
Environmental Evaluation:
Networked Learning for Sustainable Systems
September 22 – 24, 2013
Corbett, Oregon – Menucha Retreat and Conference Center
** Check out the 2012 EEN Unconference **

What
The Environmental Evaluators Network (EEN) and the Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN) will co-host the first EEN Pacific Forum at the Menucha Retreat and Conference Center east of Portland, Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Recreation Area on September 22-24, 2013. The purpose of the EEN is to improve the field of environmental evaluation through more systematic and collective learning among both evaluators and evaluation users. We will gather with friends and colleagues for a networking-intensive, learning-focused “evaluation camp” in an informal retreat setting where we’ll discuss how our disciplines and organizations can make collective progress toward sustainable systems and societies in our region.
The Challenge
Organizations involved with the environment, natural resources , and economic and ecological sustainability strive for evidence-based policies, programs, and operational decisions. However, from the complexity of ecological and social systems flows a buzzing, blooming confusion of data and information. Different approaches to research and evaluation reflect the varied academic disciplines and settings where this work is done: government agencies and NGOs from local to international scales, philanthropic organizations, businesses, and academia. The Pacific region of the U.S. and Canada have unique natural resource and environmental issues; how can we weave together a learning network of people, organizations, methods, knowledge, and perspectives for better design of solutions to these challenges?
Theme: Networked Learning for Sustainable Systems
The Forum will explore:
• Who we are – building the regional environmental evaluation network
• What we do – sharing our tools, methods, networks, and innovations
• Seeing sustainability through systems thinking and systems-oriented evaluation
• Tools, practices, skills, methods, knowledge, and information that increase our capacity to learn and collaborate on environmental evaluation and sustainability
• The Future – Next steps to advance environmental evaluation research
Priority Issues
• Biodiversity and Ecology
• Sustainable Systems
• Public Health
• Education
• Environmental Justice & Social Equity
Featured Speakers
Beverly Parsons
Executive Director, Insites;
President-elect, American Evaluation Association
Kai Lee
Packard Foundation
Sponsors
• Environmental Evaluators Network
• Oregon Program Evaluators Network
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Audience
The forum welcomes professionals who conduct, commission, or use environmental evaluation and who work in conservation, environmental protection, natural resource management, or sustainable development in government, foundations, consulting, nonprofits, academia, and transnational institutions.
Format
In additional to traditional presentations and panel discussions, the forum will provide a venue for lively, participant-driven dialogue and participatory sessions with ample time for informal, spontaneous interaction and innovative experiential formats and technology applications. Register and Submit a Proposal.
Day 1 Events: | Room, Notes and Format (details/options) | |
4:00pm | Onsite Check-in and Registration | |
5:30pm | Welcome to Menucha and the EEN Pacific Forum Shawn Morford, Rural Development Initiatives Michael Coe, Cedar Lake Research Group Menucha Staff What do You Want the EEN Pacific Forum to be? |
Great Hall, Wright Hall |
6:00pm | Dinner | Dining Room, Wright Hall |
7:00pm | Getting to Know the Environmental Evaluators Network and the EEN Pacific Forum Matt Keene, Environmental Protection Agency Christina Kakoyannis, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Ken Vance Borland, Conservation Planning Institute Discussion |
Great Hall, Wright Hall |
8:00pm | Dessert and Campfire |
Day 2 Events: | Room, LS and Notes | |
7:00am | Early Riser Activities
Walk with Menucha Naturalist |
Meeting Point in front of Wright Hall |
8:00am | Breakfast | Dining Room, Wright Hall |
9:00am | Welcome to Menucha
Introducing the EENP Networked Learning Among Environmental Users and Practitioners: Starting the Conversation |
Great Hall, Wright Hall |
9:45am | Respondents and Discussion | |
10:30am | Break | |
10:45am | Breakout Session #1
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Presentation # and Room Location
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11:45am | Break | |
12:00pm | Lunch | Dining Room |
12:30pm | Presenting Data Effectively Stephanie Evergreen, Evergreen Data |
Great Hall |
1:15pm | Breakout Session #2
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Presentation # and Room Location
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2:15pm | Break | |
2:30pm | Breakout Session #3
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Presentation # and Room Location
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3:30pm | Break | |
3:45pm | Breakout Session #4
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Presentation # and Room Location
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4:30pm | Free Time | |
6:00pm | Dinner | Dining Room |
7:00pm | Reception and Tribute to Gail Achterman | Great Hall |
Day 3 Events: | Room, LS and Notes | |
7:00am | Early Riser Activities
Walk with Menucha Naturalist |
Meeting Point in front of Wright Hall |
8:00am | Breakfast | Dining Room |
9:00am | Welcome and Good Morning! Shawn Morford, Rural Development Initiatives Keynote: “Evaluation and (and as) Production of Knowledge” |
Great Hall |
9:45am | Respondents and Discussion | |
10:30am | Break | |
10:45am | Breakout Session #5
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Presentation # and Room Location
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11:45am | Break | |
12:00pm | Lunch | Dining Room |
1:00- 2:15pm | Breakout Session #6 – World Cafe
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Great Hall |
2:15pm | Break | |
2:30- 4:00pm | Mystery Madness Productivity Plenary | Great Hall |
More Information
• Join the EEN on LinkedIn for all of the latest announcements and environmental evaluation discussions
• Follow EEN and the details about the 2013 EEN Pacific Forum on Twitter @enviroevalnet #EEN13
• Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN)
Greetings! What an amazing two days together last month at the EEN Pacific forum. Notes from the final plenary called “Now What?” will be posted soon! Also watch for a survey to get your reactions, feedback, suggestions in the next couple of weeks. Let us know how you are following up on contacts made at the forum…!
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I reserved a Green Shuttle for 6:10 pm pick-up from PDX airport on Sunday Sept. 22nd. Please let me know if you would like to join me!
cell: (505)934-0680
I reserved a Green Shuttle for 4:45 pm pick-up from PDX airport on Sunday Sept. 22nd. (Christina is no longer using her shuttle reservation.) Please let me know if you would like to join me!
cell: 951.255.3624
kcrohn@emiconsulting.com
I’ll be communiting on Monday from SW Portland (near Sylvan exit on Hwy 26). Let me know if anyone is interested in carpooling from this area. Thanks!
Hi Jamey. I’m not far & on your way. I’m right off of I-84. Contact me at rbogin@pdx.edu if you’d like to carpool. Thanks,Renee
I will be comuting on Monday and Tuesday fron Tualatin, OR and will be glad to carpool if someone is coming from the region such as West Linn, Lake Oswego, Wilsonville, Tigard, Wilsonville, etc. Thanks,
I plan to commute daily to/from eastside of Portland. I live off I-84 & I-205, near a max stop and can fit 2-3 in my car. There is also plenty of parking in my neighborhood. I’m still working out transportation arrangements for my kids on Monday & Tuesday, but feel free to contact me about potential carpool to reduce the commute: rbogin@pdx.edu. I’d also love to drive Sunday then catch a ride Monday or Tuesday.
I will be arriving at PDX at 10:39 am on Sunday, September 22 and departing on September 24 at 6:00 pm. If anyone is coming in/going out about those times and would like to share a shuttle, just let me know. Email me at julie.smith@wmich.edu.
I’ve got a Green shuttle reserved for 4pm pickup from PDX airport on Sunday, Sept 22nd to the Menucha retreat. They told me that additional people are only a few dollars more. If anyone wants to carpool with me, just drop me a note at christina.kakoyannis@nfwf.org.