Welcome Session
Wild and Wonderful West Virginia
Mack Frantz, West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
NCTC – Training Overview
Christy Coghlan, NCTC Course Coordinator
Keynote Presentation
Data Sharing: Partnership, Collaboration and Ethical Obligation
Arlyn Burgess, University of Virginia
Session 1
The Florida Climate Adaptation Explorer
Beth Stys, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
Pennsylvania Wildlife Action Plan conservation opportunity area tool
Rick Schneider, NatureServe
Wildlife licensing system data dashboards: alleviating data requests and empowering data driven decision making
Stephen Slotter, Brandt Information Services
ArcGIS solutions for R3: leverage ArcGIS maps and apps to increase participation
Mike Bialousz, Esri
Session 2
Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Virginia
Paul Bugas, Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries
Database management of the VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection
Sarah Huber, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
The lies we tell ourselves
Keith Hurley, Nebraska Game & Parks Commission
Look at me – I have something I want to share with you
Daniel McGarvey, Virginia Commonwealth University
Session 3: Student Session
Assessing the transferability of a freshwater mussel fundamental niche model within the Ozark Ecoregion, Missouri
Jordan Holtswarth, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Partioning the effects of changing land use and introduced species on spatiotemporal abundance trends and biotic homogenization in native fish communities of New River tributary streams
Logan Sleezer, Virginia Tech
Modeling fundamentally suitable freshwater mussel habitat in the Duck River drainage, Tennessee
Brittany Bajo, Tennessee Tech
Session 4
FEED data acquisition software: ensuring data quality and enforcing data collection protocols in the field and laboratory
Chris Bonzek, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
eMammal as a data pipeline, repository, and outreach for wildlife images and their metadata
Bill McShea, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Tracking chronic wasting disease in Missouri
Craig Scroggins, Missouri Department of Conservation
Making in-stream tributary data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR)
Becca Scully, U.S. Geological Survey
Session 5
ArcGIS field mobility tools – what’s new?
Mike Bialousz, Esri
Mapping fires across Florida: development of a fire spatial database
Beth Stys, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
Priority Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Areas (PARCAs): for West Virginia and beyond
Jessica Perkins, West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
iMapInvasives 3.0: updating a collaborative invasive species data management tool
Michael Barbour, Arizona Game & Fish Department
Session 6
New frontiers for “big data” in fish biology and climate change research
Than Hitt, U.S. Geological Survey
Use of Predicted Suitable Habitats of rare species in an environmental review tool
Joseph Weber, Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation
Georeferencing a map in QGIS: a brief tutorial
Don Schrupp, Colorado Division of Wildlife (retired)
Telling your agency’s story – measuring and visualizing an agency’s accomplishments
Chris Gereke, Timmons Group
Session 7
The Biodiversity and Ecosystem A-16 Theme: responding to new guidance
Marcia McNiff, U.S. Geological Survey
Practical uses of iNaturalist, eBird, and other online observations for fish and wildlife data managers
Lindsey Wise, Portland State University
What you probably didn’t know about Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) and the Integrated Taxonomic Information Systems (ITIS)
Stinger Guala, U.S. Geological Survey