Eco-informatics and natural resource management

ABSTRACT

Resource managers face significant information technology (IT) problems when integrating ecological or environmental information to make decisions. At this NSF/USGS workshop in December 2004 [1], university researchers, natural resource managers, and information managers articulated five IT problems areas facing ecology and environmental decision makers: policy making and implementation, data presentation, data gaps, tools, and indicators. To alleviate these problems, participants recommended informatics research in four IT areas: modeling and simulation, data quality, information integration and ontologies, and social and human aspects. Additional recommendations to assure cycles of innovation in the domain were addressed.

REFERENCES

• 1: For the full workshop website, including all presentations, the final report, and a listing of all participants, see http://<u>www:evergreen.edu/bdei.</u>
• 2: http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/Environment/html/teamingcover.htm

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.8 Database applications

Keywords:
data quality, eco-informatics, human-computer interaction, information integration, modeling and simulation, web services