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Welcome to the 2025 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Data Management Workshop!
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Tuesday, February 11
 

10:00am EST

Optional Coffee Hour
Tuesday February 11, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EST
Tuesday February 11, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EST
  Social Activity

11:00am EST

Confidence By Design: How to Improve the Quality of Data Collected During Ecological Monitoring Part I
Tuesday February 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:45pm EST
Are you interested in learning how to improve the quality, reliability, and usability of your ecological data? If so, then please join us as we walk through elements of systematic planning – a quality management framework promoted by the U.S. EPA to assist scientists, managers, and practitioners in the development and achievement of established data quality performance standards. This interactive course provides participants the opportunity to engage in discussion and hands-on exercises on the concepts and applications of data quality planning, implementation, and assessment, fundamental to environmental research and monitoring activities. This half-day training session has been designed to enhance competency in both career- and entry-level professionals on the practical applications of quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) best practices. Support to this training was funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. 

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:   
  • Describe the Purpose of Systematic Planning 
  • Describe the Value of a Data Management Plan 
  • Develop Meaningful Goals and “SMART” Project Objectives 
  • Define Performance/Acceptance Criteria for Indicators of Data Quality (i.e., data quality indicators) 
  • Describe the Distinction Between Implementation and Effectiveness Monitoring 
  • Describe Why it’s Important to Incorporate “Independent” Oversight 
  • Describe Quality Control Procedures Used During Monitoring 
  • Describe Why it’s Important to Conduct Data Quality Review 
  • Describe the Process Involved in Verifying and Validating Project Data 
  • Describe the Purpose of Certifying Your Data 
Speakers
LB
MM
Tuesday February 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:45pm EST
  Training Session

11:00am EST

Dynamic Reporting with Quarto
Tuesday February 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:45pm EST
The intent of this course is to provide an introduction to Quarto for intermediate to advanced R users seeking to develop automated reports. We will cover the basics of Quarto, followed by a walkthrough of the three primary components of a Quarto file: the YAML metadata, text, and code blocks. After discussing each component, we will offer brief exercises that allow participants to explore how these components can customize documents. Our goal is for participants to leave with foundational skills necessary to create a Quarto report.

Learning Objectives 
  • Introduce Quarto and its applications.   
  • Describe the three components of a Quarto file: YAML metadata, text, and code blocks.  
  • Provide opportunities for hands-on exploration of Quarto components through in-class exercises.  
Prerequisites: 
  • Intermediate knowledge of R 
  • Our course will require having R and R Studio installed on computers. 
Speakers
JW

Jonah Withers

Fisheries and Ecological Services Data Manager, USFWS
MC

McCrea Cobb

Supervisory Biometrician, Refuges, USFWS
JC

Jacob Cochran

Fish Biologist, USFWS
JR

Jason Ross

IT Specialist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Tuesday February 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:45pm EST
  Training Session

1:00pm EST

Break
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
  Break

2:00pm EST

Confidence By Design: How to Improve the Quality of Data Collected During Ecological Monitoring Part II
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST


Speakers
LB
MM
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
  Training Session

2:00pm EST

Unlocking Research Visibility: ORCIDs and DOIs
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
Join us to explore how Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCIDs) can increase the visibility of your research.  We will cover the basics of obtaining and managing these identifiers, focusing on their benefits for tracking research outputs and improving data sharing.

Audience: Service employees not familiar with scholarly publishing and public access requirements in the Fish and Wildlife Service.  

Objective: Service employees will better understand permanent identifiers for tracking research outputs and improving data sharing with an overall goal of increased open science practices.  

Skills Learned:  Service employees will have a scholarly profile and be able to mint DOI’s for research products  

Materials/Resources:  
Computer, come with one research product: a dataset, a publication, etc. 


Speakers
MB

Megan Burdi

National Librarian, USFWS, NCTC
Megan Burdi is the National Librarian for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the National Conservation Training Center. She has a passion for making information more accessible and discoverable through digital stewardship and research services. In her role, she finds innovative... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
  Training Session

4:30pm EST

Virtual Data Trivia
Tuesday February 11, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Speakers
RT

Ryan Tietjen

Acting Branch Chief, Data Branch, USFWS
Tuesday February 11, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
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