DRB Task Hub for FINAL PUSH

ellenbechtel commented 4 years ago

Final To Do Before Release!

[x] Update target-blank of footer code
[x] fix glitchiness of mussels at bottom of temp section
[x] fix links to footer visuals
[x] add v-img to carousel images so they open up
[x] make active gage highlights in monitoring section bigger
[x] Final typo edits
[x] Incorporate Lindsay's typo editing
[ ] confirm that image loading (srcset, lazy, etc) works the way we want

Scrap notes for the last push

[x] General - adjust the scrolling so it's not so glitchy
[x] IPDS - ask Jordan if we should restart IPDS, or just skip it until I return (EB)
[ ] Trout section - get Kendra for opinions (EB pinged her 11/17, haven't heard back as of COB 11/19)
[x] Header - put title and background paint smear onto map, animate with paint-on (CN)
[x] Salt front - take away sea level rise markers
[x] Temperature - scrolling is glitchy, header transition is jerky (CN)
[x] Headers - stylize section headers a la Adrienne, and optimize for mobile (EB), optimize loading of images for desktop/mobile
[x] make bold text headers larger font size than regular text
[x] fix monitoring/conclusion map so it is centered vertically on page?

Grammar - chad's comments Must Change

[x] Under Managing River Flows – the sentence “The Supreme Court decree sets water withdrawal limits so that even at times of greatest need, there’s still plenty of water to flow downriver into the Delaware Bay.” Needs to have some uncertainty included. I talked with Kendra about this and she indicated that she provided some suggested edits on this already. She is willing to discuss this more, if needed. ---- Ellen's note: Kendra said "needs more uncertainty because if you managed strictly by the decree, you'd run into trouble." My solution is to remove mention of the decree in this sentence at all, and just say "this cooperation" instead.
[x] Under Seasonal Changes, second paragraphs should say, in the 1960s, during a record drought..

Recommendations:

[x] In the first paragraph, this phrase “through the ground into streams into Delaware River” is incorrect grammatically, and at a minimum needs “the” before Delaware. But also, the “into streams into” is an unnecessary redundancy, and I would suggest changing that to something like “through the ground into streams eventually entering the Delaware River” or something similar.
[x] In the paragraph titled “Summer Lows”, second paragraph, in this phrase “an additional a flow objective at Trenton”, the word “a” needs to be deleted and suggest taking out “minimum” from the section and call everything “flow targets” in both sentences.
[x] In the paragraph titled, “Rising Seas Levels”, the underlined word should be added to this phrase “One key objective is to keep”.
[x] In the paragraph titled, “Brook Trout and Cold Water”, the phrase “water quality” is used differently than previously to refer to water chemistry. Changing “water quality” here to something like “habitat suitability” would be preferred.
[x] In the third brook trout paragraph, the following phrase, “drop in water temperature drop begin their” should be changed to “drop in water temperature to begin their”
[x] Introducing NGWOS – is there a way to make the sensors on the map – bigger or sparkle or standout a bit more? I can see that they are changing as you scroll through but it is very subtle

