USGS Fort Collins Science Center Publishes ISFS Research Spotlight

USGS Fort Collins Science Center Research Spotlights are a series of web features highlighting new or ongoing research and science capabilities offered by USGS's FORT scientists. While telling the story of the research, these features also include links to technical information, specific products, publications, websites and project partners & collaborators.

Ecological Forecasting: A Strategic Partnership to Predict and Manage Biological Invasions This latest release in the series details NASA-USGS collaboration to build the Invasive Species Forecasting System, an application of extraordinary promise for managing one of the 21st century's most formidable threats of natural disaster. Over the next 10 years, this system will provide capabilities of fundamental importance to understanding and managing the effects of invasive species on human health, the economy, native biodiversity, and ecosystem processes in the U.S.