[orebird] Re: heads up on Oregon 2020 hotspots
- From: Matthew G Hunter <matthewghunter@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: orebird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 21:32:55 -0700
Hi Doug,
I must have missed the answer to this question. Would you mind cutting
and pasting the answer again, or letting me know where to find the info.
I have read everything I can find on the Oregon 2020 website and OBOL and
don't find a direct answer, but you can ask my wife, most everything I look
for is hidden directly under my nose. ha ha ... anyway, ...
And to ask the question my own way, .... To contribute data to a hotspot
square, do we have to select that hotspot identifier for the square and
input data there (and your instructions say to include lat/long in the
checklist comments for stationary surveys). It seems to me (since I've
taken a whole 5 minutes to think about this) that it would be simpler
if---for stationary counts---we can just plot our actual locations for the
stationary counts, and whenever you want you can just "scoop them up" with
some standard GIS programming/functions. Yes, this method would mean that
my species would not be visible in eBird's hotspot explorer (unless someone
did some additional programming on the eBird end), but that doesn't matter
to me personally. I personally would prefer to plot my point exactly where
my point was. Will you scoop up any checklists from within the square at
the point you do your analysis for the square? This would also solve
Vjera's question above.
Thanks for your reply, and sorry if I missed the explanation of this
somewhere...
Matt
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Vjera Thompson
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I live near the Anna's Hummingbird square in Eugene. There is a hotspot
> inside the square (EWEB wetlands). How will situations like this be
> handled? Should I double-post if I'm birding the EWEB wetlands? Or only
> use the Anna's Hummingbird spot outside of the EWEB location?
>
> Vjera
> On Monday, April 21, 2014 3:52 PM, W. Douglas Robinson <
> w.douglas.robinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> Just a heads-up that there will be a bunch of new Oregon hotspots added to
> the state in the next few days. We've been working with eBird and Brian
> Sullivan to get a grid-like sampling scheme established for Oregon 2020.
> Through lots of discussions and planning we realized that to meet the main
> goal of 2020, to establish benchmark measurements of Oregon bird
> distributions and abundances, we need more structure to how we sample birds
> across the state. This resulted in a type of sampling grid that is
> stratified across townships, but preserves an element of randomization (a
> necessary assumption of statistical approaches that will let us estimate
> statewide population sizes). The sites, what we call hotspot squares, are
> one mile square sections selected randomly from each 36-square mile
> township in the state. That totals about 2800 of these sample sites.
>
> You can see the sites here:
>
>
> http://tools.oregonexplorer.info/oe_map_viewer_2_0/Viewer.html?Viewer=Oregon2020
>
> We will be announcing all these updates with more explanation of why we
> picked areas of this size, etc, on the 2020 web page, OBOL and the upcoming
> eBird Northwest portal very soon, especially since breeding season is upon
> us.
>
> All of the hotspot squares are named "Oregon 2020--hotspot square name".
> So, all begin with Oregon 2020--
>
> They have unique names, associated with a geographical feature, road, etc,
> within each one-square mile hotspot square. However, a subset of about 300
> of these (11% of the total) are named after birds; e.g., Oregon
> 2020--Evening Grosbeak. These are called the Hot 300 and we will be
> developing some challenges associated with counting birds in as many of the
> Hot 300 as possible. We aim to have prizes from sponsors for those who
> contribute the most from the Hot 300, all the hotspot squares in each
> county, and all the hotspot squares statewide. It should be really fun.
>
> Anyway, this email is just to alert you that this is happening, that you
> will be able to use the Explorer Tools on eBird to see who has visited each
> hotspot square and what they saw, and to easily locate each hotspot square
> if you use BirdLog to enter data. All the names will appear in the lists of
> hotspots nearby.
>
> Let me know if you have questions.
>
> All the best,
> Doug
>
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