The document discusses the creation of an open web platform and API to provide access to water and environmental data from various sources in Alberta, Canada. It notes that currently much of the data is isolated in different locations and formats, and the goal is to make it more accessible and usable by connecting it through a single portal using web services and standards. This will help enable collaboration and information sharing between water stakeholders and the public.

1. open web platform open water data apps through API A not-for-profit project funded by Western Economic Diversification, Cybera Inc. and University of Lethbridge. Led by University of Lethbridge, Cybera Inc., and Alberta WaterPortal. Alex Joseph Executive Director – Water and Environmental Hub Cybera Inc. [email_address] 403-826-3915 Mike Scarth Executive Director – Alberta WaterPortal Alberta WaterSMART [email_address] 403-616-4807

3. key challenges The need to collaborate and share knowledge is becoming more acute as governments, environmental groups, industry, scientists, and others are being called upon to build and strengthen environmental and conservation actions and plans… … and as the issue of environmental stewardship and protection is becoming a key public concern and is creating increasing demand for more data, information sharing and discussion from a whole new community of people that were not previously engaged.

4. key challenges Providing improved transparency and access to available water and environmental data, information and knowledge is a crucial first step in building multi-stakeholder and collaborative partnerships… … and making better decisions on where to focus scarce resources (priorities) on policy, research, technology commercialization, industry investment, and public engagement.

5. “ … wouldn ’ t it be amazing to have one platform for climate and hydrometric data ” – Jennifer Allen (SFU) @ CWRA2011

6. “ … the arrival of Web Services Hubs ” – David Maidment (CUAHSI) @ CWRA2011

8. | 2/3 2043 MB - Download Phone Dave for data

12. GRDC UNGEMS WATER ENVIRONMENTAL HUB DATAONE? GOOGLE? NRCAN GROUNDWATER INFO NETWORK ENV CAN USGS STATS CAN NRCAN AB ENV BC MOE ON MOE AB SRD MN DOE NOAA LAKE WINNIPEG DATA PORTAL CALGARY EDMONTON VANCOUVER WOOD BUFFALO ENV ASSOC RAMP ABMI SUNCOR CITIZEN SCIENTISTS PUBLIC WATER SENSORS DEFENCE LONDON WINNIPEG AIR SENSORS PIPELINE SENSORS BEIJING MN DOE GREAT LAKES NATURE ALBERTA Network of “ Networks of Networks ” eBIRD

16. VIEWER APPLICATION LAYER DATA LAYER SOCIAL NETWORK CATALOGUE SYSTEM TRANSLATOR API EXTERNAL DATA INTERNAL DATA VIEWERS, WIDGETS, APPS CACHE

17. WaterML GroundWaterML Ecological ML WMS WFS OGC OTHER Sensor Observation Service TRANSLATOR eBird ML??? Oil&Gas ML???

18. CATALOG META DATA OBS DATA WEB SERVICES WMS WFS WaterML GroundwaterML Sensor Obs Service HYDAT Custom

21. Geographical Scope Courtesy of http://www.cec.org 1 2 3

22. A great platform with no data is… When the Water and Environmental Hub launches later this week the cup will only be half full…

