Research and Development
| Item | Description (opportunities/risks) | Resource Needs (time/$) |
|---|---|---|
| Research who the Soils outreach audience is. | Who is a specialist (a subject matter expert of some kind) and who is a generalist or a member of the public? Know what the liability issues are when doing soils outreach and ensure that any outreach minds those liabilities | Scope: 3-6 months |
| Create a User Outreach Plan | Based on the research about who uses the soils data. Who are the audiences, what do they need to know in general; what are the idiosyncrasies of the data; pointing them to the Soil data viewer; point them to existing NRCS procedures and Help documents about SSURGO; what outreach is NRCS data related and what outreach might be related to NRIS? Ensure that the outreach related to NRIS is reflected on the NRIS home page. | Scope: 3-6 months |
| Modify the MSL MSDI Soils web page | To provide the user outreach information and links to provide “self-serve” pointers to NRCS materials. I.e. how to choose and use the data, where are there soil health seminars in the state | Initial steps 2-3 weeks, periodic updates |
| Create an outreach webinar about soils data | That can be delivered via a MAGIP seminar and recorded. The recording can then be linked to the Soils MSDI page. MAGIP may not be the right audience, but it would be a venue to deliver the webinar and have it recorded. Perhaps also deliver this developed webinar/seminar as outreach to the target audience—the real soils users. | Prep: 2-3 weeks, delivery: biannually And/or connect to agency webinars. |
Theme Lead
Alex Dado - Interim Contact
State Soils Scientist
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service
alex.dado@usda.gov
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