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Nov 8, 2001

STORETFor

Managers

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STORETAmbientWater Quality and Biological Data

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Clients• Citizen Volunteers• Watershed Managers• State Environmental &

Health Organizations• Other Federal Agencies,

USGS etc.

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STORET• Who Organization• What Characteristic (Chemical, Taxa, Physical)• Where Station• When Date• Why Project Description• How Collection Procedure, Collection

Equipment Specs., Container/Preservation, Sample Preparation, Analytical Procedure.

STORETMirrors the Business of Monitoring

Organization

SamplingStations Projects

Trips

StationVisits

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MonitoringActivities

Results

Data Loggers

Operating Periods

STORETOrganization

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

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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

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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 ProfilesSample 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

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National Architecture

Client A

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National Architecture

Client A Client B

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National Architecture

Client A Client B

Client C

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National Architecture

Client A Client B

EPAData Warehouse

Client CPublic

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ORACLE/STORET Environment

ORACLEInstance

STORETSchema

STORET 1Schema

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Tables

STORET v1.2GUI

Application

3 Shared &90 Data Tables

STORET v1.2Reports

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STORETPreparation 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.

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SecurityOracle

– Schema Level• Table Level

STORET Application– Organization Level

• Read, Read/Write

– Result Level• Preliminary/Final

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Data Base Integrity

Data base integrity is enforced by the STORET GUI Application!

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STORET v1.2Package

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 STORETSTORET

Legacy Data Center

OldSTORET