Our Workforce
Science Applications is comprised of partnership coordinators, biologists, data managers, social scientists, administrative support, and geospatial information specialists. Like other Service programs, we have staff presence in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters and all eight regional offices. Science Applications staff are also embedded at various field offices throughout the country. This gives the program national reach and the ability to support regional, national, and international conservation projects and initiatives for the Service and partners.
Science Applications facilitates partnerships that address shared conservation challenges to create a network of healthy lands and waters where fish, wildlife, plants, and people thrive. We do this by:
- Promoting a collaborative approach to conservation
- Fostering innovation
- Developing data-driven decision support tools that make collaborative conservation achievable
The program was established in 2009 for the purpose of addressing complex conservation challenges using a collaborative landscape approach. Products created by the program such as reports, maps, and landscape conservation design documents, are available to the public through the Science Catalog.
Today, Science Applications plays a vital national leadership and coordination role in the implementation of landscape-level conservation. We work with Tribes, Federal agencies, States, non-governmental organizations and other partners to identify and address shared conservation priorities across the country. We focus on convening partners, identifying shared science needs and gaps, setting goals, developing conservation plans, and collaboratively creating applied tools to support voluntary conservation. We recognize that every collaborative conservation partnership has science and coordination needs unique to their respective geography and conservation challenge. We therefore customize our level of engagement and support to meet the needs of each individual partnership we work with.