Butterfly Monitoring Workshop:
Data quality, access, and visualization for butterfly monitoring programs
Organizers
- Leslie Ries (SESYNC and University of Maryland)
- Doug Taron (The Peggy Notebart Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, coordinator of the IL Monitoring Network)
- Joseph JaJa (SESYNC Director of Cyber-Infrastructure)
Participants:
*Indicates participation through teleconferencing
Butterfly monitoring groups:
Nathan Brockman (IA), Jaret Daniels (FL), Jeffrey Glassberg (NABA), Mikaela Howie (MI), Steve McGaffin (TN), Lea Morgan (New England), Sarah Moore (WA), Karen Oberhauser (MLMP and MonarchNet), Guy Pe'er (European representative), Rick Ruggles (OH), Jane Scott (NABA), Jim Springer (NABA), Sue Stichter (MA), Dave Waetjen (Shapiro group), Jerome Wiedmann (OH), Karen Wilson (MI)
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Kelly Lotts* and Thomas Naberhaus *
Informatics
Paul Allen (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), Cyndy Parr (Encyclopedia of Life), Lori Scott (Chief Information Officer, NatureServe), Matt Scott (Red Shift/NABA), Mike Smorul (SESYNC), Robert Stevenson (U Mass, Butterfly informatics and Data One)
Other participants
Greg Breed (Post-doctoral Associate working to analyze data from the Massachusetts program)
Astrid Caldas (Research Scientist at Defenders of Wildlife working on Climate and Butterflies)
Workshop Schedule
May 9 (Wed):
9:00am: Introduction (introduce conference organizers)
Remarks by organizers: Leslie Ries, Doug Taron, Joseph JaJa
9:30-12:00pm: Introductions (with 10:30 coffee break)
Each person gave a brief introduction including information about the program they are associated with (5-10 minutes).
12:00pm: Overview of the four workshop themes (5 min each):
- Expanding community engagement
- Field protocols and data quality
- Butterfly informatics
- Data sharing and visualization
Lunch 12:30pm-1:30 pm
1:30: Theme 1: Expanding community engagement (10-15 min each)
3:00 – 5:30 Theme 1 discussions
May 10 (Thurs):
9:00am: Theme 2: Protocols and data quality (10-15 min each)
10:30 Coffee break – then continue discussion on above talks
11:30am Jeff Glassberg: Taxonomic standards for North American butterflies
Lunch 12:30pm-1:30 pm
1:30: Theme 3: Butterfly Informatics
2:30: Monitoring program data management snapshots:
Each group will take 2-5 minutes to describe their current data management, sharing mechanisms and policies – and also to say what advancements they’d most like to make in the next two years and also any concerns
3:30: Coffee break
3:45: Discussion
6:00pm FIELD TRIP TO DC MONUMENTS (BOX DINNER INCLUDED)
May 11 (Fri):
9:00am: Data sharing and visualization with discussion (with 10:30am coffee break)
- Thomas Naberhaus: Visualizations on the Butterflies and Moths Information Network
- Karen Oberhauser: Visualization tool in MonarchNet and MLMP
- Dave Waetjen: Art Shapiro’s butterfly site
- Leslie Ries: Plans for visualization tools for NABA data
Lunch 12:30pm-1:30 pm
1:30: Main workshop wrap-up |
