August 11, 2020

 

11:00 AM PST

Duration 30 Minutes 

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WHAT TO EXPECT

 

30 minutes of fast-paced, solution-oriented, interactive chat with Shawn Carroll of WRA. Taxonomy is hard! It's complicated and precise. Shawn will share his pro-tips for streamlining, organizing, and managing botanical surveys, vegetation mapping, classification, and all things plants.

 

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We haven't figured out how to serve lunch over zoom yet. So, we hope you'll bring your own while we donate a meal in your name to help feed health care workers across the country. You get smart, they get fed!

 

 

 

FEATURED PRESENTER

 
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Shawn Carroll

Shawn Carroll joined WRA as a biologist in 2013 after working for tribal governments, federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and consulting firms throughout the western and southwestern United States.  He graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Conservation Biology.

Shawn has extensive avian biology experience and holds a USFWS 10(a)(1)(A) permit to conduct surveys for the threatened western yellow-billed cuckoo.  He has conducted protocol surveys for numerous other Federal- and state-listed and sensitive species, including least Bell’s vireo, southwestern willow-flycatcher, and desert tortoise.  In recent years, Shawn has expanded his expertise to include many sensitive plants and terrestrial vertebrate species, including flat-tailed horned lizard, arroyo toad, coast horned lizard, and bats.  Shawn also conducts botanical surveys and vegetation mapping and classification based on National Vegetation Classification System standards.

At WRA, Shawn’s primary responsibilities include managing field crews in conducting surveys and habitat assessments for sensitive wildlife and plants throughout southern California and in the preparation of biological survey technical reports and biological assessments.  Additionally, he has managed biological monitors on numerous restoration and construction projects.  Shawn also has experience in wetland delineations, California Rapid Assessment Method, and Clean Water Act regulatory permit preparation, and has written, implemented, and monitored numerous habitat restoration projects in southern California.