ANBG Friends Plant Science Group Technical Talk
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Monday, 3 September 2018 - 10:30am
Monday 3rd September, 2018 at 10.30 am in the ANBG Theatrette
Topic: Vegwatch - a quantitative vegetation monitoring program for citizen scientists.
Speaker: Sarah Sharp; consultant ecologist with many years' experience working as a botanist/ecologist for the ACT Government from the early 1990s.
Talk summary: Since 2012 members of ParkCare and other volunteer groups undertaking management on conservation sites have been monitoring changes in vegetation condition using the Vegwatch program, which is run by the Molonglo Catchment Group. There are now data from 32 plots in 20 locations in the Capital region. Vegwatch methods are quantitative, and compatible with monitoring undertaken by ACT Government and in NSW surveys.
Sarah is currently analysing the data and writing up reports for each site and on the program overall, reviewing the scientific value of the data and issues faced by the volunteers themselves. She will present some of the initial findings from the analyses, as well as discuss some of the issues.
