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• 1. [Article] Combining and Aggregating Environmental Data for Status and Trend Assessments: Challenges and Approaches

  Increasingly, natural resource management agencies and nongovernmental organizations are sharing monitoring data across geographic and jurisdictional boundaries. Doing so improves their abilities to assess ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Combining and Aggregating Environmental Data for Status and Trend Assessments: Challenges and Approaches Author: Maas-Hebner, Kathleen G., Harte, Michael, Molina, Nancy, Hughes, Robert M., Schreck, Carl B., Yeakley, J. Alan Year: 2015 Increasingly, natural resource management agencies and nongovernmental organizations are sharing monitoring data across geographic and jurisdictional boundaries. Doing so improves their abilities to assess local-, regional-, and landscape-level environmental conditions, particularly status and trends, and to improve their ability to make short-and long-term management decisions. Status monitoring assesses the current condition of a population or environmental condition across an area. Monitoring for trends aims at monitoring changes in populations or environmental condition through time. We wrote this paper to inform agency and nongovernmental organization managers, analysts, and consultants regarding the kinds of environmental data that can be combined with suitable techniques and statistically aggregated for new assessments. By doing so, they can increase the (1) use of available data and (2) the validity and reliability of the assessments. Increased awareness of the difficulties inherent in combining and aggregating data for local-and regional-level analyses can increase the likelihood that future monitoring efforts will be modified and/or planned to accommodate data from multiple sources. Title: Combining and Aggregating Environmental Data for Status and Trend Assessments: Challenges and Approaches Author: Maas-Hebner, Kathleen G., Harte, Michael, Molina, Nancy, Hughes, Robert M., Schreck, Carl B., Yeakley, J. Alan Year: 2015 Increasingly, natural resource management agencies and nongovernmental organizations are sharing monitoring data across geographic and jurisdictional boundaries. Doing so improves their abilities to assess local-, regional-, and landscape-level environmental conditions, particularly status and trends, and to improve their ability to make short-and long-term management decisions. Status monitoring assesses the current condition of a population or environmental condition across an area. Monitoring for trends aims at monitoring changes in populations or environmental condition through time. We wrote this paper to inform agency and nongovernmental organization managers, analysts, and consultants regarding the kinds of environmental data that can be combined with suitable techniques and statistically aggregated for new assessments. By doing so, they can increase the (1) use of available data and (2) the validity and reliability of the assessments. Increased awareness of the difficulties inherent in combining and aggregating data for local-and regional-level analyses can increase the likelihood that future monitoring efforts will be modified and/or planned to accommodate data from multiple sources. Close

• 2. [Article] Portland-Vancouver ULTRA-Ex: Evaluating Relationships Between Governance and Environmental Quality in Urban Ecosystems

  The Portland-Vancouver Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA-Ex) is a multidisciplinary project aimed at understanding the feedbacks between human and natural systems in urban settings. The ULTRA-Ex project ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Portland-Vancouver ULTRA-Ex: Evaluating Relationships Between Governance and Environmental Quality in Urban Ecosystems Author: Yeakley, J. Alan, Duncan, Sally, Bollens, Steve, Ozawa, Connie P., Shandas, Vivek, Chang, Heejun, Dresner, Marion, Gordon, Sean N., Harrison, John A., Kline, Jeffrey D., Morzillo, Anita T., Netusil, Noelwah R., Rollwagen-Bollens, Gretchen, Stephan, Mark, Thiers, Paul R. Year: 2013 The Portland-Vancouver Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA-Ex) is a multidisciplinary project aimed at understanding the feedbacks between human and natural systems in urban settings. The ULTRA-Ex project is seeking to answer the overarching question: How do human governance and biophysical systems respond interactively to both press and pulse disturbances in urban socio-ecological systems? This presentation provides early observations and findings from the PV ULTRA-Ex project. Title: Portland-Vancouver ULTRA-Ex: Evaluating Relationships Between Governance and Environmental Quality in Urban Ecosystems Author: Yeakley, J. Alan, Duncan, Sally, Bollens, Steve, Ozawa, Connie P., Shandas, Vivek, Chang, Heejun, Dresner, Marion, Gordon, Sean N., Harrison, John A., Kline, Jeffrey D., Morzillo, Anita T., Netusil, Noelwah R., Rollwagen-Bollens, Gretchen, Stephan, Mark, Thiers, Paul R. Year: 2013 The Portland-Vancouver Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA-Ex) is a multidisciplinary project aimed at understanding the feedbacks between human and natural systems in urban settings. The ULTRA-Ex project is seeking to answer the overarching question: How do human governance and biophysical systems respond interactively to both press and pulse disturbances in urban socio-ecological systems? This presentation provides early observations and findings from the PV ULTRA-Ex project. Close