WORKSHOPS

Duration:
Variable. Can provide 1 hour, 1/2 day, one or two day workshops, depending on focus.

Costs:
Client covers travel, time, and helps coordinate local facility. Workshop fee: sliding scale. Workshop includes materials (i.e. software CD and workbook).

Tools:
MetaLite 1.7.5 software in English and Spanish. NOAA's ArcView Metadata Collector v2.0. Also use MetaScan metadata display button in ArcView. Others upon request.

Disciplines:
English/Spanish/Portañol. Federal, regional, state, and local level adoption and implementation. Natural Resources Management.

Experience:
2002
Continue working with Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil to document data for a tri-national GIS clearinghouse pilot project for the Pantanal ecoregion.
2001
MetaLite 1.7.5 and Metadata for Managers training. (Asunción, Paraguay & Corumbá, Brazil)
2000
USAID/Bolivia contract to inventory and document in-house data holdings. Coordinated with USGS to set up USAID/Bolivia's clearinghouse node.
1996-1999
As part of a NSDI framework demonstration C-CAP grant, developed a 3-level user-defined approach with federal, state, regional, county, and municipal levels of government in Maryland. Continued working with the Chesapeake Bay Information Management group (CIMS) to adopt and implement level-one metadata and develop an on-line tool using the UMBC's level-one metadata.

Limitations: None.

Contact Information:
email for APO address
La Paz, Bolivia
phone: +591.2.2710509
mobile: 715.76916
fax: 591.2.2710509
email: kuhlman [at] unete.com