United States Geological Survey (USGS)

In this project, NASA is working directly with the National Institute of Invasive Species Science in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Institute is administratively housed in the Invasive Species Science Program of the USGS Fort Collins Science Center, one of 17 science centers within the USGS Biological Resources Discipline (BRD). The major public interface to the data and capabilities of the Invasive Species Forecasting System will be through the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), developed and maintained by the USGS Center for Biological Informatics.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

NASA and USDA recently signed a MOU identifying invasive species as one of five critical areas for interagency collaboration. This new partnership will ultimately broaden the reach of invasive species predictive capabilities to agricultural applications. USDA's Agricultural Research Service is taking the lead in these activities.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

NASA's Office of Earth Science is participating in these joint efforts through both the Research Division and the Applications Division. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the home institution for many people working directly on the project. NASA team members have a diverse, interdisciplinary background and come from Goddard's Earth and Space Data Computing Division and the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics.

The Growing Extended Family of Invasive Species Partners

University of Alabama at Huntsville, Mississippi State University, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Florida Caribbean Science Center, National Wildlife Health Center, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center, Integrated Taxonomic Information System, US Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Refuges, Biota of North America Program, National Park Service, US Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring Program, Colorado State University, Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, University of California at Davis, Long Term Ecological Research, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, The Nature Conservancy, State of Colorado.