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Finding a PATH toward Scientific Collaboration: Insights from the Columbia River Basin

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dc.contributor.author Marmorek, David en_US
dc.contributor.author Peters, Calvin en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:55:50Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:55:50Z
dc.date.issued 2001 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-02-10 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-02-10 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2975
dc.description.abstract "Observed declines in the Snake River basin salmon stocks, listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), have been attributed to multiple causes: the hydrosystem, hatcheries, habitat, harvest, and ocean climate. Conflicting and competing analyses by different agencies led the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in 1995 to create the Plan for Analyzing and Testing Hypotheses (PATH), a collaborative interagency analytical process. PATH included about 30 fisheries scientists from a dozen agencies, as well as independent participating scientists and a technical facilitation team. PATH had some successes and some failures in meeting its objectives. Some key lessons learned from these successes and failures were to: (1) build trust through independent technical facilitation and multiple levels of peer review (agency scientists, independent participating scientists and an external Scientific Review Panel); (2) clarify critical uncertainties by developing common data sets, detailed sensitivity analyses, and thorough retrospective analyses of the weight of evidence for key alternative hypotheses; (3) clarify advice to decision makers by using an integrated life cycle model and decision analysis framework to evaluate the robustness of potential recovery actions under alternative states of nature; (4) involve key senior scientists with access to decision makers; (5) work closely with policy makers to clearly communicate analyses in nontechnical terms and provide input into the creation of management alternatives; and (6) recognize the trade-off between collaboration and timely completion of assignments." en_US
dc.subject adaptive systems en_US
dc.subject collaboration en_US
dc.subject Columbia River en_US
dc.subject decision making en_US
dc.subject Endangered Species Act en_US
dc.title Finding a PATH toward Scientific Collaboration: Insights from the Columbia River Basin en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.coverage.region North America en_US
dc.coverage.country United States en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 5 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth December en_US


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