from: Terrance Wang - NOAA Affiliate to: Lauren Jackson - NOAA Federal date: Aug 26, 2020, 5:24 PM subject: Re: NCEI acceptance confirmation for Reference ID: L908J6 mailed-by: noaa.gov signed-by: noaa.gov I've attached the updated README.TXT and the QAPP pdf. Thank you for adding these. from: Lauren Jackson - NOAA Federal to: Terrance Wang - NOAA Affiliate date: Aug 26, 2020, 2:18 PM subject: Re: NCEI acceptance confirmation for Reference ID: L908J6 mailed-by: noaa.gov Hi Terrance, Yes, that is a good idea to update the readme.txt if you don't mind. You can email me the updated version, and I will add it to your accession. Many thanks, Lauren from: Terrance Wang - NOAA Affiliate to: Lauren Jackson - NOAA Federal date: Aug 26, 2020, 2:15 PM subject: Re: NCEI acceptance confirmation for Reference ID: L908J6 mailed-by: noaa.gov signed-by: noaa.gov Hi Lauren, Thanks for the suggestion, it would be helpful for users. I don't see any harm with including the report. Should I update the readme.txt with the inclusion of this file and a description? Thanks! Terrance from: Lauren Jackson - NOAA Federal to: Terrance Wang - NOAA Affiliate date: Aug 26, 2020, 11:39 AM subject: Re: NCEI acceptance confirmation for Reference ID: L908J6 mailed-by: noaa.gov Hi Terrance, I have a quick question for you. During review, the data officer noticed mention of a report in your metadata and looked it up. Do you think it would be beneficial to users of this dataset to include this report within your accession? https://pub-data.diver.orr.noaa.gov/portland-harbor/20181109_PH_JuvenileChinook_QAPP-FSP_FINAL_4264.pdf Please let me know your thoughts or if you have any questions. Many thanks, Lauren from: Terrance Wang - NOAA Affiliate to: Lauren Jackson - NOAA Federal date: Aug 17, 2020, 2:13 PM subject: Re: NCEI acceptance confirmation for Reference ID: L908J6 mailed-by: noaa.gov signed-by: noaa.gov Hi Lauren, Thanks for following up on these important details. I've included the updated text for the sections. I agreed with most of your suggestions and added some of my own. Updated Purpose: "The purpose of this study is to evaluate the growth of naturally spawned UWR juvenile Chinook salmon within the area of Portland Harbor compared to upstream reference sites, and to evaluate relationships between fish growth and tissue concentrations of legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs), and tributyltin (TBT). Previous research has demonstrated a distinctive DDT signature in the UWR juvenile Chinook salmon out-migrating through an area of known historical DDT contamination (~ river mile 7). Sampling for this study will include a broader geographic representation within the contaminated area of the river than previous efforts, which will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the tissue contaminant levels in Willamette River salmonids, including DDTs, PCBs, PAHs, and TBT. UWR juvenile Chinook salmon will be collected by beach seine from select sites within Portland Harbor during the spring outmigration. Individual fish will have genetic confirmation of stock. Whole body and stomach content composites for UWR juvenile Chinook salmon will be analyzed for persistent organic pollutant (POP) concentrations including PCBs and DDTs, among others. The samples and related data from this study will support restoration and recovery efforts including projects specifically aimed at addressing and compensating the public for injuries to juvenile salmon from contaminant exposures. These field observation data contain information on the field sampling of fish used for this study. Tissue and otolith analysis results are provided in a separate dataset." Updated Abstract: "This data package contains field observation data associated with the Portland Harbor, Oregon Superfund Site phase 3 (Completion of the NRDA) juvenile Chinook Salmon study, which was conducted from 4-17-2018 to 4-22-2018. It includes fish catch data collected with a beach seine and describes associated benthic habitat and environmental conditions. The data is available in spreadsheet format. The related datatable is the raw field observation template spreadsheet which was then processed into the main datable." Use Limitation section: Adding "Datasets exported....QA/QC." would be great! Updated Title: "Portland Harbor, Oregon Superfund Site Phase 3 (NRDA) juvenile Chinook Salmon catch and field observation data from 4-17-2018 to 4-22-2018" Hope this looks better. Let me know what you think. Thank you! Terrance from: Lauren Jackson - NOAA Federal to: Terrance Wang - NOAA Affiliate date: Aug 13, 2020, 9:52 AM subject: Re: NCEI acceptance confirmation for Reference ID: L908J6 mailed-by: noaa.gov Hi Terrance, I see that you included additional information about your study in the Purpose. Since the tissue contaminant and otolith data is not included in this accession, do you think it would make sense to revise your Purpose to omit that information? Or you can add a statement to the Purpose along the lines of "This dataset does not include tissue analysis for concentrations of legacy persistent organic pollutants data or otolith age and growth data. This dataset represents the fish collection information"? So that users of this data do not expect tissue contaminant and otolith data? Please feel free to suggest your own statement. I included the Purpose you submitted below for your reference. "The purpose of this study is to evaluate the growth of naturally spawned UWR juvenile Chinook salmon within the area of Portland Harbor compared to upstream reference sites, and to evaluate relationships between fish growth and tissue concentrations of legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs), and tributyltin (TBT). Previous research has demonstrated a distinctive