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A cooperative project with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

USGS and FWS have joined forces in an effort to address future challenges in the management of our natural resources. The Future Challenges Project is an important vehicle that will help both bureaus identify ways they can generate or acquire the scientific knowledge, capabilities and tools needed to predict and address landscape level changes that will affect ecological sustainability and fish and wildlife.

Director's Future Challenges Message

Future Challenges Project: Meeting the Grand Challenge (PDF - 129 K)

Agenda from Future Challenges Workshop (PDF - 130 K)

• Future Challenges - Summaries (Word - 220 K)
  Global Climate Change - Biotechnology - Water for Ecological Needs - Invasive Species

Power Points from Workshop Speakers

• The Role of Science in The Reallocation of Water (16.4 MB - PPT)
  Robert Hirsch, Associate Director for Water, USGS

• Drivers of Change (4.33 MB - PPT)
  Anthony Janetos, Vice President, Heintz Center

• Apply Modern Biotechnology (9.21 MB - PPT)
  Anne Kapuscinski, Professor/Director/Specialist, Fisheries and Conservation Biology/ISEES/Aquaculture and Biotechnology, U. of Minnesota

• Climate Science Change: Science, Concerns, & Research Needs (51.2 MB - PPT)
  Dennis Ojima, Scientist/Professor, NREL/Colorado State University

• Invasive Alien Species (18.1 MB - PPT)
  Jamie Reaser, President/CEO, Ecos Systems Institute

Bios of Speakers

• Robert Hirsch
• Anthony Janetos
• Anne Kapuscinski
• Dennis Ojima
• Jamie Reaser

Break Out Session Reports

• Biotechnology (1.16 MB - PPT)
• Water Resources (1.15 MB - PPT)
• Climate Change (1.16 MB - PPT)
• Invasive Species (1.17 MB - PPT)

Literature Review

• USFWS & USGS Future Science Challenges Literature Review June 10, 2004 (Word - 172 K)
  Prepared by: Vicki McCoy and Jewel Bennett