[APWG] WEB: Natural Resource Monitoring Partnership

[Olivia Kwong]

From: "Amber Pairis" <APairis at fishwildlife.org>
Date: 02/21/2007 06:17 PM
Subject: Natural Resource Monitoring Partnership

We did it!

The Natural Resource Monitoring Partnership (NRMP) is pleased to announce 
the release of the new Monitoring Protocol Library and the Monitoring 
Locator!  The NRMP is a collaborative effort by the natural resource 
management community to improve the accessibility of monitoring efforts in 
order to support effective evaluation and decision-making.  Through the 
hard work and perseverance of our state, federal, and Canadian natural 
resource management agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and academic 
institutions we've achieved our goal!

Monitoring Protocol Library .a searchable database that provides 
information on monitoring protocols and resource assessment methodologies 
organized to facilitate reference and use.

Monitoring "Locator" - an internet-based application that allows users to 
identify what natural resource monitoring is being conducted within a 
particular area (e.g., State, county, Canadian Province, or other selected 
geographic area).

We need YOU to help put this groundbreaking endeavor into motion.  Please 
support this effort by contributing information on your protocols and 
monitoring programs in order to make both databases a truly comprehensive, 
multi-agency source of monitoring information.  Here is how you can help:

- Visit the NRMP website!  Log in as a contributor; and become familiar 
with the tools;
- Work within your organization to enter your protocols and monitoring 
projects;
- Encourage your colleagues in other organizations to do the same.

Over the next few months we will continue to add refinements to these 
tools such as improved search capabilities, batch file uploading 
capabilities, and the ability to provide a geographic rendering of search 
results from the monitoring locator.  But for now, both tools are ready 
for use, so please help us get the word out, and help us build the 
databases.

Upcoming Special Event
Through the support of partners there will be a special "NRMP Open House" 
on March 21st from 4-6pm held in conjunction with the 72nd annual North 
American Wildlife and Natural Resource Conference in Portland Oregon.  The 
open house will highlight the NRMP, its tools, and to encourage 
participants to join the NRMP.
- In order to help make this event a success we challenge you to enter at 
least one protocol before the event!

Visit the NRMP tools today at http://nrmp.nbii.gov and enter your programs 
and protocols.  And don't forget to tell your colleagues about these 
tools.  A fact sheet and other materials can be downloaded at 
http://biology.usgs.gov/status_trends/nrmp/overview_sheet_NRMP.pdf


Amber Pairis Ph.D.
Science and Research Liaison
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
444 North Capitol St. NW, Suite 725
Washington, DC 20001

Phone: (202) 624-7890
Cell: (202) 436-5688
Fax: (202) 624-7891
apairis at fishwildlife.org
www.fishwildlife.org