[Images: "Fish On"-Line, USGS and NBII]

A large amount of aquatic biological data has been collected by the USGS water quality projects since early 1990s. It is the mission of the NBII to locate biological data sources that are important to management and deliver the data to scientists, managers, and stakeholders.

In 2006 the fish community data was loaded into a relational database. This database provides the base for this web site. This site currently allows users to search for aquatic data in the State of Idaho by selecting a sampling site or a stream. These data can be filtered further by fish species and date of sample. We've linked this site to the FISHBASE web site so detailed natural history information is available for each fish family and species.

The USGS Idaho Water Science Center and the USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Great Basin Information Project have partnered together to develop a management and delivery system for aquatic biological monitoring data.

Go to "Fish On"-Line

[Image: NACSE]

Finding, Displaying, and Sharing Data

Finding reliable data is important for resource managers, researchers, educators, and the public. How data is displayed is important for everyone as well. Sharing data and methodology is the essence of the Scientific Method. The Pacific Northwest Node specializes in making it easy for all of these things to happen. Our goal is to make data easy to find, easy to use, and it adheres to the highest standards of data integrity as is possible.

USGS, painting of Camp Creek Cutthroat Trout [art: Cameron Thomas]

Natural Resources and Wildlife Research funding agencies are requiring that newly discovered information be made available for sharing with the public, resource managers, and with other researchers. The internet has proven to be one of the most efficient and reliable methods of making this possible. The sites spotlighted here will link to raw and processed data from NBII collaborators. The goal is to use highly significant data produced with exacting methods of highest scientific standards and to make the data easily accessible.

State of Idaho Department of Lands GIS / Cartography: http://gis.idl.state.id.us/

Idaho state map links: http://www.accessidaho.org/aboutidaho/maps.html

Current and historic wildlife-habitat GIS data available: http://www.nwhi.org/index/gisdata

GIS from Oregon Department of Forestry: http://www.odf.state.or.us/DIVISIONS/administrative_services/services/gis/gishome.html

Washington State Geospatial Clearinghouse:  This is a node of the NSDI national network.   http://wa-node.gis.washington.edu/

Washington State Department of Ecology GIS: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/gis/