Jan 1, 2011

First quarter CEDEN highlights include the hiring of a Program Manager and the availability of tissue monitoring data through CEDEN’s data access tool. Dr. Steven Steinberg joined the CEDEN team in February. He comes from Humboldt State University in Arcata, where he was a professor of geospatial sciences. As Program Manager, he will oversee and provide cohesive leadership for the Regional Data Centers and other partners, including federal, local, and state governmental
agencies, NGOs, and academia. He will also work on expanding the CEDEN information management system, developing visualization and analysis tools to better serve the statewide user community, and developing a long-term sustainable funding plan for CEDEN. SFEI staff had a productive meeting on February 8th with Steve Steinberg and Steve Weisberg from SCCWRP. The meeting was held at SFEI to discuss future improvements to CEDEN, clarify the need for CEDEN, and introduce Dr. Steinberg to SFEI and its capabilities. Presentations were made on our EDIT program, Regional Data
Center, web portals and development, and GIS and IT capabilities. Tissue monitoring data were made available through CEDEN’s on-line advance query tool in February. SFEI manages several
tissue datasets from various projects that are available through CEDEN, including the RMP (triennial sportfish data from 1997- 2009, and effects and exposure bird data from 2002-2007), Fish Mercury Project (fish data from the Bay-Delta watershed from 2005-2007), SWAMP (historic bioaccumulation data generated under three historic State Board programs and other major studies from 1970-2005), and Coastal Fish Contamination Program (fish and shellfish from 1998-2003). The main objectives for the second quarter include working with State and Regional Board staff to determine high priority
projects, programs, and water quality data sets from the San Francisco Bay region to target for inclusion in CEDEN, making improvements to the Wetlands Portal, coordinating with other RDCs to maintain a standard data vocabulary, and adding new datasets to SFEI’s SWAMP database.

Programs and Focus Areas: 
Environmental Informatics Program