Water Future

SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2010
Sacramento Convention Center
1400 J Street, Sacramento, California

About SCGIS

Community, Knowledge, Support, Conservation
The Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) works to build community, provide knowledge, and support individuals using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and science for the conservation of natural resources and cultural heritage. The SCGIS assists conservationists worldwide in using GIS through communication, networking, scholarships, and training. Membership is open to any individual seeking assistance in the achievement of personal or organizational conservation goals.

www.Baydeltalive.com.

Resource management and  infrastructure planning is a complicated challenge today, regardless of the scale of which it is done.  The task requires collecting and analyzing a large amount of disparate and fragmented information about the natural and human environment and deciding which species or ecosystems should be protected and conserved, what factors in the planning process will impact them, and which strategies should be employed and where.  Baydeltalive.com is a web strategy to address this complicated process by creating an interactive community driven resource management portal and tool for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta infrastructure and nature conservation planning and implementation processes.

Baydeltalive.com resource management portal will assist project managers, engineers, policy makers, scientists, ecologists and others working in The Delta.  Currently the data required to effectively manage The Delta is scattered and sequestered throughout hundreds of organizations and individuals, which makes it largely inaccessible or difficult to find.  Baydeltalive.com will aggregate and display relevant information about The Delta infrastructure and eco-system projects in a convenient place for stakeholders to discover and use.  BDL provides encyclopedias on species, waterways and land features, a comprehensive catalog of data and maps that can be searched by keyword, geography, geographic extents or content types, a powerful map viewer to display, combine, and share live map services as well a group based project management application for sharing and managing project details among many different organizations and individuals.  The portal features a public version for syndicating important educational information about The Delta and the projects that affect the public directly.

Who’s Involved

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (26 Member Agencies), California Department of Water Resources, USGS, UC Davis

SOA Architecture:  Aggregating Services

The SOA architecture allows users to organize and customize their homepage based on personal preferences using internal and external feeds from:  Twitter, wikis, Map Services, ISSUU, project and document libraries and more.

Live Map Service:  Sensor Data, Map Layers and Web 2.0 Web Tools

The BDL Live Map service demonstrates how OpenNRM enterprise can be customized to incorporate real time and historical sensor data.  Our custom tools allow  users to present and analyze this data, view multiple time series, visualize this data in 2-D and 3-D environments, create project from accumulated data sets and collaborate with colleagues.

Project & Document Libraries:  Collaborate with Colleagues

Data Simulation and Visualization Tools

Build Relevant Wiki Libraries for Sharing Knowledge

34 North award winning websites is just one of the reasons to consider our services.  During the past 5 years, 34 North has been honored with more than 7 prestigious awards including the Webby Award in Film and Entertainment (Jury and People’s Voice) for the creation of The Sundance Online Film Festival.  This nomination was awarded for the same project the year before.  To learn more about The Sundance Online Film Festival Project, visit our web project gallery.

Time Magazine Coolest websites of the year also bestowed 34 North with the honor for the creation of Sundance back in 2005.  Each year 34 North created a new experience for the project with new films, new filmmakers, new artwork and new behind the scenes footage.  It was a very exciting project for 34 North.  We learned so much from the wonderful staff at the Sundance Institute, but more than anything we loved working with all the talented filmmakers.

34 North was also awarded prizes for Xprize, OpenNRM and our visualization services.

A re-creation of this historic delta system was created by first analyzing historic maps of the area.  34 North was then able to represent this historic habitat using a mix a GIS and 3D animation software to bring back this historic wetland in a 2 minute informational video flying over what is now Carquinez Strait.