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Vital Signs Monitoring


Vital Signs Monitoring Meeting - Phoenix, Arizona
August 20-24, 2001

Agenda
Background/Overview Materials
List of Participants
DRAFT minutes from the meeting (posted 9/7/01)

Download Powerpoint Presentations and Handouts
Brief history of monitoring in the NPS; prototype monitoring parks - Gary Williams
Vital Signs monitoring and NPS natural resource stewardship - Gary Davis
Servicewide vision and implementation plan for vital signs monitoring - Steve Fancy
Water Quality monitoring guidance - Bill Jackson
Identification of priority impaired and pristine waters handout - Gary Rosenlieb

Draft Water Quality guidance; planning process steps - Roy Irwin
Draft Water Quality monitoring guidance - table of contents
Draft Water Quality monitoring guidance - working document (still in development) - Pete Penoyer
Water Quality monitoring planning for Northern Colorado Plateau network - example
Water Quality questionairre used in planning for Northern Colorado Plateau network

Integration across natural resource program areas - what does it mean and how do we do it? - Jim Tilmant
Key aspects of network charters for first 12 networks - Kathy Davis
Draft Format for Annual Work Plan and Administrative Report
Effectiveness monitoring for the northwest forest plan .ppt file - Steve Acker
Effectiveness monitoring for the northwest forest plan Handout - Steve Acker

Overview of other agency monitoring programs - Mike Britten
Guidance on what to monitor and the case for/against standardization - Steve Fancy
Conceptual models: what are they and how do we use them to design monitoring programs? - Lisa Thomas
Use of conceptual models in designing and implementing monitoring - Lisa Thomas
What goes into a monitoring protocol, and how to get the R&D work done - Karen Oakley

Characteristics of a good monitoring protocol handout
Overview of the Analytic Heirarchy Process (AHP) to facilitate communication and decision making - Bruce Freet
Performance management goals for natural resources - Steve Fancy
Reporting the results of the monitoring effort - Gary Davis
The developing framework for data management - Steve Fancy

Overview of Prototype Monitoring Parks and Lessons Learned
Summary of Protocols Developed by or used in Prototype Parks

Three Examples of How Networks are Approaching Planning and Design:
Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network - Beth Johnson
Heartland Network - Janet Eckhoff
Northern Colorado Plateau network - Angie Evenden


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