A major effort of Enduring Conservation Outcomes is the training of practitioners in monitoring, adaptive management and conservation planning for the purpose of empowering them in these essential components of conservation. Rob Sutter has a long history in training, leading the efforts in The Nature Conservancy in monitoring workshops (1991) and conservation planning (1994). He has taught at Duke University and the University of North Carolina.

Training in Monitoring and Adaptive Management

Rob Sutter has extensive experience teaching monitoring and adaptive management workshops. He was the co-developer of The Nature Conservancy’s monitoring workshops and has lead over 30 training workshops in monitoring and adaptive management, including teaching for The Nature Conservancy, Department of Defense, National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service (National Conservation Training Center in Shepardstown WV.) and US Forest Service. He is currently teaching a monitoring and adaptive management workshop at Archbold Biological Station in south Florida.

Training in Conservation Planning

Rob Sutter was one of the developers of The Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Action Planning (CAP) process and one of the leading planners in TNC. He is proficient in CAP and Conservation Measures Partnership’s Miradi software and has planning experience in terrestrial, karst, freshwater and marine systems and with climate change adaptation. He is proficient with ecological models, situation diagrams and results chains. Most recently he has led CAP planning sessions for karst ecosystems of North America (2008), poaching of wildlife in four East African countries (2008), headwater rivers of the Southeast US (2007) and coastal and marine projects in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia (2006).