NARSEC 2007 - Instructions to Presenters
Poster Instructions
Space - posters will be mounted either on a wall, or on both sides of free-standing poster boards. The poster boards are 4 x 8 feet, and you should produce your poster to fit into a space 4 feet wide - we recommend 4 x 4 feet or less.
Poster display sessions - Posters will be on display for one entire day, and perhaps longer if space is available. We expect to display the posters on the day of talks to which they are most closely related.
Poster presentations to the entire group - We have scheduled sessions for poster authors to present a short (3-5 minute) summary of the highlights of your poster. This is enough for a couple slides that illustrate one or two key messages. Your short oral presentation is to help ensure that people in the audience are aware of your work, and that they can easily recognize and find you for further discussion. NPS has been using this "show and tell" format very successfully at annual I&M meetings, and our experience is that a common mistake is to try to include too much into the limited time slot. The talk should focus on 1-3 key 'take-home' points; the rest should be left to discussion at the poster. Please be realistic about this time constraint.
Abstracts - for Posters and Speakers - due by 19 February
Abstracts - Abstracts will be provided in hard copy to all participants. Please email an abstract no longer than 1 page to Stephanie Wong (stephanie.wong@pc.gc.ca) no later than 19 February. Please copy the following example, using a Times New Roman 12 pt font for all text. You can include figures, pictures, etc. The electronic copy of the abstract can contain color, but the paper copies of abstracts will be reproduced in black and white.
Example Abstract (but use Times New Roman 12 pt font)
Using MODIS data to detect, monitor, and manage disturbances in protected areas
A.B. Smith, C.D. Jones, and E.F. Fine
Univ. of Maryland, College Park (ABS, EFF), NASA Goddard (CDJ), and Banff National Park (EFF)
We used MODIS composite products to monitor landscape-scale changes in protected areas in western Canadian National Parks. Our procedure was to use coarse-resolution data to detect areaa with significant change, and to use this information to target the purchase and analysis of higher-resolution products to evaluate the magnitude and type of change.
This methodology has proved to be an efficient and economical means to monitor large and remote protected areas.