Florida Phenology Workshop Agenda

May 13, 2009

9:30 – 10:00Check-in, coffee, networking [Tom Wichman and Alan Long (UF/IFAS)]

10:00 – 10:15Introductions (Will Sheftall, UF/IFAS Extension, Moderator)

10:15 – 11:30Overview of the Envisioned Phenology Monitoring Network [George Kish, U.S.Geological Survey (USGS), Moderator]

10:15 – 10:55Jake Weltzin (USGS, Executive Director, National Phenology Monitoring Network) 40-min PPT – Overview of National Phenology Monitoring Networkand Recent Developments in the Wildlife Phenology Program BY TELEPHONE

10:55 – 11:15George Kish (USGS, Coordinator, SE Regional Phenology Monitoring Network) 20-min PPT – Overview of Florida citizens-in-science monitoring component

11:15 – 11:30Questions and Answers with USGS presenters

11:30 – 12:30Briefings on existing phenophase databases covering Florida(George Kish, Overall Moderator)

[Each participant should plan to provide an overview of data storage, data administrator, retrieval options and protocols, QA by data set or series, observer certification required, protocols for data input/observer reporting]

11:30 – 11:40Overview of Bird Monitoring Programs in Florida (Adam Kent, FWC)

11:40 – 11:50Florida Breeding Bird Survey (Michael Delany, FWC)

11:50 – 12:00Frogwatch, National American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP), Herpetological Education and Research Project (Anna Farmer, FWC, Moderator)

12:00 – 12:10Mammal databases(Holly Ober, UF/IFAS, Moderator)

12:10 – 12:20Florida Butterfly Monitoring Network (Jaret Daniels, Moderator)

12:20 – 12:30Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) database (George Kish, USGS, Moderator)

12:30 – 1:30Lunch, presentation anddiscussion of web portal and training module ideas (Will Sheftall, UF/IFAS, Moderator)

12:30 – 12:45Lunch line (Tom Wichman, UF/IFAS, Coordinator)

12:45 – 1:00Description plus outline or screen shots of example web portal designed for water data (Mike Holmes, USGS)BY TELEPHONE

1:00 – 1:15Ideas forweb portalanalog for phenology (Mike Holmes, USGS) BY TELEPHONE

1:15 – 1:30Description plus outline ofweb tutorial/PPT of draft training module (George Kish, Tom Wichman, Karen Blyler)

1:30 – 1:45Discussion of conceptual training module

1:45 – 3:15Identification of key taxa for monitoring in Florida[Alan Long, UF/IFAS, Moderator]

1:45 – 2:30[Breakout group facilitators: plants and invasives (George Kish, USGS); birds and herps (Anna Farmer, FWC); mammals (Holly Ober, UF/IFAS, Will Sheftall, UF/IFAS); butterflies and insects (Jaret Daniels, UF)]

Ideas for breakout group consideration:

[key Florida taxa to be monitored, observational info needed, potential problems (by category: plants, birds, herps, mammals, butterflies, invasive exotic species)]

[coordinates, species, life cycle event observed, habitat, political unit, observer ID, date]

[for habitat info, could use dichotomous key approach in drop-down menus: rural/urban, state park/wildlife management area/water management district lands/state forest/national forest/national wildlife refuge, big city/small town, residential neighborhood/golf course/city-county park/county Extension campus, natural/planted & maintained landscape]

1:45 – 2:30Breakout group on development of training and reference materials for youth group and K-12 school audiences (Karen Blyler, Moderator)

1:45 – 2:30Breakout group on development of training and reference materials for citizen-in science volunteer and master volunteer adult audiences (Tom Wichman, UF/IFAS, Moderator)

2:30 – 2:45Afternoon break, prepare brief group reports

2:45 – 3:15Group reports, 3 min each

3:15 – 4:00Formation of Florida subcommittees, planning for OCT 2009 Launch via PolyCom (Tom Wichman, UF/IFAS, George Kish, Moderators)

3:15 – 3:30Formation of Florida subcommittees for finalizing Web portal, taxa lists, training module

3:30 – 3:50Discussion and enlistment of volunteer Committee Chairs for OCT 2009 Launch: PolyCom site host recruitment by Extension district, Florida Extension agent and volunteer recruitment by Extension district:

[1 day during first 2 wks OCT 2009 – select date using a doodle approach with audience]

[host sites around FL at CountyExtension offices (all have videoconferencing capability)]

[basic overview will entail how to use the portal and training module, ID of key plant taxa, recognizing plant phenophases, recording plant phenology data from multiple specimens, and generating GIS data summary reports]

[overviews of wildlife phenophase monitoring, by taxa group, will follow the basic overview, and will entail how to become certified to submit observational data on animals per the protocol for the various databases that exist]

3:50 – 4:00Wrap up and Next Steps(Tom Wichman, UF/IFAS, Moderator)

4:00Adjourn