Protocol Manager Demonstration

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Protocol Manager Demonstration

• Future
• NRMP PNAMP
• Collaboration?
• June 20, 2006
• Jennifer Bayer, PNAMP Coordinator (USGS)

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Pacific NorthwestAquatic Monitoring
Partnership(PNAMP)

• A forum for coordinating state, federal, and
  tribal aquatic monitoring programs in the Pacific
  Northwest

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PNAMP Objectives

• Provide a technical forum to develop, coordinate
  and inform monitoring and evaluation (ME)
  programs
• Provide a forum and process for communication
  with decision makers
• Be a clearing house for sample design, protocol
  development, and data management activities
• Provide process to establish landscape/ecosystem
  metrics

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PNAMP Partners
Charter signed by 19 state, tribal, federal, and
regional entities
WA GSRO
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PNAMP Current Tasks

• Protocol standardization/ coordination
• Inventory of monitoring activities
• Universal Survey Design for status/trend
  monitoring
• Data Management coordination (NED, PNW RGIC)
• High-level Indicators development
• Facilitate regional Networking

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PNAMP Protocol Tasks

• Tools
• Protocol Manager
• Protocol format (Oakely et al 2003)
• Method manual/ training format

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PNAMP Protocol Tasks
Protocols under development

• Macroinvertebrate collection
• Fish population monitoring techniques
• Watershed assessment (habitat) techniques
• Effectiveness monitoring techniques

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Natural Resource Monitoring Partnership(NRMP)
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NRMP Goals

• Improve the accessibility of monitoring efforts
  to resource managers to aid them in
  decision-making for multiple purposes at multiple
  scales.
• Develop practical resources that can help the
  resource management community develop and improve
  monitoring efforts to support more effective
  evaluation and decision making.

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NRMP Participants

• AZ Game and Fish Dept.
• AK Game Fish Commission
• CA Dept of Fish and Game
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• FGDC
• FL Fish Wildlife Conservation Commission
• ID Conservation Data Center
• International Association of Fish Wildlife
  Agencies
• IA State University
• MI Dept of Natural Resources
• MO Dept. of Conservation
• NPS
• NatureServe
• Nova Scotia Dept of Natural Resources
• NY State Dept of Environmental Conservation

OK Dept of Wildlife Conservation San Diego Zoo
The Nature Conservancy U.S. Army Engineering
Research Development Center U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation U.S. Fish Wildlife Service U.S.
Geological Survey University of CA Davis USDA
Forest Service University of MI VT Fish
Wildlife WI Dept of Natural Resources
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NRMP Core Resources (to be hosted by the NBII)

• Monitoring Protocol Library - An internet
  accessible, searchable database that provides
  information on monitoring protocols and resource
  assessment methodologies organized to facilitate
  reference and use..
• Monitoring Locator - An internet-based, GIS
  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).

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NRMP Where we have been?
2006
2005

• NRMP Web site
• Questionnaire
• - locator fields
• - library fields

NRMP established
Locator- Library Beta 1.0 Test March-April
Technical Workshop May 26-27
Steering Group Technical Group Outreach Group
Required Metadata Fields identified
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PNAMP/NRMP Collaboration?

• Both groups have identified similar products as
  essential to coordination and collaboration of
  monitoring
• NRMP Locator PNAMP Inventory ?
• NRMP Library PNAMP Protocol Manager ?

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More Information

• http//biology.usgs.gov/status_trends/nrmp/MP_Abo
  ut.htm
• (Paul_Dresler_at_usgs.gov)
• www.PNAMP.org
• (Jennifer_Bayer_at_usgs.gov)