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Northwest Environmental Data Network Meeting

January 4, 2006, 9:30 - 4:30

Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission
729 NE Oregon St, Ste 200
Portland Oregon
503-238-0667

Participants need to sign-in with the receptionist on the 2nd Floor who will direct you to the meeting room. Some parking is available (on both sides of the CRITFC building) in parking spaces marked CRITFC, however you will need to obtain a parking-card from the receptionist and display it in your vehicle.

To access this conference bridge all callers must dial 503-230-5521. There is no passcode. The first caller will hear ringing until a second caller dials. All other callers will be connected directly. (All Callers) Do not put this conference call on hold. Hold will block all other callers from getting into the conference call. This Meet-Me conference bridge is limited to 12 callers.

Agenda

A) Steering Committee (9:30 through noon).

1.0 Introductions.

2.0 Confirm 2006 meeting schedule and locations:

Jan 4th, February 1st, March 1st, April 5th, May 3rd, June 7th, July 5th, August 2nd, September 6th, October 4th, November 1st, December 6th

3.0 Confirm 2006 Workshop (10k PDF) topic/theme, location and dates -May 24 and 25, 2005. Please bring your ideas for the 2006 Workshop! Set up Workshop Planning Committee

4.0 Establish a work group to apply for funding for pilot DBMS effort modeled on the EPA Data Exchange Technology

5.0 Review work plan (40k PDF) for Steering Committee based on NED Executive meeting on 12/07/2005 and briefing to NPCC on 12/08/2005

6.0 Review work group plans for 2006 and work group updates

7.0 Update on White Paper (170k PDF): Incorporating Spatial and Temporal Data into Non-Spatial Databases: for Environmental Projects and Sampling Efforts

B) PNAMP Topics

1.0 Report on PNAMP Cross-cut Protocol Meeting

2.0 PNAMP 2006 work plan (50k PDF)

C) Work Group Meeting/s 1:00 to 4:00

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