Kansas Project
Developing communities of expert practice (COEP) to apply intergenerational expertise to challenging aquatic conservation problems. PI: M. E, Mather, Collaborators: Sean Hitchman, Joseph Smith, Dan Shoup, Quinton Phelps, John Dettmers, Kristen Faull-Chestnut. 2021-2026.
January 2021 - December 2025
Personnel
Participating Agencies
- Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism
Developing communities of expert practice (COEP) to apply intergenerational expertise to challenging aquatic conservation problems. PI: M. E, Mather, Collaborators: Sean Hitchman, Joseph Smith, Dan Shoup, Quinton Phelps, John Dettmers, Kristen Faull-Chestnut. 2021-2022.
A community of expert practice (COEP) is an organized network of intergenerational experts who agree to focus their combined skills across multiple projects to identify better “best” practices for important research and management issues. I have provided leadership to organize COEPs on: (1) appropriate spatial scales for field sampling, (2) research and management of prairie stream fish, (3) questions that guide effective research and conservation, and (4) digital conservation
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
|---|---|
| Smith, J. M., M. E. Mather, and S. M. Hitchman. 2021. Review, evaluation, and reimagining the landscape of practical approaches to spatial scale: where we have been and where we can go. Invited Presentation for a Symposium entitled “Scale V.2021: Status, Options, and Knowledge Gaps for Choosing and Matching Scales in Aquatic Field Data,” 151st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, November 6-10, 2021, Baltimore, MD . | November 2021 |
| Rode, O. M. Mather, V. Reed, K. Nelson, M. Madin, J. Francois, T. Moore, L. Krueger. 2023. Squeezing additional insights from fish survey data to aid conservation. 83rd Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas (February 12-15, 2023). | February 2023 |
| Mather, M., D. Oliver, J. Smith. 2023. Will We Know “Success” When We See It?: Defining Appropriate Expectations for Biodiversity Monitoring Surveys. 83rd Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas (February 12-15, 2023). | February 2023 |
| Hitchman, S., M. Mather, J. Smith. 2022. Status quo vs innovation when creating best practices. 152nd American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA. August 21-25, 2022 | August 2022 |
| Hitchman, S. M., M. E. Mather, and J. M. Smith. 2021. Scale V.2021: Identifying current issues that address future needs for making scale choices that facilitate effective field sampling. Invited Presentation for a symposium entitled “Scale V.2021: Status, Options, and Knowledge Gaps for Choosing and Matching Scales in Aquatic Field Data,” 151st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, November 6-10, 2021, Baltimore, MD. | November 2021 |
| Finn, J., M. Mather, J. Smith, Hitchman, M. Carey, C. Aymami, O. Rode, R. Tingley. 2022. Monitoring that inspires research: linking monitoring and research data, Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual). | May 2022 |