Troy Kanemura

2015

American Samoa’s Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) has been collecting coral reef monitoring data for several years but has lacked the resources and technical expertise to effectively manage the data collected from their four monitoring programs: (1) long-term coral reef monitoring, (2) Key Reef Species monitoring, (3) community-based MPA monitoring, and (4) No-Take area monitoring. As a result, most of these data reside only in localized and vulnerable spreadsheets that prevent utilizing the data to their fullest potential to support management decisions. CRED’s data management team proposes to support DMWR’s goal to improve management, accessibility, quality, and usability of their data by working closely with DMWR to establish solid data management processes for specific stages of the data life cycle and provide data management and GIS support for their different coral reef monitoring programs. The data management tools and processes established through a previously funded CRCP project focused on Guam’s Long-term Monitoring Program (Project ID 488) will be highly leveraged for this project by adapting those products to cater to DMWR’s current requirements.The project has identified five major activities based on the data management requirements document developed in FY14 that will encompass all four of DMWR’s data collections: (1) define a relational data model, (2) scrub data and migrate the cleansed data to the relational data model, (3) develop forms to enable data entry, (4) integrate data with desktop GIS, and (5) create metadata records. In order for these activities to be directly beneficial to DMWR staff, DMWR will need to establish a reliable and efficient IT infrastructure to house the data management solution. At a minimum, the IT infrastructure should include a database server hosted on a reliable network with the technical personnel to continually administer and support the solution.At the conclusion of this project, DMWR will have a solid, extensible data management foundation and made significant progress toward a comprehensive data management solution with the implementation of a relational database along with a corresponding spatial interface and data entry forms.

Upon completion of project, DMWR will have a solid and extensible data management foundation that will enable effective management and accessibility of their coral reef monitoring data from an enterprise data management system based upon the data management requirements and implementation plan created in FY14. In other words, the data management solution will provide easy and efficient integration of coral reef observation data across monitoring programs for stream-lined reporting and true ecosystem-based analysis that will inform resource management and coral reef conservation efforts in American Samoa. An excellent example of the types of analyses that can be accomplished has been proposed in another CRCP proposal from CRED’s fish team titled “Development of Sustainability Indicators to Inform American Samoa Resource Management”.

• American Samoa

Other Domestic or Global Project

Closed

Completed

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