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| Feb 22, 2010 | Professional Development Certificate in Project Management - Online Course | 12:00 am - 12:00 am | Optivation - General Events | |
This course covers the fundamentals of Project Management (PM). In this course, the students will gain an understanding of the PM framework, develop a project charter and craft a project management plan using student provided projects approved by the instructor. This is a project based applied learning course. Click here for more information and for a registration form. Please note that students must acquire books for this course prior to the first day of class.
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| Sentinel Lakes in a Changing Environment Project | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Optivation - Natural Resources Consortium | ||
Join Fisheries Research Biologist, Donna Dustin, to discuss the Sentinel Lakes in a Changing Environment (SLICE) Project. SLICE is a collaborative project that aims to develop a monitoring system for Minnesota lakes using key status indicators to forecast changes related to various stressors, such as watershed development or climate change. Hopefully the ability to forecast such changes early in the process will afford decision makers the chance to mitigate stressors, protect resilience mechanisms, or adapt to unavoidable changes. The SLICE study aims to discover which stressors drive changes in lake status and which indicators respond predictably to those stressors. Ms. Dustin will share the vision of SLICE and give an overview of this large project and its collaborators. They hope that SLICE will set the stage for an efficient long-term monitoring program for Minnesota lakes that will give us some capacity for early diagnosis and response to the stressors that adversely affect our lakes. Donna Dustin is a Fisheries Research Biologist with the Minnesota DNR, based in Detroit Lakes. Born in a small town on the seacoast of New Hampshire, she began heading west at the first opportunity. She graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Natural Resources, and subsequently spent two years at the Cornell Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake, tracking zebra mussels as they made their way across upstate New York. Following a hiatus in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where she earned a Master's degree in Biology, she made her way to the Midwest, working for the USGS and University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse before crossing the river for a permanent job with the Minnesota DNR. Donna's research focuses on fish habitat. Her projects with the DNR have explored walleye spawning habitat improvement in streams and brook trout habitat in the Superior National Forest. She is currently studying the influence of curly-leaf pondweed, a non-native aquatic plant, on native plant communities and fish populations in the SLICE lakes. She is also launching a joint project this spring with the University of Minnesota to investigate the impacts of shoreland development on near-shore aquatic habitat and fish communities. This event is a part of the Natural Resources Continuing Education Consortium presentation series. Click here for more information about the Natural Resources Consortium.
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