SCCWRP enhances data portal for statewide estuary monitoring program

SCCWRP has redesigned and restructured the data portal for a recently rebranded statewide program that is monitoring the health of coastal estuaries – an upgrade that enables the program to serve as an umbrella under which multiple estuary monitoring efforts are nested.

The redesigned California Estuary Monitoring Program (CalEMP) data portal, launched in February, encompasses the existing Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project (WRP) Estuary Monitoring Program and the California Estuarine Marine Protected Areas (EMPA) Monitoring Program.

The data portal, which is designed to readily scale to support estuary monitoring statewide, provides streamlined access to standardized monitoring protocols, monitoring datasets, and synthesized data to help inform California’s management of coastal estuaries.

SCCWRP is supporting the program by managing the program data management infrastructure, which includes the web-based submission portal and data analysis and visualization tools.