Southern Colorado Plateau Network Mark Miller

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Southern Colorado Plateau Network Mark Miller
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NCPN and SCPN Upland Monitoring Protocols
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South Florida /Caribbean NetworkAndrea Atkinson
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South Florida Vegetation Map

• Partnering with the South Florida Water
  Management District to cover CERP and non-CERP
  DOI lands with consistent classification system
  and mapping protocol

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South Florida National Parks Vegetation Map
Project Area
Big Cypress National Preserve
Biscayne National Park
Everglades National Park
Biscayne National Park
CERP Vegetation Mapping Area 729,704 ha
1,786,648 NPS Area mapped from IM Veg Map
funding 124,607 ha 343,875 (FY05 06)
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South Florida Vegetation Map

• Assembled working group of about 14 park staff,
  agency staff and area researchers to develop
  hierarchical vegetation classification
• 50 m x 50 m grid cell approach to allow change
  detection as well as create map
• FY06 funds being requested to map BISC, create
  detailed classification for S. FL parks, and
  begin ground-truthing new map.

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Greater Yellowstone NetworkCathie Jean
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Interagency Whitebark Pine Health Monitoring
Program for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Greater Yellowstone Coordinating
Committee USGS Inter-Agency Grizzly Bear Study
Team USDA Forest Service Forest Health
Monitoring Program National Park
Service Greater Yellowstone Network of Parks
Montana State University Department of
Mathematics National Park Service Yellowstone
Center for Resources
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Why we care !
White pine blister rust
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Distribution of whitebark Pine
US Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring
Field crews monitoring for white pine blister rust
Predicted Whitebark Occurrence
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Great Lakes NetworkBill Route
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Documenting the invasion of exotic earthworms
Photos courtesy of the Natural Resource Research
Institute
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Appalachian Highlands NetworkNora Murdock
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LEGACY DATA MINING IN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS
NETWORK PARKS

• Weve been searching regional universities,
  herbaria and museums to find significant park
  collections, and to photograph specimens
  labels.
• Some of the significant collections we have
  located were unknown to the parks.
• To date, weve entered over 11,000 new records
  into NPSpecies databases.

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SIGNIFICANT FINDS

• Old records of species including rare ones -
  currently unknown from the parks
• Records of fire-adpated species from habitats
  that are no longer open

Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae)
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Pacific Island NetworkFritz Klasner
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Pacific Island Network

• Climate Atlas (1971-2000)
• To NOAA-NCDC Standards
• FIRST Climate Atlas encompassing entire PACN
• CESU Cooperator
• Includes portions of Hawaii, Guam, American
  Samoa, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and
  Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
• Does not include small or low-lying islands, or
  open ocean in Hawaii, Commonwealth of Northern
  Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Federated States
  of Micronesia, Palau, Republic of Marshall Islands

Oregon State University Spatial Climate
Analysis Service Mean Annual Precipitation, Oahu,
HI
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Mid-Atlantic NetworkJim Comiskey
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Booker T. Washington National Monument (BOWA)
Mid-Atlantic Network Parks Inventory and
Monitoring Program
a public national memorial to Booker T.
Washington, noted Negro educator and apostle of
good will Enabling legislation (1956)

239 acres 18,000 visitors
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High Catostomid diversity
Mid-Atlantic Network Parks Inventory and
Monitoring Program
Catostomid spring migration, Gills Creek, BOWA
Located in highly diverse Roanoke drainage Other
MIDN parks drain into the Chesapeake Watershed 13
fish species not found elsewhere in MIDN Ten
species of Catostomids Six redhorse suckers
(Moxostoma) Globally rare fish species bigeye
jumprock (Moxostoma ariommus) endemic to upper
and middle Roanoke Surrounding development Increas
ed runoff and sedimentation threatens Catostomid
population in the park

Moxostoma anisurum
Development at BOWA boundary
Hypentelium roanokense
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Appalachian Highlands NetworkRobert Emmott
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VEGETATION MAPPING IN THE APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS
NETWORK

• Detailed vegetation maps are complete or
  nearing completion for Network parks

• Aerial infrared orthophotos provided to the
  parks by the Network already being used for
  GMPs, assessment of forest disease and insect
  damage, watershed evaluations

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Rocky Mountain NetworkDan Manier
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Western Networks Alpine Monitoring Workshop
Dan Manier

• Communication among networks monitoring in alpine
  and high elevation areas
• Coordination with outside scientists (from other
  agencies, Universities)

• Identify core measures across networks shared
  development, common methods, future analyses

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• Many External Cooperators
• U.S.G.S.
• White Mtn. Research Station (Univ. of California)
• Colorado State Univ.
• Univ. Of Colorado / INSTAAR Niwot LTER
• Montana State Univ. / Big Sky Institute
• Univ. of California Berkeley
• Utah State Univ.

