NatureMapping Centers
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What is a NatureMapping Center?
- Facilitates NatureMapping training to the local community
- Supports their local community in field research projects
- Provides project data to the NatureMapping Program for statewide analyses
Description and Criteria
There are three types of Centers recognized and supported by the NatureMapping Program:
Regional
- Meets all 12 criteria listed below
- Capable of supporting multiple research projects or projects over a wide geographic area (e.g., a regional initiative)
- Capable of supporting Certified and Registered Centers in their area through
- In-kind support of their staff
- Accessing data submitted to NatureMapping, and either conducting data analyses through the
generation of maps and reports or contracting with the NatureMapping Foundation to do so. (Regional Centers can also be organizations
with statewide staff, offices or influence such as state/federal agencies or universities.)
Certified Center
- Meets all 12 criteria listed below.
Registered Center
- Meets 8 out of the 12 criteria listed below (#1-6, #9, #11)
- Primarily focused on NatureMapping workshops, long-term NatureMapping monitoring and at least one field project
- Has an agreement with a Regional and/or Certified Center to conduct NatureMapping projects, download and analyze submitted data to the Program, and fundraise for a field project.
NatureMapping Centers Criteria:
- A self-identified interest in NatureMapping (i.e., fits into their mission statement)
- Existing natural resource programs in place, with a clientele of citizen participants
- Dedicated Center staff available to be trained as NatureMapping facilitators
- Expertise in field-based science/STEM (e.g., Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
- Dedicated to manage or participate in coordination of NatureMapping projects
- Conduct NatureMapping workshops
- Develop or have developed a network of partners to conduct various field research projects
- Have a suitable physical place to convene and serve as a center of public operations
- A defined geographical area in which to conduct long-term NatureMapping monitoring
- Have the capacity to acquire funds for additional projects and the availability of outside support
- Ability to edit data for accuracy before submission
- Ability to use data submitted to NatureMapping to create maps and reports for local constituents
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