Funding Categories and Awarded Projects for the 2003 Cooperative Agreements Program

The 2003 program provided approximately $1,076,000 to 51 organizations in five categories.

• 2003 Project Factsheet Version
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Category 1: Metadata Implementation Assistance Projects
Creating data about geospatial data (metadata) is an important first step in implementing the NSDI. These projects focus on acquiring the knowledge and experience to create metadata for clearinghouse discovery. Up to $9,000 per project, 24 awards.

Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science Alaska SeaLife Center Seward, AK Michael Pendergast Collaborator: Kenai Fjords National Park ------------------------	Wabasha County Wabasha, MN Rich Swanson Collaborator: GISRDC ------------------------
Northern Arizona University Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research Flagstaff, AZ Neil Cobb ------------------------	Eastern Carolina Council of Governments New Bern, NC Alex W. Rickard Collaborators: Jones Co. Tax Dept., Town of Emerald Isle, City of Havelock ------------------------
Pima County Department of Transportation and Flood Control District Tucson, AZ Steve Whitney Collaborators: AZ State Cartographers Office, AZ Clearinghouse Node for Spatial Data ------------------------	City of Dover Community Services Department Dover, NH Kathleen Meyers ------------------------
County of Monterey Salinas, CA Carl E. Drummond Collaborators: Cities of Carmel, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Salinas & Seaside ------------------------	Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission Dayton, OH Michael Lucas Collaborator: Montgomery/Greene Local Emergency Response Council ------------------------
County of Napa Napa, CA Mignon Everett ------------------------	Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological Survey Columbus, OH James McDonald Collaborator: Ohio Dept of Transportation ------------------------
Santa Clara Valley Water District San Jose, CA Ricardo Rodriquez Collaborators: Counties of Santa Clara & Santa Cruz ------------------------	Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Pittsburg, PA Christine L. Harvey Collaborators: NatureServe, U.S. Geological Survey-NBII ------------------------
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area- NPS Thousand Oaks, CA Denise Kamradt Collaborators: Resource Conservation District of Santa Monica Mountains, Cabrillo National Monument, Channel Islands National Park ------------------------	South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks Pierre, SD Ron Woodburn Collaborator: SD Bureau of Information and Telecommunications ------------------------
City of Clearwater Clearwater, FL Dave Larremorecom ------------------------	City of Lubbock Lubbock, TX Sally Still Abbe ------------------------
East Baton Rouge Parish Planning Commission Baton Rouge, LA lagic/lsu.edu Troy Bunch ------------------------	Utah State University Logan, UT John Lowry ------------------------
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Cambridge, MD Dan Fiscus Collaborators: Appalachian & Horn Point Laboratories ------------------------	James Madison University College of Integrated Science and Technology Harrisonburg, VA James W. Wilson, Collaborators: 20 local governments & Virginia Geographic Information Network ------------------------
NOAA/NESDIS National Oceanographic Data Center Silver Spring, MD Sheri Philips ------------------------	Lamoille County Natural Resources Conservation District & Nature Center Morrisville, VT Allison Cardwell Collaborators: VT Dept. of Environmental Conservation – River Management Program; Lamoille County Regional Planning Commission; VT Dept. of Agriculture, Food & Markets; US Dept. of Agriculture. ------------------------
Silent Spring Institute Newton, MA Theresa Kennedy Collaborator: Cape Cod Commission	Colville Confederated Tribes Nespelem, WA Grant Timetwa

Category 2: Metadata Trainer Assistance
Understanding the metadata standard, and how to apply it to one’s data is a difficult first step in implementing data discovery through the clearinghouse. These metadata trainer projects provide metadata training to other organizations that need it. Up to $25,000 per project, 6 awards.

