McAllen powerpoints
Powerpoint presentations from AKN session at the McAllen PIF meeting, 14 Feb 2008.
McAllen AKN Session--official program
Download a PDF of the program describing the 14 February 2008 session entitled "The Avian Knowledge Network: A hemisphere-wide Partnership to Organize, Analyze, and Visualize Bird Observation Data for Education, Conservation, Research, and Land Management.
McAllen PPT--Intro to the AKN (M. Iliff)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which introduces the AKN by discussing the overarching vision of the AKN and its data management strategies.
McAllen PPT--Design and roles of an AKN node (L. Salas)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which discusses the access nodes and how the archiving, data organization, and data exploration at the local level is becoming an integral part of the AKN as a whole.
McAllen PPT--Data Organization in the AKN (D. Lepage)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which discusses the fundamental data architecture of the AKN and how myriad types of data can be organized under a single structure and how this organization is the first critical step that allows for analysis across datasets.
McAllen PPT--The AKA: A new and developing group (D. Hanni)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which discusses the Avian Knowledge Alliance (AKA), a cooperative effort of NGOs that help both to promote the AKN and to provide the critical link between AKN scientists and land managers, to better direct on-the-ground conservation efforts and to steer the development of AKN visualizations and tools to make them most useful.
McAllen PPT--Data exploration through visualization tools (B. Sullivan)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which discusses the various ways to visualize data in the AKN: from maps, graphs, and charts that simply explore the raw data to advanced predictive modeling.
McAllen PPT--Web mapping for bird conservation: leveraging the AKN (D. Miller)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which displays just one way in whcih AKN data have been used to further our understanding of birds in the Americas. This elegant mapping tool summarizes raw AKN data on a map and is customizable by month, and can view those data with respect to various other map layers including Nature Serve range maps, Federal land holdings, etc.
McAllen PPT--Predictive Modeling from Decision Trees (D. Fink)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which discusses how exploratory analysis (decision trees) was used to generate extremely accurate predictive maps of bird distribution, based upon count data from eBird with respect to land cover data stored within the AKN.
McAllen PPT--Bagged Decision Trees (M. Herzog)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which discusses how the bagged decision tree analysis discussed in the previous presentation was applied to point count data from California to generate predictive maps of the distribution of certain riparian species.
McAllen PPT--Integrated Bird Monitoring and the AKN (J. Saracco)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which discusses how banding data from MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) is being used to variations in demographic processes among birds. Future research will try to integrate bird count data with MAPS data to try to further clarify spatial variation in demographics.
McAllen PPT--Life history revelations from constant effort mist-netting (C.J. Ralph)
Download this Powerpoint presentation, which discusses how banding data and observation data have been analyzed in tandem to clarify our understanding of the Swainson's Thrush migration through northern California and southern Oregon.