Communication, Reporting and Outreach

The primary audience for the results of vital signs monitoring is park management. This information provides superindendents, resource chiefs, biologists, and other managers with the tools they need to make and defend management decisions and to work with others for the benefit of park resources. However, other key audiences for monitoring results include: park planners; interpreters; researchers and other scientific collaboraters; the general public; and Congress and OMB.

To be most effective, monitoring data must be analyzed, interpreted, an dprovided at regular intervals to these key audiences in formats they can use and apply.

Listed below are examples networks have used for reporting to different audiences.

Brochures, Newsletters and Publications

Brochures

• UCBN I&M brochure (UCBN; PDF)

Newsletters

• Newsletter: Creating a framework for reporting ecological conditions (NRCN; 10.7 MB PDF)
• Newsletter: Developing a Chesapeake Bay Report Card (NRCN; 4.9 MB PDF)
• Newsletter: The Weather Vane (HTLN; PDF)
• Newsletter: Pacific Island Network News (PACN; PDF)
• Newsletter: Northern Colorado Plateau Network Summer Newsletter (NCPN;PDF)
• Newsletter: Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network Summer Newsletter (ERMN;PDF)

Publications

• Poster: An Eye Opening Approach to Integrated Environmental Assessments (NCRN; 9.4 MB PDF)
• Publication: State of the Maryland Coastal Bays 2004 (NRCN; 12.4 MB PDF)
• Unique logo and slogan "Preserving the Habitat of our Heritage"
• OMSI Bat Research Team Summary (UCBN; 4.2 MB PDF)
• OMSI Botany Team - Aspen (UCBN; PDF)
• OMSI Salmon Camp - Camas at Weippe Prairie (UCBN; PDF)

Websites

• Education & Outreach Page (HTLN)
• Executive Brief (SOPN)
• Addition of News Feeds to web pages (NETN; 2.8 MB PPT)

Partnerships and staffing

• Integration and Application Network (IAN) & NCRN (Including contacts for this network for all reporting projects. Follow link to Chesapeake Projects --> NPS vital signs )
• UCBN Education and Outreach (also see descriptions in Introduction sections of OSMI reports listed above)
• Native American science students study camas lily at Nez Perce's Weippe Prairie; UCBN

Multi-media & Cool New Stuff

• Vital Sign information kiosks for visitors (CAKN; 28 MB .exe)
  • Directions for use: Make sure your computer screen is set to a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels, then download file to run. To exit use esc key. For more informaiton contact: Laura Weaver
• Automatic report generating database (NCPN; 2.4 MB .zip)
  • An example with the Seeps and Springs database. Automatically generates a report in Word For more informaiton contact: Russ DenBleyker
• Automatic report/fact sheet generating database (SHEN; 2.5 MB .zip)
  • Automatically generates a fact sheet or report. For more informaiton contact: Alan Williams
• Seminar Series Presentation: Challenges to water quality monitoring in small urban parks (NRCN; 6.4 MB PPT)
• Presentation: An approach to assessing comparative ecological condition of National Capital Region parks (NRCN; 1.4 MB PPT)
• Audio Podcasts: Water safety in Glacier National Park (must be opened with itunes or Quicktime)
• Video Podcasts: Grizzly Bear in Glacier National Park (must be opened with itunes or Quicktime)

Communication Plans

Heartland Network (26.6 MB)

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