MAPSNet: Station Registration

MAPS Station Registration Form

Note: Please refer to the instructions in the current MAPS Manual when completing this form.

Station Manager Contact Information

Primary Manager

Note: If you already have an account, please log in to avoid re-entering your information.

Email*

First Name*

Last Name*

Title*

Affiliated Organization*

Address Line 1*

Address Line 2

City*

State/Province*

Postal Code*

Country*

Work Phone*

Home or Cell Phone*

Federal Banding Permit #

Required for U.S. and Canadian stations

Secondary Manager (Optional)

First Name

Last Name

Title

Affiliated Organization

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State/Province

Postal Code

Country

Work Phone

Home or Cell Phone

Federal Banding Permit #

Required for U.S. and Canadian stations

Note: If you need to add more than two station managers, please contact IBP staff after completing this registration.

Station Information

Location Code*

Pick up to 4 letters

Station Code*

Pick up to 4 letters

Name of Station*

Property Name

Land Owner

Funding Source(s)

Nearest Town

County

State/Province

Country

If the exact information is not yet available, please provide as much information as possible.

Coordinates

Choose your preferred coordinate format. You only need to fill out one format.

Decimal Degrees

Degrees, Minutes, Seconds (DMS)

Latitude

Decimal degrees to at least 5 decimal points (e.g., 46.84516)

Longitude

Decimal degrees to at least 5 decimal points (e.g., -92.03882)

Source of Coordinates

e.g., GPS, Google Earth, etc.

Datum

Average Altitude (in m)

General Habitat Description

Maximum 50 characters. e.g., "Mixed woodland in suburbia"

Station Operation

Provide information about how the station will be operated.

First year of operation (expected)

Number of nets

Number of hours of operation per day

We recommend six hours

Number of days of operation per ten-day period

We recommend one day per period

Periods of operation:

From Period

Starting period number

Through Period

Ending period number

Data-Use Policy

The Institute for Bird Populations, Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Data Use Policy

This policy was created to help facilitate access by researchers to MAPS data and to ensure acknowledgment of the hard work of MAPS Cooperators that collected these data. This policy is also included in MAPS Manual.

Data contributed to the MAPS program will be used by IBP to further the mission and goals of the MAPS program, as detailed in the Introduction section of the MAPS Manual. These goals include providing estimates and indices of demographic parameters, linking demographic parameters to population trends and environmental variables (e.g., habitat, climate), and providing information to land managers that will help create and maintain habitats to conserve and enhance North American landbird populations.

The MAPS database is the most extensive database on landbird demographics in North America and represents an invaluable scientific resource with immense conservation potential. As such, IBP is eager to share this resource with outside researchers. If 20% or more of the MAPS data downloaded by a researcher will come from any single MAPS contributor/location, please contact Danielle Kaschube, MAPS Coordinator, at dkaschube@gmail.com (609-892-0445) so IBP can forward a written request to that contributor for permission to use those data. Researchers utilizing the data can assume data from a location (defined by the LOC field in the databases) belong to a single operator.

IBP also requests that publications or reports using MAPS data acknowledge the MAPS Program and IBP as the source of the MAPS data, and acknowledge individual MAPS contributors by name whenever their data represent more than 5% of the MAPS data used in that publication or report. Once again, contact Danielle Kaschube for the contributors' names. We request that researchers offer co-authorship of any publication or report using MAPS data to individuals whose data represent a substantial proportion (more than 30%) of the entire data set used in that publication or report. An example of some language for an acknowledgment could be:

We thank the many dedicated volunteers who have collected and donated these data to the MAPS program. We also thank The Institute for Bird Populations for developing the MAPS Program and curating the MAPS data. Data used in this analysis were made available via funding from the National Science Foundation (Grant EF 1703048).

Finally, we request that a copy of the final publication or report be sent to The Institute for Bird Populations (a PDF version is fine) so that it can be archived and included on The Institute for Bird Populations publications page: http://www.birdpop.org/pages/pubsDatabase.php.

11/18/2022

I have read and agree to the MAPS Data-Use Policy*

Electronic Signature Required

Electronic Signature*

Please type your full name as it appears above to electronically sign this agreement