Staff Feature – Launch of TRCA’s Watershed and Ecosystems Reporting Hub!
June 30, 2021
TRCA’s new Watershed and Ecosystems Reporting Hub, launched on Earth Day 2021 (April 22), represents a digital transformation in the way TRCA reports environmental conditions to our partners and stakeholders.
This online tool was developed using Esri’s ArcGIS StoryMaps, allowing TRCA to clearly convey environmental conditions of the Toronto region using photos, graphics, and interactive displays.
The Reporting Hub allows the user to interactively explore data at various scales, including by watershed, region, or local municipality. It uses plain language to explain the importance of different environmental indicators for understanding watershed and ecosystem health.
Reporting for each indicator includes targets (where applicable), current conditions, and how conditions are changing over time, using the best available data.
The Reporting Hub further provides users with the ability to dig deeper to better understand the methodologies and data behind the reporting, with links to Open Data.
More than 30 staff members from across the organization contributed significantly to its development. A huge thank you goes out to all the following staff for their amazing work!
| BUSINESS UNIT |
STAFF NAME |
ROLES |
| Watershed Planning & Ecosystem Science |
- Shari Dahmer
- Tony Morris
- Jonathan Ruppert
- David Lawrie
- Jessica Fang
- Michelle Sawka
- Namrata Shrestha
- Lyndsay Cartwright
- Sue Hayes
- Krista Chomicki
- Angela Wallace
- Kristina Dokoska
- Larissa Mohan
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- Project management
- Overall product review
- Water Resource System data analysis and content development
- Urban Forest content development
- Natural Heritage System data analysis and content development
- Water quality data analysis and content development
- Lake Ontario Nearshore data analysis and content development
- Future Climate data analysis and content development
- Digital media coordination, communications development
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| Engineering Services |
- Jamie Duncan
- Rehana Rajabali
- Rhianydd Phillips
- Rita Lucero
- Alison MacLennan
- Eric Wang
- Sara Sadr
- Don Ford
- Jehan Zeb
- Kristina Anderson
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- Development of all dashboards, data management and analytics, project management, troubleshooting
- Flood Hazard data analysis and content development
- Stormwater management content review
- Groundwater quantity and quality data analysis and content
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| Business Intelligence & Data Analytics |
- Jason Tam
- Parth Sheth
- Alberta D’Souza
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- Data analytics
- Geospatial data preparation
- Open Data preparation
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| Communications, Marketing & Events |
- Sinem Connor
- Michael Bortolussi
- Brent Kulba
- Dana Lambert
- David Todd
- Kate Storen
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- Communications strategy development
- AODA compliance review
- Social media content development
- Overall marketing review
|
| Erosion Risk Management |
- Ashour Rehana
- Matt Johnston
- David Gingerich
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- Erosion Hazard data analysis and content development
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| Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (STEP) |
- Tim van Seters
- Dean Young
- Lisa Rocha
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- Low Impact Development data analysis and content development
- Municipal surveys and data summaries
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| Planning Policy & Regulation |
- Mary-Ann Burns
- Jeff Thompson
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- Overall product review
- Policy content development
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| Government & Community Relations |
- Valerie Francella
- Nancy Gaffney
- Victoria Kramkowski
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- Lake Ontario Nearshore (Remedial Action Plan) content development
- Assistance with municipal soft launch
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