Monitoring and Adaptive Management - Designing and conducting a Watershed Monitoring Program

The two-day Watershed Monitoring and Adaptive Management Workshop will include the following topics:

Designing and Maintaining a Watershed Monitoring Program

What to measure and why (connecting monitoring to goals and desired outcomes, including compliance with regulation)
Core elements of a monitoring program
Overview of quality assurance methods
Data management and analysis
Communicating data and findings
Sustaining a monitoring program
Interacting with other collaborative and regulatory processes
Case Studies of successful monitoring programs
Using tools such as biotic indices, water quality, and spatial datasets and spatial decision support systems to track change

Connecting indicators to goals and objectives (desired outcomes, or desired future conditions)
Identifying indicators relevant to stakeholder interests
Collecting, analyzing, and managing data
Status and trend analysis
Interpreting and sharing results
Interacting with regulatory and other programs
Concepts and tools to build and sustain a learning organization
Double loop learning – managing effective projects, programs and processes for resilience and sustainability

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