U.S. Geological Survey Peer Review Agenda
(Updated August 2012)
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directive, Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review, dated December 16, 2004 (263 KB PDF), requires that there be a "systematic process of peer review planning" and access to a list of information products for official dissemination that will be peer reviewed as either influential scientific information or highly influential scientific assessments.
For those information products for official dissemination that will be peer reviewed as influential scientific information or highly influential scientific assessments, (as defined in the OMB directive), the USGS provides the following agenda of current OMB peer review plan entries.
Questions and comments regarding the USGS Peer Review Agenda may be directed to peer_review_agenda@usgs.gov.
The USGS peer review plan entries below will be updated as necessary to maintain currentness. Once peer review is complete for the influential product, summary material related to the peer review that was conducted will also be posted. A link to or information about availability of the disseminated product will be included in the results document.
Influential Scientific Information |
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| Working or Final Title | Peer Review Plan | Completed Peer Review Summary Document |
| The economic viability of smallholder timber production under expanding Açaí palm production in the Amazon Estuary | PDF [18 KB] | |
| Investigation of Shallow Groundwater Quality and Geochemistry in the Fayetteville Shale Gas Production Area, North-Central Arkansas | PDF [17 KB] | |
| Fate and Transport of Cyanobacteria and Associated Toxins and Taste-and-Odor Compounds from Upstream Reservoir Releases in the Kansas River, Kansas, September and October, 2011 | PDF [18 KB] | PDF [25 KB] |
| Competitive Interactions and Resource Partitioning Between Northern Spotted Owls and Barred Owls in Western Oregon | PDF [56.4 KB] | |
| An Economic Approach to Assessing Import Policies Designed to Prevent the Arrival of Invasive Species: The case of Puccinia psidii in Hawai'i (second publication) | PDF [78 KB] | PDF [71.5 KB] |
| Hydrological Information Products for the Off-Project Water Program of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement | PDF [56 KB] | PDF [41 KB] |
| Economic Analysis of the Proposed Rule to Prevent Arrival of New Genetic Strains of the Rust Fungus Puccinia psidii in Hawai'i (first publication) | PDF [76.5 KB] | PDF [87 KB] |
| Assessment of Potential Migration of Radionuclides and Trace Elements from the White Mesa Uranium Mill to the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation and Surrounding Areas, Southeastern Utah | PDF [59 KB] | PDF [66 KB] |
| Coupled Groundwater Flow and Management Models for the Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon and California | PDF [70.2 KB] | PDF [60 KB] |
| Modeling Hydrodynamics, Temperature, and Water Quality in the Klamath River Upstream of Keno Dam, Oregon, 2006–2009 | PDF [83.3 KB] | PDF [88 KB] |
| Numerical Simulations of Groundwater Flow in the Yakima River Basin Aquifer System, Washington | PDF [51 KB] | PDF [82 KB] |
| Regional Groundwater-Flow Model of the Redwall-Muav, Coconino, and Alluvial Basin Aquifer Systems of Northern and Central Arizona | PDF [56 KB] | PDF [127 KB] |
| Channel change and bed-material transport in the Umpqua River, Oregon | PDF [50 KB] | PDF [103 KB] |
Highly Influential Scientific Assessments |
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|---|---|---|
| Working or Final Title | Peer Review Plan | Completed Peer Review Summary Document |
| Synthesis of Studies in the Fall Low Salinity Zone of the San Francisco Estuary, September-December 2011 | PDF [31 KB] | |
| Klamath Dam Removal Overview Report for the Secretary of the Interior: An Assessment of Science and Technical Information | PDF [92 KB] | |
| Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.2: Thresholds of Climate Change on Ecosystems | PDF [20 KB] | PDF [16 KB] |
| Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.2: Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes | PDF [14 KB] | PDF [26 KB] |
| Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.4: Abrupt Climate Change | PDF [20 KB] | PDF [25 KB] |
| Southeast Extension of the Southern Whidbey Island Fault, Washington: Implications for Earthquake Hazards | PDF [55 KB] | PDF [18 KB] |
The USGS requires peer review for all of its information products that contain scientific and technical information, whether published by the USGS or an outside entity (refer to SM 502.3 and SM 502.4). The USGS has a vigorous program of publishing the results of its scientific investigations and research in its own information products (refer to SM 1100.3) as well as in scientific journals and other outside publishing venues (refer SM 1100.4). For more information about the review, approval and release of USGS science information products, refer to the USGS Fundamental Science Practices Web site at http://www.usgs.gov/fsp/. Information regarding archival requirements for maintaining records of peer reviewer comments is found in the USGS Records Disposition Schedule (refer to SM 432-1.S1, Chapter 1300, section 1301-03). The public may access information about USGS information products and may view and download many of them online through the Publications Warehouse at http://pubs.usgs.gov.
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