Across 2021-2023, the RCN is holding a series of collaborative workshops designed to bring the community of people monitoring native bees together to discuss key elements of a national monitoring strategy. These workshops feature a series of speakers with experience on focal topics, with time for group discussions inspired by the talks. The workshops will follow a path (outlined below) that leads with learning about other monitoring programs and developing clear conservation outcomes, followed by workshops that tackle additional components of a national strategy, including data management, sampling protocols, and establishing priority areas in the US for monitoring.
Previous workshops:
- Existing monitoring efforts
- Conservation needs: species risk and regulation
- Needs and priorities of federal agencies for large-scale native bee monitoring efforts
Future workshops will focus on:
- Establishing priority areas for native bee monitoring
- National capacity for native bee monitoring and community science
- Sampling methods
- Taxonomic bottleneck/bee identification
- Data management
- Public communication
- Policy and plan implementation