1 Nov 8, 2001 STORET For Managers

2 STORET Ambient Water Quality and Biological Data

3 Clients Citizen Volunteers Watershed Managers State Environmental & Health Organizations Other Federal Agencies, USGS etc.

4 STORET WhoOrganization WhatCharacteristic (Chemical, Taxa, Physical) WhereStation WhenDate WhyProject Description HowCollection Procedure, Collection Equipment Specs., Container/Preservation, Sample Preparation, Analytical Procedure.

STORET Mirrors the Business of Monitoring Organization Sampling Stations Projects Trips Station Visits 5 Monitoring Activities Results Data Loggers Operating Periods

STORET Organization Projects Stations Sampling Trips Monitoring Activities & Results Organization Information Cooperating Organizations Preferences and Defaults Addresses, Physical & Electronic Operating Programs Active People/Roles Project Description Sampling Stations Used People involved Programs Supported Cooperation Orgs involved Basic Trip/Cruise Info Projects Supported Sampling Stations Visited QC Samples Used Trip Sampling Activity Summary Monitoring Activity to Project Assignments Basic Station Info Lat/Long State County RF1/ RF3 HUC, NRSC Indian Land Interest Permanent Grid/ Transect Info Special Station Info, Well, Facility, Spring, Great Lakes, Ocean, Estuary Basic Activity Information Collection Procedure & Equipment Container & Preservation Used Actual Location & Activity Depth Person Responsible Characteristics & Results

7 STORET v1.2 Features –Data of Documented Quality –Graphical User Interface –Data Standards for Data Sharing Implementation –Scaleable - Watershed to National Locally Owned and Operated EPA Maintained –Public Read-Only EPA Data Warehouse

8 Standards Methyl tertiary butyl ether 2-Methoxy-2-methylpropane Methyl-t-butyl ether MTBE Are these the same?

Monitoring Activities Samples Routine Field Replicate Depletion Replicate Created from Sample – Composite- with Parents – Sample from Sample Composite- W/O Parents Integrated Time Series Integrated Flow Proportioned Integrated Horizontal Profile Integrated Vertical Profile Field Measurement/Observations Replicate Measurement Habitat Evaluation Observation Measurement

Sampling Profiles Sample Medium Air Bottom Sediment Soil Water Biological – Individual – Subject Taxa – Tissue – Subject Taxa – Bio- Part – Species Abundance Aquatic Vegetation Terrestrial Plants Benthic Macroinverts Birds Reptiles Amphibians Bacteria/Viral Phytoplankton/Zooplankton Fish/Nekton Medium Intent Community

11 National Architecture Client A

12 National Architecture Client A Client B

13 National Architecture Client A Client B Client C

14 National Architecture Client A Client B EPA Data Warehouse Client C Public

15 ORACLE/STORET Environment ORACLE Instance STORET Schema STORET 1 Schema 23 STORET Reference Tables STORET v1.2 GUI Application 3 Shared & 90 Data Tables STORET v1.2 Reports

16 STORET Preparation the A, B, C’s Fill out “Preferences and Defaults” for your Organization. Enter “Station” descriptions and locations. Enter “Project” descriptions for your Organization. Assign Stations to appropriate Projects. Create “Trips” (depending on your Organization’s QC sample strategy) to organize your data, and assign Projects and their Stations to the appropriate Trips. Create Station Visits and enter monitoring data.

17 Security Oracle –Schema Level Table Level STORET Application –Organization Level Read, Read/Write –Result Level Preliminary/Final

18 Data Base Integrity Data base integrity is enforced by the STORET GUI Application!

19 STORET v1.2 Package STORET v1.2 CD-ROM –Installation for complete Stand-alone –Installation for Client –Installation for Server –Installation for Reports Activation Disk –Installation of your unique Organization codes into the data base.

STORET Data Migration New STORET STORET Legacy Data Center Old STORET