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12th Annual
National Gap Analysis Program Meeting
July 31-August 4, 2002
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
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)
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 Sajwaj10:10-10:40 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)
8:00-8:45 Banquet Presentation: Modeling species distributions: lessons learned, opportunities unveiled-Tom Edwards (Dining Room)
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
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
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