Piloting the application of the data-to-decisions rapid response team to support climate adaptation planning within the Florida State Park system

Florida state parks face pressing climate-change related land management issues such as sea-level rise, changing fire regimes and novel species invasion. The Florida Park Service, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, and the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes at Arizona State University aim to tackle these issues by piloting a team-based approach to enable community land management organizations to use tools from decision science to identify solutions that are evidence based and implementable given time and resource constraints. With our “data-to-decisions rapid response team” we aim to solve specific park management problems but also develop a process that can be scaled to support community-based conservation agencies in solving difficult problems elsewhere.