To enhance IT and data management capabilities that facilitate the electronic collection, reporting, exchange, sharing and integration of the full range of data that informs the business of…

The Tulalip Tribes of Washington received a $300,000 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Administration and Resource Management under the Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program (CFDA 66.608) for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The grant supports the development of a web-based data management system for the tribe's natural and cultural resources department, with primary focus on implementing a Structured Query Language (SQL) screw trap database that will centralize and improve access to two decades of juvenile salmon outmigration monitoring data.

The project deliverables include designing and deploying a web-based data entry interface for the SQL database, performing quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) on and importing historic data, integrating the database with an existing environmental information exchange network, and developing custom queries and database views to support data analysis and environmental decision-making. The Tulalip Data Services, a separate entity designated as the tribe's required information technology service office under tribal law, will serve as the sub-recipient and will execute much of the technical work, including database interface development, network integration, and analytical query development. These enhancements are expected to streamline data management operations and provide the tribe's natural and cultural resources department with improved analytical capacity to inform environmental and natural resource management decisions.

Description

This project by the tulalip tribes proposes to develop a web-based data entry interface for the new SQL screw trap database; QA/QC and import historic data into the database; integrate database with an existing exchange network; develop custom queries and database views for data analysis; and build the tribe's natural and cultural resources department data management and analysis capacity. This project is expected to benefit the tribe's natural and cultural resources department by streamlining and enhancing its data management capacity. Expected environmental results include making over two decades of existing data readily available for analysis that can inform environmental and natural resource management decisions. Prioritized data sets include juvenile salmon outmigration data.