Land Information Access Association Transverse City, MI Dave Frey -----------------------		NatureServe Arlington, VA Lynn Kutner Vivian Hutchinson Bruce Westcott ------------------------
Louisiana Geographic Information Center School of the Coast and the Environment Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA Craig Johnson ------------------------		Tennessee Geographic Information Council Oak Ridge, TN Sam Moffat Joe Sewash ------------------------
National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program Natural Resource Information Division Fort Collins, CO Lisa Nelson Chris Dietrich Joe Gregson		Texas Department of Information Resources Austin, TX Michael Ouimet Collaborators: Texas Natural Resources Information System, Texas Geographic Information Council

Category 3: Metadata Outreach

These projects extend metadata programs in providing resources and staff to other organizations in innovative approaches to the implementation and service of metadata. This is a new CAP funding category in 2003. Up to $40,000 per project, 13 awards.

US Geological Survey National Biological Information Infrastructure Reston, VA Vivian Hutchison Collaborators: International Assoc. of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, NatureServe, Organization of Fish and Wildlife Managers, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Nationwide scope. ------------------------		Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access The Geospatial Data Clearinghouse for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA Maurie Caitlin Kelly Chris Pfeiffer Collaborators: PA Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, PA Dept. of Environment Protection, Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Delaware River Basin Commission, The Heritage Conservancy, Natural Lands Trust, PA Organization for Watersheds and Rivers, Ducks Unlimited Inc, Londonderry School. Statewide scope. ------------------------
North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis Raleigh, NC Zsolt Nagyt Tom Tribble Collaborators: NC Geographic Coordinating Council, GICC/Local Government Committee. Statewide county & city government scope. ------------------------		Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR Dr. Fredrick Limp Shane Covington John Wilson Brian Culpepper Collaborators: State Land Information Board, Arkansas Geographic Information Office. Local and statewide in scope. ------------------------
University of Idaho Library Moscow, ID Lily Wai Bruce Godfrey Frank Roberts Linnea Marshall Collaborator: Coeur d’Alene Tribe GIS Statewide scope. ------------------------		Utah Division of Information Technology Services Automated Geographic Reference Center Salt Lake City, UT Dennis Goreham, 801.538.3163, dgroeham [at] utah.gov Collaborators: US Bureau of the Census, US Geological Survey. Statewide county and municipal scope. ------------------------
Land Management Information Center St. Paul, MN Chris Cialek Nancy Rader Susanne Maeders Collaborator: Minnesota State Archives Statewide scope. ------------------------		New Mexico State University Department of Geography Las Cruces, NM Dr. Robert J. Czerniak Matthew E. Rich Collaborators: NM Property Tax Division, NM Highway and Transportation Department Statewide focus on rural counties. ------------------------
Barrow Arctic Science Consortium Barrow, AK Allison Graves Robert Bulger Collaborators: NSF Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center, Arctic Ecology Laboratory, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Cincinnati, Alaska Data Visualization and Analysis Lab, North Slope Borough GIS, Nature Conservancy of Alaska. Barrow regional focus. ------------------------		Earth Data Analysis Center University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM Amelia M. Budge Karl Benedict Arleen Montoya-Anaya State and local agencies in scope. ------------------------
Center for GIS at Towson University Towson, MD David Sides Matt Felton Joe Bizzell Michael Bentivegna Collaborator: Maryland Geographic Information Committee Statewide and local government in scope. ------------------------		County of Ventura Geographic Information Services Information Systems Department Ventura, CA Dawn Robbins, 805.477.7162, Collaborators: Channel Islands Regional GIS Collaborative, California Environmental Resources Evaluation System, Central Coast Joint Data Committee. Regional, state, federal, educational, non-profit, private sector organizations in scope. ------------------------
Water Resource Institute California State University-San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA Jeff Davis Dr. Mark Kumler Lisa Pierce Collaborators: Southeastern California GIS Council, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District. Regional city and tribal governments, and conservation agency in scope.

Category 4: Clearinghouse Integration with OpenGIS Services
These projects extend NSDI Clearinghouse nodes with OpenGIS Consortium compliant web mapping or web feature service capabilities. This allows linking to and viewing geospatial data from metadata in the clearinghouse utilizing embedded URL map requests. Up to $25,000 per project, 7 awards.