Research Task: 8327CKZ.1.0
Task Manager: Sharon Campbell
Decision making and risk analysis associated with natural resource issues and projects are becoming more complex and growing in public importance. Resource management agencies are continually faced with the need to address uncertainty in decisions, reach defensible conclusions, and prepare documents that describe the process and reasoning that support resource management decisions. Resource management problems are complex and often unstructured, requiring communication among a diversity of scientific disciplines dealing with physical parameters, habitat, water flow, chemistry, biology, and social needs. Decision support systems (DSS) are interactive, flexible, and adaptable computer-based information tools for quantifying tradeoffs and multiple resource impacts related to changes in water management. This research task will (1) extract components from existing decision support systems developed by various disciplines and (2) develop customized model components for inclusion in interactive decision support systems that evaluate changes in hydrologic, hydraulic, and instream flow values. Cooperators include fishery biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field offices in Yreka and Arcata, California.
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U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
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