[APWG] SURVEY: CEC Invasives Survey - reminder

[Lynn Kutner]

Many many thanks to those of you who have responded to this survey and
forwarded the survey information on to your data partners and users.

Your help is hugely appreciated and your input is critical to this
project!

The response so far has been great, but we are looking for as many
responses as possible, so have decided to extended the survey deadline
to Friday April 11, 2008.

Thank you for taking the time to respond!

Lynn


Lynn Kutner
NatureServe
phone: (703) 797-4804
email:  lynn_kutner at natureserve.org
http://www.natureserve.org/


_____________________________________________
From: Lynn Kutner 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:21 AM
To: 'apwg at lists.plantconservation.org'
Subject: SURVEY: CEC Invasives Survey - your help requested

Dear Colleague:

NatureServe Canada and NatureServe have been requested by the Commission
for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) (http://www.cec.org/), an
international organization created by Canada, Mexico and the United
States under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
(NAAEC) to develop profiles for these three nations of Invasive Alien
Species (IAS) data systems, the users of these data and their needs. An
important outcome of this survey will be identification of the unmet
needs for IAS data and barriers to accessing and sharing the data. The
CEC will use this information to target removal of the barriers and to
make more information widely available to combat the impacts and spread
of IAS.  

To accomplish these goals, we have developed an online survey to collect
information from both providers and users. We are asking two things of
you: 

1.	Contribute your knowledge of IAS data, systems, and users, by
following this link and responding to the survey (see below for what to
expect in the survey):  

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=nOVZcD_2brGR2HUBWKRSTfkw_3d_3d

2.	Help this survey reach as many people as possible in the IAS
community in Canada, Mexico and the United States, by forwarding this
email to your organization's major IAS data partners and/or collectors
as well as people and/or organizations who use your (or other) IAS data.

		IAS data users can potentially include: land managers
(wildlife biologists, forest managers; natural areas stewards),
policy-makers, regulators (issue permits), early detection monitoring
efforts, land use or development planners, researchers, or educators. 
	When you forward the email, please include us on the CC so we
can know how the survey request has been disseminated.

We request that you please complete the survey by April 4, 2008. 
		If you have any questions, concerns, or insights about
the survey, please contact Lynn Kutner at lynn_kutner at natureserve.org.

What to expect in the Survey:
The Survey has several sections and has been designed to let you
automatically skip sections that are not relevant to you as a user or
provider of IAS data. 

The Survey includes a small number of required questions that are
clearly indicated with an asterisk (*). However, we ask for your help
with answering all the questions that you are able to.

		Survey Contents:
1)	Introduction
2)	Glossary / Definitions of terms used in the survey
3)	General Information (users and providers)
4)	Data Users (users only)
5)	Data Providers (providers only)
6)	Data Providers II - questions from the Heinz Center "Non-Native
Species Database Survey" (providers only, can skip if previously
responded to that survey)
7)	Standards and Data Models (users and providers)
8)	Technical (users and providers)
		And one final question asking for your comments.

Acknowledgements: This survey builds on previous surveys conducted by
the Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) and the Heinz
Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Many thanks to these
organizations for sharing their survey materials and insights.

If you have questions about this CEC IAS project, or would like to be
informed of the results, please contact Judy Soule
(judy_soule at natureserve.org; 703-908-1828).

Thank you in advance for your help and cooperation by responding to this
survey.

Lynn


Lynn Kutner
NatureServe
phone: (703) 797-4804
email:  lynn_kutner at natureserve.org
http://www.natureserve.org/



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