A Recent Sound Science Project:

MillionTreesNYC, Green Infra-structure and Urban Ecology: A Research Symposium, was held March 5-6 in New York City. Click here for more information. S2 Chief Scientist David Maddox was a lead organizer.


A Recent Sound Science Project:

Ecological Integrity Framework:
Sound Science Chief Scientist Bob Unnasch and Senior Associate David Braun are authors of the Ecological Integrity Framework, a document that provides a methodology to guide planning for the conservation of biological and ecological resources in U.S. National Parks. Click here.

 

Sound Science for Better Decisions

Sound Science LLC is an association of scientists and environmenal biologists devoted to the creation, evaluation, and communication of high quality information in environmental decision making; and the effective integration of conservation policy and human livelihoods. Sound Science offers services in the following areas:

Monitoring and Assessment
An organization involved in environmental management has goals that articulate desirable and undesirable conditions and attributes. Sound Science has broad experience with all types of organizations, helping craft management goals and creating monitoring and assessment projects to measure progress with respect to these goals. Learn more.   

Strategic Planning, Measures of Success, Theories of Change, and Impact
Whether they are called "Measures of Success", "Theories of Change", or "Impact Monitoring", organizations must evaluate both the effectiveness of individual projects and the overall impact of their work; that is, they must seek to understand how effectively their mission is being achieved. Such assessments involve specifically devised measures of success that are matched to institutional goals and rely on objective, transparent, and repeatable measurement methods. Learn more.

Water Resource Planning, Management, and Conservation
Water resource management and ecological conservation typically require an integration of science and negotiation among diverse interest groups and stakeholders. Solid scientific expertise is needed, along with the skill to coordinate various interested and committed participants. Sound Science Senior Associate David Braun leads our efforts in water resource conservation and management, which all draw upon Sound Science skills and experience in strategic planning, conservation planning, adaptive management and measures of success and impact, training and meeting facilitation.

Consulting in Statistics, Data Analysis, and Opinion Research
Data and information needs to be analyzed to be useful. Sound Science conducts data analysis for a variety of organizations, from simple summaries to complicated multivariate analyses, from analyses of conservation data for litigation and court cases to polling data for national elections and market research. Learn more.

Natural Resources Management, Adaptive Management, and Climate Change
Sound Science staff and Associates have broad experience in various aspects of land management, natural resource use, and environmental assessment. These areas include fire planning, water resources management, rangeland management, conceptual modeling, and urban ecology. Our clients include not-for-profit conservation groups, marketing research firms, the Department of Defense, and federal and state land management agencies such as the US Forest Service, the US Park Service, and the City of New York. Learn more.

Technology, Analysis, and Information Management
Sound Science staff and Associates have designed created a variety of tools to manage information and analyze data, from searchable catalogues of technical information to calculators for analzing complex datasets.