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All Day Workshops
(0800 – 1700)
Migratory Bird Treaty Act Short Course
Chris Eberly, Program Manager, Department of Defense Partners in Flight
Marie Strassburger, Migratory Bird Chief, United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Enacted in 1918, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) is an enduring cornerstone of the nation's wildlife conservation laws. This workshop is designed to give participants a working knowledge of the legal and conservation implications of the MBTA, with emphasis on how it appeals to the Department of Defense relative to military readiness activities and non-readiness activities. Workshop topics will include: problems and challenges that led to the initiatives and partnerships which address migratory bird conservation and what these partnerships are doing; existing resources and opportunities which address migratory bird conservation; and future needs to further avoid or minimize adverse effects on migratory birds.
Risk Communication and Stakeholder Outrage Management in Military Readiness Controversies
Peter M. Sandman, Risk Communication Consultant, Princeton, NJ
Risk controversies involving military facilities and military readiness issues are legion – when neighbors object to weapons training, for example, or when environmentalists dispute the adequacy of natural resources protections. This one-day seminar aims to teach participants how risk communication can help them manage these sorts of controversies with external or internal stakeholders. After a general orientation to risk communication, the seminar focuses on six strategies for addressing stakeholder concerns and reducing stakeholder outrage: stake out the middle, acknowledge prior misbehaviors, acknowledge current problems, give away credit to critics, share control and be accountable, and get underlying issues into the room.
Integrating Archeological Predictive Models into the CRM Process- Presentation not available
David W. Cushman, Program Manager, SRI Foundation
Christopher L. Nagle, Project Director, Statistical Research, Inc.
This one-day workshop will provide practical, hands-on experience in developing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) archaeological predictive models, as well as using predictive modeling to streamline National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance. The workshop is for DoD cultural resource managers and GIS staff. The first six hours of the workshop will be for DoD technical GIS staff. Participants, using on-site computers, will learn how to build, validate and update archaeological predictive models. The second, two-hour segment of the workshop will be for DoD cultural resources and NEPA managers, and will focus on programmatic approaches to incorporating predictive models into the NHPA/NEPA compliance process. [The ArcGIS and Spatial Analyst GIS software licenses for this workshop were generously donated by ESRI.]
National Environmental Policy Act Overview Training- Presentation not available
Rhey Solomon, Consultant, The Shipley Group
Participants will learn about NEPA's procedural requirements and implementing process. They will also explore the steps to preparing a quality Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) or Environmental Assessment (EA). Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand NEPA, along with its requirements and regulations.
- Improve planning and decision making using the NEPA process.
- Integrate the legal requirements of NEPA into well-designed EISs and EAs.
- Understand the purposes of public involvement.
Sikes Act Short Course
Steve Helfert, DoD Liaison, US Fish and Wildlife Service
J. Douglas Ripley, Lt. Col., USAF (Retired), Environmental Conultant, HDR-engineering-environmental Management, Inc.
This introductory-level course is intended for new natural resource managers, DoD operations personnel, and state fish and wildlife agency and USFWS personnel who may be unfamiliar with DoD. By the conclusion of the course, you will have a better understanding of: the Sikes Act, INRMPs, the DoD natural resources program, and the Tri-Party MOU, including roles and responsibilities. This interactive course provides plenty of time for questions and answers, and features experienced instructors from the DoD community.
