• Invasive Species
• About
  • Organizartional Chart, Contacts
  • Strategic Plan
• Highlights
• Research
  • Effects of Invasive Species
  • Early Detection and Rapid Assessment of New Invaders
  • Information Management
  • Control and Management
  • Prevention
  • Monitoring and Forecasting
• Search Ecosystems
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• Start with Science
• Climate and Land Use Change
• Core Science Systems
• Ecosystems
  • Cooperative Research Units
  • Fisheries: Aquatic and Endangered Resources Program
  • Genetics & Genomics
  • International
  • Invasive Species Program
  • Microbiology
  • Priority Ecosystems Science
  • Status & Trends Program
  • Terrestrial, Freshwater, and Marine Environments Program
  • USA National Phenology Network
  • Wildlife: Terrestrial and Endangered Resources Program
• Energy and Minerals, and Environmental Health
• Natural Hazards
• Science Quality and Integrity
• Water

USGS Ecosystems Invasive Species Program Prevention

Prevention

The Invasive Species Program conducts research and develops methods and technologies to prevent the introduction of invasive species. As part of their strategic plan, they strive to:

• Develop methodologies and approaches for identification, quantification, monitoring, and managing pathways and associated vectors of transport.
• Develop methodologies for assessing the effectiveness of prevention methods and technologies (e.g., ballast water treatment).
• Research on interacting environmental processes, socioeconomic factors, and human behaviors that influence the contributions of various pathways and vectors to the introduction and spread of known or potentially invasive species.