Southern California Bight 2008 Regional Monitoring Survey
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Southern California Bight 2008 Regional Monitoring Survey (Bight’08) Information Management Plan Prepared by: Bight’08 Information Management Committee 
Prepared for: Commission of Southern California Coastal Water Research Project 3535 Harbor Blvd., Suite 110 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Version Date: July 30, 2008 Disclaimer: While we strive to make the Information Management Plan as accurate as possible when we publish it, there may be times at which we may find it necessary to make some minor changes. Please check the data submission website at www.sccwrp.org\datasubmission\bight08 for the most current version of the Information Management Plan and most current values in a given lookup list. If a value seems appropriate for a field but is not listed, please contact the Information Management Officer to discuss its inclusion. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Information Management Chair: Shelly Moore Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Information Management Co-Chairs Shelly Walther Los Angeles County Sanitation District Lisa Haney Los Angeles County Sanitation District Information Management Committee Members: Bruce Bealer Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Cheryl Brantley Los Angeles County Sanitation District Curtis Cash City of LA, Environmental Monitoring Division Susan Chang City of LA, Environmental Monitoring Division Larry Cooper Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Andrea Crumpacker Weston Solutions Mike Mengel Orange County Sanitation District Hai Nguyen Orange County Sanitation District Diane O’Donohue City of San Diego, Metropolitan Wastewater Department Chi-Li Tang Los Angeles County Sanitation District Karin Wisenbaker Aquatic Bioassay Consultants
I. INTRODUCTION TO BIGHT‘08 6 II. APPROACH TO INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 7 a. Standardized Data Transfer Protocols 8 b. Field Computer 10 III. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 11 a. Information Management Officer (imo) 11 b. Agency Information Management (aim) Contact Information 12 c. Data Flow 12 d. Data Revision 14 e. Schedule 14 IV. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 15 a. Overview 15 b. How To Use This Document 16 c. Data Submission Protocols 17 d. Data Entry Templates 18 V. DATA ACCESS 18 a. Data Release Philosophy 18 b. Metadata 19 V. DATA TABLES 19 a. Common Tables 19 b. Coastal Ecology 23 b. Rocky Habitat 45 Appendix 1. Lookup Lists 53 Appendix 2. Metadata 103 Section 1: Identification Information 103 Section 2: Data Quality Information 107 Section 3: Spatial Data Organization Information 108 Section 4: Spatial Reference Information 109 Section 5: Entity and Attribute Information 109 Section 6: Distribution Information 110 Section 7: Metadata Reference Information 111 Section 8: Citation Information 112 Section 9: Time Period Information 113 Section 10: Contact Information 113 Appendix 3. Acronym Glossary 115 I. INTRODUCTION TO BIGHT‘08The Southern California Bight 2008 Regional Monitoring Project (Bight’08) is a cooperative effort involving more than 60 agencies to assess the overall ecological health of the Southern California Bight (SCB). Bight’08 builds upon previous successful regional surveys and includes new questions and new participants. Cooperative programs such as this one are important in providing a regional perspective to conditions in the marine and estuarine habitats of the Southern California Bight. The large scope of this survey provides a unique challenge to organizing and structuring the necessary committees and data management practices to ensure its success. The overall structure of all of the Bight surveys has varied from survey to survey depending on the focus; however, the general structure of the groups has stayed the same throughout. For Bight’08 there are five major working groups (Figure 1): 1) Coastal Ecology; 2) Shoreline Microbiology; 3) Water Quality; 4) Rocky Reef; and 5) Areas of Special Biological Significance. In addition, there are six sub committees responsible for the technical aspects of the survey. These technical committees are responsible for delineated a set of common methods and standards to be used in the field and lab. Specifically, the Information Management technical committee is responsible for creating Standardized Data Transfer Protocols (SDTPs) to ensure data comparability and ease of data analyses. 
Figure 1. Layout of the groups and committees for Bight’08. The main challenge for the Bight’08 Information Management committee is the development of a unified data system. Each of the participating organizations has developed and is using their own data management system. These systems vary in the types of data captured, the software systems in which they are stored, and the degree of data documentation. In order to meet the project goal of producing a regional assessment of the Southern California Bight, a cooperative information management system is necessary to ensure that the collected data can be shared effectively among participants. Information management needs to occur on several levels. First, a process must be developed to ensure the quality, compatibility, and timeliness of the data each organization collects. Once collected and organized, it must be readily available to the project scientists for review, analysis and interpretation. Ultimately, this information will be made available to other interested organizations and the general public. This document describes the information management system (IMS) that will support Bight’08. The document focuses on four major functions of the IMS:
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