AN INTRODUCTION

The Data Management Team is responsible for understanding each FCRRP Team’s data requirements and ensuring that relevant data are organized, transparent, synthesized, and made available to all partners in a timely manner. Collaboration amongst partners is encouraged when appropriate to avoid duplication of efforts and to ensure alignment of needs.

The Team's Mission: Develop functional solutions to support the data needs of FCRRP partners and incorporate the outcomes into the on-going FCRRP response effort.

The Data Management Team is co-led by:

• Nick Alcaraz (FWC FWRI)

• Rene Baumstark (FWC FWRI)

Short and Long Term Goals: 

• Updating data products and dashboards to track the ongoing work of FCRRP Teams and partners.

• Deploying tools to catalog restoration projects conducted within the past 5 years in order to update the State of Florida Restoration Priorities document.

• Developing a reef-tract wide decision support tool to guide management and research efforts such as shoreline protection and water quality improvement. Focus will be placed on assisting in the identification of prospective coral restoration sites.

• Uploading digitized coral histology slides and maintaining rescued coral population management software.

• Collating metadata and uploading datasets for SCTLD research projects to facilitate research syntheses and to inform the focus of future work.

• Implementing the deployment of a modular data buoy to record underwater video of sea urchin release and restoration efforts.

Header photo: Liv Williamson/UM