COMING UP!
Registration is open for MillionTreesNYC, Green Infra-structure and Urban Ecology: A Research Symposium, to be held March 5-6 in New York City. Click here for more information. S2 Chief Scientist David Maddox is an 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

The Sound Science mission is to help organizations craft plans, goals and objectives, mobilize sound scientific information, measure success, and take actions that contribute to effective decision making in land management practice, conservation action, environmental policy, program management, and opinion research.  Sound Science offers services in the following areas:

Biological Monitoring and Assessment
An organization involved in land management has goals that articulate desirable and undesirable land conditions and attributes. Sound Science has considerable experience assisting organizations craft land management goals and creating monitoring and assessment projects to measure progress with respect to these goals. Learn more.   

Strategic Planning, Conservation Plans, Measures of Success, and Impact
Planning for successful projects involves having clear and specific vision of success, an understanding of threats that may impede that success, and an adaptive management scheme to achieve it. 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 Environmental Assessment
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.