The purposeful, scholarly and reflective professional

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The purposeful, scholarly and reflective
professional

• New AoE goals to help us get there.

Water Quality AoE Meeting May 10, 2004
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MSUE EIS

• http//www.msue.msu.edu/eis/

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Former goals (for EIS reporting)

• Work with riparians and lake users to enhance
  their understanding of watershed management and
  inland lakes water quality issues
• Help MI farmers improve nutrient management to
  maintain and improve quality of ground and
  surface water
• Encourage protection of community groundwater
  supplies through wellhead protection education in
  collaboration with state agency personnel and
  local communities
• Improve onsite and decentralized wastewater
  treatment and design by educating and training
  health officials, consultants, engineers and
  riparians
• Encourage MI citizens to adopt or refine
  practices to protect water quality on their
  homesteads and in their communities
• Improve citizen access to and understanding of
  water quality information and expertise
• Enhance links with other groups and organizations
  working on water quality issues
• Public Policy in this area

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Proposed goals for easier EIS reporting (1of2)

• Statewide Goals (what we want to achieve by doing
  activities)Increase awareness of surface
  water and groundwater resourcesIncrease
  behaviors that protect the integrity of surface
  water and groundwater resources Prevent
  degradation of groundwater and surface water
  resourcesImprove the integrity of groundwater
  and surface water resources

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Proposed goals for easier EIS reporting (2of2)

• Enabling Goals (related to how we go about doing
  things) Develop educational/outreach
  materialsProvide trainingEmpower local
  community leadersImprove citizen access to
  water quality information and expertiseProvide
  web-based water quality resourceEstablish
  collaboration with other groups working on water
  quality

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These goals can apply to any of the 4-Ps

• Programs/projects
• Products
• Professional development
• Proposals for AoE funding

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Applying the EIS logic model to get us there

• Be purposeful, scholarly and reflective
• Audience?
• Inputs (resources) needed?
• Outputs (4-P specific activities)?
• Short-term outcome?
• Intermediate-term outcome?
• Long-term outcome?

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MSUE EIS Logic Model

• http//www.msue.msu.edu/eis/

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A program exampleVolunteer Stream Monitoring

• Audience?
• Citizens interested in becoming volunteer stream
  monitors
• Short-term outcome? (awareness, behavior)
• Increased
• Knowledge of basic stream science and wq
  parameters
• Appreciation of good study design
• Ability to choose appropriate methods
• Skill in using a variety of methods
• Intermediate-term outcome? (behavior)
• Create a pool of volunteers to supplement and
  sustain TMDL data needs
• Contribute to research projects
• Performance and usability of a variety of
  volunteer methods
• Reliability of volunteer generated data at
  various levels of training
• Training and equipment recommendations (for
  individuals, groups and MCWC)
• Long-term outcome? (integrity)
• Credible volunteer generated data with the
  potential to supplement professional data
• Practice and policy changes
• Improved water quality

Missing Inputs and Outcomes
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A Professional development exampleMSUE Policy
In-Service

• Input time
• Output
• activity visit state capitol scheduled visits
  with legislators on my own
• factor time to work on my own to organize
  apriori
• participation me, MSUE peers, legislators,
  legislative staff
• factor other peoples schedules and availability

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Applicable State AoE Goal Prevent Degradation

• Outcomes/Impact (from EIS logic model)
• immediate understand the policy structure and
  process (awareness)
• indicator ability to identify key committees and
  contacts for water quality policy
• intermediate apply my understanding to AOE
  activities (awareness, training, collaboration)
• indicator ability to bring together AOE with key
  staff/committee on particular issue e.g. water
  withdrawal or stream discharge
• long term transfer my knowledge to public for
  decisionmaking (empower leaders/improve access)
• indicator ability for public to explain and
  utilize process to change water resource policy

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A product example Water Quality AOE Web
Page

• Output
• - Design and creation of a functional web page
  that is useful to the AOE, other AOEs and the
  general public
• Immediate Outcomes
• - Ready access to what AOE members are doing how
  to get involved with AOE
• Indicator number of hits, number of new members
  on the list serve
• Intermediate Outcomes
• - Build upon existing programs
• - Link with other projects within and between
  states
• Indicators interaction with manure AOE, MAEAP,
  GWSP, Regional WQ team
• Long-term outcomes
• - Portal to water quality information
  educational materials
• - Up to date web site of current projects
  information
• - Other groups link their web page to it

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Being reflective about the May 4-5, 2004
Volunteer Stream Monitoring program

• EIS logic model asks for Inputs and Outputs and
  provides a framework for reflecting on what weve
  done and how wed like to improve it. As the
  organizers discussed changes wed like to see,
  the additional inputs/resources needed become
  more clear.
• New Inputs (resources) to this program? Not sure
  yet.
• New Outputs (activities) from this program? What
  do we want to change?
• So far, we know for sure we want to rearrange the
  WQ standards and parameters presentation and make
  it more interactive. To do that we will need the
  following resources (new inputs)
• More time on the agenda
• Time to come up an interactive experience v. a
  lecture experience
• More visuals of examples of water quality
  situations participants may encounter and relate
  what parameters may be involved and how the
  standards may apply to the situation.
• Outcomes (does this change anything? For now)
• Short-term outcome? Increased
• Knowledge of basic stream science and wq
  parameters
• Appreciation of good study design
• Ability to choose appropriate methods
• Skill in using a variety of methods
• Understanding of how parameters and standards
  apply to real world situations

Applicable proposed State and Enabling AoE goals
Increase
behaviors Provide Improve
training
(Thoughts from flip chart scribblings and
dribblings from May 10 meeting)