Workshops and Working Groups: past, present, and future |
In many ways, workshops and working groups are the lifeblood of developing and maintaining a network like ours. They are useful to get people togehter to meet and work together. Although this network was officially launched from a workshop that just occurred in May 2012, several earlier workshops on monarchs laid the groundwork for this effort. Below, we show the history of working groups and workshops that were instrumental in getting our network off the ground. These include organizational workshops, but also efforts focused on data analysis, since that is the ultimate goal for many of these large-scale monitoring efforts - to be able to ask large-scale questions. |
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Location and Date |
Details |
| North American Butterfly Monitoring Workshop, SESYNC |
9-11 MAY 2012, Annapolis MD |
Our inaugural workshop, you can see the agenda and presentations here |
| Spatial subsidies of ecosystem services, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis |
Four workshops during 2011-2013, Ft. Collins, CO (and once in Tucson, AZ) |
A series of workshops focused on three model groups, Mexican freetail bats, pintail ducks, and monarchs as systems to understand how to track and compensate for ecosystem services provided by migrating species. |
| Monarchs as a model for understanding migration dynamics, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis |
Four workshops during 2010-2011, Santa Barbara, CA |
While this workshop focused on ecological analysis and synthesis of multiple monarch data sets, we also were able to implement and launch MonarchNet |
| Monarch Monitoring Workshop, University of Georgia |
June 2009, Athens, GA |
This was the inaugural workshop, funded by the Council for Environmental Cooperation, where the idea for MonarchNet was first proposed. |
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
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Location and Date |
Details |
| LOLA_BMS : How Local-‐scale processes build up the Large-‐scale response of Butterflies to global changes: Integrative analysis across Monitoring Schemes, CESAB |
Four workshops, 2013-2014 in Paris, France |
This workshop will bring monitoring data from Europe, North America, Israel, and possibly other regions to perform cross-scale analyses. Leslie will represent the North American groups. As part of this workshop, we will also address data sharing on a global scale |
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