Six NPS Networks

• Sierra-Nevada
• Klamath
• North Coast Cascades
• Rocky Mountain
• Greater Yellowstone
• Southwest Alaska

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Available as .PDFs on IM website

• Subject Driven
• (Inter-network)
• Focus Group Summaries

• Terrestrial Communities
• Weather and Climate
• Biogeochemistry
• Aquatic systems - Alpine Lakes

http//science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/Meetings.
cfm
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Pacific Island NetworkFritz Klasner
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Pacific Island Network

• Underwater Sound Inventory
• Address Park Management needs with proposed
  expansion of boat harbor
• Partnership with local NGO, Cornell Bioacoustics,
  NOAA, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Marine Mammal
  Consortium, Local Secondary Schools
• Being evaluated by NOAA Marine Sanctuaries for
  their marine soundscape monitoring in tropical
  Pacific Ocean

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Heartland NetworkGareth Rowell
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Heartland Network Data Summaries and Geodatabases
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Non-Spatial Attribute Table Link with Point
Features
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View of Tables in Geodatabase
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View of Data Summary in Geodatabase
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Southern Colorado Plateau NetworkLisa Thomas
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SCPN and NCPN Inventory of Colorado Plateau
Springs
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SCPN and NCPN Inventory of Colorado Plateau
Springs
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Southern Plains NetworkHeidi Sosinski
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Lyndon B. Johnson NHP Fish Inventory Southern
Plains Network

• Deep water inventories were missed
• Collaborate with park water quality and Lower
  Colorado River Authority
• FREE Survey
• Four new species to park, one new species to
  Colorado River Watershed Brook Silverside
  (Labidesthes sicculus )

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Heartland NetworkLloyd Morrison
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Adaptive cluster sampling of a population
displaying strong spatiotemporal variability
Missouri Bladderpod, Lesquerella filiformis
Heartland Network
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Annual variability in a single population of the
Missouri Bladderpod
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Adaptive sampling criteria

1) If gt10 plants occur in the initial sampling
unit, then sampling is continued in four
contiguous sampling units.
2) If gt10 plants are located in any of the
neighboring sampling units, then the neighborhood
of each of these blocks is searched until no
sampling units are found with gt10 plants or
until the boundary is reached.
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Upper Columbia Basin NetworkTom Rodhouse
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Citizen Science Upper Columbia Basin Network
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OMSI tent-and-van based research teams launched
in 2004 to assist with inventories
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Emphasis has been on start-to-finish research
programs that engage students in objectives, data
collection, analysis, and reporting
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OMSIs Salmon Camp is participating in camas lily
protocol development at Weippe Prairie and Big
Hole Battlefield
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National Capital Region NetworkShawn Carter
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Sierra Nevada NetworkAndi Heard
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SIEN Water Quality Database
National Park Service Sierra Nevada Network
Devils Postpile
Yosemite
Sequoia and Kings Canyon
Water quality site
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Rocky Mountain NetworkBilly Schweiger
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Great Sand DunesVegetation Mapping
Classification Project Billy Schweiger

• 115k acre Park in San Luis Valley of Colorado
• NPS part of active consortium of landowners
  managing the landscape
• USFWS, USFS, TNC
• Focus on ecological landscape
• Few good and current data on vegetation
  composition and distribution, invasive species or
  fuel loads across this management unit

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Great Sand DunesVegetation Mapping
Classification Project

• 413k acre VegMap project designed to address
  these issues
• More non-NPS (63) than NPS!
• True ecological unit
• Consistent vegetation, fuel and invasive
  protocols
• Partners contributing real and in kind funding
• Using both NVC for map units and USFS R2Veg

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Great Sand DunesVegetation Mapping
Classification Project

• Successful first year of sampling
• Samples selected using a complex GRTS design
• Landform modified Ecological Systems (ReGAP) as a
  sample frame
• Better connection to future monitoring

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Southeast Coast NetworkJoe DeVivo
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Information Needs Assessment

• Holistic approach to DM planning
• Reverse engineering starts with user needs
  expectations
• Integrates VS and DM planning kick starts
  protocol development
• Conceptual object model provides the foundation
  for future systems development

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Klamath NetworkDan Sarr
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Stove piping A Case Study in the Klamath Network
The Problem- IM We want to tell people all
the cool stuff were seeing, but were too
busy!! Interpretation1 What are those folks
up to anyway? Interpretion 2 Oh yea? Well
were too busy too!!
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Convene Meeting of Network IM and Interpretive
Leads
Develop Interpretive Topics and Themes
Prepare Strategic Interpretive Plan w/Assistance
from Region
Enter Into Cooperative Agreement with Southern
Oregon University Environmental Education
Department To implement plan