Webinar Summary Indigenous Knowledge Aspects of Community Based Water Monitoring & Data Management

lack of knowledge of conditions of small streams, understanding of landscape and climate change and effects on fish habitat) through culturally appropriate work, and consistent presence in the watershed (“eyes and ears” for the Nations) Expansion of the monitoring system (e.g. [...] The administrator can add/remove individuals to access the account, and assign the types of access the individual can have, and the types of activities they can do in the system (guest, participant, researcher/interviewer, administrator). [...] While the software is built to be the information hub, the consulting part of our company has assisted many Nations with developing their own data sharing and traditional knowledge gathering protocols to reflect the principles of data control, access and ownership. [...] If you look at that very brief document, it is basically a step-by-step guide to government and industry on how do you implement Indigenous law? How do you work with us in a way that follows our laws and the work that we continue through the UFFCA as a bit of a coordinator, working with and to support Saik’uz, Stellat’en and Nadleh to develop tools so that they implement the law consistently. [...] Can you provide a summary of the data management system that is used by UFFCA for the water quality/quantity monitoring program? We are in the process of adopting a data management system – it is a software specific to water quality and quantity, called “Aquarius”.