[APWG] TRAINING: Vegetation Monitoring in a Management Context, March 1-6, 2010

[Olivia Kwong]

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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)