1          Introduction

The National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC) is a partnership of Lewis and Clark Community College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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These capabilities are essential to improve policies and practices that affect the river. 

In phase 4, NCSA will focus on transforming data to knowledge in GLTG by developing decision support capabilities that state and federal agencies can ultimately use to grow public support and build capacity to advance nutrient loss reduction (NLRS) strategies.

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NCSA will harvest and ingest the data (at least 6 new sources) from various sources identified by LC-NGRREC. It will require NCSA to develop additional parsers for these various sources and configure the GLTG with proper metadata and information.

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NCSA will integrate at least 3 additional contextual data (geospatial layers) to the platform. This requires NCSA to manipulate the identified geospatial data, upload it to Geoserver and integrate it to GLTG.

2.2        Task B: Deploy GLTG for State of Illinois

NCSA will deploy another instance of GLTG for State of Illinois. The site development will be done In cooperation with NGRREC and IEPA. It will be used for the Illinois Nutrient Reduction Strategy Plan.

2.3        Task C: Upgrade GLTG to GeoDashboard v3

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NCSA and NGRREC will gather, identify, and prioritize additional user requirements along with lessons learned from the current GLTG site.

2.3.2        Task C-2: Implement/test/deploy GeoDashboard v3

NCSA will implement/test/deploy GeoDashbarod v3 for GLTG based on the user requirements. During the development process, the testing will be done via NCSA and NGRREC.

2.3.3        Task C-3: Upgrade current GLTG to GeoDashboard v3

NCSA will replace the current search page with v3 first. Then, NCSA will gradually upgrade other components of GLTG to GeoDashboard v3

2.4        Task D: Develop Computational Models (tools) Repository

NCSA will develop a repository (or exploratory analysis) page for computation models (tools) for water quality interpretation (i.e. SPARROW, SWAT, etc.). The site will allow users to test the models with the water quality data from GLTG.

2.4.1        Task D-1: Gather/Survey models/tools

LC- NGRREC and NCSA will gather/survey the models/tools which could be possible for GLTG to host. Example data and executions will be collected for GLTG to test.

2.4.2        Task D-2: Develop/test the platform for models

NCSA will develop/test the platform for models/tools by using NCSA DataWolf, a scientific workflow engine.