Fifth "Meeting of the Networks"

Marriott Hotel, San Diego, CA
February 6-10, 2006

Agenda and other Background Material

Agenda, February 2006 Meeting of the Networks
2006 I & M Award Recipients

PowerPoint Presentations & Handouts:

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

The I&M Program and Management of park resources - Regional Director Jon Jarvis
Vital signs monitoring: What is it, Where are we, and Where are we going? (5.3 MB) – Steve Fancy
Protocol Development – Landscape Dynamics (3.9 MB) – John Gross
Protocol Development – Invasive Species Early Detection – Brad Welch
Protocol Development – Weather and Climate (3.3 MB) – Kelly Redmond & John Gross
Breakout Groups by Topic
Landscape Dynamics (1.7 MB) – Don McLennan - Parks Canada approach
Landscape Dynamics (1.6 MB) – John Gross - NPN, NASA internships, simulation modeling
Landscape Dynamics (5.8 MB)– Kevin Ryan - LandFire Program
Water Quality Monitoring – Gary Rosenlieb
Forest Vegetation (52.0 MB .ZIP) – Dan Manier
Weather Inventory and Monitoring – Kelly Redmond
Natural Resource Database Template – Margaret Beer
Breakout Groups by Job Type
Network and Prototype Coordinators – Lisa Garrett 
Data Managers – Brent Frakes 
Quantitative Ecologists – John Paul Schmidt 
Superintendents, Chiefs of Resources
Regional Coordinators, Regional and WASO staff – Sara Wesser

Wednesday, February 8

Long-term Strategy for Natural Resource Inventories: Where we are and where we’re going – Gary Williams
Parks Canada EI Monitoring Science Challenges (2.6 MB) (Stephen Woodley)
Parks Canada EI Monitoring Program Update on Management Challenges (1.7 MB) (Don McLennan)
Interagency Fire Program – data sets and data analysis plans (8.9 MB) (Nate Benson)
     *Handout: FIREMON: Landscape Assessment (.pdf 32 MB)
     *Handout: Success Story: FEAT!
     *Handout: Success Story MTBS
     *Handout: MTBS Briefing Paper
     *Handout: FFI Brochure
     *Handout: FFI Design Update
Vegetation Mapping – Successful approaches (6.1 MB) (Karl Brown or Chris Lea)
Sampling Designs in space and time – Successful approaches by the first 17 networks (3.1 MB) (Lloyd Morrison & Mike DeBacker)
Water Quality Monitoring - Lessons Learned (Roy Irwin)
Integrating I&M Results into Park Management: highlights from IMR Workshop (5.7 MB) (Bruce Bingham, Andy Hubbard, and Rob Bennetts)
Breakout Groups by Topic
Invasive species (Brad Welch, Penny Latham, Paul Geissler) 
Riparian Communities (7.1 MB) (Daniel Sarr)
Remote sensing (Mike Story, John Gross)
Stream Sampling: Macroinvertebrates, Fish (Joe DeVivo)
GPS and Mobile Computing for Data Collection (2.2 MB; Doug Wilder)
Water Quantity and Quality (28.1 MB .ZIP) (Pete Penoyer and Barry Long)
Vegetation Monitoring (Andrea Williams)
Landbirds (10.3 MB .ZIP) (Marcus Koenen)
     *Breakout Notes
Soil Function and Dynamics (Pete Biggam)
NR-GIS Metadata Tools and Editor / Data Store (2.8 MB; Lisa Nelson)

Thursday, February 9

Demonstrating Results: GPRA, PART, Scorecards, Land Health Goals – What are they and what is the role of the I&M Program? (1.9 MB) (Steve Fancy)
Data and Information Management -Where we are and where we’re going 2.8 MB) (Margaret Beer)
Data Analysis: Cool things networks are doing and planning (8.3 MB) (Steve Garman)
Natural Resource Technical Report Series – update (2.1 MB) (Bruce Bingham)
Panel Discussion: Network plans for reporting results to managers and other key audiences (10.9 MB) (Beth Johnson)
Ocean Stewardship and Inventory & Monitoring of Marine Resources (5.6 MB) (Gary Davis)
Breakout Groups:
Geologic Resources (Tim Connors and Bruce Heise) (13.9 MB .ZIP)
Vital Signs Water Quality Data Management: NPSTORET and STORET EDD (5.7 MB) (Dean Tucker)
Data Analysis, Synthesis, and Modeling (7.7 MB .ZIP) (Chris Lauver)
    *Sampling design optimization (1.4 MB) (Andrea Atkinson)
PRIDE – Protecting Resources through Informed Decision-making and Education (Gary Williams and Marianne Tucker)
I&M of Freshwater and Marine systems (Roy Irwin)
Data delivery: network websites, ArcIMS, other on-line tools (Mark Hart)
Outreach – Delivering results to interpreters, constituency groups, and the public (Sara Melena)
Desired Future Conditions for park natural resources (4.0 MB) (Steve Fancy, RobBennetts, Jen Feighny)
     *Breakout session handouts (.ZIP)
Vegetation Mapping: Overview and how to get it done (Karl Brown and Chris Lea)

Friday, February 10, 2005

Data Management Plans: how to implement; where do they go from here? (2.3 MB) (Margaret Beer)
Panel Discussion: Long-term staffing plans by networks (Carmen Thomson)
Breakout Groups:
NPSpecies and the art of data certification (Mark Wotawa)
Budget allocation: How have networks decided how much money to allocate to each protocol or monitoring component? (Matt Patterson)
GTRS Sampling Design - Billy Schweiger - GRTS
Evaluating panels using simulation - Steve Garman
Sampling design considerations - Scott Urquhart

Natural Resource Condition Assessments: Helping parks with GPRA
land-health goal reporting & resource stewardship planning (Jeff Albright)

I&M Show and Tell: Accomplishments and cool stuff

List for which slides are in each file
Show & Tell 1 (3.9 MB)
Show & Tell 2 (34.1 MB)
Show & Tell 3 (8.7 MB)
Show & Tell 4 (6.7 MB)
Show & Tell 5 (9.5 MB)
Show & Tell 6 (9.2 MB)
Show & Tell 7 (9.6 MB)
Show & Tell 8 (7.3 MB)
WASO perspective Show & Tell (Cat Herding; 9.8 MB)

Reception and Poster Session

Inventory & Monitoring Webpage Presentaiton -- The new format (Margaret Beer & Jen Feighny)