Abstract

The Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) was established to generate, integrate and apply knowledge in order to predict, detect, and assess environmental threats to public and private forests of the eastern US, and to deliver this knowledge to managers in ways that are timely, useful, and user friendly.  The collaboration between EFETAC and the National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC) aims to support this mission with the development of advanced tools and technologies that support integrated threat assessments for a variety of
audiences.

Start Date : June 2006
End Date : September 2008

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NEMAC’s multidisciplinary team – specializing in geographic information systems, databases, and Web integration – is creating user-friendly tools for EFETAC to share with scientists, forest managers, policy makers, and the general public. Collaborative deliverables include –

•Assessing and compiling information and data needs for integrated environmental risk assessments.

•Helping to develop the infrastructure (equipment and software) needed for high-speed access, sharing and analysis of relevant environmental and socioeconomic databases.

•Designing data-synthesis, mining and analysis tools to meet specific information needs. (see the Forest Threat Summary Viewer at www.forestthreats.org)

•Improving end-user capabilities and expertise for comparative risk assessment with the further development of the Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT).

•Providing a central point of coordination and contact for numerous EFETAC partners.

Ultimately, NEMAC’s goal is to assist EFETAC in creating a database of forest threats data, accessible from anywhere in the world.

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