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.