The basic service objective is to provide expertise in survey design, field data collection, and data analysis so the Service and its multiple conservation partners will be able to devise and adopt an improved protocol for the HI Statewide Biannual Waterbird Survey that addresses currently unmet needs, in particular the capacity to address sampling objectives with multiple spatial scales of inference. Services to be performed by the contractor require extensive knowledge and expertise in the following: ecology and wetland utilization of endangered Hawaiian waterbirds in the main Hawaiian islands, how the HI Statewide Biannual Waterbird survey is currently being conducted (existing protocol), how the existing survey data are being stored in one or more databases, issues and challenges associated with existing survey implementation, the conservation landscape and organizations in Hawai’i, survey data analysis, and skills in written and verbal communication, facilitation, and planning.
