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Vital Signs Monitoring

Fourth Annual "Meeting of the Networks" - Radisson Hotel, Austin, Texas
February 7-11, 2005

Agenda and other Background Material

 Agenda, February 2005 Meeting of the Networks

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Tuesday - Focus on Monitoring

Presentation: Reflections on the I&M Program and Natural Resource Challenge - Gary Davis
Presentation: Monitoring and Reporting on the Condition of Park Resources: Where we are and where we're going with vital signs monitoring - Steve Fancy
Presentation: Parks Canada's approach for monitoring ecological integrity - Don McLennan
Presentation: Smithsonian MAB (Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program); common issues and solutions - Francisco Dallmeier
Presentation: Peer reviews of monitoring plans; early feedback - John Gross and Steve Fancy
Presentation: "Monitoring questions and objectives: review and recommendations - Steve Fancy
Presentation: "Conceptual modeling and vital signs: lessons learned - John Gross
Presentation: "Prioritization and selection of vital signs: the recommended way to do it - Kris Heister
Presentation: "Collaboration on Landscape dynamics - John Gross
Presentation: "Collaboration on Landscape dynamics 2 - Don McLennan
Presentation: "Collaboration on Invasive plants Early Detection - Brad Welch
Presentation: "Collaboration on Weather - Steve Garman
Handout: "Collaboration on Weather - Steve Garman
Presentation: Protocols: lessons learned and mistakes to avoid - Carrie Phillips
Presentation: Water Quality Data Management and STORET (side meeting) - Dean Tucker

Wednesday - Inventories, Integration, Administration, and Accountability

Presentation: Update/status of 12 core inventories - Joe Gregson
Presentation: NPSpecies and data certification lessons learned - Margaret Beer for Mark Wotawa
Presentation: Vegetation Mapping approaches; approaches that worked well, and things that went bad - Mike Story and Chris Lea
Presentation: Role of the networks; where to draw the line: review followed by panel discussion - Dusty Perkins
Questionnaire Results: Role of the networks - Dusty Perkins
Presentation: Water quality integration; review of first 12 monitoring plans; group discussion - Gary Rosenlieb
Presentation: Strategic Planning, Resource Stewardship Plans, Desired Future Conditions, and Performance Management Part 1 - Beth Johnson
Presentation: Strategic Planning, Resource Stewardship Plans, Desired Future Conditions, and Performance Management Part 2 - Lisa Thomas
Presentation: Sampling Design: review of approaches that seem to have paid off - Lloyd Morrison
Presentation: Power Analysis do's and don'ts - Paul Lukacs
Handout: Determing sample size for monitoring studies: beyond simple power analyses - Paul Lukacs
Presentation: Fire Ecology Program; opportunities for additional collaboration - Kara Paintner
Presentation: Staffing up: Quantitative ecologists, in-house vs. contracting, staffing plans - Shawn Carter
Presentation: Home Movie footage of Steve Fancy at age 3 on family vacation at the Grand Tetons

Thursday - Focus on Information Management

Presentation: Vision and framework for I&M information management - Steve Fancy
Presentation: Collaborative Model of Data Management; why data managers can't do it alone - Rob Daley
Presentation: Data Management Process and Work Flow - John Boetsch
Presentation: Project Tracking Database Demonstration - Bill Eichenlaub
Presentation: Infrastructure to Support Integration and Dissemination - Dorothy Mortenson
Presentation: Data Storage and Retrieval; relationships among the NR Datastore, NR GIS, Biodiversity Datastore, NPS Focus - Joe Gregson
Post-meeting Powerpoint for Posting: NR Datastore, NR GIS, Biodiversity Datastore, NPS Focus - Joe Gregson
Presentation: Curation and Archiving of I&M Products: Working with park museum management - Margaret Beer
Presentation: Database Template; presentation and demonstration followed by group discussion - Joe Gregson
Presentation: Automated data summarization and analysis - Gareth Rowell
Presentation: Stat Server demonstration - Maggie MacCluskie
Panel discussion: data integration; what it means and how to promote it - Bob Truitt
Panel discussion: data integration - Fred Dieffenbach
Panel discussion: data integration - Christina Wright
Panel discussion: data integration - Brian Witcher
Special Session: Science Communication - Bill Dennison, Univ. Maryland
Presentation: Reporting - Lessons learned from the Northwest Forest Plan's experiences - Craig Palmer
Presentation: Network websites; review and demonstration - Brent Frakes
Presentation: State of the Parks reporting - Steve Fancy
Panel Discussion: Information Management; Who is interested in our data and why? - Matt Patterson

Friday - Next Steps

Notes from Breakout Group: Role of the networks - Dusty Perkins, facilitator
Notes from Breakout Group - Communication the I&M Program to Park Managers - Greg Shriver, Facilitator
Notes from Breakout Group - Science Communication to External Audiences - Joe DeVivo, facilitator
Handout: Annual Report on Detectability Research (birds, amphibians, etc.) by Simons et al.

Meeting Notes and other Relevant Documents

 Notes from Breakout Group - Quantitative Ecologists and Statisticians
Notes from Breakout Group: Network Coordinators - Cathie Jean, facilitator
Notes from Data Managers Breakout Groups, February 8 - Dorothy Mortenson, facilitator
Notes from Data Managers Breakout Groups, February 10 - Dorothy Mortenson, facilitator
Notes from Thursday Evening Breakout Group on Invasive Plants Early Detection Work - Paul Geissler, facilitator
Notes from Thursday Evening Breakout Group #2 on Invasive Plants Protocol Development for Klamath Network - Brad Welch, facilitator
Notes from Breakout Group on Bird Monitoring Protocols - Marcus Koenen, facilitator
Notes from Breakout Group on Vegetation Monitoring Protocols - Marcus Koenen, facilitator
Notes from Breakout Group on Rare, Threatened, Endangered Species Monitoring Protocols - Marcus Koenen, facilitator
Notes from Breakout Group on Amphibian Monitoring - Marcus Koenen, facilitator
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