Science Applications & Decision Support

The purpose of SADS is to develop regional-scale mechanisms that facilitates federal agency collaboration on providing decision support tools for understanding climate variability and change throughout the nation. Our prototype efforts in the Northern Rockies tie in closely with the Department of the Interior’s Landscape Conservation Cooperative, and with the USDI-National Park Service’s scenario planning efforts, along with an entire suite of public and private partners. The goal is to develop a true collaboration where managers and researchers work together to provide extension services that result in more effective management decisions, focusing on questions surrounding climate issues that are most relevant to a multitude of natural resource specialists. Current USGS climate change related research will help build these tools, while new and innovative research will keep momentum toward progress in providing dynamic, scientifically sound decision support tools to natural resource managers in the area of climate change and ecosystem science.

NEWS: PACE Fellow joins team.

1. Builds upon existing partnerships to COLLABORATIVELY provide science and data products for responding to climate change to advance outcome-based adaptive management for conservation across the landscape.

2. Underwrites the ability to support ecosystem resilience and resource management objectives considering climate effects INTEGRATED with ongoing stressors; considers risk assessment for landscapes and populations.

3. In collaboration with resource managers, develops and provides DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS to address their needs that are TIMELY, USEFUL, and RESPONSIVE.

4. Provides climate services, sustained observations, applied and basic research, and models to support a robust ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK.

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• Climate Services
• Human Dimensions as a Basis for Decision Support
• Ecological Assessments
• Web Applications, Data Services, and Computer Support
• Artificial Intelligence for Decision Support
• Computational Methods for Ecological Sustainability
• Statistical Analysis and Consulting Services

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