1. MBMG Data Center and Collaborative Science
Presented to 2018 AWRA Conference
Luke Buckley

2. Introduction and Outline
Surface Water Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP)
MBMG Data Center
Inward collaboration
Outward collaboration
Usefulness

3.
24x7 access to all public MBMG data

4. Surface Water Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP)
A tale of two agencies

5. Public Internet Access
Manual
Telemetry
Legacy
QAQC
Raw
Provisional
Validated
Private
Public
AQUARIUS
MBMG
Data
Services
SWAMP
GIS
WEB
Web Services
Public Internet Access
Portal
Mapper
Tabular
Flow
Water Q
Temp
HARVESTER
DNRC
Others

6. Surface Water Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP)

7. Online products

8. Networking, innovating, collaborating

9. Collaborating through piloting
County-level data
Lewis and Clark, Gallatin
Template-based data transfer
Web interface (data management)
Inclusion in Data Center

10. Overall usage of the SWAMP website has seen steady growth throughout 2017
Visitors
11,385
Average Activity
5 actions
Total Queries
119,558
Total Downloads
4,978,043,541

11. The SWAMP website is gaining a foothold on the Internet; over 90 different sites refer traffic
Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
Ucpress
Bitterroot Water Forum
University of Florida
Google
Fish, Wildlife, and Parks
Lolo Watershed Group
Outlook
Baidu
Yahoo
Facebook
Yandex
Big Hole Watershed Committee
Nevada Creek Water User's Association
Yale
Bing
University of North Carolina
National Weather Service
Teton River Distribution Project

12. MBMG Data Center

13. Going behind the curtain
Websites
Databases
Internet
Business Layers

14. Internal collaboration
Drillers
Drillers
GWIC
Consultants
Projects
Landowners
IoT
Law
Government

15. Geographic Information System
MBMG Data Center Now
GWIC
1994
Analytics
1999
Catalog
2003
POS
2005
DrillerWeb
Coal
2006
Document Manager
AIM
Quakes
Data Preservation
2007
NGDS
2011
Telemetry
2009
Proppant
2013
GIS/SDE
2012
LISA/Lab
Staging
Surface Water
2010
SWAMP
2015
AQUARIUS
CKAN
rocks
It’s not my fault
Geographic Information System

16. The MBMG has seen a steady increase in web traffic volume

17. State and Local Collaborations
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC)
Water
Oil and Gas
Natural Resource Information System (NRIS)
Local Water Quality Districts
Missoula
Lewis and Clark
Gallatin
County Sanitarians

18. Other Portals WaterSage
In addition to our own websites, several other entities display our data through either direct links or through web services.
Displayed are snapshots of the Montana Digital Atlas (NRIS), NGWMN Portal, Water Sage, and Ron Askin Drilling.
NGWMN and Water Sage do periodic harvests from web services. NRIS does live access to web services. Askin Drilling uses and account-entry to GWIC.
WaterSage

19. National Collaborations
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS)
National Geothermal Data System (NGDS)
National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP)
National Ground Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN)

20. The End Luke Buckley Associate Professor (406) 496-4677
Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
Montana Technological University
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