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Welcome to the 2025 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Data Management Workshop!
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Wednesday, February 12
 

10:00am EST

Optional Coffee Hour
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EST
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EST
  Social Activity

11:00am EST

Fixing Broken Systems
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:30am EST
Speakers
JK

Jeena Koenig

Data Coordinator • Fish and Aquatic Conservation Program, USFWS
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:30am EST
  Plenary Presentation

11:30am EST

Continuous Improvement in FWS
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm EST
Speakers
avatar for Maren Tuttle-Lau

Maren Tuttle-Lau

Geneticist/Quality Assurance Specialist • Fisheries, USFWS
Pronouns: she/her/hersLanguages spoken: EnglishDuty station time zone: CentralI serve as a Geneticist, QA/QC Specialist in the Region 3 FAC Invasive Carp eDNA Program and am based out of Whitney Genetics Lab located within the Midwest Fisheries Center. I also serve on the R3 FAC Data... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm EST
  Plenary Presentation

12:00pm EST

Federal Data Center Enhancement Act
Wednesday February 12, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm EST
Speakers
BC

Brandi Church

Project Manager, USFWS
Wednesday February 12, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm EST
  Plenary Presentation

12:30pm EST

Promoting Efficiency at Field Stations through Data Integration and Automation
Wednesday February 12, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm EST
Speakers
BW

Ben Walker

Wildlife Biologist, USFWS
Wednesday February 12, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm EST
  Plenary Presentation

1:00pm EST

Break
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
  Break

2:00pm EST

Data Quality Workgroup
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Data Quality Working Group, Facilitator: Maren Tuttle-Lau
  • Data quality is a multifaceted concept influenced by several key factors, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness, and validity. Ensuring high data quality is crucial, as poor-quality data can lead to unreliable results and conclusions, adversely affecting customer service, employee productivity, and strategic decision-making. The objective of this Working Group is to develop a plan to increase data quality awareness within the FWS in 2025.
Speakers
avatar for Maren Tuttle-Lau

Maren Tuttle-Lau

Geneticist/Quality Assurance Specialist • Fisheries, USFWS
Pronouns: she/her/hersLanguages spoken: EnglishDuty station time zone: CentralI serve as a Geneticist, QA/QC Specialist in the Region 3 FAC Invasive Carp eDNA Program and am based out of Whitney Genetics Lab located within the Midwest Fisheries Center. I also serve on the R3 FAC Data... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
  Roundtable Discussion

2:00pm EST

Working Better Together I
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
The Data Management community and related groups like IRTM are implementing organizational change around our data practices. This is hard enough on its own. But rather than putting on a unified front to improve the organization, we are often divided and competing with each other for budgets, kingdom building, or just the right to say “first”. This group will use materials from the 2023 workshop to refine a vision for collaborative work, review and prioritize barriers, and start a rough implementation plan for reaching the vision. 
Overall Vision
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service effectively and efficiently creates and maintains centralized data assets that are shared and communicated widely for the benefit of the agency, agency’s partners, and the public while fostering recognition and innovation at all levels for solutions to current and future data problems that are shared and utilized by the entire agency regardless of program or region. We have broken the visions from the 2023 data workshop visions down into 3 categories.
Three goals to work towards:
  1. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rapidly innovates on the data and data tool front, balancing national strategically planned efforts and data standards against rapid prototyping at various levels of the organization: Balancing planned advances and rapid innovation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s data are the foundation of conservation success. As Service employees, we will produce data that are rigorous, discoverable, documented, accessible, and secure. 
  2. Clear communication about projects helps minimize duplication of efforts and fosters collaboration across organizational silos: Improving communication about new projects and ongoing work. 
  3. The Service values and recognizes staff contributions, particularly when locally developed concepts are adopted and adapted for broader use: Incentives and valuing staff contributions.

Speakers
AA

Andy Allstadt

Regional Data Manager • Science Applications, USFWS
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
  Roundtable Discussion

2:00pm EST

Working Better Together II
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
The Data Management community and related groups like IRTM are implementing organizational change around our data practices. This is hard enough on its own. But rather than putting on a unified front to improve the organization, we are often divided and competing with each other for budgets, kingdom building, or just the right to say “first”. This group will use materials from the 2023 workshop to refine a vision for collaborative work, review and prioritize barriers, and start a rough implementation plan for reaching the vision.
Overall Vision
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service effectively and efficiently creates and maintains centralized data assets that are shared and communicated widely for the benefit of the agency, agency’s partners, and the public while fostering recognition and innovation at all levels for solutions to current and future data problems that are shared and utilized by the entire agency regardless of program or region. We have broken the visions from the 2023 data workshop visions down into 3 categories.
Three goals to work towards: •
  1. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rapidly innovates on the data and data tool front, balancing national strategically planned efforts and data standards against rapid prototyping at various levels of the organization: Balancing planned advances and rapid innovation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s data are the foundation of conservation success. As Service employees, we will produce data that are rigorous, discoverable, documented, accessible, and secure. 
  2. Clear communication about projects helps minimize duplication of efforts and fosters collaboration across organizational silos: Improving communication about new projects and ongoing work. 
  3. The Service values and recognizes staff contributions, particularly when locally developed concepts are adopted and adapted for broader use: Incentives and valuing staff contributions.

Speakers
JK

Jeena Koenig

Data Coordinator • Fish and Aquatic Conservation Program, USFWS
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
  Roundtable Discussion

2:00pm EST

Working Better Together III
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
The Data Management community and related groups like IRTM are implementing organizational change around our data practices. This is hard enough on its own. But rather than putting on a unified front to improve the organization, we are often divided and competing with each other for budgets, kingdom building, or just the right to say “first”. This group will use materials from the 2023 workshop to refine a vision for collaborative work, review and prioritize barriers, and start a rough implementation plan for reaching the vision.
Overall Vision
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service effectively and efficiently creates and maintains centralized data assets that are shared and communicated widely for the benefit of the agency, agency’s partners, and the public while fostering recognition and innovation at all levels for solutions to current and future data problems that are shared and utilized by the entire agency regardless of program or region. We have broken the visions from the 2023 data workshop visions down into 3 categories.
Three goals to work towards: •
  1. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rapidly innovates on the data and data tool front, balancing national strategically planned efforts and data standards against rapid prototyping at various levels of the organization: Balancing planned advances and rapid innovation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s data are the foundation of conservation success. As Service employees, we will produce data that are rigorous, discoverable, documented, accessible, and secure. 
  2. Clear communication about projects helps minimize duplication of efforts and fosters collaboration across organizational silos: Improving communication about new projects and ongoing work. 
  3. The Service values and recognizes staff contributions, particularly when locally developed concepts are adopted and adapted for broader use: Incentives and valuing staff contributions.

Speakers
CK

Chelsea Kross

Data Science Course Leader, USFWS, NCTC
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
  Roundtable Discussion