Workshop (Tues PM): The Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center 2.0: Connecting Natural Resource Stakeholders with IMBCR Breeding Bird Monitoring Data
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Size: Limited to 30 participants
Instructors: Jennifer Timmer (Bird Conservancy of the Rockies), Jessie Reese (BCR), and Matthew McLaren (BCR)
Description: This workshop will introduce the new and improved Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center, a data portal for accessing survey results and population estimates from the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program, which spans the Great Plains to the Intermountain West. Bird Conservancy of the Rockies and partners created the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program in 2008 in response to national recommendations for improving avian monitoring. Today, the IMBCR program is the second largest breeding bird monitoring program in the nation, spanning the Great Plains to the Great Basin. We pool monitoring resources across funding partners and sampling occurs in a spatially balanced, probabilistic framework. This creates efficiencies in data collection and analysis, and allows for inference to multiple scales, from a National Forest unit up to state or region-wide. We provide several population metrics each year for 300+ species, including estimates of certainty. These metrics, such as density and population trend, represent the best available information for breeding bird populations. Bird Conservancy recently updated our online data portal, the Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center (RMADC), to make these estimates and other survey information easily accessible to IMBCR partners, academic researchers, and other natural resource stakeholders. In this workshop, we will introduce you to the RMADC 2.0, explain what information is available on the site and how to interpret it, and go over several data applications. For example, we will show how a biologist can query population estimates for species within a management unit for project planning, determine which species are decreasing with certainty, and look at regional estimates for context. In addition, we will show how researchers and students can use the site for data discovery, to develop their own research hypotheses based on what the annual estimates show, and as an example using Shiny to disseminate their own results and data. Participants should bring a laptop if possible.
THIS IS A HALF-DAY (PM) WORKSHOP AND CAN, THEREFORE, NOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER PM OR FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS
To checkout, after adding all items to your cart, click the shopping cart icon in the upper right corner of your screen/ the web page header.
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Size: Limited to 30 participants
Instructors: Jennifer Timmer (Bird Conservancy of the Rockies), Jessie Reese (BCR), and Matthew McLaren (BCR)
Description: This workshop will introduce the new and improved Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center, a data portal for accessing survey results and population estimates from the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program, which spans the Great Plains to the Intermountain West. Bird Conservancy of the Rockies and partners created the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program in 2008 in response to national recommendations for improving avian monitoring. Today, the IMBCR program is the second largest breeding bird monitoring program in the nation, spanning the Great Plains to the Great Basin. We pool monitoring resources across funding partners and sampling occurs in a spatially balanced, probabilistic framework. This creates efficiencies in data collection and analysis, and allows for inference to multiple scales, from a National Forest unit up to state or region-wide. We provide several population metrics each year for 300+ species, including estimates of certainty. These metrics, such as density and population trend, represent the best available information for breeding bird populations. Bird Conservancy recently updated our online data portal, the Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center (RMADC), to make these estimates and other survey information easily accessible to IMBCR partners, academic researchers, and other natural resource stakeholders. In this workshop, we will introduce you to the RMADC 2.0, explain what information is available on the site and how to interpret it, and go over several data applications. For example, we will show how a biologist can query population estimates for species within a management unit for project planning, determine which species are decreasing with certainty, and look at regional estimates for context. In addition, we will show how researchers and students can use the site for data discovery, to develop their own research hypotheses based on what the annual estimates show, and as an example using Shiny to disseminate their own results and data. Participants should bring a laptop if possible.
THIS IS A HALF-DAY (PM) WORKSHOP AND CAN, THEREFORE, NOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER PM OR FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS
To checkout, after adding all items to your cart, click the shopping cart icon in the upper right corner of your screen/ the web page header.
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Size: Limited to 30 participants
Instructors: Jennifer Timmer (Bird Conservancy of the Rockies), Jessie Reese (BCR), and Matthew McLaren (BCR)
Description: This workshop will introduce the new and improved Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center, a data portal for accessing survey results and population estimates from the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program, which spans the Great Plains to the Intermountain West. Bird Conservancy of the Rockies and partners created the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program in 2008 in response to national recommendations for improving avian monitoring. Today, the IMBCR program is the second largest breeding bird monitoring program in the nation, spanning the Great Plains to the Great Basin. We pool monitoring resources across funding partners and sampling occurs in a spatially balanced, probabilistic framework. This creates efficiencies in data collection and analysis, and allows for inference to multiple scales, from a National Forest unit up to state or region-wide. We provide several population metrics each year for 300+ species, including estimates of certainty. These metrics, such as density and population trend, represent the best available information for breeding bird populations. Bird Conservancy recently updated our online data portal, the Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center (RMADC), to make these estimates and other survey information easily accessible to IMBCR partners, academic researchers, and other natural resource stakeholders. In this workshop, we will introduce you to the RMADC 2.0, explain what information is available on the site and how to interpret it, and go over several data applications. For example, we will show how a biologist can query population estimates for species within a management unit for project planning, determine which species are decreasing with certainty, and look at regional estimates for context. In addition, we will show how researchers and students can use the site for data discovery, to develop their own research hypotheses based on what the annual estimates show, and as an example using Shiny to disseminate their own results and data. Participants should bring a laptop if possible.
THIS IS A HALF-DAY (PM) WORKSHOP AND CAN, THEREFORE, NOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER PM OR FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS
To checkout, after adding all items to your cart, click the shopping cart icon in the upper right corner of your screen/ the web page header.