FY 2001 Innovative proposal 22015
Contents
Section 1. General administrative information
Section 2. Past accomplishments
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Section 4. Budgets for planning/design phase
Section 5. Budgets for construction/implementation phase
Section 6. Budgets for operations/maintenance phase
Section 7. Budgets for monitoring/evaluation phase
Section 8. Budget summary
Reviews and Recommendations
Additional documents
| Title | Type |
|---|---|
| Entry Page to CD-ROM: Matrixes for Wildlife-Habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington | Narrative Attachment |
| 22015 Narrative | Narrative |
Section 1. Administrative
| Proposal title | Develop a Spatially-based Internet Portal that Integrates Distributed Northwest Fish, Wildlife, and Plant Data for On-line Mapping, Query, & Analysis |
| Proposal ID | 22015 |
| Organization | Northwest Habitat Institute (NHI) |
| Proposal contact person or principal investigator | |
| Name | Thomas O'Neil |
| Mailing address | P.O. Box 855 Corvallis, Oregon 97339-0855 |
| Phone / email | 5417532199 / habitat@nwhi.org |
| Manager authorizing this project | Thomas O'Neil |
| Review cycle | FY 2001 Innovative |
| Province / Subbasin | Systemwide / Systemwide |
| Short description | Develop an Internet portal as an information delievery system where distributed Northwest animal and plant data are seamlessly integrated at one public site with the well-known spatially based Microsoft's Terra Server in a user oriented fashion. |
| Target species | This proposal has the potential to address all fish and wildlife species found within the Columbia River Basin |
Project location
| Latitude | Longitude | Description |
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Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)
Sponsor-reported:
| RPA |
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Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:
| Reviewing agency | Action # | BiOp Agency | Description |
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Section 2. Past accomplishments
| Year | Accomplishment |
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Section 3. Relationships to other projects
| Project ID | Title | Description |
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Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase
Task-based budget
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2001 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
| Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase
Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase
Task-based budget
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2001 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
| Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase
Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase
Task-based budget
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2001 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
| Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase
Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase
Task-based budget
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2001 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
| Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase
Section 8. Estimated budget summary
Itemized budget
| Item | Note | FY 2001 cost |
|---|---|---|
| Personnel | FTE: 2.7 - project is for 15 months not 12 | $190,746 |
| Fringe | $13,600 | |
| Supplies | $33,775 of this cost is for equipment | $38,775 |
| Travel | $4,000 | |
| Indirect | 12% - not taken on equipment | $25,617 |
| Capital | Compaq Server | $33,200 |
| Subcontractor | # of tags: Conservation Management Institute | $64,683 |
| Other | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife | $18,500 |
| $389,121 | ||
Total estimated budget
| Total FY 2001 cost | $389,121 |
| Total FY 2001 budget request | $389,121 |
Cost sharing
| Organization | Item or service provided | Amount | Cash or in-kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHI | workstation | $9,000 | in-kind |
| SQL Server | $3,000 | in-kind | |
| Arc/Info and Arc/IMS | $10,000 | in-kind | |
| ERDAS | $7,000 | in-kind |
Reviews and recommendations
This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.
Comment:
This proposal may be premature to the regional effort to establish a data management system. Such a site should provide valuable information sharing to the various parties in the Columbia River Basin. The method does not necessarily satisfy the criteria for an innovative project in that the sponsor would investigate the design of a distributed database based on Microsoft's Terra Server. However, it is apparently a new application of the server to develop an integrated information system for biological data in the Pacific Northwest. It is not clear that this proposal is what is needed at this time. The ISRP recommends that the Council consider the issues in data archiving and distribution needs, and then issue a targeted request for proposals in this area. Specific Questions and Concerns: ? Who would maintain the site upon completion of the project? Where would it be housed in the future? ? What would it cost to maintain the site? ? The author implies that there is no limit to the amount of data that the Northwest Habitat Institute is willing to host. Is this true? ? There is no assurance that agencies will be cooperative in working out data retrieval standards and query mechanisms to get the various web servers to communicate. ? There is good evidence of cooperation by Microsoft Corporation and the sponsor can probably do the proposed work. They do have good models to follow based on work done by the Conservation Management Institute's Fish and Wildlife Information Exchange. ? Availability of meta-data will continue to be a problem for many data sources.Comment:
Premature to fund this project at this time. Not innovative.Comment:
Premature to fund this project at this time. Not innovative.