| Tuesday, April 14 |
| 7:30 – 8:00 | | Meet and greet |
| 8:00 – 8:10 | | Welcome and opening remarks
Leslie Holland-Bartels, U.S. Geological Survey, Regional Executive, Alaska Region
Geoff Haskett, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Regional Director, Alaska |
| 8:10 – 8:20 | | Welcome, logistics, introduction to meeting goals and process –
Erik Beever, U.S. Geological Survey |
| 8:20 – 8:55 | | Managing Arctic protected areas in a changing world: the role of monitoring and inventory – Donald McClennan, Parks Canada Agency |
| 8:55 – 9:30 | | Insights from National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring: Lessons and emerging opportunities – John Gross, U.S. National Park Service |
| 9:30 – 10:05 | | Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program: Toward integrated arctic biodiversity monitoring and reporting – Mike Gill, Environment Canada |
| 10:05 – 10:25 | | Break |
| 10:25 – 10:55 | | Forest Inventory and Analysis: Regional monitoring of habitat change through sampling forest vegetation – Tara Barrett, USDA Forest Service |
| 10:55 – 11:15 | | Long-term Ecological Monitoring Program, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge – John Morton, Kenai NWR |
| 11:15 – 11:50 | | Integrated landscape monitoring: Lessons learned from four national monitoring programs – Christian Torgersen, U.S. Geological Survey |
| 11:50 – 1:00 | | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:00 – 1:35 | | EMAP to NARS: how monitoring objectives and institutions influence survey design research and implementation – Tony Olsen, Environmental Protection Agency |
| 1:35 – 2:10 | | Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research site: lessons from local and broader-scale research – Terry Chapin, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, and Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research site |
| 2:10 – 2:45 | | Climate monitoring across multiple scales of western North America – Kelly Redmond, Desert Research Institute |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | | Break |
| 3:00 – 3:35 | | Avoid common pitfalls of monitoring; link monitoring to management – Melinda Knutson, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |
| 3:35 – 4:10 | | A conceptual framework for developing effective sampling designs for monitoring natural resources – Bill Thompson, U.S. National Park Service |
| 4:10 – 4:45 | | Use of agency databases and community observations for developing rules to model the effects of climate change on ecosystem services in Alaska – Terry Chapin, University of Alaska-Fairbanks |
