Database Design and Development

Devising an organized system to handle your valuable data is one of the most important decisions you will make as you consider a project.  No matter how carefully you plan your sampling protocol, if you have not thought about how your data will be collected, stored, and managed you may be risking more than you realize.  Data must be accessible for it to have real value, and one of the best ways to ensure that you maximize the value of your data is to carefully plan and design a database.  Innovative Environmental Management Services is ready to help design your database, from start to finish.  While our expertise comes primarily from developing MS-Access databases, we are ready to help you evaluate off-the-shelf solutions like Biota and Mantis, custom solutions built in Access, or even more robust systems. 

Data Conversion

Knowing how to use existing, or Legacy data can be one of the most challenging aspects of data stewardship.  Legacy data comes in many shapes and forms, and it is not unusual to find it in combinations of paper forms, spreadsheets, databases.  When your data exists in multiple formats it strains the ability of your organization to turn it into information.  Innovative Environmental Information Management Services is ready to help you work through the most difficult data conversion projects.

Data Management and Stewardship Planning

Knowing how you will deal with your data and how you will ensure its security is just as important as collecting it in the first place.  Establishing procedures to verify and validate your data, having a data back-up plan, as well as an approach to permanently storing your data are necessary, but among the least glamorous aspects of a project.  Innovative Environmental Information Management Services will work with you to develop an appropriate data stewardship that is based on common sense, not inflexible rules.

Geographic Information System (GIS) Development

Land and Natural Resource Managers are becoming increasingly dependent on GIS technology to do their jobs.  Unfortunately, learning how to operate modern GIS applications can be enough for some users to consider a different career path!  Innovative Environmental Information Management Services has experience working with the latest ESRI desktop GIS applications, and can work with you to develop a system that meets the needs of your organization.

Data Integration and Dashboard Development

Collecting and stewarding your data are of paramount importance, but your funding source will quickly dry if you cannot turn your data into information that is meaningful to your audience.  Innovative Environmental Information Management Services is unrivaled in the field of adapting data integration and dashboard applications like Crystal Xcelsius for natural resource applications. 

Invasive Plant Prioritization

Resource managers are aware of the risk of allowing invasive plants to go unchecked.  There are literally hundreds of non-native plants in North America, but distinguishing those that deserve immediate attention from the less noxious species can be an overwhelming task.  Innovative Environmental Information Management Services has experience integrating existing invasive plant species prioritization protocols into MS-Access databases, thereby significantly improving the utility of existing protocols and long-term usability of the prioritation data for long-term management action monitoring.  If you don't know which weed to pull first, look to Innovative Environmental Information Management Services for assistance.