The scientists of Wetland and Water Resources participate in and coordinate grant-funded, large-scale ecosystem research designed to improve our collective understanding of aquatic system functioning and restoration techniques. We bring this research philosophy to all of our projects through the process of adaptive management. By approaching ecosystem restoration and natural resource planning as a process rather than a set of arbitrarily defined outcomes, we help our clients to continually improve project outcomes.

Adaptive management (commonly described as "learning to do, by doing to learn") capitalizes on the opportunity to learn from actions by explicitly identifying assumptions and data gaps, and then designing and implementing comprehensive monitoring programs that deliver meaningful feedback to project planners. Wetland and Water Resources' scientists and engineers have proven research track-records and extensive experience in applying research practices and principles to project planning and implementation. Specifically, we provide our clients with the following skills and services:

Adaptive management

Problem delineation and description

Topic-specific adaptive management plan and program development

Integrated experimental and pilot studies

Performance criteria development

Monitoring design and implementation

Analytical tool development

Database design and management

QA/QC

Synthesis of "lessons-learned"

Response measures

Design and implementation of competing management options to maximize information gathering

Synthesis of "lessons-learned"

Conceptual modeling

Problem delineation

Literature reviews

Stakeholder surveying and participation

Knowledge-base assembly and data gap analysis

Identification of key assumptions

Written and graphical model representation

Monitoring design and data feedback to management process

Meeting facilitation

Applied science

Experimental design

Field, lab, and computational research efforts

Advanced statistical analyses

Peer-reviewed manuscript preparation

Peer-review for technical journals