[NPSBC] Register now for CMI's New Digital Technologies in the Field workshop

[Columbia Mountains Institute]

 *COLUMBIA MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY*

*New Ways to Use Digital Technologies in the Field
*May 15-16, 2013
Selkirk College, Castlegar BC

Talks and hands-on courses & demonstrations with
natural resource managers who use new technologies for field work

Space is limited to 100 people.

*Click here to view details and registration on our
website.*<http://www.cmiae.org/Events/>

*Workshop description*

New technologies are changing the way that research on aquatic,
terrestrial, and human ecology is being carried out. Increasingly, people
are taking smartphones, tablets, and other devices into the field to
increase their productivity. Citizen science and social media are now
becoming effective ways to increase data collection and collaboration. We
will offer two days of presentations, posters, hands-on demonstrations, a
small trade fair, opportunities for networking with experts, and a workshop
summary to help you follow-up on the new things you’ve learned.
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Who is this workshop for?*

CMI events attract a multidisciplinary group of people. This workshop will
draw researchers, technicians, natural resource practitioners and managers,
academics, IT staff, and members of stewardship groups.

*List of oral presenters, May 15*  (Click
here<http://www.cmiae.org/_PDF/New%20Digital%20Tech%20presentations%20and%20demos.pdf>to
download the abstracts)

*Keynote Speaker: *
Dr. Greg Newman of Colorado State University
"Technology to empower citizen scientists"

*Hitchhiker’s guide to starting mobile data collection, *Jase Zwarich,
Summit Environmental Consultants
*Clipboard vs. mobile apps: QA/QC in the field,* Rebekka Lindskoog, Summit
Environmental Consultants
*GPS Demystified, *Sidney Kwakkel, Summit Environmental Consultants
*Timesavers translated from the field to office: Mobile Government Database
(VENUS) and GIS Applications,* Carrie Nadeau, Summit Environmental
Consultants
*Monitoring rangelands using mobile digital technologies,* Matthew Braun,
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
*Report-a-Weed: Online invasive plant reporting,* Nancy Elliot, Ministry of
Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
*Automated grain size method in ecohydrology*, Giles Shearing, UBC
*Use of newly developed iPad App for the collection and processing of water
quality field data to assess fine sediment generation from road
networks, *David
Maloney, Minstry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, and
Brian Carson, constultant
*Rethinking Digital Connections,* Eva Johansson, Kootenay Camas Project

*Demonstrations and short courses, May 16* (Click
here<http://www.cmiae.org/_PDF/New%20Digital%20Tech%20presentations%20and%20demos.pdf>to
download descriptions and schedule)

*Bear Trap Automation, *with Ryan Alter, Alter Enterprises, 1 hour
*iNaturalist Bio Blitz,* with Valerie Huff and Eva Johansson of Kootenay
Native Plant Society, and Ian Parfitt, Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre.
3 hours
*Using an iPad for navigation and completing field forms,* with Chris Oman,
Forest Practices Board, 90 minutes
*Mobile Applications: Hands-on experience with a Trimble Yuma ruggedized
tablet,* with Rebekka Lindskoog, Sidney Kwakkel, Carrie Nadeau, and Jase
Zwarich of Summit Environmental Consultants, 4 hours
*Monitoring rangelands using mobile technologies,* with Matthew Braun,
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, 1 hour
*Using the Report-a-Weed app,* with Nancy Elliot of Ministry of Forests,
Lands and Natural Reource Operations, 1 hour
*Using iPads for GIS applications in the field, *Jared Hobbs, Ministry of
Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, 3 hours
*YSI EXO: The latest technology for water quality monitoring, *with Shawn
Ternan, Hoskin Scientific, 45 minutes.

*Posters are welcome*
We welcome posters about your use of technology or new applications of
technology.

*Our workshop partners*

Columbia Mountains Institute is pleased to work with these agencies to host
this event:


   -     Selkirk College <http://selkirk.ca/>
   -     Columbia Basin Trust <http://cbt.org/>
   -     Kootenay Association for Science and Technology <http://kast.com/>
   -     Summit Environmental Consultants.<http://summit-environmental.com/>


Would you like to become an event sponsor, or bring a commercial exhibit?
Please read our guidelines, then call the CMI office at 250-837-9311.

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*Check our website <http://www.cmiae.org/Events/index.php> for details
about these other spring 2013 CMI events:*


   - CMI Annual Researchers Meeting and AGM, May 10, 2013 in New Denver BC
   Call for presentations and field trips is open until April 12.


   - Soils Refresher course, May 30-31, 2013 at Selkirk College, Castlegar
   BC. Open for registrations. Limited to 16 participants.



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from Jackie Morris, Executive Director
Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology
Box 2568, Revelstoke BC, Canada V0E 2S0
Phone and Fax: 250-837-9311
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