Chief, Web Communications Branch
Office of the Chief Operating Officer
Email:
eread@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
608-821-3851
ORCID:
0000-0002-9617-9433
Location
Forest Products Laboratory
One Gifford Pinchot Drive
Madison
, WI
53726
US
Supervisor:
Joseph P Nielsen
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The SPARROW Decision Support System (SPARROW DSS) provides access to national, regional, and basin-wide SPARROW models ( Spatially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes) for water managers, researchers, and the general public. Models are available for a variety of water-quality constituents and time periods. For each model, users can: Map predictions of long-term average water-quality conditions (loads, yields, concentrations) and source contributions by stream reach and catchment Track transport to downstream receiving waters, such as reservoirs and estuaries Evaluate management source-reduction scenarios Overlay land use, shaded relief, street-level data, states, counties, and hydrologic units. Differences...
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This community is collecting data relevant to oil and gas development and sage grouse conservation for a pilot-phase decision support system for DOI.
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Ecosystems are changing worldwide and critical decisions that affect ecosystem health and sustainability are being made every day. As ecologists, we have a responsibility to ensure that these decisions are made with access to the best available science. However, to bring this idea into practice, ecology needs to make a substantial leap forward towards becoming a more predictive science. Furthermore, even for basic, conceptual questions there is a lot to be gained by addressing problems from a forecasting perspective, with more frequent data-model comparisons helping to highlight misunderstandings and reframe long-standing questions. Ecological forecasting is occurring across a wide range of ecological sub-disciplines,...
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Storage house for tools and data to create rapid visualizations for emerging topics.
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A fundamental environmental challenge facing humanity in the 21st century and beyond is predicting the impacts of global environmental change. This challenge is complicated by the fact that we live on a non-stationary, unreplicated planet that is rapidly moving outside the envelope of natural variability into an historical non-analog world. In other words, while the past helps inform us about how the world has worked, it may no longer be the relevant frame of reference for management, conservation, and sustainability. In this future world the two questions at the foundation of sustainability are “How are ecosystems and the services they provide going to change in the future?” and “How do human decisions affect this...
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