A presentation given to Rivers Trusts and Environment Agency WFD monitoring strategy team in September 2013.
Setting out the need for two-way information sharing between catchment partnerships and EA and the vision which we are trying to achieve through the CaBA support fund.
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Data Sharing for the Catchment Based Approach
1. Data Sharing for the
Catchment Based
Approach
Michelle Walker – Head of GIS &
Data Management
EA RT workshop, Exeter 5th
Sept 2013
www.theriverstrust.org
2. • The Need for Information Sharing
• Current Information Flow
• Our Vision
• Where are we now?
• Where next?
6. “Robust monitoring will help
to assess which actions are
most successful”
The Need for Information
7. • Need to move from
catchment data &
information to knowledge &
wisdom
• All stakeholders need access
• CaBA= engagement =
opportunity to develop
information sharing
Sharing Information for a Catchment
Based Approach
Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
Understanding
relationships
Understanding
patterns
Understanding
principles
High P values in
stream
P increases during
high flows
Source = diffuse
agricultural runoff
Engage farmers
& deliver
interventions
The Need for Information
15. National
Evidence
Base Local Community
Knowledge Base
External Catchment Planning SystemExternal Catchment Planning System
MonitoringMonitoring Local
Knowledge
Local
Knowledge ActionsActions
Our Vision
16. National
Evidence
Base
External Catchment Planning SystemExternal Catchment Planning System
MonitoringMonitoring Local
Knowledge
Local
Knowledge ActionsActions
Our Vision
Catchment Modelling FrameworkCatchment Modelling Framework
Third party
datasets
Third party
datasets
Model
Outputs
Model
Outputs ScenariosScenarios
Local Community
Knowledge Base
Research
Knowledge Base
17. National
Evidence
Base
External Catchment Planning SystemExternal Catchment Planning System
MonitoringMonitoring Local
Knowledge
Local
Knowledge ActionsActions
Our Vision
Catchment Modelling FrameworkCatchment Modelling Framework
Third party
datasets
Third party
datasets
Model
Outputs
Model
Outputs ScenariosScenarios
Local Community
Knowledge Base
Research
Knowledge Base
18. Where are we now?
• National MOU & Data Sharing Agreement
19. Where are we now?
• EA DataShare
– WFD db
– Environmental OpenData
– OS Basemapping
• Quarterly Updates
– Consents
– Incidents
– Abstractions
– BWQ
20. National
Evidence
Base
Where are we now?
• EA Catchment Planning
System
• External User Group:
– identify ‘end user’ needs from
the River Basin Planning and
Catchment Management co-
deliverer community
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Environment Agency's operational instruction manual
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Figure 23: Macro-invertebrate sampling
at BidneyFarm(Site 3).
observed at Site 2 could be indicative of the more favourable habitat conditions as a result of WUF
habitat restoration works. To substantiate these results, additional monitoring is recommended.
The failure of the Tippets Brook to support a healthy fish population is attributed to the limited
availability of suitable in-stream habitats, as a result of extensive channel modifications and
agricultural diffuse pollution, causing elevated levels of in-stream sediment and nutrients.
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33. Where next?
• CaBA Support Fund - opportunity
• Build data model, develop standards,
adopt common vocabulary
• Data collation and QA
• Publish OpenData & Linked Data
• Applications for collecting & sharing data
• Tackle ‘third party’ IPR issues
34. Thank you for your attention
michelle@theriverstrust.org
Hinweis der Redaktion
Pilots year – all about community engagement and getting local input to the catchment planning process
RT have reviewed catchment plans from many of the pilots – common theme is the importance of data and information to: Identify solutions and inform strategic management Engage stakeholders, influence land owners and identify, explain and deliver ‘win-win’ outcomes Monitor outcomes and identify what is and isn’t working to feedback through the adaptive management loop
RT have reviewed catchment plans from many of the pilots – common theme is the importance of data and information to: Identify solutions and inform strategic management Engage stakeholders, influence land owners and identify, explain and deliver ‘win-win’ outcomes Monitor outcomes and identify what is and isn’t working to feedback through the adaptive management loop
RT have reviewed catchment plans from many of the pilots – common theme is the importance of data and information to: Identify solutions and inform strategic management Engage stakeholders, influence land owners and identify, explain and deliver ‘win-win’ outcomes Monitor outcomes and identify what is and isn’t working to feedback through the adaptive management loop
It’s not just about sharing data. Moving up the data continuum is about engaging people – if you build the understanding together then you can use the knowledge to influence behaviour – that’s when it becomes wisdom. For this to work it can’t just be about academics, consultants and specialists combining datasets and presenting outputs then expecting interventions to happen. Experience shows that if the end audience isn’t engaged at every stage, they don’t buy in to the modelling and so they don’t believe the outputs or understand the level of uncertainty, so providing access to data AND derived information AND knowledge is crucial.