Morning Workshops
(0800 – 1000)
International Encroachment Management – A Case Study Based Analysis of Encroachment and Sustainment Efforts, South African Department of Defense
Lieutenant Colonel T.J. (Tommie) Arpin, Staff Officer Project Infrastructure, Directorate Base Support Systems, Air Command,
South African Air Force
Major A. (Anélle) Human, Staff Officer Regional Environmental Management, Regional Facilities Interface Management Office,
Pretoria, South Africa
Lieutenant Colonel E.F. (Etienne) van Blerk, Staff Officer Environmental Services, South African Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Z.E. (Eric) Mali, Staff Officer Environmental Planning at Directorate Facilities Support Management,
Defense Logistics Support Formation, Pretoria, South Africa
Artur (Art) Kolodziejski, P.G., Environmental Program Manager, OPERATIONS/LOGISTICS Directorate - Engineer Division,
United States Africa Command
This 2-hour session informs participants about encroachment issues and resolutions in effect for training and testing ranges and installations supporting the South African National Defense Force. Speakers will present case studies demonstrating similar sustainability and encroachment pressures to those felt here in the United States- and the actions taken to manage them and ensure long term asset viability. The session will focus on the background events that required federal attention to multiple uses of diverse areas that serve as green-spaces and nature reserves, as well as military test and training ranges and bases throughout South Africa. This has shaped the intensive encroachment management practices that South Africa employs successfully today. The case studies will represent
• Urban Development versus A Military Presence at Air Force Base Waterkloof
• Invasive Vegetation and Bush Encroachment at the SA Army Combat Training School, Lohatlha
• Ensuring A Continued Military Presence at Air Force Base Overberg
• An overview of encroachment management procedures and practices now embedded in the South African National Defense Force planning mechanism.
Lastly, a US representative from AFRICOM will tie together encroachment in South Africa with U.S. similarities and influences via experience with Defense Environmental International Cooperation on the African Continent.
Morning Workshops
(0800 – 1200)
American Indian Communications Training
Anita Dragan, Consultant
Thoughts on Consultation
Communicating Between Cultures- Some Considerations
Working Effectively with American Indian Tribes
David Sanborn, Senior Tribal Liaison, U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Installations & Environment)
DoD Native Hawaiian Organization Consultation Policy Statement
Introduction- American Indian Cultural Communications Course
An overview of the DoD 3-day course will provide valuable information for DoD staff, installation tenants, and contractors whose work could impact Indian tribes or who may work with tribal members. The training will touch on the history of Indian laws and the legal basis for DoD policy, Federal law and policies that impact DoD relationships with Indian tribes, an introduction to tribal concepts and cultures, intercultural communication, and strategies and steps for consulting with tribes.
Communicating with the Media
Jill Allread, APR Principal, Public Communications, Inc.
This workshop is designed to help participants learn how to use emerging technologies in communication—from Podcasts, to Facebook, to Twitter -- to more effectively reach important audiences, including journalists and other important audiences. The session will include tips and tactics for using traditional media as well as social media tools available for communication pros as well as journalists. It will also address questions including: How can I get a reporter to take an interest in my story? What reporters do I need to reach? What is the best way to reach the media? How can I get reporters to seek me out for information?
Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative Workshop (REPI) – Partnering to Meet the Needs of Sustainability
Steve Bonner, Partner, Pendulum Resources Inc.
Nancy Natoli, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment
This workshop will focus on the nuts and bolts of the DoD buffer program, encroachment, and partnership successes at military installations, highlighting Army and Navy models. Participants will learn how to initiate partnerships and projects with the military, and have opportunities to explore specific issues with subject matter experts. An exercise will explore an example scenario of competing land uses complete with challenges, concerns, questions, and new ideas.
Range Emerging Contaminants
Shannon Cunniff, Director, Chemical and Material Risk Management, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Installations & Environment)
Christopher A. Jarboe, PE, NAVAIR Ranges Sustainability Office Team Lead, Atlantic Test Range
Dr. Mark Johnson, Program Manager for Health Effects Research, US Army's Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
Dr. Sally Tinkle, Science Advisor, Office of the Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National
Institutes of Health
Larry Williams, Ph.D., Biologist, US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
This session will give an overview of the Department’s program for dealing with Emerging Contaminants (ECs) and discuss the latest on ECs of particular interest to range sustainability: RDX, perchlorate, tungsten, CL20, and nanomaterials. ECs can affect human health and the environment, readiness and mission accomplishment, acquisition, and the operation and maintenance of Department of Defense assets. Consequently DoD has created processes to identify such chemicals early and evaluate their significance to DoD. For ECs posing high risks, proactive integrated risk management enables DoD to ensure mission capabilities are not adversely affected. ECs are defined as chemicals and materials that have pathways to enter the environment and present potential unacceptable human health or environmental risks and either do not have regulatory peer-reviewed human health standards or have evolving regulatory standards due to new science, detection capabilities, or pathways.
