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

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - Wednesday, August 21, 2013

San Joaquin River Parkway Trust,

11605 Old Friant Road

Fresno, CA

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

Indicator and Reporting Method Development

• 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