AIM Timelines, Tools, and Support
AIM Roles and Responsibilities Policy, Program, and WO Budget—Gordon Toevs Implementation—National Operations Center (Emily Kachergis, terrestrial lead and Scott Miller, aquatics lead) Training, Study Design—ARS Jornada, USU/NAMC (Jason Karl and Sarah McCord, Scott Miller) State Program, Budget, Coordination—State AIM Leads Office Project Coordination and Budget—Project Leads
AIM Project Contacts Planning and Funding Design Baili Foster Project Evaluation Analysis and Reporting Emily Kachergis Data Collection and QA QC and Ingestion Sarah Burnett
AIM Project Design Worksheet and Process Model
BLM National Operations Center Enterprise database Monitoring Manual and Technical References Data capture and storage with DIMA/SARAH and TerrADat/AquADat Master sample AIM landscape toolbox website Webinars and calls QA/QC protocols and documentation Benchmark (threshold) determination tools – O/E type models for aquatics Geocortex reporting tools R-Shiny tool statistical analysis And more underway!!! AIM Tools Available
Quality Assurance (done throughout the year at all levels) Level 2: State QC Field Crew QA Level 1: Crew Lead/Field Office/District Office QC DIMA/SARAH finalization QC and dataset merge Training / calibration Calibration Pre-season DIMA/SARAH preparation Level 3: National Operations Center QC Mid-season check-in 2 Share previous year’s data with FOs QC and SQL ingestion (data is “locked”) Jan FebMarchApril MayJuneJulyAug SeptOctNovDec FebMarchApril MayJuneJulyAug SeptOctNovDec Jan Periodic DIMA/SARAH checks 1 Mid-season check-in 2 Calibration *Determine exact timing by subtracting crew training time from desired monitoring start date 1 Periodic DIMA checks should be done every few weeks once data collection has started (more frequent at the start of data collection to catch errors). 2 Mid-season check-ins should be done about 4 weeks after data collection has started.
FebMarchApril JuneJulyAug SeptOctNovDec Jan NOC State Office Field Office Field Crew Sample Design Plots Strata Study area Project design worksheet Field Data DIMA/SARAH Photos Sample Design DB Field season summary TerrADat/AquADat/ HAF Early DIMA/SARAH TrainingData Collection & QAQC Office Plot Evaluation QC Data Use Data Calibration data May