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Collecting and Processing Multi-Year Monitoring Data

Collecting and Processing Multi-Year Monitoring Data. Jennifer Haack Alan Williams Kevin James. VS Monitoring Data. Collection. Data Summaries. Interpreting/Analyzing Data. Session. Jennifer Haack: Collection Alan Williams: Standardizing Summary Calculations

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Collecting and Processing Multi-Year Monitoring Data

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  1. Collecting and Processing Multi-Year Monitoring Data Jennifer Haack Alan Williams Kevin James

  2. VS Monitoring Data Collection Data Summaries Interpreting/Analyzing Data

  3. Session • Jennifer Haack: Collection • Alan Williams: Standardizing Summary Calculations • Kevin James: Decision Support Systems • 30 minutes: Questions/Open Discussion on Multi-year Monitoring

  4. Collecting Multi-Year Monitoring Data Jennifer Haack GIS Specialist Heartland Network

  5. Differences Between Monitoring and Inventories • Inventory • Not controlled for time, just a snap shot in time • Comprehensive list of fauna/flora • Monitoring • Track changes in trends of target communities or natural resources • Consistent sampling design • Spatially and temporally specific

  6. Collection Methods • Field • Remote Sensing • GPS

  7. Prior To Collection • Study design • Protocol/SOPs • Technical issues figured out • Identified needs of field ecologist • Datasheets • GPS/field equipment

  8. Study Design • Good, clear monitoring goals • Collection methods should fit the scale of the questions being asked of the monitoring data • Don’t paint yourself into a corner • Collect data in a way that gives the most information to the park managers

  9. Importance of Protocol/SOPs • Operations guide • Documents all monitoring steps for a project • Insures sampling consistency from year to year • Should answer • Why collecting • How to manage data

  10. Communication • It is important to have open communications between the DM/GIS and ecologist to ensure that everyone is on the same page for the project

  11. Monitoring Changes • Park management units change, which now divides your sample site in two. • Flood event washes away the bank where the sample site was. • Time period changes due to more sample locations being added or sharing equipment between multiple projects. • Satellites quit working. • Different recharge area discovered

  12. Reasons for change • Economics • Cost of travel and sampling • If less sampling = same results • Discovery of new species locations • The more knowledge you have, change will just occur

  13. When Making Changes • Need to be done by project leader • Justification for why the change is needed • Document the how and why for the change • Crosswalk data

  14. Examples • Missouri Bladderpod • Systematic approach • Revisit consistency • Management changes • Drastic population growth

  15. Examples • Grassland Birds • Expanded Sampling from 2 parks to 11 • Change horizontal structure measure for consistency across projects • Aligned revisit schedule across projects

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