Brian's Comments

[x] First paragraph under "Flow": "The Delaware River Basin supplies water to 16 million people in four states. Some is even piped through miles-long tunnels out of the Basin to provide water to New York City. How water is shared among those millions of users – not to mention the countless fish, birds, and other organisms that rely on the river for food and habitat – has been the focus of decades of inter-state discussion, negotiation, and research."
[x] The river channels / reservoirs figure with the arrows is a bit small and sits really low on my screen. Make bigger and move it up?
[x] "Using the Reservoirs": "The River Master and the DRBC use water monitoring data collected by the USGS to decide how and when to store water in these reservoirs." KENDRA, is that technically true? Does the RM / DRBC decide on how or when to store water, or does it determine when to release water? Also, are other peoples data used?
[x] Under "Quality and Quantity": "Water quality in the Delaware River Basin has improved greatly since the mid-20th century. It's inspiring water quality history can be explored at the Delaware River Basin Commission's recap, and raw data can be downloaded from the National Water Information System and Water Quality Portal."
[x] Salt front figure: Could you put Philadelphia or Drinking Water Intakes on the first map for context? You put "Drinking Water Intakes" in the second map, but mention it during the section before.
[x] "Rising sea levels": "Sea level rise is expected to push the salt front further upstream. With just 3 feet of sea level rise, the salt front is predicted to travel once again within the reaches of Philadelphia and threaten fresh water supplies." Is it true that 3 ft will threaten Philly? We should be sure.
[x] "Temperature": "Water temperature is a water-quality measure..."
[x] "Temperature": "In the Basin, [should basin be capitalized?] there are many different thermal habitats that support diverse, vibrant communities of aquatic life. Decision_makers in the Basin need to know what species..."
[x] Brook trout fig: I like the graphic, but the color change is pretty subtle, and it's hard to tell what's happening until you read the text. But by then, you've scrolled down and the images are gone. (So I scrolled back up, back down to text, etc.). I still think a thermometer or something similar that changes with the color change would help with what you are trying to show. Maybe also keep the figure to the side so that you can refer back to it easily from the text (although I do like it bigger).
[x] Mussel figure: If you go to fast, it's not clear what's changing and just end up with the final image. (I scrolled to get the text out from the behind the image). Not sure how best to address that.
[x] "Introducing NGWOS": Points pop up on the map without much explanation. Could you put something in the figure that says what those points are?
[x] "91 New or Enhanced Gages": it's confusing when the text and figure describe 34 new or reactivated gages. It should be 45. It would also be nice if the text didn't disappear from the box, leaving an empty box as you scroll up. The map figure is also off the bottom of the screen for me.

TO DO

General

[x] Make sure headers are A+ for 508 accessibility, and that they align with what is showing on screen visual-wise
[x] Make big maps not cut off on bottom, so you can see the DRB in entirety on all screen sizes
[x] Update Methods accordion to include data sources and pipelines

Flow (#593)

[x] make the container fit in the middle of the screen for small screens
[x] Address Brian's comment about data use

"Using the Reservoirs": "The River Master and the DRBC use water monitoring data collected by the USGS to decide how and when to store water in these reservoirs." KENDRA, is that technically true? Does the RM / DRBC decide on how or when to store water, or does it determine when to release water? Also, are other peoples data used?

Salt Front (#598)

[x] add Philly for better context

Brian Pellerin says..."RE Salt front figure: Could you put Philadelphia or Drinking Water Intakes on the first map for context? You put "Drinking Water Intakes" in the second map, but mention it during the section before.

[x] research impact of rising sea level on philly drinking water intake

Brian Pellerin says..."Rising sea levels": "Sea level rise is expected to push the salt front further upstream. With just 3 feet of sea level rise, the salt front is predicted to travel once again within the reaches of Philadelphia and threaten fresh water supplies." Is it true that 3 ft will threaten Philly? We should be sure.

[x] Make Road Salt section appear without delay

Temperature (#597)

[x] Make trout, mussels, and text side-by-side like sankey

Brook trout fig: I like the graphic, but the color change is pretty subtle, and it's hard to tell what's happening until you read the text. But by then, you've scrolled down and the images are gone. (So I scrolled back up, back down to text, etc.). I still think a thermometer or something similar that changes with the color change would help with what you are trying to show. Maybe also keep the figure to the side so that you can refer back to it easily from the text (although I do like it bigger)

[x] Decide whether this comment is worth addressing

Mussel figure: If you go to fast, it's not clear what's changing and just end up with the final image. (I scrolled to get the text out from the behind the image). Not sure how best to address that.

Monitoring (#632)

[x] Edit animation for "Introducing NGWOS"

"Introducing NGWOS": Points pop up on the map without much explanation. Could you put something in the figure that says what those points are?

[x] Edit text fade in/out of box ...make the whole box+text fade in, and then no fade out, just scroll away. Do everywhere.

