USGS Course

Seminar: Joint Fact Finding: Integrating Science, Public Engagement, and Agency Decision Making in Ecosystem and Resource Management Decisions

Sept 29-30, 2004
USGS National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston Va.
Main Auditorium
Tuition: $500.00

COURSE OVERVIEW

The MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative in conjunction with the Consensus Building Institute has developed and will offer this course. Course trainers include a senior research scientist with more than 25 years experience, a veteran mediator of complex environmental and natural resource disputes, and a social scientist with nine years of experience using environmental models to support decision making and collaborative process.

This course will introduce scientists and field- through senior-level managers to the theory and practice of joint fact finding. The course is intensive, highly interactive, and uses materials developed explicitly for DOI agencies.