Vital Signs Framework

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Vital Signs Framework John Gross Ft Collins, CO
Data Managers Meeting April 2004
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• Overall goals at Network, Region, National Levels
• Committee established at IMAC last December
• Regional coordinators
• Some network and prototype coordinators
• IMTAG representatives WRD, ARD, Geology
  Soils
• Data managers

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Benefits of a program-wide framework

• Network level
• facilitate communication within and outside of
  network
• identify common needs for protocols
• improve uniformity naming, conventions
• organized (structured) examples of VS /
  measurements
• good example framework for new networks

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• Region / National level
• identify common needs for resource allocation
• permit and facilitate roll-up for reporting
• consistency increases credibility of program
• improve review of programs and monitoring plans

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We want the framework to address common questions
What networks have vital signs that include
(e.g., grasslands, etc)? How many parks have
implemented How many parks in the PWR identified
exotic plant occurrence as a priority vital
sign? What vitals signs have other networks
identified for (veg structure, etc.)? What
networks are developing a protocol for (xxx)?
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Framework Requirements

• Higher level structure simple, clear, concise,
  informative
• appropriate for all networks
• Ability to roll-up data for national reporting
• Ability to drill down to parks and vital signs
  (measurements?)
• Flexible
• multiple front ends to underlying data
• Networks can retain local syntax / structure

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Level 1 Level 2
Vital Sign
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Network
National
Level 1 Level 2 Vital Sign
Other framework(s)
Vital Sign
ParkVS_table
Measurements
Protocols
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What Networks do and dont need to do
Need to

• Include National framework in all Monitoring
  Plans (Phase 1, 2, 3)
• Associate network national VS (11 link)
• Maintain network side and send to Ft Collins
• May want to develop or maintain another framework

Do NOT need to

• Exclusively use the National framework
• Revise, abandon, or modify your existing
  framework

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Current Status (since last Thursday )

• Levels 1 and 2 mostly complete (maybe a few
  additions)
• Some vital sign sets probably complete or
  nearly so
• Air and climate
• Water
• Some vital sign sets will see many additions
  (Biological Integrity)
• Descriptor table not yet complete
• Database design and application under development

Feedback welcome will need to add Vital Signs
and finalize database design
http//science.nature.nps.gov/monitor/vs_synthesis
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