Predicted outcomes and actual measured improvements need to be fed upwards for EA / Defra to monitor progress and also to report up to EU. No common templates / standards / frameworks for doing this currently – could be streamlined and made more effective.
EA CPS is in progress and will be a tool for reporting up to EU and pulling together the contents of the RB plans, and will also provide access route for external users to the WFD reporting info and the monitoring / evidence base. This will be important and useful information for stakeholder engagement and plan preparation BUT – catchment planning process generates a lot of data that is held externally to the EA: monitoring data, catchment investigations, reasons for failure, local knowledge, community desires and visions for their catchments, local contacts and the detailed measures, cost-benefit analyses, funding mechanisms, etc. There is no process for reporting measures up to the RBPs, there are few standards being adopted for data capture and storage which would enable true data and knowledge sharing solutions to be implemented and this will only get worse as the approach is rolled out to more catchments if we don’t act soon to develop a solution.
Our Vision We envisage an External Catchment Planning System, which would be owned and operated by the WFD co-delivery community, building on existing initiatives such as the DTC archive data models and vocabularies, to bring external datasets in to a future-proofed and INSPIRE-compliant archive, which could then serve out data in formats which would be compatible with EA reporting systems, and would allow publishing of Linked Data, and could complement and build on the work of other intiatives like the EVO and the CCM Hub.
NERC / Defra are talking about the idea of a meta modelling framework, which would pull many catchment and process models together and would streamline some of the third party IPR issues. (Not clear whether the EVO is a pilot for this?) - think of this as the Research Knowledge Base, which would pull data / information inputs from National Evidence Base and the Local Community Knowledge Base to run scenario modelling, to improve national models with local knowledge, and which would input back to those systems in terms of refining understanding of catchment management processes and outcomes.
This would really enable us to join up the loop and ensure that the feedback and monitoring will input to the future planning process. RISK = No action means duplication of effort in every catchment and no easy way of integrating actions, measures, outcomes, etc in to the river basin planning process. Action will need a lot of coordination and inevitably will need resourcing OPPORTUNITY = if we can devise a solution then we can build data and information management in to a true Adaptive Management catchment system
Reviewing current progress with data sharing from an RT perspective. National data sharing agreements for some key datasets (two-way sharing)
Great progress over last couple of years – much easier to access some key supporting information, and future access to monitoring and other datasets will be even easier through CPS
CPS External User Group – role is to identify end user requirements, but not JUST about EA CPS – the group should have a wider remit…
From RT perspective – we are moving ahead with our plans to develop data models and standards as well as tools and resources to collate and QA rivers trusts’ datasets. We will be partnering with FBA to use the DTC Archive as a platform. Our aim is for a standardised approach for some key datasets and to see these built in to the business processes of the individual trusts. This will be the basis on which we can then look to publish data in formats which would be INSPIRE compliant and which would allow us to develop innovative and exciting data products and applications, by combining our Linked Data with other LD from government and other external bodies. Key to the next steps is resolving the paralysing block on creativity and innovation that ‘third party’ Intellectual Property Rights issues cause….
How data, knowledge, models and tools fit in to the CaBA
From RT perspective – we are moving ahead with our plans to develop data models and standards as well as tools and resources to collate and QA rivers trusts’ datasets. We will be partnering with FBA to use the DTC Archive as a platform. Our aim is for a standardised approach for some key datasets and to see these built in to the business processes of the individual trusts. This will be the basis on which we can then look to publish data in formats which would be INSPIRE compliant and which would allow us to develop innovative and exciting data products and applications, by combining our Linked Data with other LD from government and other external bodies. Key to the next steps is resolving the paralysing block on creativity and innovation that ‘third party’ Intellectual Property Rights issues cause….