DDT signature in the UWR juvenile Chinook salmon out-migrating through an area of known historical DDT contamination (~ river mile 7). Sampling for this study will include a broader geographic representation within the contaminated area of the river than previous efforts, which will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the tissue contaminant levels in Willamette River salmonids, including DDTs, PCBs, PAHs, and TBT. Evaluating the association of tissue contaminant levels with indicators of skeletal growth will provide a metric of associated injury to this salmon population. UWR juvenile Chinook salmon will be collected by beach seine from select sites within Portland Harbor during the spring outmigration. Individual fish will have genetic confirmation of stock. Whole body and stomach content composites for UWR juvenile Chinook salmon will be analyzed for persistent organic pollutant (POP) concentrations including PCBs and DDTs, among others. Additionally, otolith analysis will be conducted to measure and quantify recent growth. The samples and related data from this study will support restoration and recovery efforts including projects specifically aimed at addressing and compensating the public for injuries to juvenile salmon from contaminant exposures." Thank you for submitting an improved abstract and title. I do have a few suggestions to include a few more descriptive details about this dataset. One quick note is that once the DOI is minted we can no longer update the Abstract or Title, so I want to make sure it is perfect before the DOI is minted. Please see suggested updates below. Current Abstract: "This data package contains field observation data associated with the Portland Harbor Superfund Site Phase 3 Juvenile Chinook study, which was conducted from 4-17-2018 to 4-22-2018. The main datatable is the post processed spreadsheet used to conduct subsequent analyses. The related datatable is the raw field observation template spreadsheet which was then processed into the main datable. Datasets exported from the DIVER warehouse may originate from data producers other than NOAA. NOAA does not warrant the completeness or accuracy of provisional datasets, which may be subject to revision based on validation or QA/QC." Suggested Updated Abstract: This data package contains field observation data associated with the Portland Harbor, [Oregon?] Superfund Site phase 3 [100mm??] juvenile Chinook Salmon study, which was conducted from 4-17-2018 to 4-22-2018. It includes fish catch data collected with a beach seine and describes associated benthic habitat and environmental conditions. The data is available in spreadsheet format. The related datatable is the raw field observation template spreadsheet which was then processed into the main datable. Or please feel free to suggest your own updated abstract. I was unsure what Phase 3 represents, but I am guessing it is a size class of the salmon fingerlings? I think it would help users understand it better if it is defined. I can add the following statement from your abstract to the use-limitation section of the metadata " Datasets exported from the DIVER warehouse may originate from data producers other than NOAA. NOAA does not warrant the completeness or accuracy of provisional datasets, which may be subject to revision based on validation or QA/QC." " if you would like? Current Title: "Portland Harbor Superfund Site phase 3 juvenile Chinook study, field observation data, 4-17-2018 to 4-22-2018 " Suggested Updated Title: "Portland Harbor, Oregon Superfund Site juvenile Chinook Salmon catch and field observation data from 4-17-2018 to 4-22-2018 " Again, please feel free to suggest your own update. Let me know if you have any questions. Many thanks, Lauren from: Lauren Jackson - NOAA Federal to: Terrance Wang - NOAA Affiliate , Kirsten Larsen - NOAA Federal cc: George Graettinger - NOAA Federal , Michele Jacobi - NOAA Federal , Kaitlin DeAeth - NOAA Affiliate date: Aug 5, 2020, 11:31 AM subject: Re: NCEI acceptance confirmation for Reference ID: L908J6 mailed-by: noaa.gov Hi Terrance, Thank you for reaching out with these updates. Yes, I can make the changes in the NCEI discovery metadata upon your request. The updates make sense to me as well. Many thanks, Lauren -- Lauren A. Jackson Oceanographer Center for Coasts, Oceans and Geophysics NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 1021 Balch Boulevard, Suite 1003 Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 228-688-3563 Lauren.Jackson@noaa.gov from: Terrance Wang - NOAA Affiliate to: Lauren Jackson - NOAA Federal cc: George Graettinger - NOAA Federal , Michele Jacobi - NOAA Federal , Kaitlin DeAeth - NOAA Affiliate date: Aug 5, 2020, 11:11 AM subject: Re: NCEI acceptance confirmation for Reference ID: L908J6 mailed-by: noaa.gov signed-by: noaa.gov Hi Lauren, Awesome, that was fast! Thanks for resubmitting the S2N for us. I'm looking over the NCEI metadata and had a few questions. Is it possible to change the time period extent to "2018-04-17 to 2018-04-22"? And delete the following extraneous variables under lineage? Latin Name: Genus; Latin Name: Species; Habitat Type; QM Site ID; QM Study ID; Species Group; Data Classification; Source Type; DIVER Dataset; Location Geom; legend_text; map_index; End Latitude; End Longitude These are all updates I made to the actual metadata files, but I should've listed these out for the S2N form. Hope it's not too much trouble to fix these; I can also resubmit the S2N form with these updates if that's helpful. Thank you! Terrance -- GIS Analyst | Genwest Systems Inc. NOAA | Office of Response & Restoration Assessment & Restoration Division | Spatial Data Branch 7600 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, WA 98115 206-526-6404