Each working group will have at least one biometrician/quantitative ecologist to aid in monitoring design. The specific topics for working groups (e.g., Climate change, forest management, agriculture, grasslands) will be determined based on feedback from the SEPIF listserv, Southeast Quail Study Group , and the feedback tool at the end of this post. Meeting participants will be free to join any working group. 

Coordinated monitoring working groups have been a particular successful component of the Northeast Coordinated Bird Monitoring Partnership. These groups have brought together statisticians and state/regional partners for the ongoing design and analysis of large-scale coordinated bird monitoring programs. The coordinated monitoring session during the 2009 SEPIF meeting will build upon the many advances in coordination in the Northeast while leveraging many of unique resources we have in the Southeast.

We are now accepting suggestions and feedback on potential working groups for the coordinated monitoring session. You can either vote on a suggestion (using the thumbs up or thumbs down picture by each suggestion) or make a new suggestion. Note that there are multiple pages of suggestions.