Services

ACER shares your vision for the future - an action plan for implementation of a national monitoring program which is sustainable with measurable benefits to individuals and to the community at large and which can be carried out by volunteers supported by staff and experts.

We have worked with 30 groups to implement a tree monitoring system as part of a national network. There are now 5 active sites in Ontario where we are working with outdoor education centres,their school boards and their communities as well as local conservation authorities on paired one-hectare forested biodiversity plots for Environment Canada. We have also developed protocols for field work in observing and reporting tree growth and health, birds, bloom times and earthworms.

Individual ACER Support Services

• carry out the land survey on chosen site, marking 36 corners quadrats of each one-hectare plot with short wooden stakes. Crew of 3 with equipment ( 2-3 days). Total $ 800.00
• b) mark quadrat corners with 32 T-bars and outer 4 corners with T-Bars in concrete.
• Crew provided. Equipment and supplies extra. Total $ 400.00
• c) prepare Site Manual with general reference material and site specific material on soils and climate resources in 3-ring binder as per other sites. Total $ 500.00
• d) help develop a questionnaire and train volunteers for the telephone survey contacting community residents to provide data for your program planning. Survey Workshops $500.00 each
• e) conduct or help you develop a work shop introducing the surrounding community to the concept of biodiversity monitoring at your site. Community Workshops $500.00 each
• f) train your trainers in the field to measure and enter data on trees, worms etc. and provide field equipment with manuals to do this work. Please check the Order Form for manual and equipment costs. Trainer Workshops $500.00 each
• g) conduct training using ACER curriculum resources for teachers implementing new curriculum in science and technology K-OAC as well as suggestions for cross-curricular applications.eg. science, math and climate change School Yard Workshops $500.00 each
• h) provide introductory kits for monitoring schoolyard or park trees, birds, earthworms and bloom times. Each with info pages and disk ready for data entry on either platform on provincially licensed for schools File Maker Pro. Introductory kits $10.00 each
• i) conduct a workshop to introduce, train and distribute kits/BioBag as needed. Introductory Workshops costs are dependent on team and equipment needed. Each $500 and up BioBag @ 195. to $295.ea Binders $50.ea. Intro Kits $10. ea.