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2012 San Francisco Bay Area National Parks Science and Natural Resources Symposium
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
8:45 am – 4:45 pm
Golden Gate Room in Lower Fort Mason, Building A

Beyond Our Silos:
Developing a More Complete Picture of Natural Resource Management and Protection

The parks and their partners do a tremendous amount of work to protect and manage park natural resources, but none of it occurs in isolation. How are partnerships and collaborative projects shaping resource protection? How are individual projects related to the broader resource protection and management picture? How are things connected across time? Geography? Our institutional landscapes?

The 2012 Science and Natural Resources Symposium attempted to tell a fuller story of park science and resource management with presentations that covered a diverse range of projects that bridge time, geography, diciplines, and organizations.

Our plenary speaker, scientist-turned-storyteller Kendall Haven (http://www.kendallhaven.com/), began the day by helping us understand how context and stories are essential to making science relatable, relevant, and memorable. 

Learn more from his speaker's bio, presentation abstract or download a pdf of his talk

See the full day's agenda

Get the presentation and poster abstracts 

Download pdfs of the presentation slides and posters

 

Past Symposia

The San Francisco Bay Area Network Natural Resources and Science Symposium has been open to all park staff, federal, state, and local agencies, academic institutions, non-profit park partners, and volunteers. Past presentation topics have included restoration and inventory and monitoring projects, science communication and education, park management in a changing environment (e.g. climate change, invasive species, endangered species), balancing visitation with resource protection, and traditional ecological knowledge.

Audio podcasts of some of the days' activities, agendas, presentations, and presentation abstracts are available from the menus on the upper right hand side of this page.