GAP Analysis Program 2002 Meeting Agenda

  »  12th
Annual

National Gap Analysis
Program Meeting

 July 31-August 4, 2002

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Meeting Agenda

All sessions will be held in the Auditorium, unless
otherwise indicated.

JULY 31, WEDNESDAY, DAY 1

AFTERNOON

     1:00-5:00  Registration
(Entry/Auditorium) and Poster Set-up (Roosevelt Room)

     1:00-5:00 Field
trips (to be arranged) 

                                    or

Regional
Break-out Sessions (prearrange within regions; alternative times: Friday and
Saturday evenings or Sunday morning)

EVENING

    5:30-7:00 Dinner    

     7:30-9:30 Social
Mixer and Poster Review (Roosevelt Room)

AUGUST
1, THURSDAY, DAY 2

MORNING

    6:30-8:30  Breakfast

Opening Session

     8:30-8:45 Welcome—Kevin
Gergely

     8:45-9:15 The
relationship between NBII and GAP—John Mosesso

 Session 1:    Land Cover

     9:20-9:40 Challenges
of mapping the land cover of Illinois—Tari Weicherding

    9:45-10:05 Mapping
plant communities in the Mojave Desert of southern Nevada using classification trees—Todd   Sajwaj
    10:10-10:40
Refreshment
Break

      10:40-11:00  Mapping an ecological systems
classification: Testing concepts—Gerald Manis

      11:05-11:25 
Status
of land cover mapping for the Southwest Gap Analysis Project—Douglas Ramsey

   11:25-11:40  Discussion

      11:40-12:40  Lunch

Session 2:       Aquatic GAP 

   12:40-1:05 Prospects
and challenges for Gap Analysis in aquatic conservation—Paul Angermeier

     1:10-1:35 Organizing
the Upper Missouri Aquatic GAP project—Jon Jenks

     1:40-2:05 
Regional
gap analysis and research in Great Lakes tributary rivers and streams and
coastal habitats—James McKenna

     2:10-2:35  The development and future
applications of a species-habitat affinity database for the

                       statewide Aquatic Gap Analysis project in Virginia-Shelly Miller

    2:40-3:10 
Refreshment
Break

     3:10-3:35  Aquatic GAP in the Tallapoosa River
Basin, Alabama and Georgia—Elise Irwin

     3:40-4:05  Progress and future direction of the
Aquatic GAP Project in Kansas—Keith Gido

     4:05-4:50  Discussion            

EVENING

     5:00-6:00 Poster
review with authors available (Roosevelt Room)

    7:00-9:00  Banquet

     8:00-8:45  Banquet
Presentation: Modeling species distributions: lessons learned, opportunities
unveiled—Tom Edwards (Dining Room)

AUGUST
2, FRIDAY, DAY  3

MORNING

    6:30-8:15    Breakfast                        

Session 3:          Applications and
Socioeconomics

     8:15-8:35 
Abundance
and nesting success of Acadian Flycatchers at different scales of habitat
fragmentation—Leonardo Chapa 

     8:40-9:00  Using
Gap Analysis data in an assessment of the potential impacts of future
mountaintop mining in West Virginia—Charles Yuill 

     9:05-9:25 Gap
Analysis in Vermont and New Hampshire: Patterns of vertebrate diversity and
landscape diversity—David Capen 

     9:30-9:50  Responding
to the needs of natural resource managers through the NatureMapping
program—Karen Dvornich

       9:55-10:20  Refreshment Break

    10:20-10:40  Are
GAP data applicable to producing educational products?—Glennis Kaufman 

      10:45 -11:05  Biodiversity
predictions: Integrating urban growth models with land cover data and species
habitat        information—Chris Cogan (Mike Jennings)

   11:10-11:30 Hudson River Valley Habitat
Vulnerability Assessment Project—Stephen Smith

   11:35-11:55 Opportunities for and barriers
to GAP implementation—Julie McClafferty

   11:55-12:10 Discussion

       12:10-1:00  BBQ Luncheon

     1:00-1:30    
Luncheon Speaker:
Bill Jenkins, Maryland DNR (Roosevelt Room)

AFTERNOON

    Field Trips:  

     1:30-5:00  to
be arranged

    5:30-7:00  Dinner

EVENING

        7:00-??  Regional
Break-out Sessions

 AUGUST 3, SATURDAY, DAY 4

MORNING

    6:30-8:30  Breakfast

     9:00-9:45 
Keynote
Speaker—Mark Lomolino

       9:55-10:15  Refreshment Break            

Session 4:       Animal Modeling 

   10:15-10:35 Modeling
range distributions of terrestrial vertebrates from species occurrences and
landscape variables—Geoffrey Henebry

      10:40-11:00 
A
simulated annealing approach to smoothing out the gaps—Dan
Dorfman

      11:05-11:25 
Gap
Analysis of special features: General discussion and a case study of amphibians
and mammals of West Virginia's caves—Jacquelyn Strager

   11:30-12:30  Lunch

AFTERNOON

      12:30-12:50 Application
of index overlay and fuzzy set cartographic modeling techniques to gap analysis—Frank
La Sorte

   12:55-1:15   
The
approach to animal habitat modeling in the Southwest Regional GAP
project—Kenneth Boykin

     1:20-1:40   
GAP
mapping of predicted species distributions: Perspectives on issues of
statistical inference—Gary Umphrey            

     1:45-2:00   
Discussion

    2:00-2:30     Refreshment Break

Session 5:        Accuracy
Assessment 

     2:30-2:50   
A
fuzzy accuracy assessment of the Mid-Atlantic Gap Analysis land cover map using
airborne videography—Ann Rasberry            

     2:55-3:15   
Geographic
area and minimum habitat thresholds in relation to accuracy assessment of
predicted vertebrate distributions—Terry Derting

     3:20-3:40   
Assessing
accuracy assessment in Gap Analysis: Examining when it may be neither accuracy
nor assessment—Bruce Thompson

     3:45-4:05   
A
new approach for testing the accuracy of vertebrate occurrence predictions from
gap analyses—Sandra Schaefer

     4:10-4:25   
Discussion

Closing Session:                        

     4:30-4:40    
Year
2003 National GAP Meeting

     4:40-4:50    
Closing
Remarks—John Mosesso and Kevin Gergely

    5:30-7:00      Dinner

EVENING

             7:00      Poster Session Closed (take down posters)

        7:00-??     
Regional
Break-out Sessions

AUGUST 4, SUNDAY, DAY 5

MORNING

    6:30-8:30     Breakfast

        8:30-??    
Regional
Break-out Sessions

7:00,
9:00, 11:00 Shuttle Departures

           12:00    Check-out
Time