1. Tracking Oregon’s Water Resources: An Overview of Data Resources and a Pitch for a United Network Rich Marvin, R.G., P.H. Kara Morris Sr. Hydrologist Hydrographer Lloyd VanGordon Hydrographics Section Manager

2. Focus: Physical Hydrology Time Series Data for:  SW  GW  Climate

3. Surface Water U.S. Geological Survey:  215 NRT Gaging Stations  12 Lakes and Reservoirs  Wealth of historical data http://or.water.usgs.gov/

4. Surface Water OR Water Resources Dept:  207 Gaging stations (160 near real-time)  40,000 Misc. mmts  Links to USGS gages http://apps.wrd.state.or.us/apps/sw/hydro_near_real_time/default.aspx

5. Surface Water U.S. Bureau of Reclamation: HydroMet  50 NRT Gages  Teacup diagrams for reservoirs http://www.usbr.gov/pn/hydromet/

6. Surface Water U.S. Corps of Engineers: DataQuery -Reservoirs -Streams -Weather -Fish Counts -Water Quality http://www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil/perl/dataquery.pl

7. SW: Other Sources Idaho Power:  100 gages (16 in Oregon)  Snake R and tribs http://www.idahopower.com/OurEnvironment/WaterInformation/StreamFlow/default.cfm

8. SW: Other Sources Douglas County: -About 20 gages -Q and/or WQ -USGS or BLM coop on many http://www.co.douglas.or.us/streamreadings/streamsnws.asp

9. SW: Other Sources H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest - 8 gages plus a network of met stations http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/

10. SW: Other Sources US Fish & Wildlife Service:  76 Ponds and lakes  26 Streams and canals Contact: Shelley Fluter Shelley_fluter@fws.gov

11. SW: Other Sources The Fresh Water Trust  29 gages, for stream restoration and instream water rights http://www.thefreshwatertrust.org/

12. GW Levels USGS:  4 NRT stations  Daily data for 91 sites  8,600 field observations http://waterdata.usgs.gov/or/nwis/gw

13. GW Levels OWRD: State Obs Well Network - 349 Current - 366 Discontinued http://www.wrd.state.or.us/OWRD/GW/well_data.shtml#View_Water_Level_Data

14. GW Levels OR Dept of Environmental Quality: LASAR  WL data for 500+ monitoring wells http://deq12.deq.state.or.us/lasar2/default.aspx

15. Climate Data National Climate Data Center:  Network of NRT climate stations  $$ for data http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/map/lcd/

16. Climate Data NRCS SNOTEL:  81 active sites http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snotel/Oregon/oregon.html

17. Climate Data USBR AgriMet  31 NRT sites  ET estimates  Temp, Precip, Wind, Radiation http://www.usbr.gov/pn/agrimet/index.ht ml

18. So Many Data Points, So Many Time Series… What if these resources could be tied together by a single website? - Less overlap of efforts - Better cooperation - Easier access to data

19. Challenges  Who would host?  How to serve up diverse data sets and keep current?  How to evaluate data quality?  How to maintain speed with so much data?

20. Northwest Alliance of Computational Science and Engineering NACSE, based at OSU Data systems to help merge and present information from many groups http://www.nacse.org/

21. Possible Model/Host? Oregon Explorer Collaborative effort:  OSU Libraries  Institute for Natural Resources  NACSE http://oregonexplorer.info/

22. Possible Host? (cont.) http://oregonexplorer.info/ Oregon Explorer  Location Portals  5 example basins: Deschutes, Lakes, North Coast, Umpqua, Willamette  Topic Portals  Hazards, Land Use, Rural Communities, Wetlands, Wildfire Risk, Wildlife  Data Portals  Imagery, Spatial Data Library

23. Oregon Explorer (cont.) Watershed Restoration Tool: Example: Fish Passage Inventory http://oregonexplorer.info/umpqua/WatershedRestorationTool

24. Oregon Explorer (cont.) http://oregonexplorer.info/umpqua/WatershedRestorationTool Watershed Restoration Tool

25. Conclusions Numerous agencies and organizations collect hydrologic data in Oregon Working with a common provider like OR Explorer benefits all of us by making our data more visible and accessible