I3N - Workshops & Meetings

Workshops & Meetings

Capacity-building Workshops

Map showing workshop locations To encourage proper use of I3N tools and aid in their dissemination, I3N provides training workshops on the use and application of I3N informatics tools, as well as on the conceptual background and importance of using these tools and of creating standardized invasive alien species (IAS) data and metadata. The objectives of each workshop, as designed by I3N, are to raise awareness about IAS; to bring together staff from academia, government agencies and non-government organizations; to facilitate discussion among these groups about local issues through case studies presented by participants; to teach the basic concepts of environmental, policy and management issues; to inculcate the importance of using standardized data and metadata; and to train potential users about I3N tools. Some workshops are funded by I3N, others by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) South America Invasives Program. Workshops were offered in 2005 and 2006 in the Bahamas, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay and USA (see map). To view an example of materials presented at workshops, click here.

Technical Working Group (TWG) Meetings

Third TWG meeting, held in conjunction with the Fifth IABIN Council Meeting, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 7 May 2007

Agenda

Second TWG meeting, held in conjunction with a national I3N Capacity Building Workshop, San Jose, Costa Rica, 22 and 23 November 2006

Documents distributed at the meeting: Consultant’s capacity building report | Draft 2007 Work Plan

First TWG meeting, held in conjunction with the Fourth IABIN Council Meeting, Panama City, Panama, 5 and 7 April 2005

Presentations: Presentation by I3N Manager to Council Plenary | Presentation by Tool Representative to TWG
Documents distributed at the meeting: Draft Terms of Reference for Interim TWG | Addresses of I3N Leads and Interim TWG Members | I3N Web Resources | Search Tool description | List of URLs Indexed by the I3N Search Tool | Document Type Definition

Other I3N Meetings

South American I3N Leads Meeting, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 8 May 2007

Agenda
Welcome from Uruguay Focal Point
Overview of I3N
I3N in South America and Chile from the IABIN Vice-Chair's Perspective
Country reports: Argentina | Brazil | Colombia | Ecuador | Paraguay | Peru | Uruguay
New tools: Risk and pathways analysis | GISP National strategies template
Content grants report by IABIN Secretariat

I3N at the Fifth IABIN Council Meeting, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 9 May 2007

Report on I3N status and progress
Handouts: Summary of achievements | Summary of country reports
Poster: Spanish | English
I3N Grantee reports: Argentina | Brazil | Colombia | Jamaica | Paraguay | Peru | Uruguay
Secretariat report on grantees

Caribbean I3N Meeting held during the Fifth IABIN Council Meeting, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 10 May 2007

I3N-Uruguay meeting, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 7 May 2007

Agenda
Welcome from Uruguay Focal Point
Overview of I3N
I3N in Uruguay
GISP National strategies template
Uruguayan Participants
Report from the meeting

I3N Documents presented at the First IABIN Executive Committee Meeting, Washington, USA, 14 - 15 June 2006

006 Work Plan for the Invasives Information Network (I3N) | Defining Roles and Relationships in I3

I3N Meeting held during the Third IABIN Council Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, 13 August 2003

Presentations: Project management | Argentina | Brazil | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | El Salvador | Jamaica | Paraguay | USA
Documents distributed at the meeting: Questions | I3N section of Project Implementation Plan draft | Search Tool | Tools | Document Type Definition | List of URLs Indexed by the I3N Search Tool | I3N Cataloguer Keyword Vocabulary | I3N Cataloguer Geographic Keyword Vocabulary | Addresses of I3N Leads

I3N Workshop held during the Second IABIN Council Meeting, Miami, USA, 16 January 2002

Presentations: Argentina | Bahamas | Brazil (verbal presentation only) | Chile |
Dominican Republic | Ecuador | El Salvador | Guatemala Jamaica | Mexico | Paraguay | US

I3N Representation at International Conferences

To promote I3N and IABIN and take advantage of networking opportunities, the Coordinating Institution (United States Geological Survey National Biological Information Infrastructure - USGS/NBII), IABIN Secretariat, and I3N National Leads offer presentations and posters at various meetings. Recent meetings to which I3N participants have contributed are listed below. Additional presentations and posters are available at the Document Library. Please contact the I3N Interim Manager, Annie Simpson, if you wish to obtain a copy of the materials presented at these meetings.

Ecological Society of America International Conference on Ecology in an Era of Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Scientists in the Americas (Mérida, Mexico, January, 2006). (CI presented talk and poster on I3N and IABIN.) Abstract (pdf)
Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative conference (San Jose, Costa Rica, January, 2006). (CI represented I3N and IABIN as model network.)
Weeds Across Borders (Hermosillo, Mexico, May 2006). Abstract (pdf)
GISIN Invasive Species Profile Schema Review (Agadir, Morocco, February, 2006). (Two I3N Leads active on GISIN interim Steering Committee participated in discussions to help harmonize I3N and GISIN standards; offered training on I3N tools to Moroccan and Malaysian participants.)
Eighth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (Curitiba, Brazil, March, 2006). (I3N presence at GISP side-event.)
Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) (Missouri Botanical Gardens, St.Louis, Missouri, USA, October, 2006). Abstract (pdf)