Landscape Scale Collaborative Partnering- Presentation not available
John Dondero, Director, Cooperative Forestry, USDA Forest Service
Population is growing and shifting rapidly, urban areas are sprawling, and incompatible development is an increasing challenge for our missions. Competition for increasingly scarce resources such as energy, water and air space is intensifying and accelerating.
Single-agency actions aimed at single-mission objectives are unlikely to result in efficient resource allocations, let alone accomplishment of the desired mission outcomes. The complexity of resource allocation increasingly requires solutions at higher scales of coordination and implementation.
The America's Longleaf Initiative is one example of ongoing, landscape scale collaboration - a voluntary effort of more than 20 organizations and agencies that seeks to define, catalyze and support coordinated longleaf pine conservation efforts in the Southeast. This workshop will present America's Longleaf as an ongoing example of landscape scale collaborative partnering - illustrating how such efforts benefit multiple mission objectives.
Management of Cooperative Agreements
George Sledge, Supervisory Civil Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Huntsville Engineering & Support Ctr
During this workshop we will explore the following subjects: the steps to getting a cooperative agreement awarded and how long it typically takes to get an agreement awarded; what are the requirements the installation manager needs to provide to Huntsville Center to assure award; how to assure adequate competition; does a Statement of Interest need to be issued; the steps to award under a CESU agreement; what regulation covers cooperative agreements and how do they differ from other Government regulations; and how do I prepare a scope of work. In addition, we will discuss the duties and responsibilities for post award.
UAS Issues for DoD Test and Training Missions in the National Airspace System (NAS) – How Test and Training Communities are Coping with Airspace Integration of UAS and What Lies Ahead
Jeffrey M. Golliver Chief, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Airspace Integration Flight, HQ Air Force Special Operations
Command (AFSOC)
Stephen B. Hottman, Director of the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Technical Analysis and Applications Center (TAAC) and
Associate Dean for Research and Development/Deputy Director, New Mexico State University Physical Science Laboratory
Rich Heagwood, Chief, Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) Flight, Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command
Ronald C. Moring, Training Specialist for TCM-Live Training Division, Army Training Support Center, (ATSC) Fort Eustis VA
Ken Wernle, Project Director of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Systems Operation and Validation Program (USOVP),
Central Test and Evaluation Program (CTEIP)
Glen E. Witt, Director of Airspace Operations, New Mexico State University Technical Analysis and Applications Center
An interactive forum of program managers, systems engineers, operators, and chief scientists from government and industry that will cover UAS issues for DoD testers and trainers by understanding the National Airspace System (NAS), gaining insight into the process and procedures for obtaining an FAA Certificate of Wavier or Authorization (COA), and comprehending considerations for managing UAS frequency and data requirements. Comparisons will be made between the types of aircraft flown and training programs used by the T&E community and the Special Operations Forces at Hulburt Field, FL. Attendees will hear NAS access success stories and see several models to consider for their future NAS UAS events by exchanging innovative tactics, techniques and lessons learned.
Afternoon Workshops
(1330 – 1700)
Communicating with the Media
Jill Allread, APR Principal, Public Communications, Inc.
This workshop is designed to help participants learn how to use emerging technologies in communication—from Podcasts, to Facebook, to Twitter -- to more effectively reach important audiences, including journalists and other important audiences. The session will include tips and tactics for using traditional media as well as social media tools available for communication pros as well as journalists. It will also address questions including: How can I get a reporter to take an interest in my story? What reporters do I need to reach? What is the best way to reach the media? How can I get reporters to seek me out for information?
