Program Timeline
An overview of select milestones in the Pacific Island Network follows. These network milestones identified were preceeded by decades of similar inventory and monitoring efforts by National Park Service, US Geological Survey, US Fish & Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, and others. Without such previous efforts, our program would not be nearly so far along. Mahalo!
| Topic | Date | Details |
| Staffing | Spring 2000 | Initial inventory staff hired |
| Sept 2002 | Initial monitoring staff hired | |
| Biologic Inventories | Fall 1999 | Initial scoping meeting |
| Fall 1999 | Data entry begun in National databases | |
| Oct. 2000 | Study Plan for Vascular Plant & Vertebrate inventories prepared | |
| ongoing (2006) | Biologic inventory products completed | |
| Vital Sign Monitoring | Mar. 2003 | Conceptual modelling workshop |
| Oct. 2003 | Phase 1 draft completed | |
| Feb. 2004 | Phase 1 draft updated | |
| Mar. 2004 | Vital Sign peer review workshop | |
| Oct. 2004 | Phase 2 draft completed | |
| Nov. 2004 | Vital Sign selection workshop | |
| May 2005 | Vital Signs refined | |
| Sample design workshop | ||
| Oct. 2005 | Phase 3 draft completed | |
| Jul. 2006 | 1st Vital Sign protocol submitted for peer review (benthic marine) | |
| Oct. 2006 | Final Monitoring plan completed | |
| Sample design workshop, part 2 |