Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP)

PNAMP has recently made some progress regarding data management issues for monitoring practitioners and would like to share some recommended resources.  You can find useful information in the links below and in the right side bar.  

Background

Adequate access to high quality monitoring data, analyzed information, and reports is a critical, and as yet, unmet need for many partners working to restore our watersheds and salmon populations. The overall PNAMP data management goal is to assist scientists in the identification and development of data standards as it relates to the monitoring of fish and aquatic habitat. The objective is to identify solutions that improve access, sharing, and coordination among different collectors and users of fish and aquatic habitat monitoring data...more

MonitoringMethods.org

PNAMP's newest iteration of Protocol Library, with the Monitoring Terminology Glossary rolled in (click here for background).

Northwest Environmental Data Network (NED)

The Northwest Environmental Data network was a regional collaborative group for data management activities.  The group is currently not active, but we would like to point people to the resources they produced: 

NED Resources and Tools