"91 New or Enhanced Gages": it's confusing when the text and figure describe 34 new or reactivated gages. It should be 45. It would also be nice if the text didn't disappear from the box, leaving an empty box as you scroll up. The map figure is also off the bottom of the screen for me.

[x] Fix Numbers in New and Enhanced Gages and Temp

"Specific Conductivity": says 59 in the title, 56 in the text; same with temp (85 vs. 98).

[x] Should we address the grouping of Cameras in with R&D? And for other technologies?

"Cameras": I'd ditch that box, and include the text in the next box on R&D.

[x] Check with Alison about what she thinks needs to be added

Do you have a plan for the Methods section, or ideas about what needs to go in there?

We had originally discussed a final chapter with links to a bunch of USGS programs, but currently we’re just directly mentioning NGWOS and nodding to the data dissemination programs without naming them. Do we want to try to add in more references to more programs? And do we want to provide links to program/project pages? I'd also note other technologies being test including in sensors for water quantity and quality.

IPDS (EB, #577)

[x] Make authorship list

DONE

General

[x] Incorporate Joe and Jack's text edits (EB, #577)
[x] Contact JR about text edits to see if okay to send to Kendra (EB, #577)
[x] Make CSS more structurally uniform and mobile-friendly (EB, #587)
[x] Start re-sizing images (EB) (and selectively loading by platform??) to reduce load time (EB as AB)
[x] Add an accordion at the bottom for data, methods, attributions, etc.

Intro

[x] Making the intro an ink-in video of the basemap (CN, #592 )

Flow

[x] Make edits to Sankey images (EB, #593)
[x] Align text and headers with what is happening in the visible sankey (EB, see latest text)

Quality

[x] Make it clear that there is a transition happening from flow to water quality, right now it's just a block of text (EB, #594)

Salt Front

[x] Tweak salt front animation (CN, #598)
[x] fix glitch where map does not appear on mobile/smaller device sizes

Road Salt

[x] Brush up the animated gif (CN, #595)
[x] Put gif in-line with text so it doesn't take up a whole side panel (CN)

Temperature

[x] Improve temp-organism connection with animation edits #597

Monitoring

[x] Send description of the options (interspersed or all together) for how to approach this section to JR and AA for approval (EB, #596)

IPDS (EB, #577)

[x] Compile responses to Meg and Jack
[x] Have responses reviewed by AA or CN
[x] Upload responses to platforms

ellenbechtel commented 4 years ago

@collnell could you fill in the salt front and temperature to-do sections when you get back in? @abriggs-usgs we'll ping you once we get a response about monitoring structure from JR and AA. Otherwise, have a great weekend!

Did I forget anything else from the huddle? Feel free to edit away!

cnell-usgs commented 4 years ago

So I just spent some time trying to reduce the file size of the watercolor map. I reduce the dimensions to the typical for web, 1920 x 1080 and then did some compression stuff. Here's what I can get for under 125kb: DRB_full-01-min

This could look better, I'm not sure the best solution. It should be noted that since it is paired with the svgs these need to be coordinated if someone else wants to try and do a better job at this.

abriggs-usgs commented 4 years ago

Not sure if you have tried this already, but Jordan' suggested removing all the names and line-work from the background image and adding them as an SVG layer. We could then use significant JPG compression on the background. A bit of distortion in the watercolor would be less noticeable than in the line-work. Not sure if that would work or not, but throwing out the idea (if you haven't tried it already).

cnell-usgs commented 4 years ago

The new map versions in https://github.com/usgs-makerspace/delaware-basin-story/pull/91 have lines in svg with the basemap embedded.

cnell-usgs commented 3 years ago

ahhhh, the satisfaction of checking all the boxes!

these two PRs wrap up the edits noted here. time to push to beta, do thorough mobile and browser testing, and prep for social media release

https://github.com/usgs-makerspace/delaware-basin-story/pull/145 https://github.com/usgs-makerspace/delaware-basin-story/pull/146

aappling-usgs commented 3 years ago

[x] "anindicator" in the "Brook Trout and Cold Water" paragraph (just saw that Lindsay caught this, too)

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