Project Name: Qu(H)ack the Harvest
Project URL: Stay tuned! USGS is developing a user guide on their Community for Data Integration site
Date: Saturday, September 23, 2007
Time: 10-6
Location:
Central Track, Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge
12000 Beech Forest Drive
Laurel, MD
Coordinates (39 3'13.21"N, 76 48'58.52"W)
Connecting Remotely
Please call in to this Google Hangout mtg at 10 a.m. EST: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/calendar/c2lsdmVyc21ld0BnbWFpbC5jb20.453seh5cdoc5lvgcu10rcm7hr6?hs=121
Communication: Have questions? Join our Flock team @ https://quhacktheharvesthackathon.flock.com?i=7ev1vvrwzl47lzl7
RSVP: Please RSVP in the RSVP channel of the quhack_the_harvest team. Please note if you are non-FWS/USGS since this is a gated facility, and we will need to make sure to get you access. We will man the gate on 197 and Powder Mill Road from 9:45 to 10:30 to admit participants. Outside that time, please post to the flock page for entry.
The USFWS Division of Migratory Bird Management is modernizing a critical monitoring program: the 66 year old Migratory Bird Harvest Survey is moving from paper to the Internet. This digital transformation will allow the program to significantly improve both operational efficiency and data quality. Moving online will also expand our ability to communicate with survey respondents (migratory bird hunters) and the general public.
At the same time the survey is going online, our informational website flyways.us is slated to be retired by the end of May 2018. Some of the most popular content, including information about the harvest survey, is destined to migrate to our program website.
These changes provide us an opportunity and incentive to develop more and better visualizations of the survey results for respondents and the public. What do we learn about migratory game birds and hunting from our survey? How do hunters contribute to our understanding of bird distribution and abundance? To better support, inform, and communicate with migratory game bird hunters, we plan to develop a web interface that highlights information learned from the harvest surveys and how it is used.
We need your creativity and help to develop interesting graphical displays and to design a visually appealing, easy to navigate, informationally rich webpage.
Seeking: Usability testers, accessibility experts, researchers, data cleaners, data visualization coders, writers, translators, subject-matter experts, content designers, and creative people.
Sound scientific information and an engaged and supportive public are essential to successful wildlife management. Over the last century, collaborative efforts to manage migratory game birds have resulted in improved habitat conditions and healthy populations. To continue and build upon this success, we need to develop new avenues to communicate and interact with the interested public. This project will advance that communication and make federal data more visible, available, and accessible.
What we need:
- Interesting and dynamic maps and graphics showing (1) the distribution of harvest, (2) changes in harvest over time, and (3) other interesting and compelling features of the harvest survey data.
- Graphical displays and maps of (related) bird distribution data via, e.g., eBird or USGS BISON.
- Plain language descriptions of the harvest data and its use in wildlife management. Follow this link to learn more about harvest surveys!
- Ideas and plans for an accessible, informative, and easy to maintain webpage to display survey results.
The 2005 National Duck Hunter Survey http://flyways.us/surveys-and-monitoring/hunter-surveys/national-duck-hunter-survey
2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/subpages/nationalsurvey/national_survey.htm
Detailed information, including demographics, from the 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation: http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/fhw11-nat.pdf
Duck hunting forums: http://www.refugeforums.com/forums/ http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/ http://www.nodakoutdoors.com/forums/ http://www.duckboats.net/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi