Natural Resource Assessments— Good Science but What is Missing?

Can natural resource assessments be made more useful?  Interior has a long and distinguished history of natural resource assessments for water, land, minerals, and more recently, renewable energy.  Please join Interior’s Office of Policy Analysis for a discussion of the state of the science of natural resource assessments.  Pat Leahy, Executive Director, American Geosciences Institute, will identify the range of approaches for conducting natural resource assessments, the stakeholders in government, the private sector, academia, and the general public who use these assessments, and what is needed to make natural resource assessments more valuable to users.  He will also identify and discuss some major assessment initiatives outside the United States.

P. Patrick Leahy, Executive Director, American Geosciences Institute, (USGS, retired)