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Documents Reviewed by the Science Strategy Team

USGS Documents:

• Summary report of the Workshop on Enhancing Integrated Science, November 4, 1998
• Snowfall and Snowmelt Hydrology in the Western U.S.: Research and Monitoring Needs
• USGS Role in USA-National Phenology Network
• 2006 Menlo Park Science Strategy
• 1993 Transition Team Report
• Performance and Accountability Reports (PAR)
• The Budget Justification book
• Everglades Science Plan
• Global Earth Observing
• Texas Strategic Science Plan 2002
• Florida Integrated Science Plan 2005
• Biological Resources Division Strategic Science Plan, September 3, 1996
• Geology for a Changing World – a Science Strategy for the Geologic Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, 2000 – 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1172, 1998
• Geography for a Changing World- A Science Strategy for the Geographic Research of the U.S. Geological Survey, 2005-2015
• Strategic Directions for the Water Resources Division, 1998 -2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-249, 1999.
• Draft of Natural Hazards Initiative, Natural Hazards: Reducing America’s Risk Through Science U.S Geological Survey
• USGS 5 Year Goals for current Programs – USGS line items in the budget (109 Goals)
• Astrogeology Program, U.S. Geological Survey, Five-Year Plan, January, 2006
• A USGS Whitepaper on GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) prepared for Pat Leahy
  

U.S. Department of the Interior Documents:

• National Park Service Strategic Plan, Fiscal Year 2001-2005, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, NPS D-1383/August 2000
• The Bureau of Reclamation Science and Technology (S&T) Program
• Bureau of Land Management’s Strategic Plan
• US Fish &Wildlife Service Strategic Plan 2000-20005

Other Federal Agency Documents:

• National Science Foundation Linking Ecological Biology and Geoscience Report, August, 2002
• National Science Foundation Cleaner Document (Collaborative Large Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research
• National Weather Service “Road Map for the Future”.
• NOAA Regional Integrated Science and Assessments Program Web Site
• Congressional Reports at http://thomas.loc.gov/
• Agricultural Research Service 2003-2007 Strategic plan
• Natural Resources Conservation Service Plan 2003 to 2008
• EPA Strategic Plan 2003-2008
• NASA 2003 Strategic Plan
• NOAA Understanding Global Ecosystems to support informed decision making, A 20-year research vision.
  

National Research Council Documents:

• 2006. Report on the Economic Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring
• Review of U.S. Geological Survey’s Volcano Hazards Program, 2000 (Book)
• Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, 2004 (Book)
• National Research Council. 1993. A Biological Survey for the Nation.
• National Research Council. 2000a. Ecological Indicators for the Nation
• National Research Council. 2000b. Grand Challenges in Environmental Science
• National Research Council. 2001a. Future Roles and Opportunities for the U.S. Geological Survey
• National Research Council. 2001b. Envisioning the Agenda for Water Resources Research in the 21st century
• National Research Council. 2001c. Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science
• National Research Council. 2002. Opportunities to improve the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Assessment Program
• National Research Council. 2003. NEON: Addressing the Nation’s Environmental Challenges
  ( Note -NEON= National Ecological Observatory Network)
• National Research Council. 2003. Future challenges of the USGS Mineral Resources Program
• National Research Council. 2003. Weaving a National Map
• National Research Council. 2004. Confronting the Nation’s Water Problems: the role of research
• National Research Council. 2005. Geological Record of Ecological Dynamics – Understanding the Biotic Effects of Future Environmental Change
• National Research Council. 2005. Thinking strategically: Appropriate use of metrics for the Climate Change Science Program
• National Research Council. 2005. Earth Science and Applications from Space: Urgent Needs and Opportunities to Serve the Nation
• National Research Council. 2006. Geological and Geotechnical Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities for Research and Technological Innovation

Geological Survey Plans of other Nations:

• Australian Strategic Plan for the Geosciences
• British Geological Survey
• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Other sources:

• Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government. 1997. Federal Environmental Research and Development: Status report with recommendations. Carnegie Commission.Science 2003b.
• Science, Tragedy of the Commons? A special issue. Vol. 302. 12 Dec. 2003. Nine review and viewpoint articles that commemorate Hardin’s essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” and look at trends in the management of common resources in the 35 years since the essays publication.
• The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz
• GCOS/GTOS Plan for Terrestrial Climate Related Observations
• GCOS Adequacy of Global Observing Systems for Climate
• GTOS Establishment of a Global Hydrological Observation Network for Climate
• Bricker and Ruggerio, 1998, Toward a National Program for Monitoring Environmental Resources.
• Ecological Society of America, 2004, Ecological Visions Report
• Gardner and Sampat, 1998, Mind over matter, Wordwatch Paper 144
• State of the Planet Papers, from Science, 2003
• Original Tragedy of the Commons Paper, Science, 1968 (Hardin)
• Follow-up Tragedy of the Commons Paper, Science, 1969 (Crowe)
• Pew Ocean Commission, 2003, Overview of Recommendations
• National Council for Science and the Envrionment, 2005, Forecasting Environmental Change
• The Future of Life (Chafee Lecture)Wilson, 2001,.
• Why Global Scenarios Need Ecology Bennett, E. M., S. R. Carpenter, G. D. Peterson, G. S. Cumming, M. Zurek, and P. Pingali. 2003. Front. Ecol. Environ. 1:322-329.
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• The World is Flat by Tom Friedman
• Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. 2003.Turner, B.L., R.E. Kasperson, P.A. Matson, J.J. McCarthy, R.W. Corell, L. Christensen, N. Eckley, J.X. Kasperson, A. Luers, M.L. Martello, C. Polsky, A. Pulsipher and A. Schiller. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(14), 8074-8079.
• The globalization of nitrogen deposition: Consequences for terrestrial ecosystems Matson, P.A., K. Lohse and S. Hall. 2002.. Ambio, 31(2): 113-119.
• Plant communities, soil microorganisms, and soil carbon cycling: Does altering the world below ground matter to ecosystem functioning? Carney, K.M., and P.A. Matson. 2005. Ecosystems 8(8): 928-940.
• Planet Earth Brochures
• Tracking U.S. Groundwater. Reserves for the Future. April 2006. Vol 48. Environment
• NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) Integrated Science and Implementation Plan and the Networking and Informatics Baseline Design
• GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems)
  • The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) 10 Year Implementation Plan
  • The GEO Workplan for 2000
  • The GEO 2006 Task List Matrix
• The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, 2002, Summary and Highlights, The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems: Measuring the Lands, Waters, and Living Resources of the United States, Cambridge University Press, New York,
• WHO World Health Organization Long Term Strategic Objectives
  

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