agenda science center operation structure planning review reporting
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Agenda
Science center operation• Structure
• Planning
• Review
• Reporting
Organizational Structure
Director
Associate Director
Research Section
Applications Section
Chesapeake Bay Program
Office
Administrative Officer
Visiting Scientists
Students
Contractors
Planning
Prevailing science directions and new projects
Inter-center and cross-mission collaboration Leadership in partnerships and alliances
outside the USGS
Fiscal health and outlookFunding Source Funding Stability Estimate Risk (use matrix)
% Gross ImpactLoss
Likelihood Low Moderate Significant High Severe
Fisheries 0 - 1 L AC X
Terrestrial, Water & Marine Ecosystems
3 - 4
L U X
Hydro Networks & Analysis 4 - 5
M ML X
National Geospatial Program 5 - 6
M AC X
Land Remote Sensing20 - 21
E U X
Land Change Science25 - 26
E U X
Volcano Hazards 1 - 2 L U X
Coastal and Marine Geology 5 - 6
M U X
Climate & Land Use Change 11 - 12
H ML X
DOS/DOD 5 - 6 M ML X
EPA 12 - 13 H U X
CDC 1 - 2 L U X
Review
Examples of activities
Prevailing science directions and new projects
Major Themes• Remote sensing
• Ecosystem services
• Land change science
Regional Initiatives• Flood inundation• Conservation tools• Urban watersheds• Irrigated agriculture
National/global remote sensing products help managers take a broader view but must apply to resource decisions made at regional-to-local scales to be of maximum benefit.
Banshee Reeks, Loudon Co., VA; percent canopy cover from the 2001 National Land Cover Database
Prevailing science directions and new projects
Specific program in Climate and Land Use Change
Need for understanding land use/cover change is important to all mission areas
• Drivers/causes of landscape change
• Trends in landscape change
• Consequences of change
• Modeling land change
• Developing plausible scenarios of future landscapes
Land Change Science
Prevailing science directions and new projects
Land use as a BMP Urban BMPs Agricultural BMPs
Ecosystem Services
Prevailing science directions and new projects
Develop techniques specifically for fire scar, burn severity and recovery mapping in wetland environments
Develop software for metric derivation to compare various satellite products over Eastern U.S. forests
Use lidar measured canopy heights to evaluate heights modeled by NLCD class (used in stream temperature modeling)
Test importance of Landsat atmospheric calibration for surface water inundation mapping
Assess how easily Landsat ECV cal/val data can be affectively generated “automatically”
Investigating the breadth of hyperspectral imaging utility in land change research
Remote Sensing
Prevailing science directions and new projects
Web-enabling FEMA’s HAZUS flood loss assessment software for FIM
Using remote sensing to identify and monitor irrigated lands in the particularly challenging Eastern US
1/23/10 3/19/10 4/04/10 4/20/10 7/12/105/07/10
Regional Initiatives
Web-based tool for Flood risk analysis
Web-enables FEMA’s HAZUS flood loss assessment software
A component of the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Initiative
Cooperators:• Water, Hazards, CLU mission
areas
• WSCs nationwide
• Federal Emergency Management Administration
• National Weather Service
• Cities of Albany, GA, and Nashville, TN
Inter-center and cross-mission collaboration
Leadership in partnerships and alliances outside the USGS Leadership in partnerships and alliances outside the USGS
The Implications of Land Use, Cover, and Management Change in the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Mapping and Monitoring Landscape
Characteristics
Forecasting Urban Land Use/Cover
Change
Effects of Impervious Surface Patterns on
Stream Flow
Effects of Agricultural
Conservation Practices on Water Quality
Effects of Stormwater Management Practices
on Water Quality
Geospatial Support for Conservation and Restoration
Decisions
Web-based Application
Development for Adaptive Management
Coordination of Climate Science
Chesapeake Bay Stat
Chesapeake Bay Program
Science communication and impact
Science communication and impact
Primary products are RGE/EDGE produced journal articles and USGS reports 37 products to include news items, advice, journal papers,
USGS publications, book chapters, maps 7 workshops and working group participation 32 lectures, briefings, training sessions 5 proposals (2 wins)
Deliver products to partners as a result of collaborative agreements (e.g., CBP conservation tool development, Anacostia watershed tool, FEMA HAZUZ, land cover future scenarios)
Principal partner of products (all CBP members, FEMA, CLUC) Land cover futures key to EPA TMDL regulations Contract staff key to web tools
Linking biophysical process information with site-specific knowledge of the landscape (remote sending and data integration)
High resolution mapping of land use, agricultural management, conservation program information; extensive water and air quality monitoring
Lidar DEM, wetness indices, radar/LIDAR mapping of wetland processes linking vegetation response parameters to landscape mapped variability
Landscape effects on water quality, Eastern Shore, MD (Choptank CEAP)
Science communication and impact
Science communication and impact
Science communication and impact
Questions/Comments
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