2025 Data Management Workshop

Target Audience: 

This training workshop is aimed at Service staff who collect, analyze, view or maintain scientific data. Staff from field stations, Regional Offices and Headquarters who work with raw or processed data at any level are the target audience.

Summary and Objectives: 

Train, Prepare, and Engage for adaptive conservation decision making in the twenty-first century. To build a conservation legacy we need to shift agency culture and approaches to data management. 

The workshop will support this shift by:

• Train specific skills and build knowledge about data management and data quality
• Prepare employees to champion data management best practices in their daily work 
• Engage leadership, supervisors, and staff to promote a common understanding of roles and responsibilities, requirements, and how to communicate needs and advocate for high quality data to make decisions

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Take training aimed at increasing skill and competency with data management planning, creating data management plans, generating automated reports through rMarkdown and Quarto, continuous improvement with Lean Six Sigma, improving data accessibility, and improving data quality
• Engage with the Service’s data management community to improve data management integration across USFWS programs and functions

Competency Addressed:  

computer skills - basic, data management - basic, information management - basic, knowledge management - basic, program management - basic, quality management - basic