SAIN Partners
The overriding strategy of SAIN is to develop partnerships with the neighboring
national research institute, federal agencies, universities, state and
local government, and academic institutions, as well as private and non-profit
organizations. The result is that SAIN is a unique distributed information
source for integrated science including biological data, socio-economic
data, and information created and coordinated in the region. In total,
SAIN has more than 25 partners that contribute information and resources,
combining multi-agency information and regional resources to improve productivity,
resource management, and sustainable development. Through direct and indirect
partnerships, SAIN's reach extends to include a variety of stakeholders.
Partners:
Academic
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Bright
Elementary teachers attended the GIS course that SAIN provided
through the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Students conduct
local biodiversity research and the data collected by these students
is being incorporated into the large-scale study of biodiversity
in the Tennessee River Gorge.
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East
Lake Elementary teachers will attend the GIS course that
SAIN provided through the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.
Students will conduct local biodiversity research and the data collected
by these students is being incorporated into the large-scale study
of biodiversity in the Tennessee River Gorge.
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Nolan Elementary
teachers attended the GIS course that SAIN provided through
the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Students conduct local
biodiversity research and the data collected by these students is
being incorporated into the large-scale study of biodiversity in
the Tennessee River Gorge.
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University of
Georgia
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 The
Institute of Ecology participating in the development of
IDNature Guide, an biological identification key tool.
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University
of the South (Sewanee) located atop the Cumberland Plateau
between Nashville and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Sewanee is participating
in SAIN's initiative of a Tennesee data consortium
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University of
Tennessee, Chattanooga
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The Center
for Excellence in Computer Applications (CECA) provides
computer technology to UTC’s GIS Laboratory.
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The
Department of Biological and Environmental Science provides
SAIN with long-term biological monitoring protocols, geographic
information systems (GIS) expertise, metadata creation, metadata
submission protocol development, and cross-node educational outreach.
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University of
Tennessee, Knoxville
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Computing Systems Services (no web site available yet) provides
support to the Southern Appalachian Information Node through database
administration as well as systems administration.
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 The
Applied Visualization Lab participation areas within SAIN
include 3D modeling and design, information visualization and data
mining, image processing, visual simulation, virtual product prototyping,
and immersive environments.
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 The
Geography Department provides SAIN with Geographical Information
Systems technology support (such as map digitization) and is recipient
of one of the SAIN graduate assistantships.
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 SunSITE
is part of Sun Microsystems' program to showcase the value
of networked information technology through grants and partnerships
with selected universities. SunSITE supports the creation within
the Internet community of network information tools required to
build the next generation of learning environments for higher education.
The SunSITE team provides SAIN with technical support and web page
hosting.
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Federal
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Globe Program
is a hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education
program that provides the opportunity to students to learn by collecting
scientifically valid nature data and provides teachers with assistance
through training at professional development workshops. Some of
SAIN’s academic partners are part of this program.
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National Park
Service
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All
Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Program (ATBI) of the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park is a cooperative that seeks to to
collect, organize and disseminate information on the distribution,
abundance and natural history of the 100,000 species estimated to
inhabit the park. It is designed to bring the data into compliance
with the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII).
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Chickamauga
& Chattanooga National Military Park is working with
SAIN on a study of the effects of recreational rock climbing. The
node is also developing a 3D model of climbing routes of the Parks's
Sunset Rock.
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Great
Smoky Mountains National Park, located in the states of
North Carolina and Tennessee, encompasses 800 square miles of which
95 percent are forested. It is an active partner in SAIN as part
of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory program.
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Natural
Resource Challenge stresses addressing the challenges of
native, endangered and nonnative species, environmental stewardship,
air quality, water resources, parks for science and learning, inventory,
and monitoring.
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National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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 National
Weather Service Forecast Office in Morristown, TN is working
with SAIN on Geographical Information System (GIS) technology and
data sharing.
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Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL) plays a key role in environmental data
systems. ORNL researchers created Mercury,
a Web-based system to search for metadata and retrieve associated
data used by SAIN.
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Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) is committed to protecting the environmental
resources of the Tennessee Valley and is collaborating with SAIN
to provide users with fish and water health data as well as GIS
technology.
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United States
Forest Service (USFS)
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 Southern
Research Station creates the science and technology needed
to sustain and enhance southern forest ecosystems and the benefits
they provide.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
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Bee
Biology and Systematics Laboratory is participating in the
SAIN's bee identification key providing facilitation and testing
using especimens collected throughout the eastern U.S.
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United States
Geological Survey (USGS)
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 Gap
Analysis Program assesses to what extent native animal
and plant species are being protected. The GAP program provides
SAIN with regional GAP analysis information.
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Southern
Appalachian Field Laboratory (Leetown Science Center) conducts
basic and applied research to address natural resource management
problems.
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Tennessee
Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA) is dedicated to the preservation,
conservation and enhancement of Tennessee's fish and wildlife. TWRA
and SAIN are working together to improve and web-enable biodiversity
conservation and identification tools.
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Non-Profit
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Appalachian
Trail Conference (ATC) is a private, volunteer-based nonprofit
organization, dedicated since 1925 to building, protecting, and
managing the Appalachian Trail for the public.
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Little
Tennessee Watershed Association is a non-profit watershed
protection organization that serves as an aquatic research project
for SAIN. Current fish and water health data of the Little Tennessee
River will be available on the SAIN’s internet map servers.
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North
Chickamauga Creek Conservancy is a citizen-created nonprofit
organization that provides citizen involvement in conserving the
resources located within and near the watershed area of North Chickamauga
Creek. By partnering with the NCCC, SAIN will have, in two years
of operation, united two major entities that were once independently
engaged in conserving the environs that encompass the scenic city
of Chattanooga.
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The
Polistes Foundation encourages nature based learning and
discovery research to improve public awareness of environmental
issues and protect the diversity of life on Earth. The Foundation
is participating in one of SAIN's identification keys.
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Southern Appalachian
Man and The Biosphere (SAMAB) is a public/private partnership
promoting the achievement of a sustainable balance between the conservation
of biological diversity, compatible economic uses, and cultural
values across the Southern Appalachians. SAMAB provides SAIN with
technical direction and project research.
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Southeast Aquatic
Research Institute is a not-for-profit enterprise created
in 1996 through collaboration among the Tennessee Aquarium, the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the Tennessee River
Gorge Trust to carry out environmental research to help ensure the
health and long-term sustainability of regional natural resources.
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Tennessee
Aquarium strives to stay on the cutting edge of technology
to facilitate environmental education both nearby and far away from
the region.
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Tennessee River
Gorge Trust is a non-profit organization formed in 1986
to protect the ecological diversity of the Tennessee River Gorge
that has been designated a Global Biosphere Reserve by the United
Nations. The TRGT serves as an ecosystem research center for SAIN.
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The Nature Conservancy
(TNC) works to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities
that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the
lands and waters they need to survive.
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