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So, you want to build a decision-support tool? Assessing successes, barriers, and lessons learned for tool design and development

The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of how the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is developing decision-support tools (DSTs) by documenting successes and barriers across all levels of USGS scientific tool creation and outreach. These findings will help streamline future tool design and development processes. We provide a synthesis of lessons learned and best practices...
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Amanda D. Stoltz, Amanda E. Cravens, Nicole M. Herman-Mercer, Chung Yi Hou
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Water Resources Mission Area, Ecosystems Mission Area, Community for Data Integration (CDI), Fort Collins Science Center

User engagement to improve coastal data access and delivery

Executive SummaryA priority of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program focus on coastal change hazards is to provide accessible and actionable science that meets user needs. To understand these needs, 10 virtual Coastal Data Delivery Listening Sessions were completed with 5 coastal data user types that coastal change hazards data are intended to...
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Amanda D. Stoltz, Amanda E. Cravens, Erika Lentz, Emily A. Himmelstoss
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Fort Collins Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Stakeholder engagement to guide decision-relevant water data delivery

Water resources management and policy making require access to reliable scientific data. However, water managers may need to overcome various obstacles to accessing data. For example, insufficient technological infrastructures, low data literacy, and data format complexities often inhibit data user access. Thus, it is imperative to include stakeholders in the design of data delivery...
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Diana Restrepo-Osorio, Amanda D. Stoltz, Nicole M. Herman-Mercer
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Water Resources Mission Area
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So you want to build a decision support tool? Assessing successes, pitfalls, and lessons learned for tool design and development

The purpose of this study is to understand how the USGS is using decision support, learning from successes and pitfalls in order to help streamline the design and development process across all levels of USGS scientific tool creation and outreach. What should researchers consider before diving into tool design and development? Our goal is to provide a synthesis of lessons learned and...
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Community for Data Integration (CDI)
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So you want to build a decision support tool? Assessing successes, pitfalls, and lessons learned for tool design and development

The purpose of this study is to understand how the USGS is using decision support, learning from successes and pitfalls in order to help streamline the design and development process across all levels of USGS scientific tool creation and outreach. What should researchers consider before diving into tool design and development? Our goal is to provide a synthesis of lessons learned and best practice
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New USGS report assesses successes, barriers, and lessons learned for decision-support tool design and development

New USGS report assesses successes, barriers, and lessons learned for decision-support tool design and development

Decision-support tools can be useful to natural resource managers, policy makers and other stakeholders that use USGS data. USGS scientists analyzed...

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