Conferences & Training
Preliminary Agenda – Natural Heritage Methodology Training
Natureserve is reconfiguring this central training program in order to minimize travel distances and costs for attendees and instructors both—which should help maximize attendance and thus effectiveness for the entire network.
Participants will select which location they wish to attend: Arlington, Virginia; Fort Collins, Colorado; or Westborough, Massachusetts. Most sections will be taught live from at least one of the locations, and will be viewed simultaneously at all sites via web technology. Some portions will be taught independently at each site. Discussion sessions will happen daily at each site independently. Schedules will vary from day to day and site to site to accomodate simultaneous sessions despite the different time zones.
Preliminary Agenda
| Topic: | Live From: | |
| Day 1 | Intro to NatureServe and Natural Heritage Methodology | Arlington |
| Ecology Overview | Fort Collins | |
| Species Science Overview | Remote (Costa Rica) | |
| Information Management Overview | Arlington | |
| Element Concepts and Classification | Westborough | |
| Element Ranking | Westborough | |
| Data Exchange | All Sites | |
| Day 2 | Research and Field Methodology | All sites |
| Element Occurrence Concepts I & II | Arlington | |
| EO Transcription and Mapping | Westborough | |
| Day 3 | EO Concepts III | Arlington |
| Benchmark Data Content Standards | Fort Collins | |
| Using Natural Heritage Data to Answer Information Requests | All Sites | |
| Handling Sensitive Data | Arlington | |
| Discussion: Future Directions in Biodiversity Conservation | All Sites | |
| Day 4 | Conservation Planning | All Sites |
| Element Distribution Modeling | Fort Collins | |
| Ecology – in depth | All Sites | |
| Zoology – in depth | All Sites | |
| Botany – in depth | All Sites |