Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Georgia
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Throughout the world, monitoring surveys provide essential information for understanding, restoring, and managing populations. The National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program aims to understand status and trends in resource conditions and provide accessible information. The Georgia Unit is assisting NPS I&M with evaluation of sampling designs and pilot data as well as analytical and reporting approaches for monitoring data. This project supports development of statistically sound long-term natural resource monitoring, and will directly assist NPS consider monitoring objectives, data limitations, and potential predictors of interest. The project is currently looking to support a Post-doctoral Research Associate, at the University of Georgia, to collaboratively develop methods and tools for quality-control review; provide statistical and technical applications for analyzing or visualizing monitoring data; and interact with several partners across the southeast region. This project provides statistical and technical assistance to the National Park Service’s Inventory and Monitoring Division, with a focus on developing interactive data dashboards for reviewing and analyzing long-term monitoring data for a variety of resources (including but not limited to water, vegetation, cave biota, and amphibians).