[APWG] TRAINING: Vegetation Monitoring in a Management Context, March 1-6, 2010
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Jan 28 11:53:55 CST 2010
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Early Registration Deadline is January 29, 2010
Natural Areas Training Academy
Vegetation Monitoring in a Management Context
Date: March 1-6, 2010
Location: Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Florida
Fee: $875.00
(includes registration, materials, lodging and meals)
Course Coordinators: Doria Gordon, The Nature Conservancy and Rob Sutter,
Enduring Conservation Outcomes, LLC
This workshop is a practical step-by-step guide to establish and manage
monitoring protocols for plant community work. Participants learn to:
Develop sampling designs for well-defined objectives.
Determine monitoring priorities in an adaptive management context.
Implement techniques in the field.
Interpret and manipulate data for presentation.
“I have attended ‘Vegetation Monitoring in a Management Context’, and I can
only describe it as excellent; one of the best training sessions I’ve
participated in nearly 14 years!” Andi Christman, Florida Park Service.
For more information and on-line registration please visit the Natural
Areas Training Academy web site at: http://nata.snre.ufl.edu/
Vegetation Monitoring in a Management Context
Sample Agenda – Subject to Change
Monday, March 1, 2010
Morning 10:00 Registration Starts
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Workshop Objectives, Introduction of
Participants
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon 1:00 Introduction to Ecological Monitoring and
Monitoring in an Adaptive Management Context
2:15 Management Objectives and Sampling
Objectives
3:45 Levels of Monitoring
4:30 Developing Monitoring Protocols
Evening 6:00 Dinner
7:00 Management and Monitoring Priorities
Exercise
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Sampling Design Lectures (AM)
Morning 8:00 Introduction to Sampling Design and
Statistical Terms and Concepts Essential to Sampling Design
9:40 Non-sampling and Sampling Errors
11:10 Setting Sampling Objectives
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon 1:00 Sampling Methods
2:45 Field Demonstration and Exercise: Sampling
Abundance and Composition
Evening 6:00 Dinner
7:00 Sampling Design Exercise
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Sampling Design Lectures (continued)
Morning 8:00 Selecting Sampling Units
9:45 Placement of Sampling Units
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon 1:00 Placement of Sampling Units continued
1:15 Number of Sampling Units
2:45 Long-term Change Detection: Data Sources and Analysis
3:15 Vegetation monitoring underway at ABS
4:15 Photographic Monitoring
Evening 6:00 Dinner
7:00 Sample Size Exercise
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Morning 8:00 Monitoring Plant Populations, Communities, and
Landscapes
9:15 Interpreting Monitoring Data
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon 1:00 Field Exercise: Sampling Community Structure
Evening 6:00 Dinner
Develop monitoring protocols (on your
own)
Friday, March 5, 2010
Morning 8:00 Field Exercise: Developing
Sampling Designs and Collecting Data for Plant Populations,
Communities and Landscapes
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon 1:00 Field Exercise continued
4:00 Return from Field and Analysis of Field
Exercise Data
Evening 6:00 Dinner
7:00 Analysis of Field Exercise Data continued
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Morning 8:00 Team Presentations of Field Exercise Data
10:00 Discussion of Monitoring Protocols
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon 1:00 Data Collection and Data Management
2:00 Final Comments and Evaluation
3:00 Depart
Instructors may include: Doria Gordon and Jodi Slapcinsky from The Nature
Conservancy, Rob Sutter, Enduring Conservation Outcomes, LLC, and guest
speakers from Archbold Biological Station.
Accommodations at Archbold are in cabins with shared bedrooms and
bathrooms.
For more information and on-line registration please visit the Natural
Areas Training Academy web site at: http://nata.snre.ufl.edu/
______________________________________________________________
Linda Demetropoulos
Natural Areas Training Academy
UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology & Conservation
PO Box 110430
Gainesville, FL 32611
T: (352) 392-3210 / F: (352) 392-6984
demetrop at ufl.edu
http://nata.snre.ufl.edu
(See attached file: Veg_Mon_10.pdf)(See attached file: NATA Schedule
2009-2010.pdf)
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