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2007 STORET/WQX Users Conference

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

November 27-29, 2007
Austin, TX

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This page provides access to the final agenda, list of participants and all presentations made during the conference.
Please note that most presentations are in Power Point. See below for information about Power Point Viewer.
Some presentations are in PDF format in order to preserve their original look and feel.


Final Agenda (PDF 77KB)   |   List of Attendees (PDF 154KB)


Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Plenary Session
1:00 p.m. Welcome to Austin
Steve Spaw, Director of the Monitoring Operations Division, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Keynote Address: EPA’s Vision for WQX (PPT 1.1MB)
Suzanne Schwartz, Deputy Office Director, EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds

Overview of the Water Quality Exchange (WQX) (PPT 752KB)
Randy Hill, STORET/WQX Project Manager, EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds

WQX and the Exchange Network (PPT 1.4MB)
Mitch West, Environmental Council of the States (ECOS)

3:00 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m.

Panel on Transitioning from STORET to WQX

  • Laura Mayo, Yurok Tribe Environmental Program
  • Michael Pipp, Montana Department of Environmental Quality
  • Deb Soule, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
  • Jim Hudson, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

U.S. Geological Survey and EPA Joint Effort (PPT 3.0MB)
Nate Booth, USGS and Dwane Young, US EPA Office of Water


Wednesday, November 28, 2007
8:30 a.m. WQX Nuts and Bolts
Moderator: Tony Diecidue, Project Performation Corporation

Mapping Data Elements and Understanding WQX XML Files (PPT 745KB)
Doug Timms, Enfotech

Using CDX and the Exchange Network Services
(PPT 1.7MB)  Roy Chaudet, EPA Office of Environmental Information

Implementing EPA’s WQX: Oregon’s Lessons Learned (PPT 1.6MB)  Curtis Cude, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

WQX Biological and Beaches Monitoring Data
Moderator: Bill Kramer, Office of Water, U.S. EPA


Bio / Habitat Effort
(PPT 430KB) 
Kristen Gunthardt, Office of Water, U.S. EPA

Sharing Data between the Ecological Data Analysis System 2 (EDAS2) and WQX (PDF 1.3MB) 
Jeffrey S. White, Tetra Tech, Inc

eBeaches: Submitting Monitoring Data using WQX
(No presentation available)
Andrew Hampton, CGI Federal

10:00a.m. Break  
10:30 a.m. States and Tribes: WQX Experience
Moderator: Camille Heaton, RTI International

Flowing Data from Texas to EPA: The WQX Experience (PPT 777KB)  Nancy Ragland, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Becoming a Millionaire: Lessons Learned While Submitting 30 Years of Monitoring Data to WQX
(PPT 115KB)  Jim Hudson, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Implementing WQX for a Tribe
(PDF 1.6MB)  Kevin Lyons and Eric Schwenter, Windsor Solutions, Inc.

GIS Mapping and STORET/WQX
Moderator: Cary McElhinney, U.S. EPA Region 5

Batch Indexing, Enviromapper, Web Services and GIS tools  (PPT 5.8MB)  Randy Hill and Kevin Christian, Office of Water, U.S. EPA

Utilizing STORET Web Services in EPA R10 Mapping Applications  (PPT 5.6MB) 
Sue McCarthy and Matt Gubitosa U.S. EPA Region 10


From STORET to WQX: New Jersey’s Solution for Integrating Ambient Water Quality, Facility and GIS Information from Federal, State, County, and Volunteer Organizations  (PPT 3.0MB)  Harry Chen, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. States and Tribes: WQX Experience (cont.)
Moderator: Shelley Rappaport, Project Performance Corporation

RI-SWIMS Data Management System and WQX  (PPT 5.3MB)  Eric Schneider, Rhode Island DEM and Deric Long, Enfotech

Are Statewide or Regional Databases Really Possible? The Colorado Data Sharing Network isn’t just your mother’s old Database  (PPT 28.8MB) 
Sarah Sauter, Colorado Watershed Network and
Dave Wilcox, Gold Systems, Inc

Surface Water Quality Monitoring Information System (SWQMIS): TCEQ’s New Enterprise Data System for Managing Ambient Water Quality Data  (PPT 3.2MB)  Nancy Ragland, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and Cynthia Atwood, Tetra Tech, Inc.

Integrated Data Systems
Moderator: Stan Stephansen, U.S. EPA Region 2


CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System 
(PPT 4.8MB) 
David Maidment, University of Texas, Austin

BDAT/CEDEN A Cooperative Data Management System  (PPT 894KB) 
Karl Jacobs, California Department of Water Resources



WQX, the Exchange Network, and IOOS – Ocean Data Interoperability Possibilities  (PPT 1.1MB) 
Deb Soule, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services

3:00 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Innovative Water Quality Data Management
Moderator: Larry Merrill, U.S. EPA Region 3

R8’s Transition to WQX 
(PPT 4.3MB) Michael Pipp, Montana Department of Environmental Quality

NPSTORET: A Water Quality Database Management and Analytical System for National Park Units, Networks, and Others  (PPT 9.7MB) 
Dean Tucker, Michael Matz, and Paula Galloway, National Park Service

Yurok Tribe Environmental Program’s innovative tool for data management, analysis, and submission into the STORET/WQX - Overview  (PPT 4.0MB) 
YEDSS Demo (PPT 6.2MB) Laura Mayo and
Cody Watt, Yurok Tribe Environmental Program

Learning about Wisconsin Lakes through a New Integrated Database System  (PPT 21.0MB) 
Jennifer Filbert, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Tools
Moderator: Eric Wilson, U.S. EPA Region 9

XML Generation Tool 
(PPT 182KB)  Dwane Young, Office of Water U.S. EPA and Ryan Jorgensen, Gold Systems

DatastorWQX Data Entry Program 
(PPT 4.5MB) 
Eric Wilson, U.S. EPA Region 9



Google Earth and Statistical Trends Analysis Tools  (PPT 2.5MB) 
Brandon Bergenroth, RTI International



New innovations in training issues that have been encountered with USEPA Region VIII and V Tribes  (PPT 2.3MB) 
Dave Wilcox, Gold Systems, Paul Andrews, RTI, and Michiko Burns, Southern Ute Tribe


Thursday, November 29, 2007
8:30 a.m. Discussion Groups Breakout
9:30 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. Facilitators provide feedback to EPA
10:30 a.m. EPA Response and Closing Remarks
11:30 a.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m.

Workshops

Tribal Workshop (Agenda) (PDF 10KB)

Beaches Workshop

  • Newly revised eBEACHES Data User Corner webpage, Bill Kramer, Office of Water, U.S. EPA
  • Access Databases for BEACHES monitoring and notification data, Andrew Hamption, CGI Federal

XML Workshop

  • Hands-on – How to create an XML file, Dwane Young, Office of Water, U.S. EPA

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