2006 Inventory & Monitoring Data Management Conference

April 3-7, 2006, Fort Collins, Colorado

Conference Materials

Background Information

Presentations and Handouts

(all are Powerpoint files unless otherwise indicated)

Monday Website Workshop
Background on I&M and Nature & Science websites; web information resources (doc); Rules of Behavior (doc) - Jen Coffey
Dreamweaver overview - Jeff Goehring
Overview of web security issues - Willene Hendon
Overview of cascading style sheets - Willene Hendon
Best practices for submitting content to national I&M website pages (doc) - Jen Feighny

Monday NR-GIS Workshop
Metadata Tools and Editor - Chris Dietrich
NR-GIS Data Store - Chris Dietrich

Tuesday Plenary Sessions
Monitoring update - Steve Fancy
Data management progress report - Margaret Beer
NPStoret and NRDT - Margaret Beer
NPSpecies - Mark Wotawa
NatureBib - Wendy Schumacher
NR-GIS - Peter Budde

Tuesday Breakouts
Geodatabases (zip) - Lisa Nelson
Mobile computing - Doug Wilder
Mobile computing - Tim Smith
GIS and rare plant monitoring - Tim Smith and Chris Ulrey
NPSpecies: developing species lists from scratch - Libby Nance (24MB) or download as annotated PDF (2MB)
NPSpecies data entry guidelines - Jennifer Stingelin Keefer and Linda Fabre
NatureBib: train the trainer - Scott Tiffney
NatureBib: document file naming at SWAN (doc) - Dorothy Mortenson

Wednesday Plenary Sessions
NPS security and documentation requirements - Tim Goddard
Technical support from WASO - Lisa Nelson
Photo management - Dorothy Mortenson
Case Study: SQL-Server - John Boetsch and Bret Christoe
Case Study: ArcIMS (zip) - Mark Hart, Bill Thorp, Lisa Nelson, Peter Budde
Enterprise architecture session introduction - Brent Frakes
System architecture - Dan Warner

Thursday Plenary Sessions
Project management - Margaret Beer
Remote sensing - Mike Story
Show and Tell - Round 1
Show and Tell - Round 2
Show and Tell databases:
  Seeps and Springs (zip, including Word report function) - Russ DenBleyker
  Comment Tagger (zip) - Simon Kingston
  Activity Notices utility (zip) - Alan Williams
  Fact Sheet utility (zip) - Alan Williams
  Cape Cod Demo Database- Vel Decker
Collaboration and efficiency tools: the Protocol Database and Vital Signs Summary Database - Steve Fancy
Water quality monitoring - Vel Decker
Water quality monitoring - Rob Daley
Landscape dynamics - Mark Hart
Landscape dynamics - Nate Piekielek
Cobblebar monitoring - Patrick Flaherty
Visitor use monitoring - Debbie Angell
Visitor use monitoring - Dorothy Mortenson
Prairie plant monitoring - Mike Williams
Overview of the NPS Fire Program - Kara Paintner

Friday Morning
Vegetation mapping overview - Karl Brown
Suggested steps in organizing vegetation mapping projects (doc) - thanks to Angie Evenden for compiling this
TNC Plots database 2.0 (zip) - from NatureServe
NCPN database (zip - for plots and AA data) - Bryce Canyon NP provided as an example
Model of vegmap geodatabase (zip) - Lisa Nelson

Storet workshop notes (doc) - Dean Tucker

Extras...

The Retroincabulator!
I&M from the WASO perspective (herding cats)