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DAYS 2 & 3 Workshop
Days 2 & 3 Workshop: Developing Monitoring Objectives and Strategy for NWRs and Opportunities for Collaboration with Neighboring Agencies. Working sessions for Alaska NWRs staff members, with neighboring agencies and other partners, to identify monitoring objectives and a monitoring strategy in consideration of the first day's presentations.
| Wednesday, April 15 – sessions are with whole group unless otherwise indicated |
| 7:30 – 8:00 | | Meet and greet |
| 8:00 – 8:15 | | Welcome, logistics, introduce goal and process of meeting – Erik Beever and Andrea Woodward, USGS |
| 8:15 – 9:45 | | Synthesis/Lessons learned regarding approaches presented Day 1 – Erik Beever and Andrea Woodward, USGS; Joel Reynolds, FWS Alaska Regional Office |
| 9:45 – 10:05 | | Problem Definition I: Funding sideboards – Todd Logan and Andy Loranger, FWS - National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS), Regional and National offices |
| 10:05 – 10:20 | | Break |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | | Problem Definition II: Implications of mission & purposes of Alaska refuges for monitoring needs – Danielle Jerry, FWS Alaska, and Andy Loranger |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | | Problem Definition III: Conceptual ecosystem models of Alaska refuges – Andrea Woodward, U.S. Geological Survey |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | | Potential climate-change effects – Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Biological Research, Inc. |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 3:00 | | Ecoregional Working groups: (see nametag for assignments)(statewide map):
Objectives I: Identifying potential management actions to the effects of climate change and other statewide issues and the information needs required to support these management decisions
Workgroups will have copy of an ecoregional conceptual model and a list of climate change impacts from the October meeting. The tasks of this session will be to:
1) review the CC impacts, modify as needed (but focus on not covering old ground; the purpose here is just to be sure that we have consensus), identify high priority impacts,
2) identify potential management actions or decisions to climate change effects that could be taken in the next 50 years,
3) identify information needed to decide when, where and how to implement the management actions – some will be research, some monitoring; meeting the monitoring needs will be the objectives of the monitoring program,
4) identify additional information needs that managers may require but may not result in direct management action (e.g., land unit managers may require information about the importance of marine-derived nutrients to their units in order to influence subsistence or commercial harvest limit set by others),
5) identify potential management actions or decisions that could be taken in response to other statewide issues (e.g., transportation, energy development, population growth),
6) identify information needed to decide when, where and how to implement the management actions,
7) prioritize the top 3 data needs.
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| 3:00 – 3:20 | | Break |
| 3:20 – 5:00 | | Group reports (5 reports, 20 minutes each) |
| 6:00-7:00 | | Reception (Kahiltna Court); no-host bar |
| 7:00-10:00 | | BANQUET (Kahiltna Court) |
| Thursday, April 16 – sessions are with whole group, unless otherwise indicated |
| 7:30 – 8:00 | | Meet and greet |
| 8:00 – 8:15 | | Call meeting to order, agenda adjustments, logistics |
| 8:15 – 9:00 | | Objective II: Summary of Identified Monitoring Objectives
Erik Beever and Andrea Woodward
Baseline Inventory Data
Connectivity Project |
| 9:00 – 10:15 | | State-wide work groups (see nametag for assignments):
Alternatives I: Develop list of alternative strategies or frameworks for broad-scale monitoring program that meets the identified monitoring objectives
Workgroups will have 1) brief summary of presentations from Day 1, 2) summary of the participant responses to the presentations, 3) list of priority objectives from Day 2.
The task is to develop list of alternative monitoring strategies to meet the objectives and develop table of consequences (i.e., a table of alternatives versus objectives that identifies which objectives are met by which alternatives to describe the consequences of the various choices) based on lessons learned from Day 1. Options from Day 1 can be augmented with options developed by the group to take advantage of the attractive aspects of multiple monitoring strategies. The goal is to get to a program structure, not to the detail of specific indicators. It is important to consider potential for working with neighbors and choosing a structure that will maximize collaboration.
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| 10:15 – 10:45 | | Break |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | | Alternative 1 (cont.) |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | | Manager workgroup: Organizational Structure Requirements, Danielle Jerry
Managers (from all agencies, to include Land Managers and Deputies, NPS Network Coordinators, etc.) will be pulled from workgroups to discuss organizational structure required for meeting information needs |
| 11:45 – 1:00 | | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:40 | | Group summaries (4 workgroups + manager group, 20 minutes each) |
| 2:40 – 3:00 | | Break |
| 3:00 – 4:00 | | Alternatives II: Recommend strategy for Alaska NWR monitoring program – Melinda Knutson, U.S. FWS |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | | Wrap-up – Todd Logan, Danielle Jerry |
Ecoregional Work Group Assignments
| Ecoregion | NWRs | NPS units | National Forests | BLM District Offices | State, Native |
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Polar
Cathy Curby, Facilitator
Cindy Bouck, Recorder
| Alaska Maritime
Arctic
Selawik
Yukon Delta
| Bering Land Bridge
Cape Krusenstern
Gates of the Arctic
Kobuk Valley
Noatak
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Fairbanks
National
Petroleum
Reserve
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Coastal Boreal
Nancy Swanton, Facilitator
John Martin, Recorder
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Togiak
Yukon Delta |
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Anchorage |
Wood Tikchik
State Park
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Intermontane Boreal
Warren Keogh, Facilitator
Kelly Walton, Recorder
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Arctic
Innoko
Kanuti
Kenai
Koykuk/Nowitna
Selawik
Tetlin
Yukon Flats
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Cape Krusenstern
Denali
Kobuk Valley
Lake Clark
Noatak
Wrangell-St. Elias
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Fairbanks |
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Maritime
Dom Watts, Facilitator
Steve Talbot, Recorder
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Alaska Maritime
Alaska Peninsula/
Becharof
Izembek
Kodiak
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Aniakchak
Katmai
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Chugach |
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Coastal Rainforests
Melinda Knutson, Facilitator
Patrick Lieske, Recorder
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Glacier Bay
Klondike Goldrush
Sitka Historical
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Tongass |
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Annette Island
Indian
Reservation
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Redoubt Volcano Advisory information (also see links on left-hand side of volcano advisory page).
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