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HIGH PRIORITY HYDAT Archived Sediment data from HYDAT stations Water Level and Streamflow Statistics Flood Disasters in Canada 465 (+) observation streams from 40 different AWSs and gauges in 7 research basins GRDC IP3 DRI WC2N RAMP ABMI WBEA CASA UNGEMS UNGEMS UNGEMS AB ENV AB ENV Env Can CLIMATE DATA AB Ag Climate Data AB Env Climate Data AB SRD Climate Data Canadian Daily Climate Data 2007 North American Regional Reanalysis Env Canada Canadian Precipitation RAR Snow RAR up to 55 degrees N AB Gov AB Env AB Env AB Env AB Env SOILS - AGRASID SNOWPACK BC Snow Pillow archive North American Glaciers Daily Canadian Snow and Inland Ice Cover Synthesis Maps Canadian Permafrost Thickness, Geological Survey of Canada LANDUSE/LANDCOVER Circa-2000 Northern Land Cover of Canada The State of Canada's Ecosystems in Maps Canadian Peatland Database Potential Sediment Transport by Wind in the Prairie Provinces (PSTWPP) AB Parks Crown Reservations AB VEG INDEX Canada Land Inventory (1:250,000) - Land Capability for Agriculture Canada Land Inventory (1:250,000) - Land Capability for Waterfowl Canada Land Inventory (1:250,000) - Land Capability for Forestry Canada Land Inventory (1:250,000) - Land Capability for Ungulates Canada Land Inventory (1:250,000) - Sport Fish Capability AB WATER ALLOCATIONS WESTERN IRRIGATION DISTRICT AWRI Data EBIRD DR. STEFAN KIENZLE'S ATLAS NatureAlberta AB Geological Survey ArcGIS Online API, Maps WEB SERVICES 52North implementation Hydrological Sensor Web South Esk CSIRO SOS OSIRIS Home Weather Station System DataONE GRDC?? USGS?? Texas Water Lake Powell Australia Solid Earth and Environment Grid Italy Institute for Studying Ecosystems GEO Component and Service Registry - Registration Holdings UNEP Climate data GeoBC Water Survey of Canada VASDI Yukon Land Use Planning Atlas WMS Service Atlas of the Cryosphere: Northern Hemisphere WFS Atlas of the Cryosphere: Northern Hemisphere WMS EnviroGRIDS Hydrological modeling (Wp4) - WMS Global Natural Disaster Hotspots data WMS Global Species Distribution WMS (Amphibians) Great Lakes Bathymetry Web Map Service SAFORAH EOSD Landcover of Canada - Grid-enabled WMS ArcVoyager Canada's Agriculture ArcVoyager Canada's Climate ArcVoyager Canada's Physical Environment ArcVoyager Canada's Population Athabasca Region Thematic Land Use Data Bird Studies Canada - BirdMap WMS British Columbia Base Map Layers WMS, Version 2 Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network WMS, Environment Canada Compusult Limited METAR Weather Mapping service Canadian Geoscience Knowledge Network - Web Map Service Canadian Geoscience Map Vectors Climate Change Downscale Modelling, WMS, Environment Canada Canadian Geographical Names Service - Web Map Service DFO Pacific Region Basemaps Web Map Service DM Solutions Web Map Service (WMS) EC/Ecological Monitoring And Assessment Network Coordinating Office - NatureWatch WMS DFO Pacific Region Inland Web Map Service Endangered Species and Ecosystems Occurrences for British Columbia, WMS ENVIRODAT - Newfoundland and Labrador Water Quality Agreement Database (WMS) First Nations Treaty Lands of British Columbia Geological Survey of Canada Marine Geoscience Map Vectors Web Mapping Service Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Marine Multibeam Bathymetric Data Web Map Service Hectares BC, (HaBC) Raw WMS Data Access Land Information Ontario - Cascading Map Server - WMS LIO_Infrastucture_WMS National Ecological Framework for Canada Web Map Service Real time Water Quality WMS, Newfoundland and Labrador Pockwock / Bowater Watershed Study (Environment Canada) - WMS Pacific and Yukon Region Water Quality WMS Storm Tracking - WMS Wildlife Habitat Canada CitizenScience WMS Bird Studies Canada - BirdMap WFS Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network WFS, Environment Canada Climate Change Downscale Modelling, WFS, Environment Canada ENVIRODAT - Newfoundland and Labrador Water Quality Agreement Database (WFS) Environment Canada - NatureWatch WFS Prince Edward Island Public Water Data Storm Tracking - WFS Water Quality Management Agreement WFS, Newfoundland and Labrador Wildlife Habitat Canada CitizenScience WFS Real time Water Quality WFS, Newfoundland and Labrador UNGEMS - Gemstat SOILS - CANSIS BC Gov LRDW European Environmental Agency UofL Water Sciences Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity Long Term Studies Section Nature Alberta NATIONAL Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) IPA Circumarctic Permafrost and Ground Ice Map EU Env Agency water data EU Data centres various topics Baltic Sea Region Birds Canada USGS Water Watch Avian Network Ecotrends US Long Term Ecological Research Network Net Primary Productivity Database US Forest Service US Water Maps GEWEX Utah state water rights Ecology Society of America Natureserve Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Research Biogeochemical Dynamics TERN - AusCover Open Data sets q=water Publicdata.eu "water" CANADA Environment Canada Canadian Government Water Survey of Canada National Climate Data and Information Archive Wet Areas Mapping (Wetlands) NRCan NRCan GeoConnections Discover Portal Geogratis CanMap Water Global Forest Watch Canada Datadotgc.ca Gov Can data Data Liberation Initiative (Stats Can) Ducks Unlimited Weathernetwork.com RSS Feeds NavCan Aviation Weather Wind Speed Radiation Potential Evaporation maps (ABEnv?) Climate surfaces Canadian GIS Sources Geokov various CAN datasets Imagery (Landsat) Imagery (SPOT) – Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre Imagery (Orthophotos) LiDAR (SRD) Land Use (CLI) Soils (AgraSID) Grassland Vegetation Inventory (GVI) PFRA Gross Watershed Boundaries Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bear Project – Land Cover Geological Survey of Canada (various) Data.gov Data.gov NOAA Geokov various US datasets PRISM dataset PROVINCIAL CanVec 1:50K, 1:250K AB Gov AB Gov Alberta Snow Pillow Data (AENV) Surface Water Quality Program (AENV) Western Irrigation District Alberta River Basins (AENV) AltaLIS 1:20K Base Features AENV WISKI Alberta Geological Service (various) AB Geo Survey AB Caribou Range Various AB forestry, oil sands Various Canada Water AB Lake Bathymetry ERCB Pipes and Wells Alberta Agriculture RSS Soil Moisture BC Mining Association Agricultural Capability (PFRA Landcover) NRCan Alberta Water Well Information Database Groundwater Observation Well Network (GOWN) Naturalized stream flow projections (daily, weekly) BC Watersheds BC Gov - 222 datasets under "water" Geokov various BC datasets Sask Gov - Geodata products Sask GIS Data Geological Survey of Canada, Open Files - Saskatchewan Manitoba Gov Yukon Gov Montana Gov Montana Gov Montana Gov TransAlta Scheduled releases TransAlta Reservoir levels ON Gov MOE Geokov various ON datasets

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29. .ca .ca .ca after July 1st Alex Joseph Executive Director – Water and Environmental Hub Cybera Inc. [email_address] 403-826-3915 Mike Scarth Executive Director – Alberta WaterPortal Alberta WaterSMART [email_address] 403-616-4807