Watts More Important? How to Support National Energy Priorities and National Defense
Steve Arenson, Community Planner, Air Force Western Regional Environmental Office
Fred Engle, Energy and Environmental Policy Analyst, Office of the Secretary of Defense Range Sustainment Initiative
Deborah MacNeill, Director Public Partnerships, 99th Air Base Wing, Nellis AFB
Gary Munsterman, Community Planner and Acting Regional Environmental Officer, Air Force Western Regional
Environmental Office
Anthony M. Parisi, Head, Sustainability Office, Naval Air Systems Command Ranges
Ginny Pyles, Program Analyst, Bureau of Land Management
Molly Rodriguez, GIS Analyst, ManTech-SRS
Steve Sample, Operations Sustainment Analyst, Ranges and Airspace Division, Headquarters United States Air Force
Rick Stamm, Bureau of Land Management
Dave Stout, Chief of the Division of Habitat and Resource Conservation, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Military testing, training, and operational equities are increasingly challenged as the nation expands its renewable energy resources (wind, solar, wave, etc.) while seeking additional conventional resources (oil and natural gas) within the U.S. and on the Outer Continental Shelf. The new administration has made energy a national priority and signaled this by creating a White House Office of Energy and Climate Change. Effective inter-agency engagement is required as multiple organizations face the challenge of meeting agency mission requirements while supporting the nation’s new energy policies. This workshop will provide multi-agency and multi-government perspectives and feature a case study from the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence.
Effective GIS Mapping and Standards through the Coordination of DoD Regional Partnership Efforts
Will Allen, Director of Strategic Conservation, The Conservation Fund
Scott Bassett, Assistant Professor, Land Use Planning Program, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Geography
Mike Hamilton, Deputy Director, MCI West Governmental and External Affairs (GEA); USMC Western Regional
Environmental Coord Office (WREC)
Deborah Keller, Sr. Policy Rep. DOD Conservation Partnerships, The Nature Conservancy
David LaBranche, Program Manager, Defense Installations Spatial Data Infrastructure, ODUSD (I&E), Business Enterprise
Integration
Roel Lopez, Associate Director of Renewable Natural Resources, Texas A&M Institute
Gabe Lovasz, GIS Analyst, ManTech SRS Technologies (OSD I&E Support)
David A. Mouat, Associate Research Professor, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute (DRI)
Allan W. Shearer, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture
Scott Thomas, Assistant Research Professor, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute
Jazmin Varela, Strategic Conservation Planning Information Manager, The Conservation Fund
This half day workshop will discuss innovative GIS mapping and data sharing approaches undertaken by the Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS) and the Western Regional Partnership (WRP). The workshop will include presentations from agencies and organization supporting the SERPPAS and WRP partnership efforts through their own coordination of GIS mapping /data standards and data sharing. Representatives from both SERPPAS and WRP will present project case studies and demonstrate how leveraging GIS assets and input from diverse stakeholders has aided to the development of reputable maps; which have helped inform policy-level decision-makers. The SERPPAS and WRP approaches will be compared and contrasted with lessons learned and suggestions of ways forward.
Range Training and Cultural Resources: Partnership for Realism in the Training Environment
Richard Osgood, Head of Historic Environment Team, Ministry of Defence UK (Defence Estates)
Rachel Quist, Cultural Resource Manager, US Army Dugway Proving Ground
Pamela Miller, Cultural Resources Manager, Fort Carson and the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site
Laurie Rush, Cultural Resources Program Manager, Fort Drum
Ian Warden, Land Rehabilitation and Maintenance Coordinator, Colorado State University
Karstin Carmany-George, Cultural Resources Manager, Indiana Army National Guard
Colonel Barry L. Richmond, Deputy Commander, Camp Atterbury – Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations
To optimize training opportunities, installations need to respond to ever-changing training requirements in immediate and cost effective ways. Numerous cultural resource managers, many with academic credentials in the social sciences, are partnering with range divisions to create realism and setting for culturally accurate training scenarios. From historic mines for cave training at Dugway Proving Ground to replica Afghanistan vineyards at Fort Drum, DoD land management professionals are stepping out of their traditional "lanes" and relationships to meet the training needs of today's deploying Soldiers, Airmen, and Marines in new and creative ways.
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