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Appendix C: Communicating Data and Information to Users
Appendix C: Communicating Data and Information to Users
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to spearhead congressional briefings and liaison meetings. Separate communication resources are built into each of the program components for NAWQA, such as the surface water status and trends, groundwater status and trends, national synthesis programs, topical teams, and source-water assessments and are used to develop derivative products (such as the web, companion articles, fact sheets, video casts, etc.)
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NAWQA typically employs an aggressive communications strategy in its release of a major report, which employs written products, briefings, and Internet-based formats. These reports are typically released with fact and briefing sheets, a press release, a dedicated web page linked to the main NAWQA program website, an email "blast" to stakeholders and decisionmakers,1 and stakeholder and congressional briefings.
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· Scientific Investigations Reports contain information of lasting scientific interest because of significant data and interpretation. · Open File Reports are publications that are released immediately and contain interpretive information such as supporting data referenced in another product or preliminary findings.
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. For example, the pesticide circular released in 2006 had two formal USGS peer reviewers and 15 external reviewers including federal agencies, private and industry representatives, as well as representatives from trade, professional, and other non-profit organizations.
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Conferences include but are not limited to: · America Benthological Society, · Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, · American Geophysical Union, American Geological Institute, · American Water Resources Association -- national and regional conferences, · National Groundwater Association, · Association of State Drinking Water Administrations, · Geological Society of America, and · American Association of Advancement of Science. These presentations are important to overall success of the program because they increase the transparency of technical methods, and the credibility of the underlying analysis, and they engage a broader community of peers in the challenges of characterizing water quality over multiple time and spatial scales for a wide range of applications.
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USGS is currently building a database for biological data that will fit into NWISweb and the NAWQA data warehouse that will be released in late 2012, "BioData."5 Even though this is a NAWQA-led effort, the biology database will serve and provide all biology data from water-related programs to the public (P. Hamilton, personal communication, May 13, 2009)
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For the recent study on the Effects of Urbanization on Stream Ecosystems, NAWQA scientists developed a complimentary set of video casts, which received 7,000 page views the day the study was released (G. McMahon, personal communication, June 21, 2010)
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